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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1909
Page
5
Public notice of second class matter status filed at the Ogden Utah_post office under congressional act. Publication runs daily except Sundays by Wm Glasmann as the publisher and notice issuer.
The Evening Standard in Ogden announces forceful ad rates effective Feb 1 1908 with per inch charges for various positions including Special Position and Top of Column. The Standard touts its large bonafide subscriber base and invites contract advertisers for weekly or monthly runs.
Rumors speak of a suburban railroad to Brigham City a second canyon route to Cache Valley a eastern foothill line to Ogden and additional Ogden streetcar tracks If even half materialize Ogden area will see active spring and summer construction and service changes.
A reader reports strangers poisoning dogs with meat laced with strychnine in Ogien. House dogs and shepherds suffer same fate as owners mourn pets and children express sorrow. Complaints come from across the city as the poisoner’s motive remains unknown and cruelty shocks residents.
A local laundry offers careful washing of collars cuffs and shirts ensuring gentle handling and precise finishing. Cleaners promise thorough pressing and wrinkle free results for every garment.
Nervous women decry indiscriminate dog poisoning and urge severe punishment for the dog killer if caught, stressing that the value of a dog should not affect accountability.
The piece argues that New York feeds on vulgar and immoral plays while clean productions suffer. Actors and actresses condemn sensational shows and blame audience tolerance, noting vaudeville and theater trends reflect societal shifts and urging decency in smaller communities.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis warns there is no cure but fresh air rest and wholesome food. It condemns quack cures and nostrums sold by doctors or specialists and lists examples from whiskey to pig’s blood and exotic tonics as dangerous fakes.
Consul-General Henry W. Diede rich of Antwerp notes signs the European business downturn is subsiding. He cites revived quotations in leading markets and higher prices for key raw materials, signaling renewed confidence and a gradual recovery of activity.
Consul General Robert P. Skinner reports American horses are well treated and notes a new German antislipping horseshoe for asphalt and wooden pavements. The design features a countersunk trove with hemp rope that stands up to slippery surfaces by limiting contact to the rope.
The White House conference on dependent children, with about two hundred leaders of faiths, backed creating a Children's Bureau in a federal department. President supports the move and will press bills already before Congress. The Chicago Record-Herald outlines the bureau’s role to collect and share data on dependent, defective, and delinquent children to inform state acts and federal policy.
Conclusions call for placing children in homes instead of asylums when possible, tighter protection against neglect or accident, reform of child labor, injury compensation mechanisms, equal education for dependent children, and stricter supervision of private homes and institutions.
A Bureau of Statistics volume analyzes sources of supply for major imports from 1904 to 1908. It notes Parmesan like macaroni from Italy and France, soda water from the United Kingdom, mineral waters mainly from France and Germany, cocoa from South America and the West Indies, and coffee with Brazil Venezuela Mexico Guatemala and Colombia as leading origins.
The Postal Savings Bank League president argues postal savings banks boost deposits and savers. Citing Great Britain and the United States, he says deposits rise with postal banks and training in saving, noting large withdrawals before the system reduces circulation.
A reader objects to a proposed Board of Water Commissioners for Ogden City. The letter questions the need for extra “tin gods” to run water works, argues city council should appoint such commissioners, and critiques bonds and compensation. It emphasizes distrust of non-elected boards handling public property and cites existing commissions.
A local drug firm promotes Rexall MucuTone as a blood carried remedy for catarrh, claiming internal treatment heals the mucous membranes. The ad asserts a physician-developed formula, offers a money back guarantee if not cured, and lists sizes and prices from 50 cents to 1.00 with the local retailer T. H. Carr Drug Co. at 25th and Grant.
A letter argues the city bought waterworks for 555 000 dollars and that voters supported bonds two to one last August. The author trusts Mayor Brewer and the present council to oversee the 565 000 investment and opposes distant governance by elected delegates.
Salt Lake City reports a high weekly tally from the city health board with fifty-six total cases of infectious diseases. Smallpox leads with twenty cases, scarlet fever ten, diphtheria four, tuberculosis one, and chickenpox ten, prompting quarantines on thirty-six houses for smallpox and thirty-one for scarlet fever.
The Utah Society of Engineers will hold a Friday evening meeting at the Packard Library auditorium in Salt Lake City to consider conserving natural resources in the Intermountain region. Senators, governors, and conservation leaders are invited. the program includes forestry water power irrigation and mineral resources topics presented by noted specialists.
Rawhide industry reports show the Murry mill becoming a major success and prompting rapid expansion. Plans include a second unit to double capacity, new 160 ton mills by King-Helsmer with 256 workers, Wells-Sweet nearing completion, and Kearns No. 2 reclaiming a historic ore shoot with ore valued at $6050 per pound and $9000 per ton for the remaining. Hooligan Hill delays awaiting Weiss mill to process high grade ore. Townsite Leasing targets Gruft Mint and Marigold veins at about 240 feet as original Rawhide shipments to Hagen sampler proceed with low grade on the dump awaiting milling facilities.
Provo on February 14 fire gutted most of a 2000 dollar stock of millinery goods owned by Mrs M. B. Dusenberry in the Knight block at Center street and Academy avenue. The building suffered damage but extent unavailable. the north wall collapsed in the blaze.
Fire in a store began in the basement from sparks on wood causing rear brick wall danger. Four large plate glass windows in front shattered by heat and water. Insurance covers bathroom damage and Miss Dusenberry held about 500 on stock. J B Keeler alerted firefighters who arrived quickly and quenched the blaze after considerable damage.
Provo Feb. 14 The Iron Blossom struck rich ore in Colorado Sioux area after a night shift discovery. The upraise exposed low grade ore turning into dividend material, with Jesse Knight’s team calling the find strong and promising future development and market potential.
Cheyenne Wyoming February 12 Sir William MacDonald of Pretoria South Africa has cablegram to Secretary Burns announcing he sails from London to attend the Dry Farming Congress sessions at Cheyenne February 24 26 He will address on development of agriculture in South African British possessions and is famed for advancing scientific farming in the Transvaal through disciplined rural programs.
Carl Eggert a 55 year old German shoemaker recently arrived from Oshkosh Wisconsin committed death by own action in a Pacific avenue hotel last night. He refused to allow the door to be opened while a policeman watched and three others stood nearby. He told the officer his son had recently killed himself in San Francisco and was a widower believed to be worth about twenty thousand dollars in Oshkosh property.
Louis Heppe, 26, shot himself in Mrs. Mary Schuester’s Newark home after she refused to marry him. He had been released from prison recently for threatening the woman with a pistol. He arrived, produced a revolver, and she fled. later she found him dead on the floor.
Fire this morning destroyed the fashionable Minnequa club's clubhouse. Loss estimated at 40000 dollars. Many relics paintings and curios gathered from around the world were destroyed. Origin of the fire unknown.
San Jose Feb 14 Seattle businessmen in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition circuit arrive February 24 and stay twelve hours here before continuing south.
Chicago February 15 Lieut. W. J. Wilson U S N medical expert in charge of the government hydrographic station in Chicago died at his home today from neuralgia of the heart.
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