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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1904
Page
6
Jackson Herald announces office residence and postoffice mailing details with subscription terms for one year, six months, and three months. Advertising rates cover locals per inch, professional cards, and legal adverts with fetal rates noted. display ads available on application.
The Market Report offers a summarized view of prevailing conditions in grain markets. It notes price directions, supply expectations, and factors influencing futures trading, with emphasis on harvest outlooks and regional market activity.
A column of live stock listings from St Louis shows steer prices around 105.00 with heifers and ewes noted. Various cattle ages and weights are described, including bulls and bulls of sale, with ranges from 100.00 to 190.00 and multiple entries indicating hands and ex range.
Gus Gregory, a Black man, is hanged for murder in New Madrid Missouri. A brief telegram notes the event as part of condensed dispatches from the era.
A long passage argues that protective tariffs, led by Nelson Dingley and Springfield, drove prosperity. It claims tariffs stabilised prices, sustained factories, and safeguarded business confidence over the past six months despite free trade critics. The article asserts tariffs are the main cause of recent prosperity and criticizes free traders.
The San Francisco Chronicle argues that Cuba dominates sugar imports and tobacco with a 20 percent duty cut under reciprocity. It warns a Cuba treaty could force a government loan and new taxes, harming the country and the Republican party.
In a notable feature of the present era, industrial groups respond to tariff and labor movements by shifting production. The migration of industries from one country to another neutralizes protectionist measures as firms open chain factories abroad, with many British and German companies launching branches in the United States.
The text asserts no layoffs or wage cuts so far with strikes mainly in building sectors. It notes high raw cotton prices forcing minor wage reductions, strong rail traffic and earnings, and a robust holiday volume. It defends the tariff as a stabilizing factor and hints at protectionist gains if duties rise, while German firms seek Russian production under new tariffs.
The piece argues reciprocity admits that an exclusive tariff harms the nation by favoring exclusion. It asserts that protection excludes competitors and assigns work domestically, while reciprocity would shift market share to foreigners. The two policies cannot coexist.
The Freeport Journal argues that England’s shift from free trade to protection undermines Democratic praise of free trade. It contends the United States should remain committed to protection, which the paper credits with making the country prosperous.
Morevian Falls North Carolina Yellow Jacket reports on a political stance urging Democrats to gain power, framed as a guide to industrial policy and anti-rat advocacy. The piece emphasizes party alignment and civic action.
A compact remark notes that poker aided a man whose path to wealth had no easy route. The speaker contrasts common sayings with personal experience, mentioning royal Mush as part of an informal start in gambling or betting circles.
Jefferson City Missouri Anselatant Attorney General Jeffries Thuratay mora vng Aled a motion In the Supreme Court da banc to dlanlae the profitt then proceedings Inaugurated in the court leet Saturday by the Ivergimen and undertakers of St Louis against the State Bond of Mediation and Arbitration in the matter of strike settement. The Resistant Attorney General argues the law may be constitutional but if not it should have been challenged in Circuit Court for final determination. The motion to dismiss was argued by Assistant Attorney General for the Board of Mediation and Arbitration and Walter A Saunders of St Louis for the government and winders. The court will rule in a few days.
St Louis Prosecuting Attorney Devt H Harris of Callaway County to aid Edward Butler defense in Fulton Pet 1 bribery trial. Maris retained counsel for Huthor Nov 3. Judge Waller appointed W W Graves to preside after Waller fled the court.
In Jefferson City Missouri the St Louis oil inspector salary law and fee obligations are being reviewed in a Supreme Court setting. Arguments from St Louis and Booneville attorneys involved Flynn and Bywed as opposing parties. The court indicated a decision could come in February. The Kangas City Belt Line Railway Co. abandoned plans to raise tariffs after two hearings and will accept a board order reducing rates to two dollars a car with further board action anticipated next week.
Gregory and West of Marshall Missouri report 480 head of hogs dead from cholera in the county.
Samuel Reber city weighmaster and longtime politician shot himself in the head Friday night and died forty five minutes later. He was 63, had lived in St Joseph for thirty years, and his son Otto resides in St Louis.
Washington reports the battleship Missouri built by Newport News Shipbuilding Company has been accepted by the government pending the standard probation period.
George Bowman a 94 year old farmer from Louisiana Mo was riding toward Salt River when a St Louis Keokuk Northwestern train struck and killed him. He was married.
In Columbia Missouri an outbreak described as an epidemic of black sex has threatened large cattle herds in Boom County. Prompt measures are being implemented to prevent further spread and protect livestock.
Springfield Missouri reports the Missouri State Federation of Labor unanimously endorsing a demand for U S Senate action. It calls for the Judiciary Committee or its subcommittee to travel to Colorado and expose conditions there for national awareness. A resolution of sympathy with Colorado workers and aid to the strike was approved. Public school books and free employment agencies in new cities were urged by the Legislature.
The St Louis & Suburban Railway Co reported 104 700 riders in the last quarter, triggering a new ordinance imposing a one mill tax per passenger. The city may demand about 41 100.05 for three months this year, while under the old law 250 was collected in permits for twelve months. Officials warn companies to comply at once.
The Supreme Court denied the brokers motion in St. Louis related to blocking railroad ticket sales during the World’s Fair. Lower courts ruled against the brokers, and the denial allows a rehearing to proceed, with several cases involving Schubach Wasserman Jager Pipket and others against judges Kindy Wood.
Fifty cab drivers in St Joseph Missouri struck on Thursday after the Liverymen's Association refused a raise. The drivers formed a union Saturday and pressed for 75 cents more pay, with the association saying they will replace strikers with other men.
Sedalia Missouri reports the strike by Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company linemen ended on Saturday. The agreement cuts the work day to nine hours from ten and raises daily pay from 2.25 to 2.40 dollars. They had asked for 60 cents. Overtime pay at one and one half and double pay for Sundays and legal holidays are specified.
Mayor Gothen C. Rowe of Commerce Missouri died here on Thursday aged T1. He joined the Civil War as a private in the Missouri Infantry and rose to major of the 2nd Missouri Cavalry. He leaves a widow.
A winter course Intericulture at Missouri University saw enrollment top last year, driven by a new poultry chair. The program expands offerings in poultry and egg production along with plant production, animal husbandry, horticulture, and dairying, with emphasis on stock judging and butter making.
Representative Bartholdt of St. Louis introduced a bill for relief in St. Clair County Missouri describing the long standing imprisonment of county judges as they are elected to satisfy rail bond obligations. The bill mirrors a prior measure by Representative Joy with minor wording changes.
Agricultural notes explain how mustard and other weeds draw on soil nutrients, especially saltpeter, reducing availability for crops like wheat and flax. Weeds rapidly flower and consume plant foods, depleting reserves before harvest, while millets, especially foxtails and cattails, offer better hay yields with proper drainage and frost-free planting.
A reader recalls a winter poultry puzzle from a Plymouth Rock flock kept without a proper coop. Ninety percent of the scene shows a rented barnyard shed housing eighty birds, wind sweeping in, and heat fed by feeding the wind with nutrient waste. The piece argues that farm owners must stop blaming the birds and instead inspect housing and management to explain egg shortages and strange roosting in trees.
The Crown Prince of China will visit the United States next summer and witness the Yale Harvard boat race. He will be escorted by Wong Ka Kah, a Yale graduate.
G C Caston advises orchard owners that trees on poor or exhausted soils show stunting and weak vigor. He recommends plowing in clover to supply nitrogen and using hard wood ashes and bone meal for potash and phosphoric acid, with occasional sheep grazing to enrich soil. Referencing apple and other fruit trees, he notes ash costs and application rates, and emphasizes humus from clover and yard waste for soil improvement.
The article traces early spraying history from 1870 to 1882, noting rare mentions of spraying, early devices like the Johnson Spray Machine of 1873, and pioneers such as Gross of Hijon and J N Dixon of Oskaloosa. It discusses arsenical mixtures, canker moth control, and the role of Iowa State Hort Society, agricultural stations, and French nozzle advances in Bordeaux mixture and Vermorel nozzles.
The leaves release oxygen from carbonic acid gas and breathing, plus large amounts of water vapor. Roots absorb far more water than needed for minerals, so sap rises to leaves and is expelled via transpiration. Even thick bark trees lose water through lenticels in spring, causing water to fall from buds or leaves when uptake outpaces removal.
The article discusses mottles in butter and suggests unequal salt mixing as a principal cause. It notes dried cream flakes on vessel sides that fail to dissolve and advises proper cream handling before salting after churning to resolve the issue.
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