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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
11
A turning point in business news notes U S steel capacity near full use for now with buyers delaying purchases to next year. The article links steel demand to wider prosperity, citing crops, money markets, and overall activity as indicators of thriving industry and continued national growth.
A committee discussion on tariff reform weighs conditional higher duties tied to minimum wage floors and regional wage boards. Proposals include labor safety, workers compensation, arbitration, and limits on child labor. emphasis on protections for women and a push to eject industries dodging reforms.
It has long been said our business and banking were provincial. Now they can break that shell. Bankers may show intelligent ability to be real merchants in credit rather than brokers of accommodation. Businessmen can prove they can adopt a world view of trade beyond waiting for importations.
Senator Elihu Root, former secretary of state, signals a bid for the Republican nomination and urges renewed support for the party. He reframes the era of party rule as guided by the people and questions where the public stood during decades of GOP governance.
Shipments of Chinese eggs to the United States in the first quarter of 1915 were lighter than a year earlier due to war disruptions. 410,760 dozen eggs worth about $65,000 reached Pacific coast ports, versus 1,818,737 dozen worth over $300,000 in Jan through Mar 1914. Brown Leghorns dominate exports, China lacks poultry farms, and eggs are sent fresh dried or frozen via Shanghai with interior transport by rail river or canal.
The article notes the English birth of the original Tipperary composers and that the British soldiers now sing a new tune of Irish origin. It mentions an English composer claiming recent music, then identifies Is This All Reilly as the modern craze linked to Pat Rooney, an Irish vaudeville performer who wrote Is This All Reilly in 1880.
A New York Times quote notes U S locomotive orders, allies especially Russia, buying hundreds. It says American standard locomotives cost about 25000 dollars each, but one big American engine equals about five foreign ones. Some foreign orders are trench locomotives, small dinkies like Coney Island toys.
The Philadelphia Inquirer laments a sharp rise in highway deaths in the first half of the year. It notes New York state deaths rising from 18314 to 241 and New Jersey deaths from 48 to 88, urging drivers and pedestrians to observe ordinary care to prevent needless fatalities.
The text argues insanity and handwriting experts lose value as they are overused in court. It states that unless mental incapacity is clearly observable, expert testimony fails to prove insanity. An old Quaker quip closes the fragment about everyone being crazy except thee and me.
Mrs K G Neff of Crookston Ohio claims Chamberlain's Tablets restored her health after two years of stomach trouble. She says three bottles brought lasting improvement. Sold by Jay Johnston and Lon Smith.
An advertisement extols laughter as healthful for digestion and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as an effective aid. The copy notes the tablets cost a quarter and are sold by Jay Johuston and Lon.
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