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Newspaper

Algona Courier

Location

Algona, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1904

Page

4

Yale Smoking Inferiority Claims Stir Debate

Yale physician Seaver reports eight years of data showing smokers among students have less lung power weight and height and lower muscular and nervous strength. He says smoking correlates with poorer scholarship with only five percent of junior appointments held by smokers. The piece notes strong reactions among students and questions causation.

Vront Dy Seaver Yale Seaver America

Tuberculosis Experts Urge Open Air Treatment In Iowa

Fort Dodge physician Dr. J W Kime told a Des Moines conference that Iowa has 8000 tuberculosis cases with a two year life expectancy. He warned most cases are curable yet mortality remains high due to outdated practice and public unfamiliarity with modern treatment. He urged open air care, sanitariums, sunlit south facing rooms, and seaside or high altitude settings as crucial to recovery.

J. W. Kime Fort Dodge Des Moines Register and Leader Iowa Board of Control Kime

The Teacher Problem in Hamilton and Taylor Counties

Hamilton county reports no teacher shortage with rural wages averaging above forty dollars per month and some districts paying up to fifty five dollars a month. In neighboring Taylor county a general scarcity affects several northern schools with twenty teachers currently resident to teach here due to the dearth of pedagogues. Sympathetic reflections on kindness close the item, contrasting shortages with human warmth.

Webster City Iowa Hamilton County Marshall Gerber State of New Market Taylor County

Passing of the Sawmill in Clinton and Lyons

The closure of Lamb & Sons mills in Clinton ends a lumber era as about two weeks ago the industry there shut down. The Joyce mill in Lyons will run a year or two more. Once nearly 3000 workers were employed in Clinton mills and millions of feet of lumber were cut annually. Log scarcity forced the shutdowns along the Mississippi, signaling the industry's waning in the region.

Lamb & Sons Clinton City of Joyce Lyons Mississippi River

Finest carload of hogs sold at Fenton tops market

Kenton Reporter notes a premium carload of 68 white hogs, average 300 pounds, raised by C. E. Hesse farm north of town and shipped to Chicago after sale to Henry Wegener. Lattimer and Heise earned a good sum. Also listed: Duroc Jersey hogs for sale and job ads from Iowa publishers and loan firms.

Kenton Fenton Lattimer & Hesse C. E. Hesse Town Lattimer Henry Wegener Chicago Messrs. Lattimer Heise

Register and Leader: Iowa's leading state news paper

No Iowan can do without the Register and Leader it covers the state comprehensively. It delivers more special features than any Des Moines paper, prints a top colored comic section, and provides a weekly illustrated Sunday issue. It carries AP reports day and night with a network of town correspondents and a Washington bureau. Subscribe to start the new year.

Register and Leader Des Moines Associated Press Iowa Washington

Dr J G Bertrand Osteopath Clinical Office Ad

Dr J G Bertrand osteopath offers treatment for acute and chronic ailments with free consultation. Office located in the Hesse block. Hours from 10 to 12 a m and 2 to 4 p m. All calls answered.

J. G. Bertrand Osteheopath Hesse Block

Special Reduced Excursion Rates for Students and Teachers

Calera & North-Western Railway issues a bound engraving and advertises holiday excursion rates for students and teachers. Tickets sold at low rates with certificates from educational institutions. Rates apply east of Cheyenne through Denver and Pueblo with return by Jan 4 1905, in effect Jan 7–9 1905 for Annual Conventions National Live Stock and Wool Growers.

Calerga & North-Western Railway W. B. Kiskern P. TY. M Chicago Une North-Western Inc North Western Mine Union Pacife Colorado & Scuthery Denver and Rio Grande Cheyenne Wyo Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Colo National Live Stock and Colorado Chicago & North, Western By

Family travels from Oklahoma through Clarion to Mason City

A family passed through Clarion yesterday en route to Mason City from Oklahoma, where they had moved about a year ago. The brief stop reflects the ongoing movement between communities and states by residents seeking new beginnings.

Clarion Democrat Mason City Oklahoma

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