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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1907
Page
2
A humorous verse contrasts a farmhand’s laziness and appetite with his bursts of speed between meals. It describes slow plowing and long workdays spoiled by dinner breaks, cold weather, and constant hunger, ending with the grain of humor from the Chicago News.
In a London apartment Robin Seamore and friends joke about moving to India for work while a budding romance with Miss Farebrother deepens. At Victoria Station Seamore leaves for a one year tea-plantation post, and Miss Farebrother promises to wait, as the incidental music of their day plays on.
A rich man falls ill and, after a family doctor conference with several sniffers and a smoke, doctors cannot yet decide if his trouble is constitutional. The patient, rising in bed, protests that he must not take the matter to the Supreme Court, insisting on immediate action.
A collection of light classroom anecdotes shows children interpreting jokes and scripture with literal charm. A girl explains her ring caused by a disability moment falls flat. a boy mocks grown up roles. a child misreads a pond as skating ducks.
Peru has vast hydro potential from high river sources with Rimac capable of 100000 horsepower and Chile River able to supply large motive power. Lake Titicaca perched in mountain ring offers two possible development paths tunneling or pumping water over ridges. Congress hears proposals for surveys, cost estimates, and concession conditions to invite foreign capital.
Gen Russell A. Alger chairman senator from Michigan and former Secretary of War dies in Washington after a sudden illness. He had just lost re election to William Alden Smith. Born February 27 1836 in Medina County Ohio he rose from farmer to lawyer lumber baron and Civil War general. He later led Michigan as governor in 1885 and served as War Secretary from 1899 to 1901.
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress urging a ship subsidy bill. He cites the need to compete with European subsidized lines and to expand U S commercial ties with the Orient, South America, Hawaii, and the Philippines. He notes US steamship costs and foreign wage pressures, and argues the law is proven by other nations' experience.
News notes the death of Gen. Maggiolo, commandant of French artillery, in Algiers. The Cuban law commission, a twelve member body with three Americans, is reported to be divided on the suffrage question.
A Chicago legislator, Anton J. Cermak, pushes an An Act to Encourage Matrimony proposing a $5 poll tax on all men over 30 who remain unmarried during annual rounds. The bill allows relief if a man proves he cannot support a wife or the tax. Senate committees are announced with chairmanships for key issues. Shelby M. Cullom is re elected in Illinois with Boggs defeated.
The bill seeks to end smoking by outlawing making selling or giving cigar wrappers or any paper prepared for tobacco filling. It imposes fines from 25 to 50 dollars for first offenses and at least 100 dollars plus six months in jail for subsequent violations. It does not apply to interstate jobbers selling outside Illinois.
Reports outline a bill to reorganize Ili nois National Guard with a major general and division staff restoring pre amendment structure. An unrelated saloon bill by Senator Brown calls for public hearings and prohibition licenses if residents favor such action. A bank failure bill by Senator Cunningham imposes doubled liability for insolvent depositors and sets a thirty day default proof.
Both Republican and Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives plan to push the legislature's work this session and the lower Assembly will be ready for work earlier than two years ago, signaling an active start.
A Senate bill drafted by the sanitary board and introduced by Senator Clark paves the way for the Evanston and Calumet branches. It removes the $20,000,000 bond limit and allows borrowing and bonds up to five percent of the taxable property in the canal district.
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