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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1907
Page
2
A western town formed a Commercial Club with a minister as secretary a banker as president and a lawyer as treasurer. Six months of effort yielded no library creamery or elevator and money left town to buy goods elsewhere. The minister lawyer and banker profited from outside purchases revealing misaligned aims and prompting a warning to protect existing enterprises.
Chicago health officers recently inspected a factory supplying mail order canned foods and uncovered a fraudulent operation. Tomato soups were made from pumpkin pulp. strawberry and raspberry jam used glucose and starch with dried apple peels as base. seeds were grass, and coloring came from coal tar dyes. Thousands of cans were found with aged labels replaced by new ones, marking dead stock repackaged for sale.
The proposal calls for roof gardens in Berlin aimed at greener urban spaces. Doctors and professors actively back the plan and push for gardens especially along narrow city streets as many houses are already ready for such conversion.
The piece argues that large packing houses manipulate prices by holding produce in massive cold storage. It proposes co operative town produce companies with shared cold storage to boost local prices, improve markets, and limit domination by big commission houses. Several midwest towns have success with this model.
The piece urges citizens to back home merchants and banks only if they merit trust and fair dealing. It warns that unbusinesslike local practices can erode confidence, prompting some to consider foreign institutions, despite living in smaller towns where dubious schemes may appear.
Editorial argues trusts persist in the nation, with regulation seen as minor. It cites Wall Street funding behind large mailorder houses, noting a Chicago firm boosting capital to 40 million and accusing trust managers of deceiving the public for multibillionaire gain.
A Senate expense report shows 860 cases of mineral water costing $4,504.70 plus $2,025.87 for carbonated water and $318.97 for lemons and sugar, totaling $6,849.54 for drinks. With 90 senators the per capita rate is about $76, and odd items include a $26.70 skirt trunk and $9.30 pass cases, plus various grooming and office accessories.
The St Gaudens designs created before Augustus St Gaudens death are not acceptable for minting with current Philadelphia machinery. The president’s general approval is not official. treasury secretary and mint director must approve. The relief is too high to stack coins, risking toppled piles at banks.
The Biological Survey reports hawk and owl families split into four categories from wholly beneficial to harmful. Some species praised for local benefit, others deemed problematic due to predation on livestock. eagles labeled as damaging to lambs and poultry, with the bald eagle noted as a national emblem.
Readers share humorous replies from government workers surveying marital status and sex. One veteran calls his condition timid while another says life is hell. A widower reports good condition after ten years. A minister postmaster lists sex as Presbyterian.
The Earl of Surrey later Duke of Norfolk was famed for heavy drinking and poor hygiene. Servants washed him during fits of intoxication, removing him as if a corpse. Dudley North quipped that a clean shirt might help his rheumatism.
A June National Druggist piece recalls Dr Augustus Charles Bernays of St Louis, famed surgeon who died recently. It notes his historic Caesarian in 1889 and other firsts, yet says the American Medical Association denied him membership. The writeup argues AMA seeks control, predicts a medical priesthood and closed shops across drugs, medicine, and policy.
Fez dispatches claim the Tazzi brothers Abdelkrim Ben Sliman and Ganam alongside the sultan's foreign minister were assassinated by partisans of the caid of Medinar. They controlled much of the empire and their alleged wealth could cover Morocco's entire debt. French forces engaged Moors near Casablanca with four soldiers wounded. American missionaries Clinton Reed and Eoyert faced hostility as Fez residents suspected them as French spies. The Christians began moving toward Tangier as interior reporting halted.
A Canadian Pacific passenger train from Markdale to Toronto derailed near Caledon Ontario on September 4 killing six and injuring more than twenty. Five cars left the track after a sudden locomotive derailment on a steep Orangeville grade. the engineer survived with minor injuries while several passengers perished. Named dead include Norman Tucker Flesherton John Thurston Water Falls James Banks Perm James Buller Princeville W A Armstrong Markdale Robert Carr Shelbourne.
A tornado hit Ft Gaines Ga a town of about 1000 people located 100 miles southeast of Montgomery Alabama. All wire communications in the area are cut off and telephone links to neighboring towns are failing. Railroad and telegraph lines east of Union Springs are down. Ft Gaines lies on the Chattahoochee river on the Alabama Georgia line.
Building work in Havana halted by masons on strike demanding wages paid in American money. The stoppage appears to signal a broader push for American currency following the previous cigar makers’ action.
William Walsh shot and killed widow William Brayon after she refused his marriage proposal in Worthington. he then killed himself. The incident occurred on September 4.
News from Albuquerque reports Mrs Loulaa Hill Carabajal and seven children drowned in Alamo creek Sierra county after heavy rains. Flood damage estimated at sixty thousand dollars.
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