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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1907
Page
3
A garbled list traces eras from Henry V and Becket through colonial Virginia, Champlain, Jamestown, and Napoleonic surrender. It references rulers, battles, explorations, constitutional milestones, and notable disasters with scattered dates and places, in a stray newspaper chronology voice.
Government estimates forecast grain yields for 1807 with total value around 2.455 billion dollars driven by wheat corn oats and barley. Winter wheat may reach 374 million bushels. spring wheat 248 million. corn yield about 2.517 billion. Prices today raise the value projections despite last year’s higher actual outputs.
Senator Alison of Iowa announced plans to seek another term while allies denied rumors of infirmity. In Oklahoma City Bryan hailed a state constitution as superior to the U S, and Knox defended federalism against Beveridge child labor bills citing judicial opinions including a Colorado Kansas decision. The New York Legislature adjourned without reapportionment or direct nomination bills, and Taft spoke at Minnesota on graduates as political assets.
Midsummer conditions are entered with distributive trade wide and workers curtailed. Volume of trade remains broad with little sign of higher output as machinery and building supplies face delays. Grain movement at port totals 7 918 947 bushels, receipts down 12 percent year over year while shipments rise 474 percent. Bank clearings reach 261 174 200 dollars, with Chicago district failures up slightly from last week.
Continued favorable weather and better reorders lift optimism in New York trade. Cotton goods rise again. factories report improved sales and plummeting failures offset by some ongoing cutbacks in slow selling lines.
A long list of commodity prices in multiple cities including Chicago Cincinnati Detroit and Glencoke plus a narrative incident in Youngstown Ohio where Mitton Stambaruch and John Beksndt were filed after taking shelter from a storm. The report notes John Kioehr who killed three of the Dalton gang and received a gold medal from the Chicago Bankers Association and has been named police chief.
The fiscal year ending June 30 shows total receipts of $605,206.14 for war expenditures, far surpassing prior years by about $70 million. Internal revenues reached $2716,200,858, with deposits and cash balances across national banks totaling over $1.088 billion. The public debt rose modestly month to month, while gold reserves and circulation figures reflect ongoing adjustments in the fiscal ledger.
B F Yoakum of Rock Island presses union of people and railroads under national oversight. He backs government valuation of railroad property for fair ratemaking, supports limited construction finance, uniform accounts, and traffic pools with broad participation while urging calmer channels to prevent harm to all interests.
The article outlines objections to a proposed Oklahoma statehood constitution and notes Attorney General Bonaparte’s objections guiding Roosevelt on enabling acts. It also reports Navy tests on the Old Ironsides guns, federal railroad safety actions, rail subsidies in Central America, and various diplomatic and military appointments including Hawaii’s governor.
A Technicolor World Magazine note claims Americans beat a French rival in turning oleomargarine from discovery into mass production. It says hundreds of tons are shipped hourly to France, where prices are higher, and asserts Chicago has become the world center of the oleomargarine industry.
A Kansas City Times note recalls a revival scene where a woman shares a spiritual awakening. She says vanity led to perdition and she discarded her finery giving it to her sister. In a quirky aside Tt Wapsott claims no wardrobe. Adan Trii jokes about dress rules.
The Kansas City Journal comments on Judge Loving’s acquittal for the Estes murder in Houston Virginia. It compares it to the Thaw case in New York and notes alcohol and a front plot as underlying factors. It warns about the deadly costs of sin and the enduring social impact on families.
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