Webster City Mayoral and Assessor Candidate Announcements
Local Freeman-Tribune prints candidate notices for Webster City elections. Names include B D Valentine G D Thompson Wm Meekins H Bourne SM Blake and BL P Prince seeking mayor assessor and city rev roles subject to voters at the March 11 primary and spring election.
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Freeman-Tribune
Webster City
G. D. Thompson
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Pri
Wm. Meekins
11Th Mary
Bourne
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B. F. Paine
Candidates seek city council seats in March primary
A flood of notices from Freeman Tribune readers request placement on the city council ballot. Candidates from wards one through four and at large urge voters to decide at the March primary while pledging to serve if elected.
Iowa Press Attacks and Prosperity in Town News
The Freeman Tribune column space critique covers Iowa politics including Senator Casey of Hamilton county and Taft Yale capstone pay, temperance bills, and the push for road and railroad rate regulation. Towns like Mason City Sioux City Fort Dodge Webster City show strong growth while Iowa investments remain seen as safer than national options.
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Freeman-Tribune
Des Moines
Sioux City
Register and Leader
N. Darling
Iowa
Towa
Elsworth
Williams
Stratford
Stanhope
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Webster City
Iowa Farms
Iowa City
Republican Party Faces Reform And Party Reorganization
The article discusses calls for a national convention to reform delegate representation and establish a presidential primary to restore control to voters. Senators Root and Crane advocate changes to national convention rules, aiming for proportionate representation and state by state delegate selection. It notes past missteps, the Taft era, and roiling tensions between regulars and progressives within the party.
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Utah
Vermont
National ‘Committee
Republican Party
Sioux City
Journal
Republ
Hadley
Crane
Senate
Taft
Root
Iself
The North American Indian volumes bought for Iowa library
The Iowa state library board authorized purchase of five copies of The North American Indian series edited by Frederick Webb Hodge and Theodore Roosevelt. Curtis’s twenty quarto and twenty folio volumes will document Indians of the United States Canada and Alaska. The $3 000 cost covers remaining volumes over seven years as part of a monumental archival effort.
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Con
Shay
Chaucer
State
United, States
Canada
Alaska
Edward S. Curtis
Frederick “Webb Hodge
Theodore Roosevelt
Europe
America
Aubserbe
Mbraryé Board
General Assembly
Library
Iowa
Probate Notice for Maria Warren Will in Hamilton County
Notice that a will purportedly of Maria Warren is on file with the Hamilton County District Court in Webster City Iowa. A probate hearing is set for 2:00 pm March 12, 1918, to determine admission of the will to probate and allow response if any. Witness dated February 13, 1918 by Clerk J C Sterling. Also appears an unrelated notice offering a vacant lot at Willson avenue and Walnut street for sale by Geo Barner with no encumbrances and liberal terms.
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Taft
Yale
Howard Jones
Beng
Ames Times
Thirimary
Webster City
Salvation “Army
Senden
Willson
C. H. Swiney
City Central
District Court of
Iowa
Hamilton County
Maria’ Warren
J. C
Sterling
Willson Avenue
Walnut Street
Barner
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Fourth Ward
Weldon Helmick
Boe
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Fred Hahne
Co. H. Swiney
Ellman
Oming
H. W. Garth
Aman
Thos. Goodrich
B. Bair
D. West
Oters
Frank Bossert
Nail Ds. Otere
C. F. Bishop
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Daily Freeman-Tribune
Dd. L. Hunter
W. F. Hunter
Semacane
Byron
Senator Casey
Woodrow
Abe
Martin
Congress
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Good Roads
Confederate States of America
Richmond
Webb
Kenyon-Sheppard
Friends of Temperance
Register
Wilson
Devor
Judge Towner
Highth Town
Cummins
Kenyon
Republican National Committee
Morgan- Rockefeller
Hadtey
Borah
Klearn
National Sewer Pipe Company
Freeman- Tribune
Pease Pecuses
Des
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Mner
Boyren
Prom Tly
Aight
Webster
B. W. Homan
Willson Ave
G. F. . Tucker
Webster Cuy
Erich Frankowlky
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Flint
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