Local News Bits From Waterloo Fort Dodge and Cedar Falls
Forty years ago items note Mary Pratt missionary letters from India Dehra. James the clothing man recovering from four weeks illness. Spelcher buys property on Jefferson Street with boarding house. twins born to Mr and Mrs George Watson. County board list. conductor Putnam killed near Cedar Falls after accident on B C R N train. Bourk buys Inman's in Falls since 1848 ill. City council extends liquor licenses to next April at $100 yearly. Bouck Ayres to operate the Fourth Street market.
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Spelcher
W. M. Lamphere
Ferson Street
George Watson
Mr. Watson
J. C
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Law forbidding desecration of flags Iowa 1913 act
The 1913 Iowa flag protection act repeals 5028-a and punishes desecration or improper use of U S and Iowa flags. It defines repeat desecration, lists penalties up to $100 fine and 30 days in jail plus $50 per offense, and directs penalty proceeds to the county school fund. The act takes effect January 1 1914. Also notes ten thousand chandelier and brass workers in Greater New York.
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United States
Melrose Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Henry Grout
Waterloo
United States of America
State of
Iowa
General Assembly
Rain Poem Sparks Talk On Weather And Ball Games
A New York World excerpt presents a poem titled Rain by a wistful writer critiquing nature and human folly. The piece humorously links a rain cloud to a cornfield during a sports season, noting how a drought ends with a shower as ball games or dairy shows approach.
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New York
Herr
Ure Wat
Women and Their Ages debated by Illinois women league
The Illinois Women’s Republican league held an indignation meeting to protest legislators knowing voters’ ages. The president said women object to supplying their ages as a business matter, while a writer referenced Bernard Shaw and argued about women’s duties and age disclosure.
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Illinois Women’s Republcan League
Bad Bernard Shaw
Southern Cupidity Debate Highlights Fiscal Tensions
The article reports on Democratic and Republican stances as southern senators push to block an issue of 250 million dollars in bonds for a cotton investment. Senator John Sharp Williams denounces attempts to hold up revenue legislation, warning the party against undermining national interests and fiscal policy.
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National Treasury
Congress
New York
Wilson
John Sharp Williams
4Ssipipi
Democratic Party
Senate
Republican Party
Delilah
Samson
Ohere
Love of Peace and Wundt's View in German History
The piece critiques claims that German policy was guided by love of peace and challenges assertions about the triple Entente. It notes Germany’s early alliance efforts under Bismarck and the Dreikaiserbund, arguing that rhetoric without historical citation fails to prove a peaceful national stance.
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Wilhelm Wundt
Leinsic
Europe
Gismarck
Germeany
Austria
Germany
Wary Villa Roils Convention Amid Mexican Legion Standoff
San Antonio reports say Villa’s forces loom near the convention at As Calionius. He vows to back the wets and sparks a storm, while Des Moines exercises to end the current system. A New York professor says war aids the arts, and London eyes bombs of militarism as trees are girded.
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Villa
Calionius
Ghiegsen
San Antonio
Villu
Vitu
Cowild Daudit
Mexican Legion
Phen Ren
New York
Twenty Years Ago A Rural Iowa Local Review
Twenty years ago in 1894, notable items include the Hepblicae elut perfected, officers listed with A Santee as president and W W Wyant as secretary, various township appointments, an inspector fleeing Cedar Rapids, and a Central Klineis rain event. Also noted are United States District Attorney Cale Sells advised not to participate in fall campaign, pastorate calls, Norman Ayde’s death, grand jury nonsuit for T D Burke, Democratic speakers scheduled for Waterlow, Odd Fellows state convention adjourned to Marshalltown, Des Moines saloon closures, and local barber shop sale.
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United States District
Cale Sells
O—— Tev
Robert Arure
Vhurch
To the Heart of the Matter and the War’s Moral Call
An essay-style piece argues humans are inside their problems and must grow through them. It links evolution and cosmic purpose to World War I, cites Kant on morality, and frames a German path toward peace through a Middle European federation and cultural leadership.
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Mordecai
God
Europe
United States
America
True War Speech From Wilhelm Wundt Transcripts
Extracts from a Privy Councillor Wilhelm Wundt lecture delivered in Leipzig discuss the true war crisis. The speaker argues the struggle is about world citizenship and lasting values, warning European unity faces threats from greed and diplomacy while urging a peaceful life within borders and a global moral order.
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Wilhelm Wundt
Leipsic
Germany
United Nations of Europe
Cate
Hfe
Bervin
Belgium
Clinging to Wilson as Democratic Support Grows
Democratic unity around Wilson shifts as observers note prior discontent. Congress lowers resistance to support him in wartime, with many members volunteering to stay in session and declare loyalty to the president. The shift weakens Republican prospects and unites party rank and file behind Wilson.
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New York Evening Post
Wilson
Washington
Repubicans
White House
Congress
War Tax Bill in Conference
Washington reports a compromise relief proposal under review as a joint conference works on the war tax bill. Cotton states gain agreed funds and a Treasury deposit plan as sections are settled, with river project allocations and a looming direct tax linked to European war fears.
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Washington, D. C
House
Congress
House Rules Committee
Federal Reserve
Secretary of the Treasury
Cotton States Representatives
Senate
Board of Engineers
Mataponi
Pamunkey
Virginia
Beaufort Inlet
Fishing Creek
Pamlico and
Tar Rivers
Contentia Creek
North Carolina
Caloosthatchee
Withlacoochee
Apalachicola
Cootawhatchee
Foriday
Roosevelt’s Brazil River Discovery Fades Next to Pork Barrel Debacle
The article contrasts Colonel Roosevelt’s famed River of Doubt expedition with Democratic southern congressmen who pursued and failed to pass a $53,000,000 pork barrel. It notes their efforts followed by a report and political fallout.
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Roosevelt
Brazil
South
Dixon Pays for Hunting Himself in Iowa Case
Edward Dixon who forfeited a $5,000 cash bail after skipping district court in a swindle case has begun paying part of the funds to aid his own capture. The money was turned to the county revenue fund used by the sheriff in pursuing criminals. Judge Hare warned reinstatement could be possible if Dixon appeared within 24 hours. The sheriff begins the search, hindered by lack of precise measurements.
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Edward Dixon
James Green
Algona
Towa
Dixon
County Revenue Fund
Sheriff's Office
W. E. Hare
Sherif
Witnesses Return to Iowa in Dixon Case
No police photo of him exists. One image claimed from 1900 in police custody does not resemble Dixon as he is. Witnesses in the Dixon case returned yesterday to Iowa.
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Dixon
Iowa
Pickett Forecasts Cummins Victory in Iowa
Former Representative Pickett predicts the re election of Senator Cummins and a solid Republican congressional delegation in Iowa. He states the bull moose vote in Iowa will be small and the third party negligible in numbers and strength. He notes optimism in western business despite east coast mood.
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Washington, D. C
Pickett
Cummins
Iowa
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H. J. McCord
H. W. Jenney
Caleb May
Putnam
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Fourth Street Market
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Norman Ayde
Max Township
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T. D. Burke
May Filiett
Horace Boies
H. Basher
Walt HM. Butler
Waterlow
Grand Lodge of Iowa Odd Fellows
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Marshalltown
Norman Beckley
Charles Gaskins
William Bryant
Commercial Street
Sarajevo
Edward VII
Edward Grey
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Agadir
Congo
Secre
Nugent
Smith
New Jersey
International Mutual Cooks “and Pastry Cooks Assn
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Royal Baking Powder
Coal Producta Mfg. Co
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