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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
2
A column of eclectic notes riffing on social trends and curiosities from distant lands. It mocks fashion, domestic life, and gender roles while musing on commerce, travel, and progress. The tone is breezy and observational, with snippets about rabbits, butter, airships, and trade delegations.
Americans charge discrimination by Japanese in Manchuria echoing Chinese grievances. The remark notes a pattern of biased treatment affecting foreign and local groups and hints at broader regional friction.
London theater managers lament the abundance of chorus girls lacking singing ability. In St Louis the police chief enforces an ordinance stopping boys from flying kites, prompting nostalgic remarks about aero nautics and Ben Franklin.
A jumble of notes links Peary’s urgency to reach the pole with a future route via airship from America to Europe. Scientists forecast more lunacy with serial navigation. A Philadelphia prank injures a boy, calling for punishment. A North American Review writer bemoans educated youths who know house lights but not sky lights.
The Washington post office department plans 80 days of pasture vacation for its horses with board paid, a nod to equal vacation rights with workers who enjoy 30 days leave and 80 days sick leave. The piece humorously notes Central American nations entangled in issues and hints at U S and Mexico acting as elder mediators to urge proper conduct.
The phrase implies a single blue, but sapphires from Ceylon vary from soft blue to peacock blue with greenish tints. There are red sapphires called Ceylonese rubies, and many fine sapphires are yellow or white.
U S reports point to a large domestic wheat crop while other grain producers lag. From Odessa, Russia, analysts say the Brent market signals a 25 to 50 percent below average crop, raising famine fears for Europe dependent on Russian supplies and prompting thoughts of American relief to czarist subjects amid needy overseas conditions.
Details on injuries from a handcar derailment near Wichita with a broken back and prompt Des Moines hospital care, a dry weather messenger boy needed, and a US civil service exam for 16 to 20 year olds. Reports include teen thefts and burglaries, obscene post cards case, a dental injury suit against Rock Island railway, lightning strikes causing multiple injuries, divorces in Mason City, and a Marshaltown assault on strikebreakers.
Springfield Illinois faced a day of chaos as a race riot left one dead and several injured. National Guard units from Chicago searched for suspects while Gov. Deneen offered rewards and issued proclamations. Among the injured was Prohibition party presidential candidate R W Chafin who was hit with a brick.
At Utica New York Representative James Sherman was formally notified of his nomination for vice president at the Chicago convention last June. Omer K Benedict editor of the Oklahoma City Times was arrested on a charge of criminal libel. Miss Hyra Booth fainted after addressing 4000 at Winona Lake Bible conference. James Wickersham was elected congressman from Alaska. Mrs Alice Webb Duke convicted in Chicago of obtaining money by forged checks. Harry K Thaw judged bankrupt in Pittsburgh by Referee in Bankruptcy W R Blair.
Mrs Isabel La Bonte of Traverse City Mich dies when the Leelanau passenger steamer boiler explodes on Carp lake bound from Leland to Iouche. Dozens of passengers are reported injured as the craft sinks or sustains major damage amid chaotic scenes.
In Ashland Ohio on August 21 prosecutors stated Mrs Morrie Stein and her mother Mrs Sarah Bayard of Des Moines are charged with complicity in the murder of Morris Stein and Miss Hester Porter. Extradition warrants will be sought. detectives prepared to arrest the pair at their Des Moines home as authorities move toward the governor’s action.
New York reports that while desertion remains the sole charge, the district attorney plans to press the bigamy case against William M. Carley. Carley denies marriage to Miss Solomon. Iowa records may influence whether bigamy is pursued. The couple reportedly married in Council Bluffs on January 1, 1900, with ages listed as 30.
Washington Aug 21 The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway and its telegraphers have reached a tentative interpretation of the nine hours rule. For day and night shifts with two telegraphers, nine hours in a twelve hour spread counts as a day’s work. If three operators are employed, nine hours in an eleven hour span counts as a day’s work, and in no case can the nine hours be split into more than two periods.
Lisbon deputies on the 19th approved arbitration treaties with the United States and several other countries as part of a broader diplomatic accord.
Milwaukee August 21 Senator Robert La Follette plans a reform weekly after breaking with backer Senator Stephenson and Milwaukee Free Press owner. A canvass is under way to secure 10 000 guaranteed subscribers before the launch of the new organ modeled after Bryan's Commoner.
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