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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
2
Isaac Overton a Knoxville township stockman eyes a Marion county record as a litter of six month old spring pigs sells for $85 to $150 each including a 285 pound pig sold to a Michigan buyer for $150 and a 275 pound pig shipped to Mississippi for $130.
State Geologist R C Allen says Michigan may stop coal production in fifteen years. A five member French panel to pick a Panama Pacific Expo site has been received by Wilson and Bryan. Dill currency reform proposals surface in senate banking committee hearings. Bear searches Alaskan waters for the missing Wasp. Alaska education chief A N Evans fears for crew. Harvey S Chase quits Treasury revision job at fifty dollars a day. Gompers Morrison and AFL leaders thank Wilson for William B Wilson’s appointment as secretary of labor. Agriculture shakeup predicted. Houston cites twenty five unnecessary employees. David Lamar faces federal action after prior lobby scandal. World wheat output expected to rise 4.1 percent to 3 330 000 000 bushels per year per Rome’s International Institute of Agriculture. Hulbert and Irving Fisher back currency bill with amendments. A San Antonio memorial tower proposal would reach eight hundred two feet. Des Moines actuary James Fairlie named Illinois insurance actuary. Carrie Catt conducts suffrage school in New York drawing many women students. A major corn shipment from South America arrives in New York at 7 300 tons from Buenos Ayres. Juan Cabrillo monument dedication in San Diego Bay with Don Juan Rianos y Gayangos present. Mrs Marshall Holt of San Francisco elected life member of Farmer’s National congress in Plano Illinois. Governor Felker delays Thaw extradition decision. Thaw counsel seeks extra time. Josephus Daniels speaks on press loyalty at AP meeting in Indianapolis. Hetta Freidl draws first homestead at Milk River valley opening from 40 000 envelopes.
Dr Lot Snoddy of Chicago reports in a Medical Society paper that tuberculin is the only scientific remedy for tuberculosis. He notes a 90 percent cure rate in fifty cases and immunization against relapse, with success tied to controlled temperature and dosage.
Dated reports say Selma Shankland six years old of Dawson was fatally injured when the school bell clapper struck his left temple. The incident follows a sequence of local legal and labor stories including a single courthouse case in Henry County and a Colorado coal miner strike clash near Trinidad. Daisy Odene of Davenport, a pioneer female rail passenger agent, attended a St Paul convention, while J B Makada a Japanese merchant and interpreter was shot in San Francisco by an unknown assailant.
Foreign dispatches report a massive blaze at Ordu on the Black Sea destroying the market place and about a thousand homes. Balkans tensions grow as the young Turk military party capitalizes on rivalries among former allies. Turkey reportedly mobilizes Asia Minor conscripts while an exiled officer leads a Thrace uprising. Other items note Moreau’s Bonnet prize win with an auto stabilizing aeroplane, a mutiny in the royal Spanish guard in Algeria en route to Morocco, Diaz's return to Biarritz after a false Mexico voyage report, and the discovery of wreckage believed to the Boussole buried at Vanikoro.
Dorothy visits grandparents in the country and admonishes Grandpa to manage his hens. Feathers litter the yard as she suggests action to stop the chickens from wearing out.
A wry observation notes that some individuals choose spending chaos over abstaining from buying, implying high risk for small gains or joy in frugality.
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