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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1907
Page
2
The article discusses worry as a major, indirect cause of insanity and warns that sleep loss worsens mental health. It cites sleep deprivation as a symptom of mania, notes alcohol and drugs worsen worry, and questions political speculation about gubernatorial terms, urging caution against fear-driven decisions.
Anxious Reader disputes claims about Fifth street bridge proposals. The letter argues Park avenue property owners would not be barred from tax payments for bridge improvements and criticizes the city council’s handling of new bridges across the river in Waterloo. The Reporter invites informed readers to share facts through the publication.
The article analyzes whether worry causes insanity. It concludes worry does not directly cause insanity but can contribute via physical disease and toxins in the blood. Alcohol and other poisons from bacteria are cited as major brain disruptors. Worry’s role is indirect, through promoting conditions that trigger mental illness.
The piece surveys prominent figures and events including the king of Portugal’s mother’s financial troubles and exile to Italy, George T. Angell’s long tenure as president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, veteran actor John Carter at 87 with a career spanning 82 years, and Miss Mabel T. Boardman with Army Surgeon General O'Reilly among American delegates to the London Red Cross congress. It notes a $120,000 railroad fund for top two sons of employees, Miss Margaret Miller’s 60 years in Sunday school, and Dr J H White’s public health appointments. Also features Mrs. Fannie Connor’s recovery story with Dr King’s New Discovery for lung ailments.
The Reporter sponsors a corn judging event at the Blackhawk County courthouse on Friday April 1907. Prof. Holden of Iowa State College noted that about thirty percent of seed corn from forty two samples would not germinate due to the October 1808 Bard freeze. He urged testing in a vernimation box to determine true seed value and avoid blind planting. Prizes totaling $120 were awarded to county farmers, with more prizes promised for the season including $15 for the largest Sweet Corn per acre as shown by canning company records.
Chicago dispatch reports a volatile cattle market with Monday receipts of 31,808 head pushing prices down as buyers gain leverage. Prices drifted downward for two weeks with highs near 6.75 and bulk around 4.80 to 5.75, while cows and heifers held steadier and calves declined about 50 cents.
Prof Holden will supervise judging of a coin evaluation gathering at the acre. Judges will assess by merit and disinterest. Call for full particulars at Daly Reporter Matt Parrott & Sons Watertown Iowa.
Oddities span jokes about railway tips and zealous lynchings to a Brazilian ant delicacy and a Parisian love of snails. The piece notes Dutch market lambs rising to eight fifty and wool prices surging, with state prison stats and a mix of political, social, and agricultural items.
The article notes a rise in race exports to the United States totaling over 17 million dollars for ten months ending October, and reports local items in Union and Marshalltown including a newly organized Farmers Cooperative Elevator with 10 000 capital stock, upcoming Iowa Federation ex-presidents meeting, and discussions on ice cream production under the pure food law amid rising prices. It also mentions accidents at West Burlington and a venture to improve grain, salt, coal, and farm implements supply.
The article urges best acre yields from corn by careful planting and cultivation. It promotes a boys program for growing pop corn with a chance to win 15 dollars for the best 12 ears, and stresses supervising harvest and selling to teach farming profits. It notes pop corn can fetch around two cents a pound when cured and shelled.
The Reporter offers ten awards for the top twelve ears of corn grown in Blackhawk County. Prizes include a cash prize of 920.00 for the best 12 ears as judged from submissions rejected from any field. The program invites growers to submit entries for evaluation by the reporter.
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