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Newspaper
West Bend Journal
Location
West Bend, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
8
Wilbur Wright recalls his Dayton days and the gap between grand promises and actual money. He compares financiers to a Dayton barber who, while praising a pup, asks only two dollars, illustrating dreams versus real costs in early aviation ventures. The exchange highlights funding challenges faced by pioneers in the field.
Eastern Colorado presents top ducements for settlers with land from $10 to $20 per acre. Crops grown farther east thrive there and many older-state farmers sell high priced land to invest as prices rise. Lincoln County stands out as a prime agricultural county with W. S. Pershing of Limon guiding land surveys for decades, helping many secure good locations. No region offers better incentives for settlers or investors today.
Charles M Schwab spoke on trimming costs and closing houses, calling for stricter economies amid many claims. He contrasted sharp claims with a Altoona beggar woman who, with three shivering children, defended her rights amid a charity officer’s taunts on a bitter winter day.
Pine forest pollen travels up to 200 miles from shore, settling as a yellow coating on lakes and oceans. Pollen grains carry yellow vesicles that buoy the particles aloft like a box kite, sometimes misread by peasants as sulfur showers.
A reader recounts buying a piano for 25 dollars three years ago and still paying for it, prompting disbelief and a remark about the dreary day as rain looms. The exchange highlights a humorous twist on bargain pricing and ongoing payments.
Letter from a former Baird Texas coffee drinker credits Postum with eliminating stomach pain dyspepsia kidney and bowel trouble after quitting coffee. He notes immediate improvement and regular bowels within two weeks and endorses Postum for himself his son and family while recommending The Road to Wellville read in the packages.
A compact chronology lists pivotal occurrences across history. It notes Virginia’s lordship declaration in 1689, Franklin’s American Philosophical Society in 1748, Congress meetings in 1775, Washington’s stance in 1782, and Canada’s oldest town charter in 1785, among many other milestones including the Morse telegraph in 1844, the 1848 Democratic convention, and 1908 a deadly Notre Dame de Salette slide.
Professor Percival Lowell at Flagstaff Arizona reports a recurrence of the polar cap rift on Mars. The feature, once preceding the cap's disappearance, is thought to involve snow and signals a new phase in Martian observations.
About 157 176 800 acres across Oregon Washington Utah Wyoming New Mexico Nevada Arizona Colorado and Montana are designated to crops under the 320 acre homestead act. Maps will be sent to land offices and entry applications will be accepted once approved.
Judge W. W. Ferguson told the Era Club in New Orleans that under the Louisiana constitution a married woman cannot own her clothes and has fewer property rights than a spinster. He argued the code denies wives the ability to testify against husbands and faces pressure to reform.
Canadian civil servants form a civil service federation and unions gain labels on municipal printing. Red Lodge plans a labor temple while Kansas adopts eleven union-supported laws. A Hebrew local union forms in Boston and Texas creates a state labor and statistics bureau. Arkansas enacts a semi monthly pay day. Hodcarriers and building laborers unions rise by the dozens. In Washington DC a women employees union surpasses 300 members. Hazleton notes child labor removals for illiterate under fourteen. Northumberland board calls for 8 percent wage cuts. Vallejo gas workers win charter, shorter hours, higher pay. Nolan elected Boston branch president for 20th term. Washington approves eight hour day for women and minors and a female deputy inspector.
Payments through the banks and lower defaults testify to healthier conditions. The commercial outlook is keener and awaits an early settlement of tariff revision. Developments as a whole carry encouragement to stimulate enterprise with renewed strength and confidence established.
The report notes irregular weather with a better trend in staple crops and slight retail gains. Reorders from jobbers and wholesalers are quiet, but optimism rises for next fall and winter trade. Retail, though improved versus last year, remains disappointing due to weather and high prices. Business failures: US 219, Canada 25.
Prices from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis and Cincinnati show cattle from 3.00 to 4.50 per cwt hogs 3.00 to 8.50 wheat No 2 around 1.49 to 1.57 corn varying 7e to 1.54 oats 54c to 60c rye 83e to 92e butter 22c eggs 18c to 21c per dozen
Delegates from Cincinnati and other Eastern and Midwestern states gather in Washington to press for national daylight hours. They want to move clocks ahead two hours to 7 a.m. and shift quitting time two hours earlier, with adjustments each May and October. The aim is to boost daylight for workers and claim human benefit from sunlight.
Proceedings in Guthrie to decide how marriage affects a minor's majority and property control. Franklin Springer seeks a writ of prohibition against Choctaw County Judge W T Glenn to stop land sale. Springer, aged 18, says his guardian was appointed in 1907 and marriage in 1908 ended guardianship. The court will determine the impact of a new territorial statute limiting a minor's ability to convey property after marriage.
Fourteen of the thirty six entrants aged over 50 finished a five mile race from 88th street and Buffalo avenue to the state line and back. Charles Bittner, 52, a switchman, won followed by John Kane, 51, a steel-worker, and Joseph Gassner, 52, a fellow switchman.
Government expert Dr. Clarence B. Lane reports the National Milk Show in Cincinnati has produced the second germless milk sample proven bacteria free by tests. The first such sample appeared in Chicago in 1906. the Cincinnati find traveled eight days from San Francisco in two quart bottles and remained unfrozen for hours in warm weather before testing.
Fort Worth newspaper owners telegraphed Harvard’s Prof Pickering that Texans would raise 10 million dollars to test the mirror signaling method to Mars. The professor urged waiting for more experiments to confirm intelligent life, proposing a Texas observatory instead. He suggested mounting a large survey next fall when Mars nears Earth.
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