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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
4
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The Standard Publishing Co announces advertising rates dated February 1 1908 for The Evening Standard Ogden Utah. Rates cover inch pricing by position including top of column first page and special contracts with weekly or monthly runs. The paper claims superior bona fides and subscriber base versus The Evening Standard.
Rumblings and smoke observed indicating a newly located volcano in California. The notice recalls Utah’s eight years of suspense over a reported southern Utah eruption that threatened large areas, suggesting inland eruptions often prove to be creations of imagination by farmers and others.
Ogden businesses replace carbon incandescent lamps with twenty-candle tungsten lights. The tungsten bulbs emit nearly twice the light of sixteen-candle lamps and cost less to operate, though they risk breakage if jarred. Electricians urge tungsten use in homes for brighter light and lower costs.
A fragment discusses tungsten lamps as a money saver, noting twenty candic power light costs and a progression from early lab lamps to modern tungsten lighting, praised by a professor as a breakthrough with commercial potential.
A letter urges city officials to install tungsten 200 candle power lights on posts ten to twenty feet high in dark residential and business blocks. The proposal notes lower operating costs than 32 candle power carbon lights and argues brighter nights would aid police work and provide a vigilant street presence.
The Alton and its officers were fined for refunding a dollar per car for switching tracks and the court of appeals ruling was affirmed. The Supreme Court split four to four with one justice absent, leaving the lower court’s decision in force and creating uncertainty for carriers and shippers.
The letter from Waterloo Mayor R A Doty urges making sex crime a capital offense to deter white slave trade. Utah legislature may follow with state laws to align with federal measures, while water diversion by Canadian plants threatens Niagara Falls with reduced flow and ongoing damage to Goat Island.
Dr. J W Spencer reports to the American Club association on Niagara Falls changes caused by power canal diversions. He details rock rims, shallow depths at Goat Island and Sister Islands, and how water extraction lowers the basin and cataract, threatening the falls and hydro power output.
The report describes Barcelona shaken by a tremor with uncertainty over its magnitude and impact. It notes public nerves strained, compares to San Francisco and Reggio events, and suggests Ogden would face hysteria if similar quakes hit.
A Chicago conference on the White Slave Trade aims to coordinate national action to end trafficking in girls. Letters sent to U S city officials request counsel and facts for the plan and to gauge how much can be achieved by national organizing. Mayor H A Shunk of Dubuque Iowa urged capital punishment.
An excursion was run to Salt Lake City last evening for roller skaters since Ogden’s rink closed. Enthusiasts complain of wasteful spending as Ogdenites buy rail tickets to enter a distant rink. They urge a properly run local rink to attract residents and retain spending.
A Chicago businessman criticizes U S consular service and argues American manufacturers should push their standard market solutions worldwide. He contrasts rigid domestic practice with continental flexibility and urges loyal, nonconformist selling to foreign markets despite duties and competition.
A discussion notes that a collector pays the bill keeps the packer and neither manufacturer nor packer changes. It suggests this may explain why foreign trade lacks consistent development.
Wnenmenes First Unitarian Church led by William Thurs ton Brown holds 7:30 p m service on Sunday with subject Does Might Make Right or Does Right Make Might First Church of Christ Scientist meets in the Masonic Temple for 11 a m service with Love Sunday school 9 45 a m Wednesday testimonials at 8 p m and public invited Free reading rooms open daily 2 to 5 except Sundays and holidays First Baptist Church on Grant avenue lists services June 1909 with various programs including Home Mission Day and a long evening program at 7 30 p m First Methodist Episcopal Church on Twenty fourth street presents Sunday school 10 a m morning worship 11 a m class meeting 12 m Epworth League at 6 30 p m and 7 30 p m song service Church of the Good Shepherd on Grant and Twenty fourth church services with holy communion at 7 30 a m and evening prayers 7 20 p m First Presbyterian Church morning worship 11 a m with theme The Debt Which Must Owes to Religion and the music program Mendelssohn evening service 7 30 p m with Mendelssohn music and soloists First Congregational Church morning worship 11 a m Sunday school 12 15 p m and evening 7 30 p m with a church meeting after morning service
Chicago considers an open air school for consumptive children. Request to establish the program comes from the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute and is to be reviewed by the board of education. Superintendent Frank B. Wing endorses the proposal in a formal report.
Proposals seek open air camps and a municipal open air hospital for consumptives with capacity for one thousand patients who cannot pay. Chicago faces about 4000 tuberculosis deaths last year, with a death every two hours and fifteen minutes, per Superintendent Wing.
A starving barefoot man, believed to be the runaway who leaped from a Northwestern train at Maple Park, is found at a farmer’s house near Shabbona. He carries a train ticket from San Francisco to Chicago and $70 in gold in his pockets.
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