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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1912
Page
5
Chicago traders pushed wheat futures higher as Liverpool demand and shrinking British stocks supported prices. May contracts rose to about 1.02 7-8 for May while corn and oats traded weak to mixed. Hog and pork values rallied with firming animal products and outward shipping concerns influenced by weather.
Chicago cattle and sheep markets opened strong and steady with prices for Texas steers and western cattle rising into the day. Cash wheat and corn posted mixed quotes across multiple grades while hogs showed active buying and higher wholesale values led by a top of 7.75 for hogs. Live mutton and veal calves remained steady to higher amid strong demand.
In Hillsville Virginia March 26 detectives press the hunt for the Allen clan fugitives. Judge Walter R Staples clears the calendar and prepares to empanel a grand jury for indictments while Floyd Victor Allen Sidna Edwards and Byrd Marion face trial setting likely for April 15.
Lowell Massachusetts March 26 nearly twenty thousand operatives in seven cotton mills are idle after orders from Boston to close all mills allied with the Lowell Manufacturing Association until further notice. About a thousand textile workers joined two thousand strikers demanding higher wages amid an early morning parade in the mill district. In Paterson New Jersey March 26 seven thousand silk weavers strike closing sixteen of nineteen Hudson county mills as leaders threaten cross state actions. Mill owners refuse to raise pay and no disorder is reported with strikers keeping away from plants.
Paris March 26. The French Cabinet resolved to strengthen and centralize the detective department and form a secret service division using swift automobiles to fight the new ‘auto bandit’ type. A general police alarm was sent across Europe after killers struck along French highways, killing a chauffeur and later robbing a Chantilly bank, wounding two employees and stealing 8 909 dollars.
The farm residence of Mrs. Herman Tribon in Rennington township eleven miles northeast of Waterloo burned today between 1 and 11 o’clock due to a defective flue. Neighbors helped save most contents. loss estimated between 1000 and 2000 dollars, fully insured with Farmers Mutual Insurance. The farm was formerly the H. H. Steely place.
Dr and Mrs G G Bickley celebrated their golden wedding anniversary yesterday in Russell Tamasa hall with a large Waterton turnout. The couple’s health improved after the excitement and guests praised the elaborate affair and floral decor.
Prescott, a successful, good looking office worker, seeks a wife with social standing and solid prospects. At a dinner with his boss Ward and Ward’s attractive daughter, he finds himself drawn to romance that begins with practical arrangement and steady, confident charm.
Prescott fumbles toward marriage with Miss Ward as her mother pressures a rushed engagement. He overhears their talk in the Ward home about finances and social pressures, then escapes homeward with a sense of relief and lingering unease about the looming family arrangement.
Prescott learns he is engaged to the Ward family's daughter after a tense stretch of insecurity and hidden feelings. He visits and bonds with Miss Ward as she works at her desk and reveals plans for a home at Ingleswood with a garden, chickens, and a spring. He jokes about gold mines, then eagerly proposes a Sunday visit to see the house and cook a steak dinner together.
A lighted life preserver weighing five and a half pounds uses two swimming cushions and a small battery lamp. The lamp, worn on the forehead, can be seen from hundreds of yards at night and lasts three to four hours with a reflector. It buckles on in five seconds and aids rescue in night shipwrecks, though its use in war is debated.
A canal boat in Germany operates on a trolley system and functions to perfection.
An engineer engaged idea has attracted attention with self-propelling devices using compressed air in a TT receiver to drive motive mechanisms. Earlier experiments showed limited success, and a steam locomotive variant without boiler or fireman is exhibited at the Turin show, using two large cylindrical containers to house high pressure steam.
The paldap capital invested in UK railways reached £1,318,515,000 in 1910, up by £4,000,000 from 1909. Net earnings available for dividends were £47,356,000, up £2,222,000 or 4.8 percent, amid higher receipts and expenditures. Traffic receipts rose to £114.2 million with £61.7 million from goods. Passenger numbers totaled 1,306,729,000. third class share rose as Great Western ended second class on long trains, yet overall passenger growth persisted, including an extra 44,000 journeys.
The article discusses steam propulsion advances with bottled-up steam enabling long travel, compares steam to compressed air, and notes plans for triple Mallet locomotives and four-coupled engines. It cites C T Ripley of Topeka predicting bigger engines, increasing power, and the need to solve gas transfer in long tubes. It also reports 1910 rail data with high freight receipts and rising train miles despite reduced tonnage.
A London Quarterly Review notice recalls early railway travel with Woolwich proposals. Third class cars lacked roofs and seats, forcing passengers to stand or squat in rain and sun beneath sparks from the engine. The piece notes railroads break moral barriers and foster global commerce, arguing for disarmament and American ideas spreading worldwide.
In 25 years electric railroads in the United States have grown from nothing to their present proportions. Experts estimate yearly support for about 800 000 people, including many employees, though actual employment runs somewhat short of a quarter million.
Thomas T. Chaloner demonstrated a new overhead stopping device for trains to Long Island Railroad representatives. The system halts a two car electric train at 60 mph within 300 feet using a steel bar suspended above the tracks that, when struck by a plug on each car, triggers air brake engagement. The bar is lowered by a signal tower operator with danger signals.
The Puget Sound transcontinental line is hailed as a premier American railroad feat. It features 12 miles of tunnel work and hundreds of bridges, designed to achieve the lowest grade across the Rockies. Wisconsin engineer Whittemore planned and directed the project from the outset.
A passenger on a Highland line express asked the station master for rowan berries. A porter fetched a small bunch from a rowan tree, causing amused glances as the train stayed five minutes. The tale echoes a Spanish anecdote of a driver delivering a birthday gift to his mother.
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