Dolliver tariff speech sparks calls for fair play
The Freeman-Tribune applauds Senator Dolliver's address in the senate on tariffs. It argues protection benefits producers but warns against trusts and monopolies harming consumers. The paper urges independent protectionists in Congress to push for fair downward revision to avoid severe political backlash.
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Dolliver
Con‘gress
United States Senate
Iowa
Freeman-Tribune
A. B. Cummins
Rhode Island
Friends of Protection
Congress
Webster City Girl Weds Waterloo Man in Grace M E Church
Miss Melvina Hellen former Webster City girl marries Owen D Kinsey of Lake Bluff Illinois at her mother's home Waterloo. Ceremony with about seventy five relatives and friends. Groom, a Chicago area plant manager, will reside in Lake Bluff after June first. Out of town guests from Webster City Rockford Waukegan and Los Angeles attended.
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Webster City
Waterloo
Daily Times-Tribune
Vina Hellen
Bertha Hellen
Hast
Fourth Street
B.D. Hull
Grace M. #. church
Melvina Hellén
Owen D. Kinsey
Lake Bluff
Tuinois
Ocea Carney
Mendelssohn
Agnes Bodholt
Pridal
Warren Hellen
East Waterloo High School
Gris Club
Gentiliska
Grace
M. E. Church
Ruby Garth
Marion
M. H. Thompson
Los Angeles
Calif
Minnie Anderson
Rockford, Ill
Abram Thompson
H. I. Thompson
Eva Thompson
Ja. J. Wells
Mr. Boyle
Waukegan
White
L. A. Bittorf
Sterling
Illinois Central
Conference Dates Set by Methodist Episcopal Bishops
The board of bishops met in Wheeling West Virginia for the semi annual session and fixed fall conference dates. The Northwest Iowa opening is September 29 with Bishop J F Berry of Buffalo presiding. The Estherville meeting location is noted. For rent two houses two dwellings nine total rooms near business district contact WM Wilke.
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Board of Bishops
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wheeling
West Virginia
Northwest
Iowa
J. F. Berry
Buffalo
N. Y
Estherville
Republican Drift Foretold By Free man Tribune
The Free man-Tribune argues the next congressional election will mark a shift away from dominant parties. It lauds Cummins Brown Borah LaFollette and other reformers, and quotes Senator Dolliver praising direct responsibility to an enlightened public opinion as the real government of the United States.
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Freeman-Tribune
Cummins
Brown
Borah
LaFollette
Senate
United States States
Dolliver
United States
All Men
Ibuy
Custom House
Cummins Warns Tariff Bill May Spur New Revisions
Washington April 7 Senator Cummins from Iowa and Senator Dolliver attack the Aldrich tariff bill urging changes to reduce consumer prices. Cummins predicts a new tariff campaign if the bill passes and says he will vote only if key revisions meet the Chicago platform, while noting lumber and hides relief.
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Washington,d. C
Iowa
Cummins
Senate
Aldrich
Dolliver
Finance Committee
Chicago
White
Republican Party
Senator Cummins
Cummings
Congress
Governor Boies Farm Sale Sets County Record
Grundy Center May 7 The Meyers brothers buy a section and a half of the Governor Boies farm for 115200 at 120 per acre. The land with five building sites and fencing increases their county holdings to about 1760 acres near Grundy Center.
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Grundy Center
Grundy County
Meyers Boys
Governor Boies
Boies
Dolliver Attacks Cotton Schedules in Tariff Debate
Senator Dolliver sharpened his critique of the Aldrich bill’s cotton schedules in a Washington speech. He accused the schedules of being crafted to raise rates and charged the Finance Committee with reliance on outside experts and misleading wording.
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Washington, D.C
Dolliver
Aldrich
Senate
Senate Chamber, Applause. Senator * ‘Dolliver
Nelson
Alivich
Iowa
Finance
Lodge
Massachusetts
West
Tad
Rhode Island
George G. West
Mr. West
House Committee
Congress
Marble Palace
Lord
Des Moines Awarded School Wing Contract in 1909
Webster City wins the bid for a large new wing at the Glenwood school for the feeble minded. W terell bid 37640. other bids ranged from 38540 to 45997. Wing to be two stories fireproof, 115 by 76 feet. State meeting notices for county superintendents in Des Moines next week. Unclaimed Webster City letters listed for week ending May 4 1909.
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Des Moines
Freeman ‘Tribune
Webster City
Glenwood
Zitterell
W. Welch
Clarinda
F. x. White
Eldora
Collins Bros
Rock Island, Ill
Holaday
Righs
Des’ Moines
Valuation schemes criticized for undervaluation rise
The speaker described replacing ad valorem rates with allegedly equivalent specific rates on varying goods. He argued this method opened the door to undervaluation and unfair assessments as he examined cotton schedules one by one.
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Freeman-Tribune Pub. Co
D. L. Hunter
F. Hunter
Wm, Wilke
U. S. Senate
Boles
Black Handers
Duluth
Minn
Black Hand Society
William H. Dean
Immigration Office
Dean
Northern
Minnesota
Paris
M. Gilbe
Dingley
Iowan
REO
Endur
Tift
Campbell Automobile
Dalbey & Gillespie
Seneca Street
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