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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
6
Senator Salisbury of Delaware after a tour of the Orient rejects reports of a looming Japanese threat. He says U S Japan relations remain stable and that Japanese leaders do not seek trouble. He describes Japan as proud, modern, and sensitive to racial dignity.
Prof C V Piper, the grass man of the Agriculture Department, studies 4000 grass species to identify economic value for the United States. His notable success is Sudan grass, introduced three years ago and already transforming long values in Texas. Piper, a Washington native, earned a B S in 1855 and later taught botany and zoology before becoming agristologist in charge of forage crop investigations in Washington.
Serbia's prime minister Nikola Pashitch, a gray bearded 68 year old, rose from mayor of Belgrade in 1889 to diplomat in Petrograd, then foreign minister and finally prime minister after Petar became king. His career faced danger from alleged mutinies, but Russia intervened to halt persecution.
Surgeon General William Braisted supports hot baths as superior hygiene, inspired by Japanese practice. He enjoys plunges daily, claims they dissolve skin impurities, and respects cold bath advocates while preferring his own hot routine.
The State Mining Board reports year ending June 30 1915 coal stats. Total output 57 691 694 tons with 180 mining deaths, 112 widows, 286 fatherless children. Shipping mines operated 172 days, 241 shipping mines, 498 local mines. Average employees 75 607. ground and surface workers detailed. Prices per gross ton for hand and machine mining noted.
In May a writer sails the Jhelum aboard a bearded doonga toward Srinagar. He admires blue green spring skies, irises, and the wood houses, notes Kashmiri women husking rice and men with a Jewish cast of countenance, then treks toward Srinagar past Wular Lake. Ancient temples and shrines near Pandrethan and Martand beckon autumn exploration amid crowded houseboats and locals.
In Sterling Conn a 24 year old girl who fainted monthly and suffered female weakness reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Massena N Y woman also praises the remedy saying it cured anemia and exhaustion and cleared pimples and bad color after five years. The ad urges others with painful or irregular menstruation to seek restoration through the product.
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