Waterlo o Daily Courier feature on Good Roads movement
The Waterloo Courier prints a state by state survey of good roads funding and methods, praising state aid and local cooperation. It highlights how road improvements boost prosperity, lists contributing states, and previews ongoing coverage. It endorses Clifford Thorne for railroad commissioner, urging Iowa voters to support him.
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Lafe Young
Clifford Thorne
Iowa
Mr Thorne
Interstate Commerce Commission
Italy Follows the Poets Ruthless Truth of Beauty and Ruin
A concise reflection on the idea that beauty inevitably attracts tragedy and ruin, noting Italy as a prime example of this enduring artistic principle. The passage frames the enduring link between what is most beautiful and what follows as ruin, echoing classic poetic belief.
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Italy
Rural politics and court praise echo Iowa editorials
A collage of editorials notes political actions in Iowa, urging roads funding, criticizing Attorney General Cosson, praising Wirt F. Hoxie as county attorney, and praising nature’s beauty while evaluating Democratic tariff positions and promising leadership by younger figures.
Stockwell Letter Praises Foley’s Honey and Tar Remedy
In Hannibal Missouri a letter from M Stockwell reports using Foley’s Honey and Tar for the first time. He says he is greatly pleased and that it beats all remedies he ever used. He details a bad cold and risk of pneumonia and credits the first doses with relief and a full cure after one bottle. Mention of Wangler Bros and HA Taggart.
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M. Stockwell
Hannibal. Mo
Foley
Wangler Bros
Taggart
States Support for Good Roads Across Regions
Analyzed are how Alabama Arizona and Arkansas administer road work, noting county control, boards, and engineers. Arizona uses a state highway department with direct highway appropriations and county superintendents guiding projects. Arkansas relies on county courts and varying local laws for road management, with taxes levied by county courts unless local districts impose five mills.
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Board of Revenue
Arizona
Arkansas
New Era for Indians Since Deprived of Liquor at Leech Lake
Walker Minn Oct 27 The annual payment to the Leech Lake Chippewa Indians is being made at the agency across the bay. Each Indian receives 6 25 dollars, totaling 40 to 50 dollars for many families. After a year of abstinence from liquor, purchases center on winter supplies. Indians cross Walker bay by launches and canoes to buy goods such as shawls clothing and food. Major Frater reports peace and an empty jail at Onigum, with Indians becoming industrious and securing maple sugar wild rice potatoes and dried fish, signaling a new era.
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Walker Bay
Major Frater
Onigum
Rumor Growth and the Marcia Dilemma in a Small Town
An evening chat outlines how gossip about Eleanor and a suspected scandal between Mr. Latimer and Mrs. Rice spreads through a community. The narrator admires Marcia for stopping rumors by withholding details and reflects on choosing restraint over spreading innuendo in social settings.
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Marcia
True Stories About People From Waterloo Banquet Tales
A Waterloo banquet featured speakers sharing mostly true anecdotes about local figures. One tale recalls a physician who in youth wrote his own name as the cause of death on a certificate, and another follows a struggling lawyer whom the physician helped by drafting a will for a dying woman, hinting at later success.
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Sioux City Tribune
Sewall
Maine
Brynan
Glassaway Dryis
West Virginia
Bryan
Petf
Sleeper
Waterloo
J. Q. Bones
Black Hawk County
Pierce
Dispensary Medical Association
R. ¥. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Many Prisoners Seek Pardon In Iowa Hearings
Fort Madison Oct 27 The Iowa state board of parole led by secretary Sam D Wood finished hearings at the penitentiary after taking testimony in over 100 cases and additional cases at Anamosa. About 25 percent of Iowa's criminals seek release, with some 200 convicts considered at the two facilities. The board withheld full petition lists to avoid harming reform efforts.
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Fort Madison
Iowa State Board of Parole
M. H. Berry
Indianola
P. A. Smith
Scranton
J. E. Howe
Greenfield
Sam D. Wood
Des Moines
Anamosa
Iowa
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W. H. Hartman Company
West York Ave
John C. Hartman
A.W. Peterson
Sec-Tress
New York
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Alfred B. Lukens
Chicago
AW. Allen
Daily Courier
Ty Cervier
Watastco
Towa_ ae
Associated Frese
Iowa Evening Preas Association
Black Rank County
Europe
Waterloo Cocrier
London
Trafalgar Building
Northeumterland Avenue
American Fixpress
Caerket
Dawe's Steamship Agency
Green Ureet. Parise—1) Boulevard Des Capucines
Comer
l'Opera
American Express
Rus Reviha
Berlin
Unter den, Linden
Petersburg
Nevsky Proanekt
Congress
Cummins
State Board of Engineers
Como
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Georgia
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Minneapolis Journal
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Chicago University
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Wellman
John C. Busby
Independence
Ask
Busby
Spirit OF the Sowa Press
Poa el Oded
Abbusz
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Abruzal
Cedar Rapidy Gazette
Cosson
Burlington Hawkeye
Cedar Rapids
Dolliver
Hampton Chronicle
C. E. Pickett
Waterlon
James W. Gond
John Hannmill
Britt
Cedar Falls
Platt
Wirt FP
Hoxie
Pasive Brose de Caresa
Fowler CO
Eleanor
Black Hawk National Bank
Commercial and
Fourth Streets
Waterloo Land CO
Cady & Gallup
Galloway Gibson Inv. Co
J. E. Williams
Telephone
French & Frazer
Texas Land
W. B. McMurray
Consolidated
Cal Sharp
Snow White
Irving House
J. C. Murtagh
A. G. Reid
Consolidated Phone
Iowa Mausoleum CO
Tike & Knapp
Fine Arts
Poe
ART & Crafts
Consolidated Victore
Williams' Quality Segar Shop
Fourth Street
Marsh-Place
Bidg
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Central Iowa Granite Company
F. H. Latier
la Fayette Street
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Rand
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LaFayette Building
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