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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1922
Page
3
The American Protest morneente tative SSOCIATION of the Christian virtues urges daily business life to emulate the Golden Rule. It calls for patrons to support home enterprises and give local businesses a chance for existence.
The Estherville Democrat editors, led by R. R. Allison, question the postmaster recommendations of Congressman Dickinson for the district. The editor warns the congressman to beware of his aggressive checking and potential political pressure.
A cartoonish critique notes a proposed twenty five cent per horsepower levy on automobiles to fund soldiers bonuses alongside town license taxes. The piece predicts drivers may scrap aging cars as a result, suggesting owners could view the measure as a hidden boon.
Former Postmaster General Hayes now heads Movie film management and pledges to clean up Hollywood. He warns the task is almost impossible without firing the moral wrecks who taint the industry. Hollywood, once wonderful, is now seen as debauchery and requires moral choice from entrants.
The piece argues conditions are improving after two years of strain with March first expected to bring smoother sailing. It notes farm product prices rising 25 to 50 percent, bank congestion easing, and reluctance to borrow. It warns against reducing prices for goods, urging higher farm and labor wages and profits for merchants. It also highlights local crime and lax enforcement, citing forgery and theft cases and a general lack of prosecutions as contributors to crime.
In 1854 Issac Lane Asher living in Mustatine eastern Iowa recorded prices in a 1853 1854 letter. Corn 20 25 cents per bushel flour 6 6 50 a barrel beef 6 7 cents a pound pork 5 6 cents prairie chickens 1 50 per dozen quail 80 cents per dozen turkeys 50 cents each butter 40 and 12 cents per pound milk 4 cents per quart potatoes 25 cents per bushel peaches 1 00 per bushel muskmelons 50 cents watermelons 5 10 cents The note adds you can live cheaply shoot game and rely on a $3000 4000 budget.
A year ago Beaston, manager of Community Stores of Iowa in Estherville, vanished between two days with substantial funds belonging to the stockholders. The disappearance raised questions about crime in the area and prompted investigations into the missing assets.
A letter proposes an alternate route for the Estherville Superior road project. It urges abandoning two miles of existing gravel but instead extending straight east from the death corner toward Riverdale Stock Farm. The plan claims lower drainage, shorter haul, and removal of dangerous crossings while noting railroad visibility remains adequate.
A fragment describes a stretch of road about fifteen miles from Spirit Lake east to Estherville with only two turns, noting the route simplicity and minimal complexity for travelers.
National Commander MacNider of the United States Chamber of Commerce argues in a Get-Together speech that paying equal wages to all workers ignores sacrifice. He says the Adjusted Compensation Bill should not penalize those who risk their lives for the country and calls for a square deal for returning veterans.
Six more local co operative livestock shipping associations joined the Iowa Union Co-Operative Shipping Associations last week, expanding a state wide federation to strengthen livestock marketing. President C E Carnahan leads the membership push with directors. new affiliates include Barnes City, Brighton, East Pleasant Plain, Murphy, Rubio, and Wellston, aiding freight rates, schedules, loading facilities, legislation and market reports.
Special Washington dispatch reports the National Agricultural Conference under President Harding endorsing a robust federal and state road program to cut farm losses from bad roads. It urges coordinated transport policy among rail, water, and highway systems, stricter traffic regulation, ongoing research, and continued federal aid for interstate and farm-to-market highways. The resolution emphasizes safer highways, better maintenance, and orderly marketing to ensure farmers move produce to market efficiently.
Citizens applaud the Department of Agriculture for highway policy favoring road suitable for horses and motor vehicles. They urge constructing sideroads adjacent to surfaced highways wherever practicable. Rapidly changing traffic makes highway construction an important engineering and business undertaking, calling for removal of partisan political consideration.
Standoff between residents and the company continues as a request for rate cuts expands from 437 to about 700 signatures. The conflict remains peaceful and is described as a staged but earnest petition for lower rates.
The paper advises farmers not to reduce corn acreage to curtail production and recommends sowing more oats if a better season for small grain is expected. It notes excellent prospects for fair prices next fall and cautions against idle land or converting cultivated land to grass, urging reliance on personal judgment.
The readable fragment suggests a positive outlook that eventually leads to a better overall condition or situation, implying a future improvement or recovery. Specific people, places, dates, or actions are not identifiable in the text.
Fred S Himebaugh announces candidacy for state representative from Emmet County, subject to voters in the June primary. He submits his bid under the will of the voters.
A quoted article fragment argues that enabling rain on demand could forge new empires from the Sahara to western America and turn arid centers like central Australia fertile. It contrasts imagination with a joke about a cat in a well and a quip by a son of an efficiency expert.
A radish will turn its leaves toward light no stronger than a candle. One cross shows similar sensitivity to light as from a candle at about 180 feet, while the radish reacts at 25 feet. The note highlights plant light responsiveness and distance effects.
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