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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
5
A Buffalo Tribune column muses on balancing affection with restraint toward infants. It cites a physician’s warning against overzealous maternal love and social pressure to mute baby interactions, while praising warm, gentle care as seen in Italian motherhood and urging American mothers to preserve affectionate traditions.
An English clergyman argues that health and morals are closely linked and that a healthy middle age indicates a decent life. He claims many English convicts are physical degenerates, implying badness extends beyond vices to include criminal acts like theft, burglary, and forgery driven by bodily state.
The Buffalo Express notes Chief Statistician Le Brand Powers argues many fortunes are overstated. Estates shrink in probate, with Russell Sage's net after death around 60 million rather than 100 million. Deducting large sums from big estates leaves more for public or others.
The government promises a constitutional framework to take effect within nine years, gradual replacements each year to avoid rash changes. In a vast history and long tradition, this staged approach to constitutionalism marks a remarkable twentieth century reform for China.
Mr and Mrs A Johnson of Polk City Iowa could not agree on a name for their four year old son and chose Jennings Howard Johnson reflecting their political differences. In Japan porcelain factories face losses with 20 to 40 percent cut, many halting production. 28 of 80 factories in Tsu Maki Mura suspended operations.
W H Bilderback a traveling salesman for Hillier liquor house Omaha is indicted in Cass county Iowa arguing liquor firms cannot solicit orders for delivery into dry states. County Attorney Goodspeed cites a Supreme Court ruling upholding state control of liquor sales within borders making such order taking unlawful. Bilderback posted 600 cash bond and the case aims to test the law’s reach statewide.
State Bacteriologist Henry Albert will say in his twenty-first quarterly report that milk and ice cream likely sparked a Fairfield typhoid outbreak, with 60 to 75 cases two weeks earlier. The report also notes tuberculosis testing dominated the July to September lab work, with 832 of 2,055 exams for TB.
Mason City reports Trank Trigg of Rockford runs a 24 acre apple orchard with scientific care. The ten year old orchard grows Wealthy Patten Greenings. This year he marketed 900 barrels and earned 200 cash, about 30 dollars per acre, with very high market demand for top quality fruit.
In a federal habeas corpus ruling Judge Reed holds the government cannot compel Tama reservation parents to send children to Toledo schools or jail them. The decision also states the Muckwalls own land in fee simple and that the land is not a reservation. The Indians win a complete victory that may set a broad precedent for native communities.
The Sioux City readering a decision sustains the bulk sales law against a stock of goods once owned by Gilbertson Bros of Lime Grove Nebraska. Judge E B Weatherby of Norfolk Nebraska declares the law constitutional. The ruling impacts Sioux City wholesalers who move large quantities into Nebraska towns. The test was conducted by local workers.
A major blaze in Davenport destroyed elevator B of the Rothschilds Grain Co and a nearby Glucose Co warehouse. Losses include $75,000 on logs and grain, $15,000 on syrup, and $10,000 for 250,000 feet of lumber. Total damage exceeds $100,000. cause unknown.
Prairie fires in Nora Springs and Prairie hurt crops and fences, burning about 100 tons of hay and roughly thirty acres of corn. Damages exceed $1,000 across McAuley Bros., John Andrews, and William Frezee properties. Fires traced to Milwaukee section force burning right of way. Des Moines: hotel owner not liable for police raids. Judge Howe rules no damages claim against Phillip Morgan.
Fire at the C. P. Rugg farm south of Waterloo destroyed a barn and several sheds and killed nine horses seven calves and one cow. Firefighters used large amounts of milk liquid to extinguish the blaze and save the corn cribs and machinery. Loss over $3 000 with $2 000 insured.
A gathering of twenty five retail druggists denounced the sale of liquor for beverage purposes and pledged to assist in prosecuting offenders. The association resolves not to bear the burden of iniquity longer, citing a few members forcing the issue.
The Iowa State College stock judging team won the team prize at the American Royal Live Stock show in Kansas City for the second time in two years. If successful again next year, the award trophy will become permanent property of the state college. Three team members also earned individual prizes.
Sioux City secretary Frank L Wirick resigns after six years citing ill health. Jon Morton, longtime secretary of the OBrien county fair at Sheldon, is named probable successor to Wirick for the Interstate Livestock Fair board.
Seventy men who had been on strike at Town Central shopmen resumed work in the MartshalTown shops. Many more could have returned. As work resumes, many strike breakers have quit before contracts ended, and within days all employers will be union men, with shops running day and night shifts.
The Modern Brotherhood of America voted to keep its headquarters in Mason City by about two to one over Des Moines. Davenport was another candidate in the race.
Announcement states W. G. Dows and Isaac B. Smith of Cedar Rapids and Town City Railway and Light Co have bought Cedar River water power rights at the Palisades. A 20 foot dam will be built to develop 60 000 horsepower, with an electric line planned to Palisade and Mount Vernon.
Paris reports Bulgaria backed down after Turkish ambassador Naumon Pasha indicated mobilization had been ordered and then suspended. France influenced the détente as Sofia’s cabinet reportedly faced resignation, Ferdinand’s antiwar stance held, but public sentiment risks renewed conflict and a center steel project faded from view.
Reports from northern Michigan describe fragmentary fire damage but improving danger to life and property. Refugees in box cars and open fields face exposure as temperatures drop. Governor Warner appeals for help. Detroit officials plan relief meetings. State troops report no immediate need for more troops, blankets begin movement to the burned district. Western Union maintains communication with Alpena and Onaway.
Reports claim the Duke of the Abruzzi may wed Kathrine Elkins. No official notice yet but press leans on a definite royal alliance. If true, Elkins would become an Italian princess and retain royal honors after marriage.
A late report from forest fire districts says fires have invaded Rogers City and destroyed four large breweries. Residents prepared to flee by boat as wire communication was cut off. President J O Hawks of the Detroit and Mackinac railroad was informed fires also threatened Ossine, south of Alpena on Thunder Bay.
The American battleship fleet's Yokohama arrival was postponed by a massive storm off Luzon from October 12 to 18. One sailor drowned, minor ship damage reported, and the Connecticut relayed the update to Tokyo via wireless. The fleet is expected in Yokohama at 9 AM October 18.
Henry Standing Bear a Carlisle Indian School graduate and former Carlisle football fullback was arraigned in New York charged with bigamy. Hazel Moran of St Louis says she married Bear in May and learned he already had a Sioux wife and three children at Pine Tree South Dakota. Bear is held on bail for a Monday hearing.
The German balloon Plauen, after departing Berlin Monday for an endurance contest, was found Wednesday night in the North Sea by a trawler. Aeronauts Hackstetter and Schreider clung to it while Behrelder lay seriously ill in a hospital infirmary. Rescue occurred about 240 miles from Spurn Head.
A Friday night blaze in Rock Island, Illinois, swept from the southwest yard corner into yards north of the river, destroying ten acres in two hours. The fire, aided by a southeast gale, destroyed twenty million feet of lumber and two sawmills at Rock Island Lumber Company and Rock Island Sand and Gravel works, causing about 600000 dollars in damage.
La Grande confirms the arrest of J. W. Sortber cashier of the Farmers' and Traders' National Bank on a charge of embezzlement. Officials say defalcation may reach about $24,000 as the investigation proceeds.
Rev Francis J McConnell of Brooklyn New York has accepted the call to serve as president of DePauw University in Green Castle Indiana. He holds a PhD and is pastor of New York Avenues Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Times reports President Roosevelt plans a 1910 trip to England after Africa, delivering the Romanes lecture at Oxford and receiving a D. C. L. honorary degree. He may travel to Paris for an address at the Sorbonne, with Mrs. Roosevelt possibly joining at Khartoum.
The American battleship fleet, ahead of schedule, was sighted by Japanese warships near Klushun Island in southeastern Japan. Admiral Sperry and his crew observed the maneuvers while the Connecticut served as flagship. The fleet and gunboat Yankton reached Yokohama harbor at ten oclock Friday morning.
New York officials consider redeeming a ten pound note issued February 16, 1771 by the English colony of New York. Comptroller Metz was presented with the request and told by experts that redeeming the note with compound interest to the present could require paying about $39,000.
A spectacular fire destroyed three tanks at the Canton plant of the Standard Oil Company in Baltimore. The blaze started in the pump house when a spark ignited pipes, spreading to rear tanks and taking nearly four hours to control.
In Omaha Neb a stranger entered the home of Edward A Cudahy the millionaire packer Tuesday night. He fled through an open second floor window when a servant girl screamed. The intruder was well dressed and wore a silk hat. He was found in the room of Edward Cudahy aged seven who had been kidnapped seven years earlier.
Norwich Conn July 6 1841 born Daniel Colt Gilman former Johns Hopkins University president died suddenly Tuesday afternoon in his room after dinner found by his wife. Burial planned in Norwich.
Oscar Hazard Perry, a grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry hero of Lake Erie, died Friday at his Jersey City home of apoplexy. He was born in Clarkson, New York, in 1840.
One man drowned and 75 people were thrown into panic when the steamer New York of the Albany Day Line was burned by the tug Willam H. Mannery in the North River Friday night.
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