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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
1
A garbled column from Hayward California touches on Italy Austria Dreadnoughts and a tornado in Zephyr with scattered notes on alcohol reform a wigged alimony debate and a Kansas bachelor tax proposal. It discusses public figures like Rockefeller Harriman and Zephyr tornadoes in a patchwork of misprints and misused names.
Taft signs Payne tariff bill with tempered praise while admitting imperfection. The measure aims to reduce deficit and provide reliable statistics. California impact favors wines lemons and hops due to higher protections, while many goods including lumber and perfumes face varied effects. Champagne and brandy duties rise, still wines and hosiery prices shift, with broader industry implications noted.
Professor Meyer B. Jaffa heads a long term series of scientific feeding tests on hens at the state food laboratory and university nutrition department. Different feeds will be weighed and costs computed to determine egg output and production cost per egg, aiming for one egg daily seven days a week.
Oakland housewives, eager to find a double eagle claimed to be buried in soap bars, tested dissolving and cutting bars but found no coin. A traveling solicitor admitted coins appeared in some bars yet no one received payout. Buyers boiled coins from the soap, losing money and time while the seller moved on.
A short course in agriculture and related subjects is announced for October 4 to November 24 by Prof. Loray Anderson, supervisor of the university farm at Davis. The program aimed at California farmers will be mostly daytime with lectures shortened by ten weeks. A farmers week will gather farmers from across the state to discuss farm topics, while several associations will hold conventions at the university farm during that week.
Chicago reports thousands of unemployed burdening cities as the Northwest braces for a record crop. Secretaries of commercial and economic groups appeal to police in Makotas and other areas to deploy workers. South Dakota alone needs 60,000 men at wages from 2 to 4 per day, railroads offer free transport to wheat fields, though many unemployed may refuse the offer.
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