Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-05-26


the lack Of immediate medical atten-
ton have decreased so per cent. Car
rying out still further the idea of in
structing the working classes who are
liable to injury in the rendering of
efficient first aid to the injured, the
Red Cross will shortly start a cam,
paign Of education among the rail
road workers of the country. A pri-
Vate car fitted out as an instruction
hospital, manned by medical experts
of the United States Army Medical
Reserve Corps, will tour the country,
road men at the different railroad CEN
tiers. These instructions, it is plan
ned, will not be confined solely to
railroad men, but extended to all per-
sons.
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To determine whether roast beef pro.
duces more energy in the human body
than cabbage, whether baked beans in
this respect surpass potatoes, and so
on through long list of foods, the De
partment of Agriculture is conducting
series Of novel experiments. The in
chine known as a calorimeter and a
human being who submits to the tor
ture" of being fed and sitting in a
glass cage while the food energy is re-
corded. Around the inside of the
calorimeter, which is a glass, alright
O,afy : -, L
steamer staterOOm, runs a system OF
pipes filled with cold water. The tenn.
perature of the water is carefully
noted, the heat generated by the body
in the process of assimilating the food
causing the water to become warmer
Only one kind of food is given to the
subject at the time. One experiment
requires several hours, or sometimes
longer, according to the time required
to digest the food.
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The Department of Justice issued q
statement to the effect that a grand
jury Investigation of the existing com
bination of operators to buy up all the
remaining unused raw cotton produced
in this country in the season of 1909
10, with a view to bringing about Grim.
inal prosecutions under the Sherman
law against trade monopolies. This
statement said that the Attorney Gen
erals attitude had been drawn to this
pool in connection with the increase.
cost Of food and other commodities. [,
was found that the pool already had SC
advanced the price of cotton that many
mills had been forced to reduce op
erations and that % per cent of the
operatives had been thrown out OF
work The Cotton Exchange at New
York, where the investigation was to
be made, was startled by the report
and the price of cotton broke some
what lower.
A reduction in the size of the paper
money of the United States will be
made if Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh accepts recommendations that
will be made to him within a few
weeks by a committee of treasury off
Gals appointed to investigate this and
other proposed reforms. The object of
the proposed change is to supply the
country with size of currency more
convenient for handling and to save
the government 100000 year in pa
per and engraving. The new sized
bank note to be recommended is about
one-fourth as large as the notes now in
circulation. The present notes are of
a size that has been the standard for
generations.
Millions of dollars are involved in a
bill for the relief of the Medawakanton
Sioux and the Santee Sioux. The
measure involved proposes to restore
to the Indians the annuities that were
discontinued because of their partici-
patton in the massacre of 1868. The In
dian benefciaries are scattered over
the states of Minnesota, Nebraska and
the Dakotas.
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According to statistics prepared by
the Agricultural Department, there has
been a phenomenal increase in the
value of farm products since 1889.
The increase in dollars from that time
up to the end of last year is put at
$4,000, 10000 The total value of
wealth produced on United States
farms in 1889 was $2,46O,000,O0O while
the latest figures are $8,76O,O0O, 900.
The sixth year Of American construc-
ton of the Panama canal has ended.
The canal record presents an interest
plished. Altogether los, 88,072 cubic
yards of earth and rock have been re
moved. That leaves to be taken out
Of the water approaches to the canal
29,232,052 cubic yards OF material,
while the steam shovels have yet to
dig out 38,827,617 yards of solid earth
and rock.
A bill providing for the opening to
agricultural settlement and develop
ment of the surface of lands which
have been classified as coal lands was
passed by the house. The measure
seeks to reserve about 100000 acres
as coal lands, to be worked on the
surface for the purpose of agriculture
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One Of the giant trees in the Muir
woods, California, has been dedicated
and named in honor OF Clifford Pinchot
by the members of the Secret club Of
San Francisco.
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1t is announced that President and
Mrs. Taft will not reach their sum
mer home at Beverly, Mass, until the
LIST of July.
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The government is taking steps to
learn the extent of damages to the
property of Americans at Chang Sha,
China, during the recent rioting there