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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1913
Page
8
The article laments attempts by a few Casey residents to repudiate municipal debts after funds funded sewer water and a new city hall. It argues the city acted in good faith, praises civic progress, and warns repudiation would ruin negotiations and harm lenders and farmers who backed the improvements.
F Irving Fletcher posed a riddle on advertising at a Sphinx Club dinner in New York. William Ray Gardiner quipped a reply before Fletcher gave the punchline about merchants needing sales.
The American Iron and Steel company at Lebanon Pennsylvania expects full operation of electric furnaces within a year. Each furnace will handle 20 to 25 tons and will be the nation’s largest of its kind. The plant will include blooming and billet mills with an annual capacity of 86 000 tons.
A humorous exchange twists a domestic scene into a quick vignette about hunger and a missing bonnet. The wry dialogue suggests a lighthearted, everyday dispute over meals and improvised remedies.
A London Field correspondent recounts a farmer and four companions faced a dangerous bull. After the farmer struck the animal with a club, it broke and the group crawled backward on hands and knees toward a river bank, narrowly escaping as the bull followed.
Dr. Harvey Wiley calls for education and legislation to ensure every newborn’s health and vitality. He urges rewriting the proverb on inherited sins to recognize parental virtues and heredity as shaping youth and age, advocating state action to promote good heredity and reduce infant mortality.
Tanbark, once a disposal problem for the leather industry, is praised as a valuable waste fuel. Engineers estimate it produced steam equivalent to millions of tons of coal and transformed into an economy by improvised furnace improvements.
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