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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1905
Page
7
A historical report notes that the battalion allowed grog showed higher initial speed and dash but fatigue set in after several days. Regiments limited to malt liquor also tired, while those kept from all stimulants gained endurance and alertness over time, improving daily.
Charles M. Staley argues in Ram's Horn that France’s temperance congresses push to restrict saloons and abolish credit for drinks, suggesting similar laws in the United States. He praises holding saloon owners responsible for crimes by intoxicated patrons and urges medical leaders to support anti liquor efforts.
The article argues alcohol abstinence boosts soldier shooting and endurance. It cites experiments and Lord Wolseley maneuvers showing calmer troops fire strategically, conserve ammunition, and resist excitement. Variants tested included rations with and without spirits to compare effects on performance.
Dr I A McSwain presented a Tennessee Medical Association paper urging removal of children from drunken parents to prevent hereditary drunkenness, placing them in state institutions or decent homes. He also recommended relocating early drinkers to teach useful work, and detaining drinkers before insanity progresses.
Dr Robert Jones cites medical observations from Claybury Asylum noting long healing times, mental dullness, and higher insanity rates among drinkers. He warns alcohol damages health, shortens life, and fuels fatty degeneration, pneumonia, tuberculosis, skin eruptions, laryngitis, atheroma, neuroses, and crime.
A cautious critique cites alcohol as harmful to health showing it fails as a germicide against tubercle bacillus and as an internal antiseptic. It worsens vulnerability to colds, hinders elimination, and promotes tissue atrophy leading to cirrhosis. Malt liquor weakens the heart, wine links to gout, strong liquor risks hepatic cirrhosis, with most authorities doubting food value.
London Daily Mail diagrams by Sir Victor Horsley compare mortality among adult males publicans and abstainers. Among 16 215 men, 1 000 die yearly for all, 1 642 for publicans and 560 for abstainers. A second chart notes 100 000 people age 30 reach 70, while 44 000, and among abstainers aged 80, 65 000 reach 70.
Deprived of their last resting ornaments, Pancras churchyard tombs and monuments were moved to a corner to free space for a new open area for children. The stones were enclosed within a railing amid debate over respect for the dead and the needs of the living.
The state of Virginia sues the estate of the late Samuel McCue, former mayor of Charlottesville, hanged for murder, seeking 3097.42 dollars to cover convicting and death expenses. The article notes the odd principle of charging the convicted, compares to receiver ships, and considers costs to the acquitted.
The passage elevates the woodman among crafts, pairing modern loggers with legendary figures. It links skilled woodcutting to ancient practices, citing Assyrian date palm work, Odysseus felling trees, and Aeneas shaping timber for funeral pyres, highlighting enduring tool mastery.
A Grand avenue peanut stand vendor touts peanuts as filling, noting tramps frequently buy them. He recalls a nickel's worth lasting a day for a tramp and even three days on peanuts, warning that breakfast peanuts can blunt lunch and dinner desires.
Mrs. Julia F. Williams has kept the Santa Barbara lighthouse for thirty eight years since 1865 when she succeeded her husband Albert J. Williams after his death. The light, erected in 1856 two miles south of Santa Barbara, marks the coast and she holds the longest service of any keeper on the coast.
William W. Dean aged 93 recently celebrated his birthday by continuing full time work at his desk in the Treasury department in Washington.
Chicago July 2 After a three month investigation with over one hundred witnesses the federal grand jury indicted seventeen leaders in the packing industry for restraint of trade under the Sherman act. Five corporations Armour Swift Nelson Morris Cudahy and Fairbanks Canning faced bills. Indictments name J Ogden Armour Charles Armour Arthur Meeker T J Conners P A Valentine Samuel McRoberts Louis F Swift Lawrence A Carton Arthur Evans R C McManus H W Veder Edward Cudahy D E B Hartwell Edward F Swift TI W Morris Samuel Weill B Seasey CC BB Todd W D Skipworth. The four Schwarzhild & Sulzberger executives were charged with rebating with railroads. Each indictment carries eight counts detailing domestic and foreign beef commerce, price fixing, territorial division, and pooled surplus to police overproduction.
Emperor Nicholas has received the resignation of General Sakhuaroff, the minister of war, tendered yesterday in St. Petersburg, as reported from the Russian capital. The note notes the formal transmission of his resignation.
Washington cablegram from Ambassador Meyer says extensive mobilization has been ordered in districts including Kleff St Petersburg Warsaw and Moscow to boost far eastern forces. An estimated 100000 to 200000 men will be called into service.
President Roosevelt announced the Russian plenipotentiaries are Ambassador Muravieff and Baron Rosen, and the Japanese plenipotentiaries are Baron Komura and Kogoro Takahira. Both sides may add envoys and all have full power to negotiate a peace treaty subject to ratification by their governments, with talks to begin after August 1 in Washington.
Off Sebastopol a council aboard Rosthalav orders off shore disarmament as Kniaz Potemkine roams the Black Sea. Admiral Kroger presides while crews abandon ships and mutiny spreads to Ekaterina II. Potemkine heads toward Balkans as Russian fleet retreats toward Sebastopol.
Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland was sworn in as secretary of the navy shortly after 10 on Saturday. He exchanged handshakes with naval and marine officers on duty and with the department’s clerical staff before returning to his desk to begin work.
A testimonial from Mrs. Davis of Carmel Maine details relief from years of monthly suffering from anemia and irregular menstruation after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. The piece also notes other anecdotes and a tale of a train editor and a Nigerian chemist sample.
In Middlesex New York on July 3 Mrs Betsey A Clawson well known here says she was cured of inflammatory rheumatism after years of handicap. She credits Dodd s Kidney Pills with the cure noting two boxes and two weeks to regain independence and strength. The medicine she says clears uric acid from blood by improving kidney function.
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