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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
8
An old advertisement promotes Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer claiming kidney and bladder troubles affect both women and men and suggesting the remedy treats weak kidneys in children too. It touts quick benefits, offers pamphlets, and lists price and mailing address in Binghamton New York.
Peking reports Japan's ultimatum to the foreign board over the Tatsu Maru seizure near Macao. Japan demands return of the ship and cargo, full indemnity, and an apology for lowering the Japanese flag. China expected to respond. mediation rejected.
The American Car and Foundry Company will close its South St. Louis plant on March 10, putting about 1,200 workers out of work. The facility normally employs around 3,000, with 1,700 already laid off. Officials say workers may be absorbed at three nearby plants, but many will be dismissed soon due to lack of orders.
Leavenworth Kan March 9 The army car delivering a message from Grant in New York to Col R H H A Loughborough Fort Leavenworth arrived Saturday morning. Exact running time from New York unknown due to garbled text but listed as twelve hours with final timing unclear.
Brandon Vermont pastor George A. Cooke demands a public trial of charges that Syracuse University Chancellor James B Day defamed President Roosevelt. The five specifications rely on Day's book The Raid on Prosperity and accuse violation of church rules against defaming magistrates. Cooke plans to proceed in New York conference hearings, foreseeing uncertain clergy support.
A gun battle and pursuit ended with three bandits captured after looting Pedricktown and Bridgeport post offices early Saturday. The robbers blew a safe, wrecked the Pedricktown building, stole 250 dollars, then took stamps worth 800 dollars at Bridgeport. One robber died in a Wenonah firefight, another surrendered, and the third was captured two hours later.
The obituary column notes Thomas J. Callan, once called for Custer’s relief, dying in Yonkers. Alfred Vanderbilt builds a private fire department at his Newport estate. The New York Court of Appeals orders a mayoral recount for 1906. Virginia Campbell Thompson dies in Washington DC. John Beltine dies after two years in a New York hospital with pneumonia. Gustaf Weatman, chemist, dies in New York after inventing a wrought iron process. Jennie Vernon, eight, dies in a Pitt suburb fire at Bricotan, driven by overheated stove. two brothers injured.
The Union Lumber Company United has been granted a Manitoba charter. It will take over seven sawmill plants and over two billion feet of standing timber with 10 million dollars in capital stock five million preferred and five million common. Incorporators include S H Bowman G E Piper F E Kenaston C Warner Walter D Douglass of Minneapolis A Robertson F J Lynch F G Barrows of St Paul J Stanley Hough and G F Gait of Winnipeg. The new firm will acquire Red Deer Lumber Elk Lumber Sunset Timber and Lumber Yale Columbia Lumber Bowman Lumber companies. Eight Die In Church Panic.
In Baltimore on Saturday twenty six railroad laborers were overcome by gas in the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel from North avenue to Pennsylvania avenue. Four died and ten were hospitalized. Three of the dead were Negro and one white man. Others recovered.
On January 1 1997 funds on hand for township road reports totaled 438 with receipts from county treasurer 1075 86 plus two sources including Whittemore and Co bridge fund 1075 86 and other credits.
Town clerk George Dinworth lists county tax balances and disbursements including First National Bank warrants, road labor and material costs, clerks’ fees, and miscellaneous charges. The irregular itemized entries cover 1908 district taxes, payments to contractors, and overdrawn accounts, followed by an advertisement for Dr. Shoop’s Restorative.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is lauded for relieving women's distress and restoring health. Claims cite mass testimonials from the Pinkham Laboratory files in Lynn Massachusetts and praise its herbal, drug free formula said to aid the feminine system and even prevent surgical operations.
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