10 Apr 1913
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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
1
The essay denounces censorious neighbors who gossip about others in rural towns. It argues boredom with small talk pushes people toward cities, praising libraries, chautauquas, plays, and clubs as means to broaden horizons. True reform means indifferent ears and wider vision.
The Ledger editor laments that once influential Iowa editors, who shaped legislation and spoke for the public, are now forgotten or pensionless pensioners in idle roles. He recalls Stillman and Smith D. Frey as symbols and notes derelicts replacing the men who guided readers, while asking where the profession’s best went.
President Wilson weighs one general tariff bill versus separate schedules as Senate finance leaders push for compromise on free wool and sugar duties. Key figures Hughes Kern Simmons Underwood discuss rates while House Ways and Means backs a single revision. A 1 percent income tax on >4000 and 4 percent on >700,000 is tentatively agreed.
The Webster City Freeman notes 50000 ducks and geese migrating north were killed in Iowa this spring. This will cause 300000 to 400000 fewer young hatch. Some states ban spring migratory bird destruction. Congress passed a law to reject this species during migration, with zones to enforce it. This may be the last spring legal hunting in Iowa during migration.
The Office of Public Roads reports marketing costs for farm products at 23 cents per ton per mile in the United States, vs 8 cents in advanced European roads. With average haul around 9.9 miles, the gain from better roads is shown in reduced waste, higher farm returns, and broader community improvements including housing, schools, and farming practices. The article argues improved roads bring tangible economic and social uplift nationwide.
The piece traces European power shifts after Sadowa and the Berlin conference, detailing Austria’s 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rising Russian-Austrian tensions, and the risk of a broader Balkan conflict drawing in Russia, Germany, France, and potential Alsace Lorraine aims.
The passage contrasts financiers like Morgans Herrimans Guggenheims and Clarks who chase wealth as their sole aim. It notes vast wealth, global reach from major to minor players, and implies life rewarded by money while society scarcely mourns their loss. A Chinese baseball team will tour the United States.
Vancouver has operated under a Henry George style single tax for years, boosting population from 15,000 to 120,000 while keeping the same 20 mill tax rate since 1906. Critics say it overbuilds, but investors note rising demand and strong credit. Minnesota’s tax commission sees potential value in a modified form for Minnesota.
Ledger readers learn that high authorities question contagion as a primary spread method for infantile paralysis. The report details experiments exposing monkeys to Stomoxys calcitrans bites at various disease stages, with six of twelve healthy monkeys showing indications of infection, including three fatal cases, suggesting a possible vector role and shifting views on transmission mechanisms.
In a detailed historical reflection, the fall of Adrianople is celebrated as the end of a long siege. The piece acknowledges Turkish defenders' bravery amid brutal winter, disease, and supply shortages, while praising allied forces’ actions and urging balanced remembrance of both sides in this pivotal WWI moment.
The Ledger cites Hoke Smith on Montana's wheat boom, noting Chateau county’s land transformed from buffalo grazing to prime wheat fields. About 3,500 homesteads formed in two years, with fields yielding bumper crops and homesteads valued up to 9,000 dollars. Montana dominates at the Northwestern Land Products show. The piece also praises Shelby M. Cullom on the Lincoln Memorial Commission and greets spring.
A dense 1900s economic digest notes farm output shifts with barley and potatoes rising while corn and wheat fall. Railroads gain freight and passenger traffic, with freight revenue up and per‑capita crop purchasing power rising. The piece contrasts these trends with population growth, rail mileage, and purchasing power, then touches on Idaho Mothers Pension, anti trust rhetoric, and a push for 1 cent postage amid socialist debate.
A provocative editorial argues that suffragettes deserve civil rights, not confinement in an asylum, urging policymakers to treat women seeking voting rights as legitimate citizens and to stop punitive measures.
The Ohio legislature weighs a bill to form a commission to prescribe women’s fashions, while a flood of odd notes from 1912 recalls telephone totals, White House costs, and political buzz. Amid jokes about Taft at Johns Hopkins and farmers’ chores, readers glimpse a era of quirky civic concerns and public discourse.
Five Scotch Collie pups for sale whelped Feb 28. Sired by Teddy Model 164805 and Ary shire Salome 128542. Three males at 20 dollars each, two females at 12 dollars each. Full pedigree with each. Selections now. pups delivered April 1.
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