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Newspaper
Iron County Citizen
Location
Hurley, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1908
Page
4
IRON COUNTY CITIZEN reports on water contamination debates in Chicago, political figures, and social issues. It highlights rail freight growth, yacht racing, and shipyard accidents, plus commentary on royal marriages, Pacific coast automobile races, and Japan’s debt strategy as part of a broad, era-spanning collection of items.
The New York Globe notes that possessing certain aged instruments of aggression such as slingshots sandals or a well made knuckle constitutes a felony and argues for strict statutory punishment for anyone in possession of a bomb.
The document laments lenient anarchist bomb laws across states while praising New York for a future Erie Canal opening on May 7. It notes grain shipments and navigation readiness, cites Missouri jailing seven for yeonage, and comments on Henry Forman the aeronaut whose plane crash tested early aviation dangers as the era moves from balloons to heavier-than-air flight.
A late fall and winter review tallies 350 lives lost along the New England and British North American coasts. Many victims belonged to Grand Banks fishing fleets, highlighting the perilous northern transatlantic route and dangers near the St Liwreece river mouth.
Mr Stevens, formerly with the Panama Canal Commission, argues the canal will fail without a robust U S merchant marine to use its facilities. He contends the export trade vessel shortfall should not discredit the canal, whose purpose was to stimulate interoceanic commerce.
The Lusitania and Mauretania will remain four days in port instead of six to cut rising construction and operating costs and boost earnings. If passenger time saved by faster port returns can be exploited, overall gains should rise. Canadian hemlock bark embargo critics press for market relief amid trade shifts. Architectural debate shifts as Sinzer tower proponent notes limits, yet MetLife adds twenty feet to reach 683 feet, potentially altering sentiment.
Meittle's school board plans a four member observer trip to Europe to study advanced educational methods. Seattle aims to compare foreign practices with local ideas about children's futures, hoping to harmonize progress with community values.
Attorney Kelly lauds Comptroller Bechtner for halting a municipal electric lighting project. He cites two reasons: potential harm to the city’s welfare and the inability to finance the scheme now. The Bechtner approach is praised as saving public funds.
An old New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt notes how ancestors viewed smallpox as a job screen. It cites ads seeking a footman and a maid who had contracted smallpox naturally, arguing health risk reduced hiring fear and that illness bred reliability for service work.
The excerpt comments that many Mongrebs use English among themselves in informal study. It contrasts the Russian czar speaking English better than German and a German emperor using English better than French. The tone is humorous and observational.
Poem describes the Navajo blanket as a crafted loom art with white and black threads. It highlights symbolism in patterns like lightning, rain, mountains, winds, and life, linking weaving to legends, desert landscapes, and cultural memory.
In London Answers a tale unfolds of Joe Brewster and friend Bill Coleman chasing a fortune via a returned brother James Brewster from Australia. Joe’s schemes collapse when a real James arrives, exposing deception and leading to a quiet, ironic reconciliation.
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt recalls Tex Ricard at Rawhide, a flamboyant figure who paid $8000 for a small corner lot, then built a sixty second saloon in town. A guest notes Ricard’s rapid talk and cigars, remarking the locals drink to fund his ventures.
Lloyds News notes that the trial on blasphemy raises questions about civility in public discourse. It argues ridicule and sarcasm may aid debate but vulgarity and irreverence toward sacred subjects should not be confused with free speech.
Percival Lowell argues in Century that deserts threaten the world as shrinking forests turn to wastelands and seas lose moisture. He cites northern Arizona’s petrified forests, chalking the scene to declining rainfall since the Tertiary era and a retreat of green zones up the mountains.
The Viceregal Commission minutes recount the Glasgow search for stolen Dublin castle jewels and a parallel tale of Scottish crown jewels hidden at Dunottar Castle. Lady Ogilvie escaped siege to smuggle them out, later buried beneath a parish pulpit until Restoration. Ogilvie earned a baronetcy. Leith was made an earl for misdirection. The Dublin jewels vanished from Duchess of Leinster’s house and were never traced despite probes, though later returned to the owner.
Doctors at immigration stations have new duties this week to watch arriving passengers for fleas. The government aims to collect diverse specimens to study and counter disease spread, with the busiest monitoring on Mediterranean ships where flea numbers are higher.
The article notes Africa supplies about 150.4 million and the United States about 95 million yearly, with Australia around 85.4 million. It mentions other regions like Asia, Mexico, Canada and Luther countries sharing the remainder, highlighting the global flow of gold.
The Washington State Federation of Labor endorsed man suffrage unanimously. Key West enforces child labor law via a school-attending police officer. Thomas Dooley, longtime United Association official, died in Chicago. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen opposes Watson in Indiana Republican race. T J Lewis, new UMWA president, born 1865 in Northumberland PA, began mining at age 7. Canada fines saloon keepers for selling to railway workers and for workers’ intoxication. Isoston sanitary department contract issue returns. Mayor Hibbard forms committee. Minneapolis unions plan a Sunday-work ban crusade against nonrestricted labor. Germany Typographical Union reports 53,807 members and about 1.5 million in treasury.
A St Louis architect argues skyscrapers are not a modern idea, citing Roman practice where high brick homes near temples crowded densely within city walls. Laws in Augustus and Nero times limited height, widened streets after Nero’s fire, and reduced tenement height to about 80 feet, shaping Rome’s urban spread. The comparison casts the modern skyscraper as a revival of ancient constraints and city needs.
A Kansas City Journal column riffs on Hindu myth, claiming Vishnu created woman from nonmaterial elements due to lack of material, mixing moon roundness and nature’s traits to form woman. It parodies the Genesis rib idea as an “advance,” with ironic tone about woman’s creation.
A Jamaica banana planter extols the banana tree’s many uses, noting ink from its bangua, leatherlike polish from its juices, hemp from the stems for mule lace and rope, excelsior from long leaves, and banana flour from dried fruit, all attesting to the plant’s versatility.
A well known minister from Jon notes that sermons must be brief to attract today’s audience. He says crowds declined with longer talks, then rose by about half after he shortened sermons to around thirty minutes, arguing brevity allows a bigger audience and greater impact.
A quip reflects on a nameless genius who imagined butter on bread as a superior, universally loved concept. The remark lauds simple culinary wisdom over academic theories from many professors across history.
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