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Contents include but are not limited to local community news home improvements, illnesses, social visits, club meetings (Ariel Bowen Art Club, Carnation Club, Dunbar Club), the visit and fundraising work of Miss Dayse Deane Walker, and the candidacy of Frank S. Shankland for the state legislature with announcements for the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs convention and public-health "clean up" days. It carries wider civic coverages: James R. Garfield praising Des Moines commission form of city government, reports on state and regional events (manufacturers convention, strikes, municipal improvements), and brief national and international items including Theodore Roosevelt's warm European reception, William R. Hearst's praise of Taft and the death of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Interspersed are editorials, human-interest vignettes, syndicated humor and adivce columns, many adversitsements for medicines, household goods, land opportunities, and services, and notices of legal, church and lodge activities-presenting a cross-section of early-20th-century civic cultural and commerical life.
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Title:
Iowa state bystander. volume 16, issue 45, April 22, 1910
Date Created:
1910-04-22
Time Period:
1910s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to local community news home improvements, illnesses, social visits, club meetings (Ariel Bowen Art Club, Carnation Club, Dunbar Club), the visit and fundraising work of Miss Dayse Deane Walker, and the candidacy of Frank S. Shankland for the state legislature with announcements for the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs convention and public-health "clean up" days. It carries wider civic coverages: James R. Garfield praising Des Moines commission form of city government, reports on state and regional events (manufacturers convention, strikes, municipal improvements), and brief national and international items including Theodore Roosevelt's warm European reception, William R. Hearst's praise of Taft and the death of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Interspersed are editorials, human-interest vignettes, syndicated humor and adivce columns, many adversitsements for medicines, household goods, land opportunities, and services, and notices of legal, church and lodge activities-presenting a cross-section of early-20th-century civic cultural and commerical life.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans African Americans--Social life and customs Accidents Clubs African American political candidates Public health African American civic leaders Strikes and lockouts Annexation (Municipal government) Foreign news Humor Advice columns Advertising Advertising--Medicine
Subject (Person):
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951
Subject (Organization):
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Contributor (Person):
Ruff, Charles S. Ruff, Thaddeus S. Thompson, John L. (John Lay), 1869-1930
Location:
Iowa--Des Moines Iowa--Des Moines Europe
Language:
eng
Contributing Institution:
State Historical Society of Iowa
Publisher:
Iowa State Bystander Pub. Co.
Extent:
4 pages
Genre:
Newspapers
Type:
Text Image
Format:
image/jpeg
Digital Collection Title:
Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa
Digital Collection Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9156m
Related Resource:
Library of Congress Control Number: sn83025186
Digital Object Identifier:
bystander1910042201
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9w669h62
Metadata License:
This metadata record is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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"Iowa state bystander. volume 16, issue 45, April 22, 1910", State Historical Society of Iowa, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9w669h62
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