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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
3
Mr Mason inspects a Nobrelin item while a saleswoman disputes the price. He questions a ten cent difference, and Mrs Mason defends the bargain noting the natural value and the husband’s remark. The exchange reveals tension over the sale.
In a humorous exchange Mrs Kerruthers confesses the dentist’s chair discomfort while Mrs Kajones and Johnny Kajones compare experiences. She says the dentist is careful and gentle and she even sleeps through the procedure, while he jokes about the woman’s loud sleeping.
Senate discussions centered on the currency bill, the tariff question, and the President's message. Deliberations included the criminal code and proposed revisions, with speakers from New Jersey and Georgia. House and Senate actions touched on salaries, deposits guarantees, and the next census, amid political rhetoric and procedural rulings.
Meh Farming ton now has the Ponver Mill later known as the Whitbrick Mill built by Samuel Power in 1838 near the River Rose. Power borrowed to finish the mill and failed, leaving the county in poverty as Power left for Grand Rapids. He later prospered in railroads, dying worth over 100000, while his wife taught and led an educational institution in Grand Rapids.
An advertisement touts Salter's Pure Macaroni Wheat strains Dakota grown and drought resistant. It claims 40 to 60 bu per acre in arid lands with no rust or insects and offers a seed book and free samples for 14 cents plus bold claims of novelty seeds. It also includes an unrelated detective quote about a missing husband and a brittle exchange.
Eight attractive color post cards depict wild animals in the Washington Park area of Milwaukee. They will be mailed on receipt of twelve cents for color stumps. Suitable for grown people and children. Address The Evening Wisconsin Company, Milwaukee, Wis.
Fire in Mechester Pennsylvania caused a $5000 loss. Rome New York business district suffered $250000 damage. Dr J W Kirby found not guilty of murder in Greenwood Massachusetts. Congressman Tin Sullivan distributed shoes to 400 men in New York as charity. Florida East Coast railway extension to Key West opened without ceremony. Representative James J Lloyd of Missouri named chair of Democratic congressional campaign committee. Pekju loot sale of Edwin I Congeda collection planned in New York. Baxter Griffith killed in Farrell Mississippi gunfight. Gundy Shepard and three black men injured. Stuyvesant Fish warns stockholders of a $30000000 short term loan using rail assets as security. London Tribune liberal paper suspended after two years. House Committee on Claims investigates $178000 treasury robbery in Chicago. Over $200000 in New York treasury owed to former employees remains unclaimed. 2000 Italian citizens hold mass meeting in New York to counter black hand. New York authorities admit hydrophobia cases in treatment.
Maj Gen Bell urges a 240000 man army and rapid mobilization in war with first class powers. He warns against false security and favors restoring the canteen, with a possible ultimate force increase up to four times the initial 240000. One division cannot meet modern global tensions.
The article urges that nations cannot rely on untrained volunteers to face professional armies. It stresses that remoteness of war hinges on preparation and training, and warns that creating an object legion would be costly and humiliating to master. It notes engineers as an example of underdeveloped capacity.
Reports indicate Wisconsin Central aims for a Chicago Winnipeg through line via Duluth. Pennsylvania Railroad directs train letters over telegraph to save costs, cutting Broad Street message volume by about 2000 daily. Industrial temperance pledge spans 25000 Northwestern Railroad workers on New Year’s Eve. Missouri roads decide not to challenge the 2 cent fare law, citing reduced traffic. Officials warn of large idle rolling stock with $4 million monthly interest costs, and 375000 idle freight cars nationwide. each idle 30 cars ties to an engine idled for shop work.
Boston interview reveals Mrs Green claims she refused the Vanderbilt jewels as security for a loan and that finance and politics are navigating a planned approach to renominate Roosevelt with Taft backing. She says markets are tight now but money is available to the well connected.
Reports received at Ottawa indicate the coming spring will see about 7,000 Doukhobors leave their northwest communities for another wild pilgrimage. Accounts describe fanatical decrees causing hunger, poverty, and severe restrictions, including sale of cattle and crops, taboos on tea and sugar, loss of timepieces, and tightened food and labor, with women forbidden to embroider.
Two women found dead in a stylish 22 room West Seventy first Street house where they served as caretakers. A Minnesota farmer Nelson P Thoren died from faintness while pulling ice from a lake. A British steamer captain killed himself after mutiny aboard. An orphan boy from Morrisonville Wisconsin aged 12 was sent to the state reformatory Wa kesha seeking education and work.
A new "fresh air school" in Providence adopts European ventilation methods to maintain sunlit, well-ventilated rooms. Outer wraps stay on indoors, woolen foot bags aid cold extremities, and portable desks keep pupils in sun rays as part of the city school system.
James W. Ellaworth, a New York born coal operator, plans to transform Tudson in northern Ohio once seat of Western Reserve University into the state’s most beautiful educational center. He has donated 100000 to the village and will fund further beautification, demolishing unsightly buildings for new ones. Ellaworth, now over 60, built a large coal empire after starting in Chicago and was born on a nearby estate.
The Cabinetmakers' Union forms a district council in Minneapolis. German and Canadian union activity grows with baker party efforts and fiber worker enrollments. Alabama passes a child labor law limiting under twelve work in mills. Shipyard wage talks end near strike threat with a 0.5 percent rate cut. Tennessee Labour advocates push for better laws and organization. Industrial gains reported in Bridgeport and Spokane area unions show rising production and wage trends.
British geologist Dr Spencer warned before local civic groups that Ontario Power Company plans to divert 40 000 cubic feet per second from Niagara River could shrink Niagara Falls and lower Lake Erie by several feet. He argued this would alter Whirlpool conditions and reduce flow to the American falls, harming regional scenery and river dynamics. He noted the Chicago canal intensifies the issue and that current diversions cost energy but threaten long term lake levels and the falls' integrity.
Thousands gather as six contestants from New York compete for Paris in a transcontinental auto race. Entries include three French cars, one Austrian, one Italian, and one American built by Alavereau. The event opens amid fanfare while a grand jury in Fayette County indicts the American Tobacco Company on charges of coupling raw tobacco.
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