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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
8
A fog bound collision off Hakodate, near Hokkaido, sinks the 8000 ton Matsu Maru with 244 passengers and 43 crew. The Hideyoshi rescued survivors as the Matsu Maru went down within ten minutes, with many perishing.
Governor Broward advances a small canal project to drain sections of the Everglades. Two sixty foot wide canals to Pine Island will create 10 000 acres for cultivation, with land selling at 15 to 20 dollars per acre as engineers predict completion by fall.
The wrecked steamer carried Japanese passengers, including merchants, prompting naval authorities at Hako date to send destroyers. Rescue efforts continue, and a fund has begun for canal digging while land reclamation is estimated between 20 and 100 dollars per acre, with Everglades projected to cost under one dollar per acre to reclaim.
Miss Ida Lewis long serves Lime Rock lighthouse Newport Harbor as the sole woman in charge. She contemplates a rare vacation after fifty years of perpetual duty, facing nervousness and sleep troubles. She earned the American Cross of Honor and Carnegie hero fund pension for saving eighteen lives, assisted by her brother Rudolph Lewis.
A garbled collection of captionless musings and odd quips from a newspaper page. Items touch on the nickel trust, Hungarian counts, wage talk for women, weather, prosperity, auto endurance, moonshiners, the Panama canal, and a Carolina railroad camp incident, all presented as fragmented snippets.
Professor John Horvath of Philadelphia tests a varnish claim said to unlock Stradivarius tone. In a brass and woodwind demonstration he compared two violins, a $2 instrument and a $22 factory model, with rare violins, finding the treated instruments matched or surpassed the best. A six months trial of more treated violins is planned.
The report traces embezzlement and related losses with 17 and 1006 as landmarks, noting 1907 totals at $10,424,820. Banks and trust companies suffer $4,088,005 while public officials account for $787,406. The summary covers embezzlement elements from IMIM to 1008.
The Cement Age reports trials of concrete car bumpers for the Lackawanna Railroad using monolithic blocks with granite receivers and bed rolls integrated to absorb impact. It notes two reinforced concrete flywheels, 14 feet in diameter and 6,000 pounds, installed at a pumping station near Johannesburg, highlighting reduced iron transport costs.
District Court rules St Louis county must pay into the Minnesota State treasury tax money lost through bank failures in 1804 and 1800. The county must also cover state funds forwarded to the state treasurer on tax settlements and plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The St. Paul Commercial Club adopts a resolution asking Congress to raise annual Mississippi river improvement funds from Minneapolis to the Missouri to 2 million dollars and to maintain the allocation for at least ten years. A Detroit group forms a stork club in January 1907 and Dead Wood Business Club plans a 100000-dollar company to remodel the burned Black Sills Foundry.
Theodore Roosevelt urges action on tariff revision the Sherman anti trust law and labor protections in a lengthy message to Congress. He calls for child labor lawsinjunction reform postal banks waterways commission and a modernization of anti trust rules with case by case oversight.
The former home of mining magnate Alvinga Hayward on the San Mateo peninsula is converted into a 225 room hotel by the San Mateo Hotel Company. Embellishments and grounds construction cost run into millions, with total investment projected around 600000 dollars as facilities prepare to open to guests. Fifteen acres of prime Maynard estate land are reserved for the hotel grounds.
The piece argues the coming presidential year will not drastically alter policy. Republicans likely hold Senate and House, with limited shifts. It cites economic stability, trade, and finance data, and critiques Bryan’s Nebraska platform as anti business and pro state socialism. The tone defends Republican stewardship and warns against radical change.
The speaker recalls a long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt noting his wide range of ideas and the mutual ability to agree or disagree. He praises Roosevelt as a trusted public figure loved by plain and intelligent citizens and righteous citizens alike. The president's annual message is cited with persistent recommendations and partial reforms.
Montres town Townsend of Michigan argues for a republic where federal law serves all citizens not special interests. He emphasizes unity over class or race and warns against domination by the rich.
A humorous fragment shows a freight payer claiming a light heart after marriage and his partner joking about a light pocketbook, reflecting a domestic quip from a 19th or early 20th century tone. The exchange underscores humor in marriage and financial thrift.
Free trade writers blame the treasury surplus for the current situation but the surplus enabled the government to inject 25 million dollars to banks facing suspension of payments. The surplus acted as a financial anchor and allowed bond acts to cover deficits and protect surpluses.
Fragmentary text notes a bowling event where Guyer sets records last night and someone comments on humor and rest. Mentions Jupiter and wedding-like names as nonessential, with unclear sequence of actions and outcomes.
New York reports 256 000 unemployed as nationwide idle workers total 1 200 000. Chicago estimate puts losses at zero, while union labor leaders claim members are not in want despite job shortages.
A somber report profiles Miss Weel and Miss Hardee among the principals of the Liwrens School for Girls in Heeton. The piece notes past ties to Wellsley College and Laurens School, and describes Milas Weed’s prior escape from a sanitarium before a fatal double tragedy.
The Southern railway reportedly laid off shopmen across multiple Southern States. Unofficially in St Petersburg word spread that the Czar commuted the death sentence on Gen Stoessel. The Rev Dr Huntington of Grace Church opposed the Broadway tunnel under his church.
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