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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1909
Page
7
Washington postmaster general Frank H Hitchcock is praised as a sartorial master of the administration. The piece humorously details his wardrobe habits, how he adjusts his trousers, and the matching of hose to necktie, noting his clothes are domestically made while George von L Meyer’s are British.
W A Smith a United States senator appeared incognito in a Washington police court defending Robert A Pelham a clerk in the census office charged with disorderly conduct. After an hour's trial Pelham was acquitted and the senator left with his client before anyone recognized him. The judge showed surprise upon learning the truth. Senator Smith continues to take an active interest in police methods here.
The document lists twelve tariff classes contributing about three quarters of 1907 duties, led by sugar, cotton manufactures, leaf tobacco and others with totals and notes on how duties shape revenue. It discusses variability in customs shares and gives a detailed example of cotton cloth duty rates by thread count and bleaching or coloring.
A grand new 4 million dollar office building in Washington boasts a lavish kitchen and marble dining rooms for a Senate restaurant. Yet opposition and doubts arise about turning the palatial quarters into an in-house luncheon operation. Debate centers on whether to run it directly, hand it to a committee, or let it waste away.
The text offers practical rural guidance on spring work, livestock care, pasture and fence maintenance, pig and sheep management, haying, and soil health. It stresses shelter for stock, careful handling, and routine checks, plus a long note on seed corn testing and home garden practices.
A Radford home article praises a cement bungalow emphasizing efficient space division with bedrooms on one side and living rooms on the other, a convenient hall, and a bathroom not requiring passage through living areas. It notes compact plumbing, double winter windows, window seats, and a dining kitchen flow, plus careful joints and a vestibule entrance near the dining kitchen.
Miss Bernice Pooler of Philadelphia, visiting Los Angeles, briefly lost speech and hearing as a child in Pennsylvania. After a recent involuntary dip in the Pacific at Balboa beach she regained both, though she wrecked her gown and lost a gold combs and a diamond pin. She called it a jolly wetting and said she was the happiest, most talkative girl in the world.
James Stephens argues that treating life as a dream dulls moral seriousness and elevates risk. If people stop pondering mortality as insoluble, current morality and social norms could shift, weakening virtue and strengthening personal desires to seek pleasure today.
The Colonist argues Canada is not old enough to have a national anthem. The public mood lacks a unifying event or idea, and attempts by poets to cover all regions from Nova Scotia to the Klondike produce a garbled dirge.
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