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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
4
The Postmaster General issued an order prohibiting weekly papers from extending credit beyond one year. Papers not mailed at second class rate if subscribers are over a year in arrears. Readers urged to pay all arrears immediately and check their label for expiration.
Prominent business leaders express optimism about the economy with forecasts of stronger conditions, rising money supply, and a return to normal trade. Schiff Hill Flint Barnard Truesdale Smith Campbell Eames Black and Doherty predict prosperity, lower prices, abundant credit, and a steadier path to recovery during 1908.
Pittsburg returns to cash basis, clearing house certificates fade, and major mills restart after partial shutdown. Thousands of idle workers will return to full-time, unreduced wages in the district as Pittsburg braces for another forward movement alongside the nation.
The excerpt presents Edgar Warren, an English banker, arguing that the United States has more to sustain life and promote happiness than any other habitable land. It urges readers to brace up and commit to active effort in the new year ahead.
The Republican National Convention in Chicago on June 16 will have 980 delegates. The number was fixed by the Republican National Committee in Washington on December 6, granting two delegates to each Territory. Each state has two delegates per senator and representative in Congress.
Warren Pa December 19 1907 The Republican primaries for Borough and Township officers to be elected February will be held January 25 1908 under the old law Poll hours to be at least three hours with time set by local Vigilance Committees Only Republicans may vote Blanks mailed to county committee members by Chairman E W ParsonsAtt Chairman.
The article notes post holiday stocktaking with idle machinery resuming on January 2 and mills reopening next week while production remains cut in iron and steel and New England cotton mills. Confidence favors an early revival in consumer purchases, with cancellations in clothing and delayed spring shipments as the money market stabilizes. December railway earnings are down 8.8 percent from 1906, foreign trade in New York shows exports up by 2,767,063 and imports down by 7,031,263, bank exchanges fall in New York and other cities, and US commercial failures count 368 for the week with Canada at 30. Dun's Review.
Economists note Egypt’s cotton gains tied to Nile irrigation. 1906 value rose by 30 million dollars, 1907 output up 20 million pounds from 1897 levels. Area over 1.5 million acres with 445 pounds per acre. Lower Egypt relies on perennial irrigation via Assouan dam for permanent cotton production two years in five.
The piece notes arrivals and visits including Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Griswold and Mrs. Griswold’s sister, and Mrs. Dwight Bennett at Wolf Run N Y for a new baby. It lists Y M C A officer elections with Gibson Dolson Pierce as president Allan Jacob as vice president Wm Gordon treasurer and Alfred Halstown secretary. Harvey Jacob recovers from a long illness. Peter Henhawk of Old Town N Y visited for New Year.
State Veterinarian Pearson assigns Dr. A W Wier and Dr. L G Marshall to combat epizootic lymphangitis appearing in Butler Mercer Lawrence Jefferson Indiana counties. One hundred thirty five horses affected. forty incurable destroyed. others quarantined and disinfected. Some cases found in Lancaster Columbia and Bradford counties. Quarantine aims to prevent wider outbreak.
Log from Deputy Comptroller G B Williams detailing a deep test well drilled near Colgate Oklahoma in April. Sequence includes soil, clay, gravel water blue slate sandstone shale oil gas signs and mineral water layers with varying thicknesses. A final line states male mortality risk is eight times that of females.
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