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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
8
Editorial argues rural delivery helps local merchants by expanding reach rather than harming towns. It suggests pricing to maintain profits, advertising in local papers, and using carriers to deliver sales information to farmers, encouraging repeat patronage. It cites Elma Vidette for Davis & Moser screens and doors.
A Minneapolis trend to compulsory basketry cooking and other manual subjects is criticized as wasteful and contrary to the original purpose of public schools. The Rapids Republican cites Senator Hanna urging strong speech at the Iowa Republican state convention and a renewed vigor in the party.
Ticket deal to Boston available July 2 5 with return July 8 12 no depot. Membership fee 82 cents added and an optional 60 cent vacuation charge to extend return to Sept 1. Trains from Chicago depart via John Callahan general agent 113 Adams St Team 208 Chicago for details.
A report notes a found remedy with a five cent packet sufficient for common ailments. The family bottle priced at sixty cents provides a year’s supply. All druggists stock these tablets.
A speaker argues the United States must build a stronger navy to protect its vast coasts and populations, declaring that armies cannot help as effectively as sea power. He urges Congress to appropriate 50 million dollars next year, rising 10 million annually for twelve years to achieve naval supremacy.
The piece envisions a transformed church future half a century ahead. It argues churches will unite, workers collaborate, services become more cheerful and frequent, and every day church access will aid the poor and lonely. It predicts a boarding house channel and refuge for city dwellers, shaping a universally open church.
A historical note on Bermudian women from wealthy planting families who rarely marry due to a colonial law. Daughters inherit shares of a landed estate when their father dies, but marriage costs them their fortunes as dowries are redistributed. The system leaves well-born women with limited prospects and fuels speculation across the West Indies.
The piece argues that country home owners often confront rustic work as a practical yet emotionally compelling choice. It notes rustic seats and summer houses harmonize with growing trees, appealing over costly architecture, but warns against overdoing rustic imitations that serve no real use and clash with a civilized setting.
DAVID M. PARRY argues compulsory arbitration failed in New Zealand and warns it threatens industrial freedom. He cites Chicago labor arbitration and the Anthracite strike as signs of forced wage setting leading toward state control of industry, prices, and output, urging defense of free bargaining.
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