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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
6
President Wilson asks Congress to enact a liberty inducing banking and currency system to free business from tariff restraints. He argues for public control of banking, elastic currency, and rapid action to enable credit mobilization and private enterprise.
Prof H R Kenwood addresses the Royal Sanitary Institute on tuberculosis prevention via home improvement. He argues against heavy furniture and parlor fetish, urges simple cleansing, movable furnishings, daylight, and direct sunshine to keep homes healthy and curb atmospheric germs.
A Boston Transcript note warns the Waterloo battlefield faces erosion from modern development. British observers report Hougomont and La Haye Sainte scarred by rebuilding and cafe encroachment. Call for Belgian English cooperation to preserve topography, though funding is a hurdle.
A simple labor saving device for porch vines uses a one inch square strip of wood six feet long with screw eyes at both ends. Install two wall hooks on the upper porch, tie strings to the strip, lift it and hook onto the eyes, then pin the lower strings in the ground with pegs and train the vines along them.
The New York Yacht Club accepts Sir Thomas Lipton's sixth challenge for the cup won by America. Lipton, though a millionaire, seeks victory for Ireland and has pursued the project through multiple defeats and costly defenses. Mrs. Catherine Murphy recalls Lipton’s Glasgow childhood and hopes he wins.
Prominent women condemn Col John Jacob Astor for limiting widow Mrs. Astor to 35 million in income only while she remains single. Ida Husted Harper criticizes the clause as unfair and argues remarriage would keep the estate in the family if the widow marries the son.
Col W C Gorgas argues that improved sanitation in Panama proves the tropics can be livable for Caucasians. He notes 10 000 Americans have thrived there for six years, challenging historical claims of tropical inhospitability and yellow fever and malaria protections.
Levi P Morton former vice president 1889 to 1893 and New York governor 1895 1896 celebrated his eighty ninth birthday May 16 in better condition after a gravely illness. He now spends most days on a couch near a window at his Fifth Avenue residence in New York City. Born in Shoreham Vermont he began as a village store clerk in 1838 and built a banking fortune in New York after early failures. A Civil War financier partner with Julius Morton he later repaid creditors and rose to wealth and power.
An Army officer argues motor trucks will supplant mules in military logistics mirroring European practice. He notes an Army War Department report showing 20 000 men require 2 883 000 pounds of supplies, needing eleven miles of wagons, wasting road space. Trucks cut vehicle needs by up to four fifths and speed through 10 to 20 miles per hour, enabling round the clock movement.
William F. McCombs, Democratic national chairman, favored large men from Princeton and Harvard circles, sharing housing with football stars Henry F. Cochems and Big Bill Edwards. The piece notes his interest in strong companions, big cigars, and a fondness for imposing physiques as part of his social circle.
An article recalls a stately grove on the east side of Bunker Hill road near Queen's Chapel road in the District of Columbia. The oak forest surrounds a frame house inhabited by Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Columbus Murphy, whose family history traces back generations and land ownership to local traders and storekeepers.
Julian Emmons a 65 year old door keeper from Noblesville Indiana in Washington for over two years swallows a teaspoon of sand after every meal. He claims the sand cure cured his sour stomach heartburn and indigestion and says the coarse dark sand improves digestion and sleep.
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