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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Doctors Discuss InduStrialfsm

The effects of the present-day tendency
of women to enter into economic compe-
tition with men came up for an airing be-
fore the Chicago meeting of the American
Academy of Medicine. Several of the
male physicians deplored the fact that
too many women unsexed themselves by
forsaking home life for work in shops
stores and factories" and one said that
the lack of servants and housewives was
disrupting society. A woman doctor,
Helen G. Putnam of Providence came out
squarely for woman suffrage, holding that
every woman had the right to develop her
best faculties, to seek education and to
enter a business field where she might Sc
lect a father for her children on terms of
social and intellectual equality. DR.. Bur-
rell of Boston, the new president of the
association, took strong ground in favor
of educating the public as to general by
giene and sanitation, saying this was the
duty of the medical profession. The
House of Delegates of the association
recommended the creation of a commits
sion to watch and oppose legislation
against vivisection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

thusiasm by the lung-weary delegates.
The final session of the convention
was enthusiastic, but not uproarious.
1t was the morning after the night be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

thusiasm by the lung-weary delegates.
The final session of the convention
was enthusiastic, but not uproarious.
1t was the morning after the night be-
fore
Up to the time that Bryan was
named in the morning the vice presi-
Dental situation was up in the air, far
above the one-mile-a bove-sea- level ele-
Walton of Denver. BY a process of
elimination the two score and odd Dos
sibilities and probabilities whose booms
had been confidently brought to the
convention city had narrowed down to
field of nine on Thursday
At sunrise Friday, after the nomi-
nation of Bryan, the simmering down
process went on merrily, and when the
delegates assembled for the final ses-
sion, sleepy-eyed, hOarse-vOiced and
languid, the names of only four candi-
dates were brought before them. The
four who survived out of a field of
over forty entries were:
John w. Kern, Indiana.
Charles A. Towne, New York
Archibald Mcneil, Connecticut.
Clark Howell Georgia.
Chairman Clayton was so hoarse
after the prolonged Thursday night
session that he yielded the gavel to
Ollie James of Kentucky, the man
whose voice shakes the windows when
he talks above a whisper.
One by one as the roll of States was
called for nominations the delegations
fell into line. Thomas Taggart. chair
man of the national committee, the
original Kern man, and the contingent
from the Hoosier State kept the ball
rolling; Governor Joseph w. Folk and
the "show me" men from Missouri
gave it push Roger G. Sullivan and
the Illinois delegates, New York and
the Tammany chieftains. Ollie James
and the stanch Bryan adherents from
Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio-all
gave it impetus, and at the end of
four hours of speechmaking Towne and
Mcneil withdrew, all the delegates
from Alabama, first on the list down
to Porto Rico, last on the call, Joined
in the rush, and Kern was put on the
ticket without a dissenting voice.
A number Of resolutions were pass
ed, and the national Democratic con-
vention of 1908 adjourned sine die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
CHICAGO.

Business generally enters upon the last
half of the year under improving condi-
tons and with a more confident estimate
for future activity. Evidences more
clearly indicate increasing consumption
of products and manufacturing derives
strength from the better disposition
shown by railroads to issue important
contracts. Mid-year interest payments
swell transactions through the banks, but
pressure in commercial settlements has
added to current failures. Seasonable
weather stimulated various branches Of
production and distribution, and there i;
assurance of further resumption at fac,
tories and railroad shops, which will afford
unemployment of much idle labor. Sales
in the leading retail channels have risen
to a gratifying aggregate. Wholesale
markets are well attended by buyers.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 30, against 80 last week
and 26 a year ago. Those with liabilities
of more than $1,000 numbered 10, against
s last week and 9 in 1907"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
PRICES AT HIGH MARX.
Level for 1907 Twenty Nine Per
Cent Above Average for Years.


1t will be of interest to those who
were busy last year in keeping the wolf
from the door to know that figures on
wholesale prices of 25S representative
staple articles reached the apex of
their soaring last October These sta
tistics are for the eighteen years be-
tween 1890 and 1907.
The annual report on this subject of
the Commerce and Labor Departments
shows that the average for the year
1907 was IS per ceit higher than for
1906; IA per cent higher than for
1897, the year of lowest prices during
the eighteen-year period. and 300 per
cent higher than the average for the
ten years from 1890 to 1899. Prices
reached their highest point during the
eighteen-year period in October, 1907,
the average for that month being II
per cent higher than the average for
the year 1907, and IS per cent higher
than the average for December, 1905,
the month of highest prices in that
year.
When the commodities are divided
into nine groups every group shows an
increase in price in 1907 as compared
with 1906. For farm products taken
as a whole this increase was greatest,
namely, 1913 per cent; for food, 46 per
cent; for clothes and clothing, Sc per
cent; for fuel and lighting, "a per
ceit; for metals and implements, 81 per
cent: for lumber and building materi-
ais, 40 per cent; for drugs and chem
icals, 8.3 per cent; for house furnish
ing goods, 6.8 per cent, and for the mis-
cellaneous group, ) per cent.
The effect of the money stringency in
the latter part of the last year is re-
Elected in the decrease recorded in all
commodities during November and De-
cember, the average price showing a
decrease Of 50 per cent below October
Of the 25S articles for which whole
sale prices were recorded 172 showed
an increase in the average prices for
1907 as compared with 1906; thirty-fve
showed no change and fifty-one showed
4 decrease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
ZIG EXODUS TO EUROPE SHOWN.
More American Families Go Abroad
for Summer than Went Last Year.


for Summer than Went Last Year.
Interesting facts relative to the manner
In which many American families are
passing their summer season are reflected
by a comparison of the summer social
register for 1905 which has just been
issued, with that of last year. Chief of
these is that of the II 1903 families or in
dividuals listed, 5,76S are spending the
summer inland and % per cent more than
in 1907, while there are 1923 at the sea-
shore, a decrease of 10 per cent, as COM
pared with last year. There has been a
large increase in the number gone abroad
since April l, as compared with the same
period year ago. This is balanced by a
large increase in returns from the other
side of the water Another feature is
that 16 per cent more families are living
aboard their yachts, as compared with last
year. As usual, the summer social regis
ter is limited to the country or foreign
addresses of those families which have
communicated the information. The H.
BOB families and individuals listed belong
to New York City, Washington, Boston,
Philadelphia. Chicago, st. Louis, Buffalo,
Pittsburg Providence, Minneapolis, st.
Paul, San Francisco and the southern
cities ranging from Richmond to Atlanta.
Since April !, 1852 families have gone
abroad, as compared with 77S a year ago.
On the other side Of the page 800 have
arrived from abroad, as compared with
200 last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
MILEsToNEs IN BRYAN,s LIFE.

1S60-March 10-Born at Salem. Ill.
1SSo-Made his first political speeches for
Hancock and English.
1SS1-Graduated from Illinois college.
Jacksonville, H., being valedictorian
of his class.
1SS3-Graduated from Union College of
Law, Chicago, and began practice in
Jacksonville.
1SS4-Married to Miss Mary E. Baird at
Perry, Ill.
1SS7-Removed to Lincoln, Neb.
1SSS-Refused to run for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Nebraska.
1S90-Elected to Congress in nominally
Republican district
1892 Attracted attention by his tariff
speech.
1S93-Opposed the repeal of the Sherman
silver purchase act.
1S94-Choice of Nebraska Democrats for
United States Senator.
1S96-Editor of the Omaha World-Her-
aid.
1S96-Nominated for President after his
cross of gold' speech
1S98-Colonel of Nebraska volunteers.
19OO-Nominated for President by the
Kansas City convention.
1901-Began publication of the Com
moner.
905-'06-Made tour of the world with
his family.
190S-Nominated for President the third
time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

G. o. Drayton, of Illinois, has been
authorized to hold seventy dollar wheat
rallies in the Red River valley.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl of Der
by, former Governor General of Canada,
died in London. He was 67 years old
John B. Lonsdale made a proposal in
the house of commons that the date for
starting the penny-postage plan between
Great Britain and America be changed to
July 4, but it was not adopted On the
ground that Oct. is the more expedient
date.
The dirigible balloon built for use OF the
signal corps of the United States army
by Capt. T. A. Baldwin will be tested at
Fort Myer, Wash, about July 10.
The President appointed James 4.
Fowler of Knoxville, Tenn, to be Assist
ant Attorney General in place of Ed
ward T. Sanford, appointed United States
Judge for the middle and eastern districts
of Tennessee
The Louisiana Legislature decided by
vote of 50 to AZ not to change the ex-
postponing consideration of the Doussan
bill providing for referendum on State
wide prohibition.
The United States government has
come to the rescue OF the small cream
cries throughout the Middle States, which,
it is claimed, are being driven out OF
business by corporations with monopolistIc
tendencies. Government experts testified
before the interstate commerce commission
in Chicago, favoring higher rates for the
protection of local creameries on the
ground that their butter was better for
consumers.
Walter ]. Barnett, vice president of
the failed California Safe Deposit and
Trust Company and administrator of the
estate of Mrs. Ellen NJ. Cotton, was found
guilty at San Francisco of embezzhng
$31, 100.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

Rules of procedure in cases of injunc-
tions should be more clearly defined by
statute, it is declared, and no writ should
be issued without notice except where
great injury would result from a delay,
in which case speedy hearing should be
granted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $S25; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep fair to choice $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. =, SSc to soc;
corn, No. 2, re to 73c; oats, standard,
sc to 53c; rye, No. =, re to 73c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 19c
to pc; eggs, fresh. lie to 19c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, SIC 20 $1.10.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $3.50 sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. ., Sac TO
Soc; corn, No. 2 white, 69c to zoe; oats,
No. white, sic to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, soc to 92c; corn, No. 2,
re to 75c: oats, No. 2, sic to 53c;
rye, No. 2, 74c to Toe
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
1915; wheat, No. 2, SOC to Ole; corn,
No. 2 Mixed 73c to 74c; oats, No. 2
mixed, &c to 53c; rye, No. ., SIC to sec.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $6.15; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. ., 90c to 92c; corn, No 8
yellow, Toe to re; oats, No. 3 white,
soc to 56c; rye No 2, 75c to 7Gc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
SLIP to $1.14; corn, No. 8, Tic to re;
oats, standard, j3c to sic; rye, No. 1,
74c to Toe; barley, No. 2, &c to Csc;
pork, mess, $13.72.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to 1925; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $500; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 500
New York-Cattle, $500 to $50;
hogs, $3.50 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, 97c to CSC;
corn, No. 2, SOC to Sic; oats, natural
white, 5Sc to 60c; butter, creamery, zoe
to 23c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 90c to
92c: corn, No. mixed, 75c to 76c;
oats No 2 mixed, 53c to soc; rye, No.
2. 76c to Tie; clover seed, October, $7.S7.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
A Heavyweight Ticket.

In spite of the fact that Secretary Taft
has often laughingly declared that no
real gentleman weighs more than 800
pounds" his solid bulk combined with the
compact frame of his running mate, James
s. Sherman, makes the heaviest ticket
ever put forward by any national party.
The two men together tip the scales at
something not far short of 800 pounds.
The record before this was held by the
Democrats on the strength of the avoirdu-
pois of Grover Cleveland. When nomi-
mated in 1892 Mr.. Cleveland weighed
about 2T5 pounds, but the small figure
of Adlai E. Stevenson kept the total
around 425 pounds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Denver Had Time of It's Life.

Denver had the time of its life Cow
boys from the plains emitted Indian war
whoops. Loud voiced men from Cripple
Greek and other mining districts We'd with
lank fanatics from the agricultural region
in piercing the night with Bryan yells
High rolling jewellers from the East dash
ed along the crowded streets in automo-
biles. Gaping thousands from the noun
tains and plains, Indian braves from the
Uncompagre, Warm Springs and White
River reservations, decked out in the spec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Big July otious.

Some of the largest corporations in the
Middle West joined in the movement to
set the wheels of industry going on the
1st of July, which was widely advertised
by the Prosperity Association as "re-em-
ployment day" The Illinois Central rail-
road put to work $500 men in its shops
at Burnside, H., and elsewhere. The Hi
nois Steel Company is said to be again
working at its full capacity, and the In
ternational Harvester Company to be
working night and day shift once more
Important extension works on the Harri-
man lines were resumed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Jones, boomerang Flies.

Charles o. Jones made a remarkable
trial fight in his airship Boomerang,
starting at Hammondsport, n. Y. He
sailed first to Watkins, twenty-six
miles. and then on to within six miles
of Bath. where he ran into a tree and
ripped his gas bag. The novel features
in the Jones ship are the use of a second
gas bag trailing behind to replace the sup
ply of the main bag. which is 90 feet long
and cigar-shaped, and system of ballast
moving that employs a little sand car
moving on tracks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

average speed of thirty-four miles an
hour and passing over most of northern
Switzerland. At all times the ship was
under perfect control. turning, rising and
descending at will, and sailing either with
CT against the wind. The distance cover
ed was 225 miles and the greatest altitude
attained was $500 feet. The next test Of
the ship was to be flight of twenty-four
hours.
In an address before the Society of
German Engineers at Dresden, Count
Zeppelin said that the basis of all his
Efforts to solve the problem of air naviga-
don was his observation that the resist
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Nony Lived in Sleeping Car.

During the Denver convention many Of
the eastern visitors lived in their sleeping
cars. which were parked in the railway
Yards. There was a great cutlery from
the Denver hotel keepers at this. During
the Chicago convention the railroads were
made to agree that not a single sleeping
car should be kept on tracks and used for
sleeping quarters. Not being so experience
ed the Denver hotel keepers forgot to in
SiSt ON such an agreement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

then. The recess was also made neceS-
sary because the resolutions committee
was not ready to report.
Delay of the nomination until the late
hour was brought about not alone by
platform perpleXities, but it was said by
the strong desire of many of the states to
share in the honor they believed would
come from seconding the name of the
Nebraskan. Every delegation that de-
sired, so it was given out, would be
given the opportunity to indorse the
chief candidate after the first nominal
ing speakers had had their word
Bryan was placed in nomination be-
fore midnight by Ignatius J. Dunn, of
Omaha, but it was after 3 o'clock be-
fore the balloting began. Between the
nomination and the balloting came the
reading of the platform by Governor
Haskell of Oklahoma, chairman of
the resolutions committee The plat
form was unanimously adopted by the
convention after the committee on res
olutions had spent fifty-seven hours in
framing its many planks.
Mr.. Bryan's third nomination was
made amid scenes of frenzied enthusi-
assn. The result came after an all
night session, which was kept in
constant state of turmoil up to the cul-
minating moment when the Nebraskan
was proclaimed the choice of the con-
vention as the Democratic standard
bearer.
Speeches Before Platform.
Despairing of hearing from the reso-
| buttons committee the convention sent a
committee to call on that body at
s 80 o'clock Thursday night and Sc
cured from it consent to proceed with
the nominating speeches. The roll call
on the nomination was withheld until
after the platform was adopted. When
he call of States was begun. Alabama
| promptly gave way to Nebraska and
Mr.. Dunn, of Omaha, took the plat
form to name Bryan. The convention
gave him an ovation. Twenty-Five min
utes after he began Mr. Dunn named
Bryan and the whole convention, in
Guiding the galleries. rose en- masse
excluding only the delegates from New
York, New Jersey, Minnesota. Della
ware and Georgia, and rendered trib-
ute
If yelling could elect a President
there would be no necessity of count
ing the votes in November. Leather
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Coyrirls March in the Hall.

The picturesque features of the demon
stration in Denver Wednesday were
heightened by the cowboy band and the
twenty-five cowgirls, who are an auxiliary
part of the organization. Both the cow
boys and cowgirls were dressed in the
typical western costume of COW country,
buckskins, leggings, and wide hats. The
girls carried six shooters in their holsters
When the band was brought down to the
speakers platform from the music stand
near the roof of the building, the cow
boys and cowgirls formed into a procession
in single file and marched across the main
floor in regular formation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
A sos-Foot skyscraper Next.

Architects for the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society of New York have filed plans
for new building on the site of the pres
ent home of the business on lower Broad
way, which will put the Singer tower and
the Metropolitan Life building in the
shade. This new structure is to be 900
feet high, and have sixty-two stories. The
only structure that will outrank it will
be the Eiffel Tower, and that is in no
sense building for Offices with solid
walls to inclose. The main building.
which viii occupy one complete block, will
be thirty-four stories, or 4S9 feet high,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

So much was said
of Taft's $4,000, 900
Brother Charlie" in
connection with the
Chicago convention
that the fact seems
worthy of record.
1t is also worth
while because Chas.
w. Bryan is a good
e Y a m pie of the
wide awake, hus-
tim g Westerner,
and has worked like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

living or dead. In Pittsburg they call
him Lucky jim" His flowing hair and
mustache are snow white. He wears a
rundown collar, not quite Byronic
though often so termed, and a soft hat
of the type which he learned to like when
working as a clerk in Louisville rail-
road Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

a Trojan for his cHAs. W. BRYAN.
brother. For eleven years he was
W. Us secretary, in which capacity he
handled a correspondence running from
300 to 1000 letters day. When the
Commoner was established he was
made publisher w. J. is editor and
proprietor. Q G. W. has managed the
business end of the Lincoln publication.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
PENNSYLVANIA ENEMY.

James NJ. Guffey has been Democratic
national committeeman from Pennsylva.
mia since 1897, and long previously con.
trolled his party in the State, although
he has not run for Office since 1873, when
he was beaten for Congress. He is a
millionaire several times over and has
struck oil literally and fguratively more
often than any other man in the business,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16

John Worth Kern of Indiana was
nominated by acclamation Friday aft
ernoon as running mate for William
Jennings Bryan The choice of Kern
brought an end to a seemingly hope
less deadlock and was greeted with en-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-16
Bryan Cheered for IS Minutes.


William Jennings Bryan, although four
hundred miles away, was cheered for one
hour and twenty-eight minutes in the
Democratic convention. 1t was the long
est political demonstration and unques-
tionably the greatest in the history of
the United States. Bryan's record sur
passes the Roosevelt stampede in the Chi
cago convention by forty-one minutes.
They cheered Roosevelt forty-seven min
utes. They cheered Bryan lightweight
minutes. Had the tumult continued six
more minutes Bryan would have just dou-
bled the Roosevelt record.
The words that ripped the lid from the
great assemblage and sent the thunder
rolling over the $4,000 men and women
were spoken by blind Senator Thomas T.
Gore of Oklahoma. Senator Gore was
discussing the Oklahoma constitution
when he said this:
oklahoma rejected the advice of Mr..
Taft and accepted the advice of William
Jennings Bryan