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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
New York. Feb IS, 1906

The Erie Railroad has placed with
the Ano"ican Locomotive Company an
order for twenty-five locomotives. de
livery to begin in March. These are to
be exact duplicates of the nineteen en-
gines received by the Erie during the
past six months, and which have proven
so successful in passenger service as to
warrant their adoption as a standard
type, known all along the line as THE
$500 class" With their tenders carry
ing sixteen tons of coal and $500 gal
Ions of water, these largest passenger
service locomotives ever constructed.
weigh $50, $50 pounds each, the weight
of the locomotive alone being 230,5OO
pounds.
Used on the through Chicago and
Buffalo trains of from twelve to fifteen
cars, these engines easily keep to sched-
ule time even when hauling these long
trains of the heavy coaches now re
quired for up-toda passenger service.
So satisfactory have they proven in
making time, during four months trial
in winter service, that the Erie man
agement decided to have a sufficient
number on hand for all emergencies in
their fast passenger train service.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Morgan Qufzzes Cromwell.

The appearance of William Nelson
Cromwell, the New York lawyer who has
been prominent in the affairs of the
Panama republic and the Panama canal,
before the Senate committee on inter
oceanic canals, gave Senator Morgan of
Alabama the opportunity he had been
looking for and he did not neglect it. Mr..
Cromwell began by explaining his con-
nectiCn with the French canal company
and with the American enterprise. He
said his firm had been counsel for the
Panama railroad for twelve years. He
denied that any part Of the $4O,000,000
purchase money for the French rights had
gone to his firm. Since 1904 he had serv-
ed as legal adviser for the republic of
Panama. At one time Senator Morgan
said he would attend to Cromwell on the
floor of the Senate. Nj. Cromwell adj
mittel that he had received about $780,
600 from the new Panama company.
Whea asked what service he had render
ed ne said that professional secrets were
involved in the question and that his eli
ents were satisfied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Scottish Railroads.

A newspaper writer, meeting Lord
BraSSey at Red Bank, \. j., asked the
distinguished foreigner if he feared to
travel on American railroads.
''Oh, no." Lord Brassey answered.
''Your American railroads kill good
many people in the years course, but
we must remember that they carry a
good many people a good many miles.
In proportion, probably, they do no
more damage than the railroads of
France or of Scotland.
THE Scottish railroads used to be
very dangerous indeed 70 ride on
them was like travelling through a des-
olate country infested with brigands.
The famous Dr. Norman Macleod
was once about to set off on long rail
way journey through Scotland. Just
as the train was pulling out the cler-
gyman's servant put his head in
through the window and said:
Haze We ta'en an insurance ticket 2
L have the doctor answered
"Then,' said the servant, write yer
name on it, and gle it to me. They
haze an awful bad habit O Robin the
corpses on this line ''-Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
[ M,uMary Nmmick
Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully qualis
fiedto give helpful advice to sick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmicll's letters.

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully quali'
fedto give helpful advice to sick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmicll's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 have been sufferer for the past eight
years with trouble which first originated
from painful periods-the pains were excruct.
ating, with inflammation and liberation of the
female organs. The doctor says must have
an operation or | cannot live. / do not want
to submit to an operation if / can possibly
avoid it. Please help me."-Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington, Z. c.
Her second letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
You will remember my condition when l
last wrote you, and that the doctor said !
must have an operation or | could not live.
/ received your kind letter and followed your
advice very carefully and am now entirely
we'll As my case was so serious it seems q
miracle that am cured. know that | owe
not only my health but my life to Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your
advice. | can walk miles without an ache or
a pain, and wish every suffering woman
would read this letter and realize what you
can do for them. Mrs. Mary Dimmick, seth
and East Capitol Streets, Washington, ID. G.
How easy it was for Mrs Dlmmick to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass,
and how little it cost her-a two-cent
stamp. Yet how valuable was the replyl
As Mrs. Dimmick sSys-it saved her life.
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
of just such letters as the above, and
offers ailing women helpful advice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Railroad Rates a Tax.

No other tax is so subtle and all-per-
vading as the railroad rate. 1t enters
into the cost of every commodity, it
lays tribute upon every activity of life !;
and yet so unobtrusive is its action that
he who finally pays it is hardly aware
of the fact. In nc other manner can
the fruits of monopoly be so safely
gathered. One mill per mile added to
the passenger fare of all the passengers
carried by our railroads for the year
ending June 80, 1904, would add to the
revenues of these railroads $21, 923. 213 !;
an increase of one cent per hundred
pounds in the freight rate for the same
year would have increased their rev.
eEues by SIPS, 1885, 100. 1t is the right
to impose this tax without legal re-
straint, with all the tremendous finan-
cial, social, political power which that
right carries, for which the railroads
are expanding millions in this contest
Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Photographs by Wire.

In the Technical World Magazine DR..
Alfred Gradenwitz describes the
achievement of Prof. Arthur KOrn of
Munich Bavaria, who has devised a
practicable method for the electrical!
transmission of photographs as distin-
guished from the mere handwriting and
line sketches which can be sent by the
telautograph. The first practical re-
suits We're secured in 1904; but later
improvements, recently described before
the Berlin Electrical Society, have ena-
bled him to transmit photographs with
remarkable definition over lines offer
ing a resistance of fully 10000 ohms-
the equivalent of a distance of several
thousands of miles, the time of trans
mission being 10 to 20 minutes, and the
size of the pictures by Z inches.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
-Absent-Mind ed.

Capt. Alexander Hutchins, of Ellis
worth, Me-, although a sea captain
of ability, has always been noted fol
Observation-Disclosures. On one occasion
while at home between trips, he de
cided to have a spare chamber in
his house lathed and plastered. Be
ing somewhat of a carpenter, he un,
dertOok this part of it himself, and
labOred at it industriously for a day
or two.
1t was finally lathed according to
his ideas, and as he drove the last
nail and surveyed his work, not with
out pride, he called his wife to see
what a good job he had done.
She climbed the stairs, and then
paused, somewhat perplexed, and, af-
ter looking in vain for an entrance,
said: ''Why, Alec, where's the door p
by thunder" exclaimed the cap
tain, in amazement; II forgot all
about it, He had actually lathed him
self into the room.-Boston Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
BANKS OF CANADA GAIN; PEG
PIES SAVINGS BIG.

Record of Financial Institutions for
the Year 1905 shows Remarkable
Prosperity All Over the Dominion.
Ottawa, Ontario, March 1.-The year
which has just closed has been one
most satisfactory and progressive with
the financial institutions of Canada,
and the business of the chartered banks
reflects the unprecedented prosperity
enjoyed throughout the country during
the year 1905.
The increased demands made upon
the banks of the Dominion by the COM
mercial and agricultural expansion of
the year were provided for without the
monetary disturbances sometimes noted
in the United States. Whatever opin-
ions may be held as to the composition
of the Canadian banking system, it is
claimed that its flexible currency has
many commendable features, and with
out which the last few months of the
year must have produced money
stringency with probably disastrous re-
suits. 1t is felt that a wider field of
credit in the Dominion is needed. and
consequently the capital of many exist
ing banking institutions has been in
creased and several new banks are in
process of organization.
The chartered banks of Canada to-
day enjoy the confidence of the general
public to a greater extent than ever be-
fore. The total deposits of the people
in L.
$522,317 900, which shows an increase
Of over $56,000,000 for the year. In
actual money in bank probably no otn-
er country in the world, comparatively
speaking, can make a better showing
than Canada.
The total deposits of the Canadian
people in the government savings
banks, in special savings institutions,
and in the chartered banks alone
amounted last year to the enormous
sum of 5000, $4,000. This represents
an average credit balance of over 500
per head of the population of the Do
minion, and it is stated that the only
other country in the world that ap-
proaches this record is Denmark, where
the average credit balance is about
5000 per capita. The above figures
however, do not comprehend moneys
deposited with private bankers, loan
companies, mortgage corporations and
trust companies, or what is boarded up
in secret hiding places
The annual report of the Dominion
finance department, just issued to the
public, shows a surplus in the Domin-
ion treasury for the fiscal year of ST.
$4,000, and refers to the remarkable
Increase in the public revenues during
the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
One NAY Round.

An old man who sells produce in the
towns near Lowell, Massachusetts, has
his share of the best kind of wit-the
unexpected. Not long ago, according to
writer in the Lowell Citizen, he de-
livered a pair of dressed chickens to
one of his customers. She was in the
kitchen when he brought them in, and,
woman-like. Shivered n little when she
saw the headleSs fowls.
Il should think you'd simply hate to
cut off the heads of those innocent
chickens" she exclaimed, involuntar-
lily.
Il do" replied the old man, land so
never do it. l manage to get round
it."
How the housewife demanded,
with eager interest. THE heads of
these chickens are gone"
"Oh, yes" said the old man, cheer
fully Il chopped the chickens off
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
They Stand Alone.

Standing out in bold relief. oil alone,
ana as conspicuous example of OPEN
frank and honest dealing with the sick
and afflicted, are DR.. Pierce's Favorite
prescription for weak, over-worked, de-
bllitated, nervous, rundown pain
Medical Discovery, the famous remedy
Tor weak stomach, indigestion, or dys-
Peps1a, torpid liver, or biliousnees, all
catarrhal affections whether of the
stomach, bowels. kidneys, bladder, nasal
passages, throat, bronchia, Or other mu-
LOT ali diseases arising from thin, watery
or impure blood, as scrofulous and skin
affections.
Each bottle of the above medicines
pears upon its wrapper badge of hon
esty in the full list OF ingredients COM
posing printed in plain English.
This frank and open publicity places
selUes, and is the best guaranty of their
merits. They cannot be classed as patent
nor secret medicines for they are neither
being OF k1lOtDfl composition.
DR.. Pierce feels that he can afford to
take the afflicted into his full confidence
and lay all the ingredients of his medi-
clnes freely before them because these
ingredients are such as are endorsed and
most strongly praised by scores of the
most eminent medical writers as cures
for the diseases for which these medi-
clneS are recommended. Therefore, the
af1lcted do not have to rely alone upon
Er. Pierce's recommendation as to the
curative value OF his medicines for GER
tain easily recognized diseases.
A glance at the printed formula on
each bottle will show that no alcohol and
no harmful or habit-forming drugs enter
into DR.. Pierce'S medicines, they being
wholly compounded Of glyceric extracts
of the roots of native, American forest
plants. These are best and safest for
the cure of most lingering, chronic dis
eases. DR.. r. V. Pierce can be consulted
FREE, by addressing him at Buffalo,
n. Y, and all communcat ons are re-
garded as sacredly confidential.
1t is as easy to be well as lila and
much more comfortable. Constipation is
the cause of many forms of illness. DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipa-
ton. They are tiny. sugar-coated gran
ules. One little pellet is gentle Taxa
tive. two mild cathartic. All dealers in
medicines sell them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
He Was Looking Amend

In coy chair Mr. Trouble Hunter
sat in front of a big warm stove, but
looked sad as the smoke curled from
his clear Havana cigar.
His lovely wife placed her arm or
the top of the chair back and with the
other hand strOked his troubled brow
Has something gone wrong in bust
ness, dear?" she asked.
He remained silent
you've been disappointed over
something's"
He remained silent and on his face
care brooded.
What on earth is worrying you
dear?" she asked with tears in her
voice.
II was just thinking" he said sadly
"of the approach of spring. when I'll
have to take the stovepipe down. In
dianapolis Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
THE EDITOR
Explains How to Keep Up Mental
and Physical Nfgor.

and Physical Nfgor.
A New Jersey editor writes:
"A long indulgence in improper food
brought on a condition of nervous dys-
pepsia, nearly three years ago, so Sc
we're that l had TO quit work entirely.
| put myself on a strict regimen OF
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of out
soor exercise, and in a few months
found my stomach SO far restored that
the process of digestion gave me pleas
ure instead of distress
1T also built up my strength so that
l was able to resume my business,
which is onerous, as l not only edit
my own paper but also do great deal
of outside writing.
II find that the Grape-Nuts diet en-
ables me to write with greater vigor
than ever before, and without the feel
ing of brain-fag with which L used to
be troubled. AS to bodily vigor-I can
and do walk miles every day without
fatigue-a few squares used to weary
me before / began to live on Grape
Nuts!' Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tie Greek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little book,
THE Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

Plans have been announced by the Sing
err Manufacturing Company for a new
office building at Liberty street and
Broadway. New York, from the center
of which will rise a forty-story tower to
a height of 1881 feet from the street 1t
will be So feet square for thirty-six
stories. the remainder forming a dome.
A great central bay window will extend
from the eleventh to the thirty-sixth floor.
The next highest New York building will
be the forty-story tower of the railroad
and iron exchange on West street. which
will rise 404 feet. The Singer building
will be nearly 80 feet taller than the
Washington monument.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
According to Signs.

An Irishman was walking along a
read beside a golf links when he was
suddenly struck between the shoulders
by golf ball. The force of the blow,
says writer in the New York World,
almost knocked him down. When he
recovered he observed a golfer running
toward him.
Are you hurt?" asked the player.
why didn't you get out of the way?''
An why should 1 get out of the
way?" asked Pat. Il didn't know there
were any assassins round here"
But l called FORE" said the player
and when l say fore that is a sign
for you to get out of the way"
''Oh, it is, is it?' said Pat. Well
thin, whin l say 'foive,' it is a sign
that you are going to get hit on the
nose. 'Foiye."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Deafness Cannot be Cured

ny local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inhamed condition of the mu-
cous lining OF the Eustachan Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when 1T is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrn)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrn
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo O.
Sold by Druggists, I5c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
S1n49n4
S1O1.g39

The total in this miscellaneous class is
higher than at any time in thirty years,
and the recent rise occurred chiefly in
building materials.
Aside from a general advance in meats
most food products became cheaper, but
the general level of prices is higher than
on March l, 1905. despite the fact that
foodstuffs have declined about per cent
Quotations for live stock and provis-
ions have not shown the customary dispo-
sition to follow the course of the grain
markets, practically every item in the
list recording more or less advance, mess
pork rising S1.25 per barrel during Feb
ruary and $1.75 since the opening of the
year.
In fact, the upward tendency in meats
has been in progress, with scarcely any
interruption, since early last autumn. a
moderate decrease occurred in prices of
dairy and garden products, the principal
differences being lower quotations for
milk, eggs, hay and cheese, while butter
rose another cent, and vegetables were
also slightly higher.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
BABY'S TORTURING HUMOR.
Ears Looked as If They Would Drop
Of-Face Mass of Sores-Cured by
Cuticura in Two Weeks for 75c.

Il feel it my duty to parents Of 9th
er poor suffering babies to tell you
what Cuticura has done for my little
daughter. She broke out all over her
body with a humor, and we used ev-
erything recommended. but without re-
suits. l called in three doctors, they
all claimed they could help her, but
she continued to grow worse. Her body
was a mass of sores, and her little face
was being eaten away; her ears looked
as if they would drop off. NeghbOrs
advised me to get Cuticura Soap and
Ointment, and before l had used half
of the cake of Soap and box of Oint-
ment the sores had all healed, and my
little ones face and body were as clear
as a newborn babes. l would not be
without it again if it cost five dollars,
instead of seventy-fve cents. Mrs.
George ]. Steese, 701 Coburn ST., Ak
ron, Ohio"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
RESTORE STRENGTH

Century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
For Corporate Regeneration.

Judge Grosscup of Chicago, in an ad.
dress before the Hamilton Club, Tues
day night, said that two forces con-
front the individual in this country to-
day, enc being the indifference of TIE
State and national governments to the
character of their corporation offspring
and the other the rising current of a
genera! public ownership. He thought
these currents, however, flowed from the
same source, namely, the separation of
the people from the corporate domain. He
said the thing to be done was to begin
at once the work of regenerating the cor
poration by having the government take
charge of it from its birth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

a chronic case. At one time | had to
use a crutch and cane to get about.
My back was lame and weak. and be-
sides the aching, there WIS a distress
ing retention of the kidney secretions.
l was in a bad way when | began
using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901. but
the remedy cured me, and | have been
well ever SINCE
Sold by all dealers. 30 cents box.
Foster MiIburn Co. Buffalo. y. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

ton, Kan. will inter
est the thousands of
veterans who came
back from the Civil
War suffering tortures
with kidney CO M
plant. Captain Ely
says: Il contracted
kidney trouble during
the Civil War. and the
occasional a t t a C k S
finally developed into
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
War on Mileage HoId-Up.

In the person of Secretary of Internal
Affairs Brown the State of Pennsylvania
has now taken up the fight OF the travel
ing public against the practice of the
Pennsylvania railroad of exacting $50
cash for its 1,0OO-mile tickets, with the
understanding that $40 is to be returned
when the ticket has been used up and
the stub turned in. Secretary Brown
finds that this extortionate deposit is in
defiance of the constitution on several
grounds, and Attorney General Carson
has been ordered to bring suit against the
railroad at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
COST OF LIVING.
Now the Highest that 1t Has Been
in Thirty Years.

The cost of living is now the highest
that It has been in the thirty years dur
ing which the Dun Mercantile agency has
kept a record. According TO these stats
tics the average of commodity prices pro-
portioned to consumption is S104, 204. as
compared with S101 $50 year ago. The
Dun system of averages makes its COM
parison by the selection of an index num-
Der, and in the tables published commol-
ity prices on March l compare with those
of year ago as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15
Tons Grass Hay Free.
Everybody loves lots and lots of fodder
for hogs, cows, sheep and swine.

The enormous crops of our Northern
Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms
the past year compel US to issue a spe-
clal catalogue called
sALZER's BARGAIN SEED BOOK.
This is brim full of bargain seeds at bar
gain prices.
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY.
and receive free sufficient seed to grow
tons of grass on your lot or farm this
summer and our great Bargain Seed Book
with its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices.
Remit &c and we add a package of Cos
mos, the most fashionable, serviceable,
beautiful annual flower
Jahn A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Draw,
or G., La Crosse, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-15

Superintendent of Insurance Vandiver
of Missouri, who has received many let
tiers from policy holders in the New York
Life asking to whom proxies should be
given, expresses the opinion that if the
policy holders committee organized in St.
Louis last fall took up the matter it I'M
doubtedly would receive the greater part
of the proxies of the State.