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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
2
In Pittsburg factories 2,211 women and 468 men work on cigars and stogies. Machines replace hand work, with two women and three machines completing what one man did before. Women now dominate production, though full hand craft remains for a minority. The shift marks a social industrial shift in the city.
The speaker doubts New York women are ready for the ballot while praising equal rights in profession business and intellect. The West leads in ballot use, but political education and economics require years. Priority is aiding wage earning and low income women through better conditions before enfranchisement. The ballot will come after preparation.
A dated humorous skit on gender roles contrasts perceived male tastes with lasting marriage habits. It ridicules bachelor habits, loyalty, and domestic tasks while noting male indifference to outspoken women. The piece ends with a wry line about love letters versus postcards from the New York Evening World.
Wall Street Journal cites improved industrial outlook with major firms recording higher orders and production. W E Corey notes United States Steel operating at about 70 percent capacity with prices rising. Western Electric and others report gains. American Cotton Oil and chemical firms show prosperity. copper sales climb while stocks shrink. The synthesis suggests a turning point reached and passed.
Edwin D. Metcalfe, vice president of a harvesting machinery firm, at the Manufacturers' Association convention in New York, predicts a very big year in 1910 if harvests turn out well. He notes buyers and sellers delaying long-term contracts, tariff questions, and possible price rises, with optimism grounded in good reports for winter wheat and potential increases in crop acreage.
Pittsburg experts dispute when post panic trade revival will fully take hold. Steel output capacities rising since 1907 may push demand up. forecasts suggest 1910 could see expanded iron and steel orders, with 85 to 90 percent of national capacity active if crops are strong this year. Political factors, including 1911 elections and tariff debates, loom large for next year’s business climate.
Washington reports that Treasury Commerce and Labor note signs of economic recovery with returning immigrants. The Commerce and Labor Department handles immigration work and claims the first panic had been foreign departures supported by earned funds, now followed by a returning inflow as figures await confirmation from New York.
The Ellis Island immigrant station remains busy as prosperity returns. At the Treasury, a drop in internal revenue and customs receipts signals a looming year end deficit. Despite the decline, the department stays optimistic with rising receipts and a shrinking shortfall projected by June 30.
New Orleans, La. H A Folk asserts a wireless operator in a station five hundred miles distant can trigger explosions in battleship magazines of any navy with his invention. He has been testing wireless telegraphy since Marconi's breakthrough and will not reveal details until the Government acts on the proposal.
Frank A. Van derlip president of the National City Bank said at a Cincinnati dinner that the United States stands on the verge of the greatest industrial boom it has ever known. The boom would start the moment President Taft signed the new tariff schedule.
A collage of short pieces from the Friendly Sunbeam including verses about a morning sunbeam, a baby who might be French, a tale of patient perseverance with misspelled truely, a rabbit puzzle, a dog named Dash at Sunday school, a toy story about Jackie and his toys, and a note about electric blowers for furnaces. The items feature children, animals, and household scenes with gentle moral or whimsical twists.
Miss Mary Burr, teacher at Messiers near the Ranier reserve, dodged a second cougar after a hunting party pursued the first. J W Cook and A Fenton, with dogs, tracked the animal, wounding it and killing or mortally wounding the animal after a scuffle that cost a dog its life. The eight foot feline matched the size of a previously killed cougar.
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