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Contents include but are not limited to a Des Moines based weekly covering local and regional news, society items, politics, organizational notices and numerous advertisements; it reports social happenings church events, club meetings, personal illnesses and visits, civic and political activity campaigns and endorsements for local and state Republican candidates, notices of primaries and coverage of senators Dolliver and Cummins, legal and criminal items arrests, indictments, trails such as Dr. Ida May Guthrie's arraignment, governmental reports George D. Dobson's Boone River survey and state drainage work, the state board of control's investigation and report on the Mitchellville girls industrial school, fraternal and Masonic events, human interest columns and humor, plus many period advertisements for medicines, household goods, transportation and services. The paper mixes community reportage, advocacy for progressive Republicanism, and commercial content typical of early-20th-century African American press.
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Title:
Iowa state bystander. volume 16, issue 47, May 06, 1910
Date Created:
1910-05-06
Time Period:
1910s
Description:
Contents include but are not limited to a Des Moines based weekly covering local and regional news, society items, politics, organizational notices and numerous advertisements; it reports social happenings church events, club meetings, personal illnesses and visits, civic and political activity campaigns and endorsements for local and state Republican candidates, notices of primaries and coverage of senators Dolliver and Cummins, legal and criminal items arrests, indictments, trails such as Dr. Ida May Guthrie's arraignment, governmental reports George D. Dobson's Boone River survey and state drainage work, the state board of control's investigation and report on the Mitchellville girls industrial school, fraternal and Masonic events, human interest columns and humor, plus many period advertisements for medicines, household goods, transportation and services. The paper mixes community reportage, advocacy for progressive Republicanism, and commercial content typical of early-20th-century African American press.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising African American churches Clubs Civic leaders African American political activists Republican National Convention Primaries Criminal investigation Arrest Indictments Fraternal organizations Humor Advertising--Medicine Household appliances Transportation African American press
Contributor (Person):
Ruff, Charles S. Ruff, Thaddeus S. Thompson, John L. (John Lay), 1869-1930
Location:
Iowa--Des Moines
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:
bystander1910050601
Item Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9mp4vw66
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 47, May 06, 1910", State Historical Society of Iowa, Amplifying Black Voices in Iowa, Iowa State University Library Digital Collections
Reference Link:
https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9mp4vw66
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No Copyright - United States
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