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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
Treasury Statement

Washington, January 15.-At the begin ming of business today the condition of the United States treasury was: Working balance in treasury offices, s61 ,925, ,445; in banks and Philippine treasury, s34.92636s; total balance in general fund was s12O,67S. 73S, ordinary receipts Saturday were S2,- S9S, ,S25, with ordinary disbursements of s4,- 337,SS5. The deficit to date is $2S, ,636, ,l20 as against s7,769.923 last year. These fig ues are exclusive of Panama canal and public debt transactions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Local Cotton
Pig Iron
Meats
,e,orractad hv armo,r s f,o,

Corrected by Armour & Col
 Lard, 1llsc compound. SIC; D. S. Short ribs, S9.50 D. s. fat backs, s%c; clear bellies, SlO.5O. Ham butts. 12e; Boston butts. 11Iac; pork loins. 18c; spare ribs. lie; breakfast bacon. l9&Qac Star Reg. ham, 141ac. Star skinned ham, 15Ac
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
Collateral Loans Placed With Outside Banks. Geo. B Ward
HUBBARD BROS. & co.

Members New York Cotton Ex. anRe New Orleans Cotton Exchanre. ew York Produce Exchange. Asso. Hation. orders solicited for the our. |hase and sale of Cotton and Cotton \eed oil for future delivery. Special ae. sntion and liberal terms given foe con. rnments of spot cotton for do11vogY. lorrespondeuce invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
Coffee and Sugar

Corrected by Franklin, Stiles & Franklin.
 Coffee ArbuclSles, s2i.3O per 100 lbs. Luzanne, 27c lb. Sugar: Standard gran Ulater, 6c lb.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16

Bacon unchanged; boxed extra short sac; clear ribs, sac; short clears, 97sc Receipts: Flour, 7200; wheat. 23,o00; corn
 l44,00; oats, 77,0o0 Shipments; Flour 47ee;. wheat, 5o,eo0; corn, 5o.eo0; oats, 1S,ooo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
All Steel Cars

Why not take Seaboard s:30 a. m.. arrive Atlanta 1905 D. m., Washington 10:35 a. m.. New York 4:40 p. m. Phone Bell 1882 for reservations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
St. Louis Produce

St. Louis. January 15.-Flour steady. Hay scarce; timothy, s24G2I; prairie. si44 1l Iron cotton ties. 9lc. Bagging. sssc. Hemp twine, 71ac. Poultry steady; chick ems. He: springs, He; turkeys. 12kq14c: ducks. l3c; geese, ec. Butter higher: creamery. 2ed34c. Eggs firm, 3Oc. Pork ,iachangcd: jobbing, SIG. Lard lln- changed; prime steam. ss.o7ifGs17ls. Dry salt meats unchanged; boxed. extra short, sMc; clear ribs. Sxc; short clears. s7sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
Live Stock Market

Chicago, January 15.-Cattle: Recelpts, l5.OOO; market, mostly 1c higher; beeves, s4. 75dS. 60; Texas steers, s4.S0q590; west ern steers, A.75d7 %: stockers, s3 5oa5 90; cows and heifers, s2@6.7o; calves, $6.5Og $50.
 Hogs: Receipts. 22,ooo; market, Sc to 10c higher: light, s. .95a6. 30; mixed. s6 10@6.5o; heavy, s6. 1sd6O; rough, $6l5d6.29; piss' s4. .5O0d5. 50; bulk of sales, s6. 3od6 40.
 Sheen: Receipts, 9o.Oo0; market, weak at an advance; native. s4. .50a5; western, sS.S G5: yearlings, s. 3Jd6.25 lambs, native, s4. .sOd7. 40; western, s5.25M7. 40.
 Kansas City, January 15.-cattle: Re- ceipts. 13,oO0, including 300 southerns; market, steady to 10c higher; dressed beef and export steers, ss.Soas .S5; western steers, s .25G7: stockers, sS.9oas; south ern steers. s4. .6506.25; southern cows, s3ao; native cows, S .l0Q15. 50; native heifers, s4. .25C6. 50; calves, A.o0aS.
 Hogs: Receipts, 12,000; market, 5c high CT; bulk of sales, ss. 15d6. 4o; heavy, s6.Sod 6. 40: heavy, $6.30d6. 10; packers and butch- CTS. $. 2od6. 45; lights. s6 1cQ6.8; pigs, S4. 25a5 50.
 Sheep: Receipts, 5000: market. 10c to 15c higher; lambs, s5d7: yearings, s5q6; weth- CTS, s4a4.75; ewes, s .5a04 25; stockers and feeders, $2. 50d4.
 St. Louis, January 15.-Cattle: Receipts. 4sOo. including 100 Texans; market, strong to l0c higher; netive shipping and ex- port steers. $7.55as; dressed and butcher steers. sSfI5: stockers. s3a5: cows and heifers. g. 2.7oqs75; calves, s5a6; Texas and Indian steers. s4dT; cows and heifers, sSa5.
 < Hogs: Receipts, 15,000: market, 5c to 10c higher: pigs and lights, $5<i6. 40: mixed and butchers. s6.15ds 30; good heavy. q. B n6. 50.
 Sheep: Receipts. 3400: market, steady to strong: native muttons. Ad7: lambs. s5q 715: stockers, g .50n3.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
New Orleans Rice

New Orleans, January 15.-The rice market was reported unchanged today on the local exchange. Quote: Clean Honduras. 3iaa514c; Japan. 3lG4c. Re- ceipts: Rough 695s millers. 40S2 clean, l6s7. Sales: Clean Honduras, 266o, at 21s a,5.c; Japan, 1852, at 21sa8ssc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales for tn day 417,1O0 shares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-16
Naval Stores

Savannah. January 15.-Turpentine firm, 4es.c: sales. 3s; receipts. 5e shipments. l262: stocks. 35.295. Resin firm: sales none; receipts, 75s; shipments, 57S6; stocks, 13l.- "A Quote: B, $6.67: D, SIP; E. s6.77; F, G. s6.s0 H and I. s6S2: K, S7.3O; M, s7.f; x, s.5o; WIG. {7.6O; wv, $S0
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-03

1.-TWO Of them daily news wagons)
to the Office Of The American.
And, besides the non-union
driver on each wagon, there were
two policemen, and two white
and four negro sluggers.
The American wagons also call
ed for The Journal scab papers, as
The Journal had been unable to
get non-union drivers.
A crowd assembled at the
News and American offices when
the wagons drove up. They tried
to get near the offices to see what
was going on, but the great force
of city policemen held them back.
The non-upion newspapers FIN
ally were put on sale at a few
downtown corners under heavy
police projections But there
weren't many sales.
Shortly before noon today, the
union painters and electricians, at
work decorating the Hearst
building, went on strike.
They told Andy Lawrence they
would not work under police pro.
lection, when no such protection
was necessary, in their opinion.
Lawrence refused to order the
police away, and the men walked
out.
The means the trust publishers
intend to use TO break the press
mems union became evident last
night.
a meeting of the pTessmen was
~ haTya baar, haId - Al NJ.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-05-03

Lawn JuIlpGu lIllO du dulOll4O-
bile with half dozen men as
bodyguard and drove to the Mu-
sicians' Hall at top speed. He left
an order for the reserves to fol-
low him.
Fifteen to twenty of the strik-
ing pressmen were gathered in
the hallway of the building at rs
Washington street, preparatory
to going upstairs to the meeting.
Lawn paid no attention to
them. He first cleared the street
Of all citizens, giving no, reason
for so doing. Then he waited on
the reserves coming up.
AS soon as the reserves arrived
LAWN matshalled them in two
rows outside the Musicians Hall
entrance, ten on each side of the
doorway.
Then he, and the men who had
been driven down with him,
dashed into the hallway of the
building and began dragging the
pressmen out, AS the pressmen
were dragged out the lines of re-
serves outside kicked them.
AS soon as the pressmen all
had been hustled into the street
the police, with drawn clubs and
headed by Lawn, chased them
down Fifth avenue.
Neither LAWN nor any of the
men under him gave any explana-
ton of their action to the men
they were treating So brutality.
The pressrnen were prepared
for Just such action, however,
and the moment the police were
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

The many who met Miss Alice Null
len Of Madison, Wis.,, when she Wis
tied in Decorah, the guest of Miss
Marguerite Moran on various occas-
ions, will deeply regret to learn OF
the sad accident which befell her at
Madison Monday. A gentleman from
Texas, visiting in Madison, gave a
private dancing party at one OF the
Sorority houses, and Miss Mullen,
with a gentleman friend and another
lady and gentleman, drove out in an
automobile. While they were return
ing the auto turned turtle, and Miss
Mullen and one of the gentlemen
were both killed, while the other
gentleman is not expected to live.
Mrs. M. p. Moran and Miss Mar
guerite go to Madison tonight to at
tend the funeral tomorrow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
FOR BETTER COUNTRY SCHOOLS
Commission Investigating Subject
Composed of Most Prominent
People of State.

The last meeting of the Iowa State
Teachers Association appointed the
Better Iowa Schools Commission"
and appropriated $4,000 from its
treasury to cover it's expenses, the
purpose of the commission being to
make thorough investigation of
the Iowa public schools system, es-
pecially with reference to country
schools. The school laws of Iowa
are in deplorable condition, and there
is great necessity for a complete re-
vision and rewriting. They have in
the main been on the statute books
for half a century, and to this cause
is attributed by many the backward
conditions of country schools. If
there Is any one thing in the state
that needs attention at this time, it
is the country schools. Every child
of every farmer in Iowa ought to
have the best possible opportunity to
secure a common school education
right at home, and this commission
will make special investigation
along these lines. In order to give
the people of the state an opportun-
ity to express their opinions upon
the matters in question, the state
is sending out list
of questions to all parts of the state,
asking for opinions as to defect and
suggestions for betterment of public
school conditions. The movement
is praiseworthy, and the Iowa teach
ers have shown their deep interest
in Iowa schools by paying the ex-
penses of this commission out of their
pockets. The people of the state
ought to lend every assistance to the
in their investigation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
CITY PARK DAY FRIDAY
Citizens of DecOrah Will Enjoy Day
in City's Beauty Spot.
THE STORES WILL BE CLOSED.
First Annual City Play Day Promises
to be Largely Attended. Band Com
cert and Various Amusements.

Decorah's play day will be next
Friday afternoon and evening, when
the stores, the shops and the resi-
dences will be closed and everybody
will go to the new city park, to
spend the afternoon and evening. It
will be the first general public gath
ering of citizens in the park, and al
though there are many people there
every day, enjoying the beautiful
views from it's various outlooks and
the cool, inviting shade under the
trees, yet it is desired that once each
year the entire citizenship take day
off and spend it in the park.
The stores will close at one o'clock
and soon after the Decorah Mer-
chants Band will march to the park,
where they will furnish music, and in
the early evening will give their reg
ular open air concert. There will be
an address of welcome by Mayor F..
w. Daubney and perhaps other short
speeches and music. Amusements
will be provided for the children,
which will keep them occupied dur
ing the afternoon. There will also
be entertainment for the older peo-
pie.
Citizens are requested to bring bas-
ket suppers with them. Tables will
be provided which can be used if de-
sired, and hot coffee, sandwiches
fruit, etc., will be sold to those who
desire them.
Park Day will also be Tag Day,
and it is hoped that this will be an
annual event that will be set aside
for this purpose. The city park is
an institution provided for the peo-
pie, owned by the people, and there
fore must be supported by the peo-
pie. 1t costs money to keep up the
park, and all the people ought to as
sist in contributing toward 1t. So
Friday will be Tag Day. Young la
dies will be in charge of the tags.
and everyone who is tagged" will
be expected to contribute something
for the improvement and mainten-
ance of the park. Considerable mon
ey has already been spent on the
park and the plans of the commits
sioners call for more extensive i'm
provements which will take money.
1t is hoped that everybody will con-
tribute as they feel able in this man
ner, no amount too small or too
large. Give what you want, and 1t
will be thankfully received and care
fully expended. Help your city park
with dime, a quarter, a half dollar.
dollar, or any amount. ~
Everybody take vacation, come
up and see the park, and you will be
over it's beauty, as lev
eryone is who visits it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

the present tax on corporations to
include the business Of individuals
private firms, and co-partnerships on
incomes IN excess of 5000. This
action wa, made possible by a COM
hination OF democrats and progress
eives similar to the combination that
passed the wool bill. The bill as il
came from the mouse was amer ted
before passage by the senate by the
addition Of a clause repeating the Ca
madam reciprocity act and ;evying a
duty of = = ton on print paper. The
iepublcsA soting with the demo-
Gratis to pSS e bill were: Bourne,
Bristow. ChN cummins, Gronna,
Jones. KenyonsN xFollette, Nelson,
Townsend and VIZ. Attached to
bill was also Sc. u Cummins'
amendment providings = perma-
nent tariff board, which< vpport-
ed by all republicans en- Hey
burn and opposed by all democrats
except Pomerene.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has adopted a resolution
declaring that ''this government
could not see without grave concern"
the purchase of any land on the
American continent by foreign pow
er or foreign syndicate that might
turn it over to a foreign power for
use as naval or military base. The
committee adopted, without dissent
Senator Lodges report that the Uni
ted States should reafiirm the scope
of the Monroe doctrine in terms
clearly understandable by the entire
world. This action is the result of
the investigation of a rumor that
land on Magdelena Bay, Mexico. was
being purchased by the Japanese gov
ernment or a Japanese syndicate. In
reporting the resolution to the sena-
tor, Senator Lodge deemed it exped-
iCAt " StolC, OA OCudll vi JIc
mittee, the governments attitude.
No evidence had been found, the re-
port states, that Japan or any other
country was behind the Magdalena
Bay deal, but 1t added that it does
appear that corporations or persons
who have or claim to have title to
the lands surrounding the Bay and
have made efforts to form a syndi-
eate to promote the sale of these
lands on the basis Of the existence
of some national value to d foreign
nation in Magdalena Bay, as distinct
from any commercial value which
that bay and the adjoining ter
ritory might possess"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
Conductor Collins to Leave.

Deccrah friends generally Will re-
gret to learn that Conductor s. I-s
Collins has decided to leave the De-
corah- Calmar run that he has had
so many years, and after this week
will take the run between Mendoza
and Minneapolis, held until his death
ty Conductor Lobdell. Conductor Col
lins has been very popular with all
classes, and has had several good
opportunities to take other runs, but
always refused. However, this Is such
an attractive run that he feels that
he cannot refuse it. He will leave
this run next Tuesday.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
WILL WE SOON SEE BY WIRE?

Laugh, if you will, at the apparent
folly of seeing by wire, but in the
midst of your mirth please do not
forget that our grandfathers laughed
just as heartily when there was
rumor of talking over wires And,
If anyone had intimated that future
generations would even talk without
the aid of wires, over thousands of
miles of ocean, grandad would have
passed away with stroke of apo
plexy, superinduced by congested
laughter
When it is remembered that the
voice can be reproduced by mechan-
ical means, inasmuch as it is but a
series of vibrations in the air; that
vision is but another kind of vibra-
ton in the ether, it looks as though
seeing over wires would be quite as
simple as talking over the telephone.
The time may come, and not so very
far away either, when We will pick
up the telephone and not only talk
with our friends, hundreds of miles
away, but will see them quite dis
tinctly as we'll.
Electricity travels at nearly the
same speed as light, $4,000 miles a
second, and it is planned to change
the light vibrations into electrical vi
brations, send them over the wire,
and then change them back into
light vibrations, which will be visible
to the naked eye. This is exactly
what occurs in telephone in a much
simpler way. The sound waves are
changed into electric waves. these
electric waves are flashed over wire
and the receiver changes them back
again into sound waves with the aid
of a delicate magnet and a metal
disk.
Prof. Rosing of the archaeological
Institute of st. Petersburg. has al
ready accomplished much in sending
rays of light over wire with the
assistance of electricity. The Rosing
apparatus is as yet in its infancy,
but very small objects can be seen
with it and it is only reasonable to
suppose that within short time we
will be able to see acperson while
speaking to him over the telephone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
There are events in every commun

There are events in every commun-
.ty which, IL reported in local paper
would create a commotion little
dreamed Of. What to report often
perpleyes the editor. He is often un-
Justly accused of cowardice and fav-
oritism, when all the time he is look
ing toward the good reputation of
the town where his lot is cast. The
local editor from necessity almost
constantly finds himself between two
fires, and whichever way he turns
he Is sure to get unjustly treated
...elrose Chronicle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

You will never find a busy man
meddling with other peoples busi-
ness, nor one who Is we'll versed In
general science. A we'll stored mind
has not the room for gabbing, nor
has the mind of busy man space
for the need of tale bearing. Educa-
tion and business preoccupy and lift
humanity above such low and debas-
ing depravity. 1t is the idler who
becomes the gossip peddler. His
brain ID the veritable work shop OF
the devil. Backbiting. slandering,
gossiping and lying are not members
or busy. intelligent minds. Take the
street lOAfer and the tough. the
coarse and vulgar and you will fnd
where they dwell.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

The foreign trade of the United
States is the greatest ever known.
This applies to exports and imports
alike. making due allowance for the
time of the year.
Building improvements are on a
larger scale than ever before. In no
other year did the permits issued in
the principal cities in the months
from January to June, inclusive.
reach such figures as those which
have been recorded in 1912.
There is an excellent prospect that
the value and bulk of the most i'm
portant crops will make a new total
this year. Some will fail to reach
the best figures of other years, but
these deficiencies are more than off,
set by the splendid promise of other
staples.
Final records for the year are like
ly to show that the railroad tonnage
and the lake vessel traffic have both
surpassed all former figures. Bank
clearings are setting new high-water
marks.
1t Is going to take a lot of pollti-
cal unrest and doubt about the fut-
ure of legislation and government
policies to check the momentum that
the country mas gained and slow
down the progress of trade and in
dustry. says the Dubuque Times
Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
Pope Lowers Bars ON Mixed Unions

Pope Lowers Bars ON Mixed Unions.
Protestants wishing to marry
Catholics need no longer sign an
agreement to rear the children re-
sulting from the marriage in the Ro-
man Catholic faith. Neither will they
be obliged to pledge themselves to
refrain from Interfering with the
Catholic consort's performance of re-
ligious duties. The change has been
brought about by the repeal by Pope
Plus of that portion of the decree
me Temere.' according to The Acta.
the official organ of the Vatican. The
repeal becomes effective at once. me
Temere' was decree issued by Pope
Plus himself at Easter, 1908. 1t
obliged every Protestant wishing to
marry member of the Catholic faith
to sign an ante-nuptial promise that
he or she would refrain from dnter-
fering with the Catholic in the ex-
ercise of his or her religious duties.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
Ice Cream Sociable.

An ice cream sociable will be CIV
en- in Nordness Saturday evening,
August II. 1912 by the Grieg Sing
ing Society.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

n The Bull Moosers OF Illinois have
nominated complete state ticket
Nth Frank H. Funk Of BLOOMINGTON
1T the head and propose to keep
things I hopptn' from now on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
Fred Thompson Sells Farm.

F. b. Thompson has the past week
sold his fine farm west of the city
to John Lubke. We did not learn
the price paid for 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07

Don't kindle fire in girls heart
uatil YOU are certain you can furn-
lsh the fuel to keep 1t going. n