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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
1
Editorial warns against trusting feminine sources for masculine propositions urging fair ladies to beware and not bid too high on unworthy suitors, framing satire around leap year customs and gendered expectations.
The Pacific Fleet advances toward Cape Horn with torpedo boat destroyers converging at Rio Janeiro. Argentina and Chile are expected to greet the flotilla, signaling friendly naval reception and regional cooperation.
Secretary Taft told the senate committee on interoceanic canals he expects completion within six years from July next and states the total cost, including the purchase price from France, will be about 300 million dollars.
A macadamized road between St Louis and Kansas City will be completed within two years. Construction begins next spring after the Missouri Legislature appropriated 500000 for the project. The road will be sixty feet wide.
The temperance campaign affects 25,000 Northwestern Railway employees with a policy to keep non drinkers and discharge drinkers as needed. About 7,000 men have pledged abstinence and joined the roll, boosting the effort.
Chicago reports its first woman policeman Miss Dorothy Stewart. She declines to use force with a theater club and upholds dignity with a lace handkerchief and kind words. Her duties focus on protecting women and children within her assignment.
Rushville Recorder notes growing complaints within the Republican ranks as critics speak out now that the President cannot run again. Observers see the outbursts as a spectacle of “apologies for men” and warn of sharp divisions surfacing in party folds.
The Collingwood Ontario consul reports a Canadian apple evaporating plant bought 10 000 barrels of apples at one dollar per barrel for delivery at the factory. Waste such as cores and parings was dried barreled and shipped to France to be used in making champagne. The St Louis Globe Democrat notes the by product is becoming a brilliant affair.
The article extols the National Guard as a citizen soldier force that, though sometimes ridiculed, serves as a key protection for communities. Its presence acts as a powerful influence for law and order and for preventing mob rule, even if the unit is rarely called into action.
The United States annual meeting in Boston considers strengthening the National Guard to match regular forces. It notes 107,578 trained guards, 65,385 regulars, totaling 172,963 ready for service, with volunteer capacity in the millions not immediately available for field use.
Rising pulp costs drive publishers to hike subscriptions up to 50 percent. Since 1899 the pulp supply has grown, with spruce remaining the dominant source despite timber shortages. New York consumes over 1.25 million cords yearly, with total pulp wood value around 26.4 million dollars in 1906.
A historical note outlines rising pulpwood costs with paper prices up, detailing a drop in mechanical wood reduction from 65 percent in 1899 to under 50 percent in 1906. Canada supplied nearly all imported pulp, totaling 739000 cords mostly spruce, while four and a half million dollars of pulp were imported in 1906. A Forest Service Circular 120 analyzes 1906 pulpwood consumption from Census and Forest Service data, available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forester in Washington, D. C.
The Republican National Committee and Iowa Republican State Central Committee announce a delegate convention in Des Moines on March 18 1908 at 11 00 am to elect four at large delegates for the national convention in Chicago June 16 1908. District caucuses meet at 10 00 am the same day. Representation bases set by county and vote counts from 1906 Cummins gubernatorial election.
A terse list from Des Moines Iowa dated January 10 1908 records county names and officials including C F Franke and Frank P Woods as secretary and chairman. The items mention Muscatine O'Brien Osceola Story Tama Jackson Jasper and other counties in a formal governmental roster.
Dr Woods Hutchinson notes in the February Woman's Home Companion that infant mortality has drastically declined since the 18th century. In London 1750, 74.5 percent of children died before age five. today in the United States first five years see under 20 percent mortality, about 10 percent in the first year, and nearly three percent excluding slums and foreign-born populations. The baby today has ten chances to one of reaching one year, five to one for five years, and three to one for adulthood.
Advertises Holister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a safe effective winter tonic for children. Claims to strengthen health with pure, harmless ingredients priced at 35 cents in tea or tablet form, attributed to F. D. Stubenrauch.
An advertisement from Dr. Bair of Des Moines Iowa promises a single month of treatment plus full diagnosis and consultation at no charge for paralysis catarrh consumption rheumatism cancer fits piles tumors gall stones gravel liver or blood disease. Pay what you can when satisfied. Write with case details to 1122 6th Ave Des Moines Iowa.
Kodol relieves dyspepsia and stomach troubles, DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills praised, Holister's Rocky Mountain Tea promoted, and DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills offered. All sold by Langerak's Drug Store in DeWitt.
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