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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
4
Harrisburg reports Governor Edwin S. Stuart vetoed six bills including private detective licensing and insecticide rules and approved twenty-five measures. Bills vetoed cover judiciary duties shifting to governor, misbranded insecticides, and ejectment time limits. Approved acts include trust account management, turnpike maintenance, and armory real estate powers for municipalities.
Governor Edwin S. Stuart vetoed fourteen measures including McNichol’s murder penalty bill and Adams private road amendments. He also vetoed the Sullivan borough bill while approving twenty-two acts such as higher marriage license fees, trolley freight controls, and county controller provisions.
The piece traces the rise of ostrich farming in the United States, detailing early South African beginnings, initial shipwreck losses, and subsequent introductions to California and Arizona. It notes notable importations through 1901 and the establishment of flocks in South Pasadena and the Salt River Valley.
Dun's Review notes outside New York bank clearings up 15.9 percent from last year and 24.5 percent from 1906 while New York clearings rise 24.1 percent from 1908. Rail earnings gain 13.9 percent over 1908, with a 10.3 percent dip from 1907, immigration up 212,000, imports strong, iron and steel orders and prices rising, copper hardening, and new construction surging.
Mayor Hazen Pingree proposed using city vacant lots for relief during the 1893 downturn. The Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association shows the idea's value with 125 acres under crop in 1908, producing about 25000 dollars and aiding over four hundred families. The project emphasizes early spring work and direct contact with soil and sun.
Pennsylvania experts advise on potato seed treatment using formalin over corrosive sublimate. Instructions detail mixing, application times, and reuse. Also covered are cautions against spraying blossoms and proper Bordeaux Mixture formulas with arsenicals for apples pears quinces potatoes peaches plums grapes and timing after bloom.
List of patentees in Pennsylvania with varied inventions including an electromag netic gun reversing valve glass manufacture and display rack. Names include J W Bell Shenandoah R H Bolin Kane W Cooper Pittsburg E A Cummings Butler F T Flinchbaugh York W Goldie Wilkinsburg C S Hooper Erie J J Kelly Crafton W J Kerr Smethport Co F Kline Kunztowm L W Lamison Wilkinsburg K L Lamtgrede Bethle hem L S Long New Castle R Marchard Pittsburg and more. Also notice selling old newspapers for carpet padding at Malt office.
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