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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
4
Senate and House actions echo disagreements over forest reserve administration and Panama Canal wages while approving a Pocahontas monument grant. Senate passages include $12 million agricultural funds, a Porto Rican infantry basis, and naval authorization. House extends child labor rules and bans Benning horse betting.
A general arbitration treaty between the United States and Spain was signed. The House approved the conference report on the bill reorganizing the consular service. A bill to compel wage withholding from enlisted personnel was introduced by Representative OConnell. Justice officials anticipate a test case under the commodities clause of the Hepburn act unless legislation changes the outlook. Townsend of Michigan bundled bridge bills into an omnibus measure to speed passage. Smith of Michigan introduced a resolution directing the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor to investigate Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph Cable Company regarding wages and conditions.
Walter Conrad, a penniless student at Essex Classical Institute, confronts his father’s sudden illness and a stock scheme’s ruin tied to the Great Metropolitan Mining Company. A late telegram, a paralytic stroke, and a lawyer’s letter reveal duplicitous management, leaving Walter to face grief, responsibility, and a harsh inheritance.
A New York Times excerpt depicts a restaurant scene where a restaurateur boasts of cheap meals for men versus women and a reformist woman plotting emancipation. The dialogue rails against women as deceitful while a male friend notes men are watched less. The woman mutters of “One thousand men, 1,000” and smiles.
In a village exchange a plain family once known as the Dewberrys is recalled. They reportedly struck oil, now live in a hilltop mansion with three automobiles and a daughter engaged to a duke. Elders note a temper change and faded old affection as gossip swirls about status and name changes from Dewberry to Du Barry.
Heavy May settlements and ample bank payments contrast with high defaults and cautious policy. Rain and cold slow retail, construction, and farming, while winter wheat prospects and agriculture improve. Crop marketing lagged last year with lighter breadstuffs, yet May deliveries rose and prices hit season highs. Real estate investment rises, high grade bonds hold demand, but local security sales decline from last year. Bank deposits rise, employment of surplus funds limited. freight and iron outputs lag. Failures in Chicago district show 36, with nine liabilities over 5000. Trade overall remains quiet. textile and leather sectors soft. shoe shipments 30 percent below 1907. Bradstreet reports weekly U S and Canadian business failures and general cautious buying.
The report lists bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and New York with prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and timothy hay and includes Milwaukee and Buffalo price points. Overall ranges show steady variation by market with common to prime quality for cattle and hogs and No 2 or No 2 mixed grade grains priced in cents per bushel or per hundredweight.
Thousands of American women in our homes sacrifice daily to duty. Women overdo to keep homes neat and children tidy. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting from bad to worse. It is to these faithful women that the message calls for help.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a relief for female troubles. It cites testimonials from Mrs F Ellsworth of Mayville and Mrs W P Boyd of Beaver Falls praising improved health and resumed work. The notice invites sick women to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
Old home week brings back sons and grandsons who boast of distant success. Mr Jameson recalls leaving with one dollar, riding freight to Boston, and returning with a four cent purse after paying for a coach refreshment. He announces he has come back to stay.
A Cleveland grocer reports many customers improved health after stopping coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee. He shares his own experience of coffee nerves, poor appetite, and irritability improving after using Postum, and urges others with nervous or stomach troubles to try it. A promotional pamphlet note ends claiming the letters are genuine and of human interest.
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