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Newspaper
Le Mars Weekly Sun
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1891
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows trains to and from Sioux City with times at 8:03 am 6:14 pm 10:40 pm and other entries. Mentions Dalton and St. Paul and Northern lines. Daily passenger service indicated with irregular time pairs and route notes.
When asked about the principal causes of insanity the superintendents reply without hesitation that poverty is the main cause. Farmers and farmers wives who brooded over reverses and battled against ruin until reason left them, and likewise business men, are cited.
The National View criticizes land backed currency proposals as unrealistic. It argues land value must be tied to actual on demand value in pocketable form, warns any plan to redeem with moon or speculation is fraud, and urges money issued by government to equal standard coin in value.
The piece argues Canadian barley farmers believe U S tariffs lower their prices, while Americans seem protected by duties. It notes Canada’s surplus barley and U S breweries’ need for high quality barley, with American farmers supposedly gaining only via consumers bearing higher beer prices. The text critiques protectionist logic and its effect on beer pricing.
The piece argues protection harms both farmers and manufacturers by raising prices and blocking trade. It discusses the limits of tariff policy across the U S Canada border, mentions Pettigrew on annexation, and critiques reciprocity. It also notes Iowa liquor license debates and reviews Pennington’s air ship and Mery George’s book on protection.
The Pacific coast ships wheat to Minneapolis mills while experts admit errors in estimating national wheat stocks. Speculators eye fall wheat prospects as discussions turn toward regional trade and border duties. The Onawa Sentinel editor is pressed to answer a provocative question about prohibition. The Milletley five cent a dozen Canadian egg duty limits U S consumption, provoking a playful yet pointed reaction about national policy and egg shortages.
The piece voices support for ending liquor licensing and government control, arguing free whisky would outcompete licensed saloons and Prohibition. It notes barley imports and exports, barley shortages, and Nebraska’s proposed bounty for beet sugar makers, suggesting farm incentives fuel price manipulation and warning Alliance members to awaken.
The article notes that gold to silver exchange rates and bank reserves show silver replacing gold in payments. It cites that purchases and contracts increasingly call for gold, while banks hold modest gold reserves. It hints President Harrison failed to veto the silver bill, implying upcoming market effects and possible gold panics.
The article notes potato prices at $1.05 a bushel in Chicago car lots with Wisconsin as the main supply. It argues the twenty five cent duty on Canadian potatoes harms the poor, critiques monopolistic greed, and calls the protectionist policy a crime against nature and providence.
The market price for pure silver in coined dollars is reported near 75 cents per ounce on Wall Street. Investors monitor fluctuations as precious metals show modest activity amid trading sessions.
Wrights drill for M B Combs northeast of town at 180 feet when gas gushed from the hole at 120 feet. A hat held over the opening captured the gas and it shot upward. Sand flowed in forcing a halt. Water rose five to six feet and is expected to flood the bore as pumping proceeds. The Lemurs site produced the well. The Wrights’ George Wright well yields good results. Fred Wright builds a new machinery building. William Johnson does carpentry. John Alfy moved from Lemurs area to Jeff Knowlton’s farms north of town.
A star router named Smith advertises a mail run between Lemars and Adaville twice weekly starting July 1, charging ten ders for the service. The post office is tainted by a corrupt middleman system. Lemars residents travel to Merrill for onions amid the controversy.
The Hon I S Struble returned from Washington to a surprise depot reception with a brass band, militia and rockets. He spoke at the Opera House with A A Alfine present as Lemars voters welcomed the retiring statesman. The new city council members include Osborne Sam Miller Clem Hlauseman J W Smith T B Gallagher and Simkins with McDuffie delivering welcome words. The council discussed water works electric light bids and committee appointments while several applications for city positions were filed.
A note reports eight churches receiving five thousand dollars each from Abbott, despite long denouncements of theaters as vile. a Washburn claim questions moral funding. The piece cites R Q Mills defending liberty and law versus total abstinence. Vermont maple sugar profits, North Carolina legislature activity, and etiquette advice for girls in public.
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