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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
1
A scrambled miscellany discusses Milan beef in Italy, global size comparisons, eye alignment, whale weights, and Bank of England foundations. It notes American Bible society activity near Indianapolis, railroad prosperity, milk prices, and farming incomes, with varied brief items on India crops, Kansas poverty, Venezuela’s Castro, and Winnipeg coal discoveries.
Capt Thomas S Baldwin wins an Army contract to build two signal observation balloons using a new vulcanized rubber material. The balloons of 1000 and 540 cubic meters will cost 5500 dollars, last five times longer than varnished silk, resist temperature changes, and require no midlife revarnishing.
The Brazilian government gazette cited in Daily Consular reports shows seven year totals for rubber: world production 68 000 tons, consumption 62 574 tons. Africa supplied 23 400 tons, Asia 1 800, Americas mainly Brazil the rest. Stocks fell from 8 869 tons (1899 1900) to 4 584 tons (1904 1905) with 1905 1906 stock rising to 5 352 tons as demand slowed, lifting crude rubber prices.
William Simpkins, a Philadelphia contractor, got back his long missing Masonic watch charm after a surprising exchange of letters. A Lehigh Valley train had lost it years ago and a Philadelphia woman, Mrs. E McDonnell, traced the owner through marriage licenses in a city paper. She bought the charm in New York three years earlier and returned it after Simpkins described it in detail.
The Audubon society in San Antonio offers five cents for cat tails to deter tailless felines from prowling and protect mocking birds. The public funds aim to curb the cat vagrants blamed for nocturnal disturbance as residents contribute generously to the cause.
An Oxford undergraduate, 19, famed for his red nose from cigarette use and blowing smoke through his nostrils, sought medical help. The doctor advised reducing smoking and stopping nostril puffing, with rapid cosmetic improvement and a warning that cigarette smoking generally harms the skin.
Prominent Hoosier Democrat reports on a Leap Year club urging young men to remove hats in conversation with women and to give up seats in street cars, hoping to restore chivalry amid changing social norms. Members complain about reduced deference and discuss potential shifts in behavior if old customs do not return.
The Leap Year club in Muncie Indiana declares a reform in men’s manners requiring every young man to lift his hat and remove it completely when meeting a girl acquaintance in public. The rule aims to curb the lax salutes of today and vows social ostracism as the penalty for noncompliance.
Blackie a 16 year old cat once owned by Benjamin Dilly was chloroformed and died after physicians deemed its condition hopeless. Executors acted with consent of the will's executors. Dilly left income from a 40000 estate for the cats care and a $5000 fountain project for humans and animals. Pinkie the other cat died two years earlier.
Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineering professor at Union College, warned at an American Institute of Electrical Engineers lecture that coal depletion will force future generations to heat homes without coal. He predicted a switch to alternatives as anthracite and then soft coal run out, possibly even Greenland coal reserves delaying exhaustion.
A vicious dog attacked a horse ridden by Adam Davis causing the horse to kick at a barrier. A shoe struck a passing carriage, injuring driver Peter Jamison who was thrown over the dashboard but escaped serious harm as the horse sped away and slipped on wet asphalt.
London report on a lecture by Rev. B S Lombard asserting silence heals and excessive talking drains vital energy. He cites a case of a woman ruined by talking about health, later cured then wrecked again. Also notes a Michigan church buying a saloon organ and skeletons found in Beardstown street sand.
The speaker warns that mineral supplies are diminishing as national growth accelerates and urges prudent foresight through ceaseless research. He calls for conserving forests and soil, systematizing water transportation via the reclamation service, and developing new minerals and alloys to sustain future prosperity.
The piece argues humor is a universal, democratic force born from sorrow and experience. It seeks to elevate humor as a liberating, morally purposeful and philosophical attitude that restores spirits and conquers self faults. 22-BIGZ CAO
Cardinal Logue of Ireland, visiting in America, calls for a united religious effort to check divorce. He argues divorce harms the state, degrades the race, and urges larger American families for national welfare and glory. He notes ministers across sects oppose divorce and links family size to national strength.
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