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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
4
A 1910s home era column urges women to master domestic arts, hospitality, and cheerful housekeeping to sustain marriage happiness. It emphasizes courtesy, mutual affection, and the wife’s central role in home life within scriptural marriage ideals and social expectations.
A new railroad signal in France projects a direct warning to engineers. Two parallel copper wire bars mounted along the rails trigger an electrical action when brushed by a copper broom on the locomotive, sounding a bell and switching a white indicator to red, remaining visible until the engineer confirms the order.
A veteran editor A R K F Hildreth, 93, recalls early journalism training in New York with Horace Greeley connections. Born February 29, 1816, he began printing in Chelsea in 1840, ran papers in Lowell and Holyoke, moved west in 1855, and started the Intellencer at Charles City Iowa in 1856 amid rough yearlong logistics.
Chief Officer Neil S. Murray reports a sea monster sighting 600 miles off Santos while the Mereddio sailed from Penarth to Santos. A Greek quartermaster, nearly paralyzed with fear, described a dragonlike creature as large as a whale with a ridgeback and green scales. The event, logged for the ship’s scrap and permanent records, is corroborated by the crew and left the Greek shaken for days.
The Florida keys dwellers known as Conchs navigate their coast with the water glass method a glass-bottom bucket used to spot fish crayfish and turtles. They also fish with nets dive for turtles and gain income from sponge grounds wrecking and general fishing.
A historical account recalls IL Schutter starting onion cultivation in Scott County Iowa in the early state days. It notes profits of 135 dollars per acre over 14 years and that extending similar yields across half of Iowa’s 10 million acres could yield over two billion dollars in net agricultural profit, comparing to 1908 output and labor costs.
A large consignment of memorials including granite headstones and marble crosses was sent by McMann sculptors of St. Mark's Sunderland to West Stanley near the colliery. The stones were inscribed and ready for erection, a shipment perhaps unprecedented in London Tit-Bits.
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