24 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1910
Page
1
The Elgin Echo reports on Canada resenting early fisheries rules and Ontario premier opposing U S backed permits. It notes British cabinet changes, Churchill home secretary, and U S capitalists expanding influence in Canadian industry. Also covered are river and harbor bills, court rulings, political bribery probes, and maritime disasters amid a cliff of brief items from around 1910.
President Taft spoke at the New York Republican Club Lincoln Day event praising administration policy and warning against business hysteria. He urged enforcement of the law to fit conduct, defended anti trust aims, and urged party unity while noting a potential shift in Congress toward Democrats. Governor Hughes joined in applause as Taft warned insurgents to refrain from disrupting party discipline.
Brigadier General Robert Leamy Meads United States Marine Corps retired died at his Lexington home after several months of illness. Born December 26 1841 in Washington he served from 1856 58 then 1858 1906. He fought in Civil War blockade duty New York draft riots Libby and Richmond prisons Shenandoah expedition in Asia and Pacific waters medals from Congress for Tientsin China services.
The Navy Department acted on court martial recommendations in the cases of Paymaster George P. Auld and Passed Assistant Surgeon A H Robnett, remitting Auld’s sentence and reducing Robnett’s to loss of two numbers. Provocation was cited for the assault on Dr. Cowles during the navy hop on Des 11.
Otto Pich in Cleveland believed it illegal for anyone but the coroner to touch a hanged man. He left to fetch the coroner after finding his father-in-law Zahour hanging alive in a pantry. A policeman freed him, but Zahour died en route to the hospital.
German and Prussian nations seek a joint loan of 120 million dollars on four percent government bonds while a new Catholic cathedral in St Paul will host public services before year end. Arabs raid nine convents near Jerusalem in 1911, oust clergy, and occupy monasteries with families. troops avert entry to the largest convent. The Canadian conservation conference favors banning pulp wood exports, signaling long term tension with the United States. Pittsburg recalls graft probes as bail is posted for five men amid bank bribery and city politics. London contemplates merging three tube lines into a single London Electric Railway with 80 million capital split across stock debentures and preference shares.
Packers at the Chicago stockyards paid the highest hog prices since the Civil War with Tuesday averages at 9.11 dollars. The prior record was 9.06 dollars on Monday, while 1870 saw prices from 8.35 to 9.05 and 1869 peaked at 9.50. Tribune files show 1865 hog sales as high as 12.75 with a low of 10.00.
A January survey shows a strong rise in receipts at the fifty largest U.S. post offices, with 49 reporting increases over January last year. Hartford leads percent gain at 27.81, while Dayton shows 1.72. Overall, the period shows an 11.27 percent national improvement in business conditions.
A boiler explosion at Princing's sawmill in Crump near Bay City Michigan killed six men waiting for the day's work and injured the others. Debris scattered 100 feet. water level likely caused steam pressure leading to the blast.
Building brick producers forge an organization within the National Brick Manufacturers Association to push for safer and saner construction. They cite figures showing Americans burn more buildings yearly than they construct, highlighting a national risk. Schumann-Heink buys 500 acres in San Diego County for 20000 dollars to build a home for her children in El Cajon valley featuring lemon and orange ranches.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr oldest son of the former president is betrothed to Eleanor Butler Alexander of New York. The wedding plans will wait for the father’s arrival in June next year. Teddy Jr. age about 22, Harvard graduate 1908, now works at Hartford Carpet Company in Thomastonville Connecticut.
A Washington hotel fire at Harris near Union Station early this morning sent about one hundred guests into a panic. Three victims leaped from a third story window, including Orville A. Henry of Berwick Pennsylvania, his wife, and child. They suffered serious injuries. origin of the blaze remains unknown.
Plans outline a new Navyn i College to be built in Halifax in connection with Canada’s navy. The Atlantic fleet includes two Bristol cruisers, six destroyers, and the Niobe cruiser to be purchased for 2 million dollars.
A series of brief items reports Charles Guerney of Red Cloud Nebraska selling 2240 dollars worth of cattle in one day and fattening a large herd on alfalfa, plus 300 dollars in hay and 600 tones left. Carl J Calvin of Lancaster becomes chief engineer of Consumers Iron Mining Co of Virginia after a Wisconsin engineering degree in 1908. A trader near Waverly Missouri sells 280 dollars of sheep and uses proceeds to expand a ewe and buck lamb flock. John Kurta in Colorado defends his crops with a shotgun and two dogs against 109 railroad workers, forcing a settlement. Moorhead Minnesota’s Commercial Club annual meeting features President Huntoon urging activity to move the potato crop, noting 1306 refrigerator cars would be needed and a potential 260,000 dollars in regional distribution if the crop moves East.
Six pneumonia cases typically fatal were cured using a killed pneumococcus vaccine. Dr Henry A Craig, assistant physician at Ballers' Long Harbor Hospital in New Brighton Staten Island, announced the results.
A Baltimore woman reports four years of misery from irregularities and nervous collapse ended after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy as the most successful female treatment, offering advice from Mrs. Pinkham and urging others to try it.
A famed artist Burne Jones sketched anatomy images for J Cromyns Carr’s children. The good man and good woman hearts are central, a hollow bad man, and the nonexistent bad woman provoke witty replies. A scholar’s tale about a moth in a mattress yields a pun about the letter o.
A hospitalized Ohio woman details how quitting coffee and adopting Postum cured years of heart trouble and nervous prostration. She describes energy return, loss of chills, and regained ability to perform housework, praising the product and a book titled The Road to Wellville.
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