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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
4
An advertisement touts the Carver School of Practical Photography offering twenty courses and free information. Local notes mention Rev Heinen's clerical visit, bakery and cigar promotions, Bible sale, church calls, and the Coads returning home amid a snowstorm.
A HuLL Index editorial wishes readers a merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year while commenting that Iowa shows population loss in 1900 but gains over the last five years. It cites census figures for 1900, 1905, 1910 and notes rail and express rates and dividends paid by express firms as part of a call for retrenchment.
The morning service features a Christmas sermon and the evening service offers a farewell sermon. The pastor has received and accepted a call to Olivet Church in Sioux City. All are invited to attend.
Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of December 1919 the court appointed JAM administrator of the estate of T DeJongh deceased. Creditors of the estate must render their claims and debtors must pay to the undersigned. Claims must be presented to the court for allowance by December 2.
A student on white slave evil argues parents greet the prodigal son while banishing the daughter. Sioux City Daily News agrees, noting the daughter is more sinned against than sinning and less able to overcome hardship. It condemns parental hypocrisy and calls for charity.
Read as the Young leadership seeks to keep Young in the chair amid a machine-backed bid for re election. Big senate moguls press to project his greatness while bypassing Cummins in Washington. The piece notes a Washington joke about Young claiming progressiveness.
President Howard Elliott of Northern Pacific is quoted noting 1,000,000 stockholders averaging 18 000 each while about 100 000 000 users pay expenses and dividends. The proposed policy shift would favor users over owners, claiming a 99 to 1.7 advantage.
The piece argues for higher freight rates for railroads citing historical dividends rising from 36 to 66 percent, surplus treasuries swelling to $190 million in 1898 and $700 million in 1908, and earnings per mile up 345 percent from 1897 to 1907. It claims carriers will have $20 million more to divide in 1910 than expected, urging a rate rise.
The proposal seeks 20,000,600 in ship subsidies under the Newlands plan to build thirty one million dollar ships and lease to merchant companies to boost seaport trade and national interests. It envisions American crews and wages with naval reserve training and ready for wartime use. The Sioux City News urges a decisive battle on ship subsidies as a test of reform across parties.
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