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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
How Is Your BolIer7

It has been stated that a mans
stomach is his boiler, his body is his
engine and his mouth the fire box. Is
your boiler (stomach) in good working
order or is 1t SO weak that 1t will not
stand full load and not able to sup
ply the needed energy to your engine
(body)? If you have any trouble with
your stomach Chamberlain's Tablets
will do you good. They strengthen and
invigorate the stomach and enable ii
to do Its work naturally. Many very
remarkable cures of stomach trouble
have been affected by them. For sale
by All Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Act on Mink Question.


You can't ride on a street car by
saying, I want to take car, there goes
one, there goes another You have to
walk over to the corner and get on it.
You people who read the milk inspec-
tors report noticed that nearly all the
dsiries were selling milk which had
sediment in 1t. Sediment means dirt
and dirt means manure. II you women
would say to your milkman in the
morning, i won't take your milk I'M
til you get that manure out of it, your
milkman would see to it that the dirt
was taken out of his product, and
your chill ZEN and your family would
not be poisoned by the milk. Az
there would be no need for an ordi-
nance such as our committee is now
drafting. want you to know that the
present milk situation Is serious. /
had to take two babies off milk recent
ly. as they we're being poisoned by 1t,
and as soon as took them off of 1t,
they Immediately got better"
In the new Keokuk, DR.. Fuller said,
people must wake UP to their RESPONSE
bilities. "1f you find that 1t will be
cheaper to build tuberculosis hospi.
tai and then don't, the responsibility
is yours" he declared.
The weather last night kept num-
Der at home, but there was fair.
sized audience which heard DR. KEEP
ford,s talk m ssTha State Craft Of
Preventive Medicine"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Head Stuffed Up?
Hyomei Gives Instant Relief

Hyomei gives instant relief II suf.
fering from a cold or catarrh caus.
ing dull headaches or an itching and
burning sensation in the nostrils,
surely try Hyomei. It gives quick,
effective and permanent relief or
money refunded by Wilkinson & Co
1t goes right to the spot--you feel
better in five minutes.
No roundabout method Of stomach
dosing with Hyomei-you breathe it
This health-giving medication goes
directly to the infiamed membrane
all irritation and congestion is quick
ly relieved, the delicate tissues heal
ed and vitalized.
Hyomei should be in every house
hold Druggists everywhere sell it
Ask for the complete outfit s1.Ot
, size.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Who /. Crowded Out?

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
OMAHA, Neb., March 11.-Answer-
ing arguments advanced by the
t'antis" that If women get the ballot
the men will soon be crowded out OF
their positions, Mrs. George w. Co
veil, prominent suffragist and temper
ance worker in an address in the city
council chamber last night, said:
tBut how about positions as wash.
women, dish-washers, dress makers
and all the other women's positions
which men have invaded? Every kind
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Or. A. E. Kepford Says it is
Only Way to Treat Indi-
gent Advanced Cases
Of Dread Disease.
CONDITIONS WORSE HERE
Housing Situation is Most seri-
GUS, lecturer Declares
DR.. Fuller Urges Action
on Dirty Milk.

"ProvIde twenty beds for the use Of
INDECENT patients in the advanced
stages Of tuberculosis, and get the Co
operation of the supervisors Of your
county in the appropriation Of money,
and you will begin work, the value Of
which In the fight against tuberculosis
Is lncaIculable. You have splendid
sites for hospital or tent colony"
DR.. Aretas e. Kepford, state lectur-
er on tuberculosis, urged the people
Of Keokuk to commence at once to es-
tablish either a tent colony or a hos
pital in which to isolate INDECENT ad.
yanced cases Of tuberculosis, last
| night in his lecture at the Y. M. C. "A.
building. Dr. Kepford Is here this
week to conduct campaign for the.
Visiting Nurse association and the.
public health committee of the Indus
trial association against the Shiny SER
pent of the white plague.
As forecasted in The Gate City last
night, Keokuk is the logical point In
the county in which to build a hospi-
tai. Thirty patients from here ap-
piled at Oakdale for admission to the
state camp, while only four from the
other parts of the county asked admis-
sion. In twenty years KeOkuk has
had 538 deaths from the disease and
last year there were ten deaths re-
ported. Five hundred and fifty.
deaths from tuberculosis cost the city
$1,251, $50. A hospital can be built for
$1,000 or less, and the weekly expense
per person being cared for is only $15.
Dr. Kepford said he had looked
! over number Of sites here. and
found that there were several excel.
lent spots on which the hospital or at
least tent colony could be erected.
He urged that steps be Immediately
taken to start some such work.
crfticises conditions Here.
Dr.. Kepford has i severe criticism
to make Of housing conditions in the
city Keokuk people are willing to
admit the greatest part Of his indict-
ment, ths question will be whether,
they will take steps to remedy condi-
tons which DR.. Kepford describes as
being some of the worst he has yet
found.
DIR. Kepford's criticisms are con
structiye rather than destructive, and
he explained that his statements were
not made to stir up sensation but
simply to arouse the public conscience
to the magnitude Of the problem con-
| fronting the people.
Dr.. Kepford at the beginning OF his
talk complimented DR.. Fuller on what
he had said about doing things rather
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Auto Robe Mystery.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO, March 11-Unconscious
and suffering from severe bruises,
Miss May Connors, pretty young mil
liner, was found lying in the street
at Sixty-ninth street and Western
avenue early today wrapped in an ex.
pensiva auto robe. The police learn
ed that the girl started from home
last night to meet girl friend. They
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL
FOR KEOKUk IS URGED
: >~~><~ - >>>~~<~.
Some kepfordisns.


tuberculosis takes your choic- =
= est spirits. 1t take the mother, it =
= takes your best business men, it =
= never touches the bum or the =
= street loiterer 1t does not fasten =
= it's clutches on the long tongued, =
= sharp-nosed. meddling old WON =
= an. If it did touch all Of these y
= undesirables would not be here =
= lecturing on its prevention. =
= tuberculosis has cost your city =
= in twenty years, $3.50. 1t =
= has cost $50 lives in twenty =
= years for which we have figures. =
= It cost ten last year. =
q tuberculosis is disease which .
. for every death there are three =
= infections, and for every three =
= infections there is one death. =
- tuberculosis cases should be
= isolated. saw in one Of your Z
= homes today a baby living where =
~ there is tuberculosis. In crawl Z
= ing about the floor that baby =
= had breathed in some Of the bac- Z
= ella. The touch of the disease Z
= was already on the baby face. :
= Keokuk sent thirty people to =
= Oakdale last year, while the rest
= Of Lee county only sent four. Z
~ Your housing conditions here
= are terrible in some sections Of
= the city. They defy adequate de-
= scription. They reflect the in Z
| . difference of community.
~ Compulsory registration of tu- =
| = berculosis cases might help.
| = You should safeguard the com I
| = munity. Persons afflicted with
| = tuberculosis under registration
~ ordinance would notify the au- 4
| = thorities where they were NOV
y ing, and the house just vacated
= would be thoroughly disinfected
= by the authorities. Z
You have beautiful city here,
= city of old homes and tradi-
y tions. You should take steps to I
= protect your community from
= this Shiny white serpent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11


places which reflect neither glory or
honor to your citizenship. do not
say this to be sensational Maudlin
sentiment has no value, but II can
stir your thoughts Of those conditions,
have done something.
DO you know that your housing sit
uation here is most serious. 1t is be-
yond the power of adequate descrip-
ton in some sections. How can you
keep public health and public morals
with such conditions. The very condi-
lions which incubate tuberculosis
breed immortality
Between the years of 1888 and 1908
Keokuk has lost 53S people by death
from tuberculosis. Figures between
1908 and 1912 we're not available, but
ten died last year OF the disease. DR..
Kepford added two more for convent
ence and made the total $50, The
worth per person, he figured at ST.
| 275, and this brought the total cost of
| tuberculosis in Keokuk above the mill
lion mark.
| Every person who dies of tuberculo-
sis is entitled to live 1875 years long
er, DR.. Kepford declared. The loss OF
time which these persons dying of tu-
berculosis suffered, and which conse-
quently the community lost, amounted
to 1892 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11

of a woman's job has been tackled
by men except that OF wet nurse, and
now even men-made baby foods take
the place OF the original female
brand" 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
c. 3. & q. RAILWAY CO.

Trains leave from the Union depot.
Berths and tickets. Fifth and johnson
streets.
soUTHBoUND.
xNo. IL. st. Louis. west and
south, leaves ............. 9:23am
xNo. 8, st. Louis west and
south, leaves ........... II: 46am
'No. 40. K. & w. to Sedan, G..
B. & X. @. to Carrollton sss
leaves .................... s:46am
xNo. 4. st. Louis. west and
South. leaves ............. 1:sspm
sNo. 10. Quincy. Hannibal.
Kansas City, st. Louis.
leaves Observation-Disclosures. S:40Dm
NoRTHBOUND.
xNo. z, st. Paul and points
west. leaves ............. 2:36am
xNo. 13. Burlington, Chicago
and points west, leaves .....7:4Spm
EMO. 3, Burlington. Chicago
and east. leaves .......... 1:4opm
xNo. l, Burlington and Chi.
cago. leaves .............. 7:25am
'No. 81. Mt. Pleasant branch
| leaves .................. s:sopm
| No. s. X. & W., Sundays only.
leaves 7:s5pm
mo. 8. X. & W.. leaves. ..... 9:10pm
| aNo. 4. from X. G W.. arrives 1:15pm
'No. 80. from Mt. Pleasant
branch. arrives ....... II: 46am
mo. 2, from K & W., arrives 9:10pm
No. s. from X. & W.. Sundays
only, arrives .............11 II: Scam
xDaily. Daily except Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Mrs. Rich's Talk.

The visiting nurse, Mrs Rich said,
reached people who did not attend
meetings, read the papers or take any
serious thought for their welfare. Last
year the nurse made 1902 visits. This
year factory and school nursing have
been added Mrs. Rich touched upon
the work with the babies and the
mothers. which is done by the associa-
ton through its nurse.
DR. Frank M. Fuller, chairman of
the public health committe of the In
dustrial association spoke on the pur-
poses and aims of the committee. DR..
Fuller spoke along the lines of doing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11

are working on the theory that Miss
Connors was either the victim of an
attempted murder or was thrown from
an automobile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11

things; he said the tendency was too
much now to say that thing should
be done, but that was all the further
we get.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11

than sitting back and talking about
them. He paid a deserved compli-
ment to the Visiting Nurse association
when he said that the body was mar
vel Of enterprise and intelligent di-
rection.
Dr.. Kepford declared that public
health is Unreasonable basis for COM
mercial stability and that therefore
commercial stability Of a community
must depend on the state of the com
munity's health. Whatever guards
public health is best for public policy.
You can well select the most efficient
physician to fight your battles with
disease
DR.. Kepford called attention to the
fact that too frequently we divorce
the finished product from the man
who made it. He said that we seemed
to forget that the raw material had to
be converted into a finished product.
Any big enterprise first must have
started in the brain Of someone.
Reflect Indifference.
DR.. Kepford then spoke of the
housing conditions in Keokuk
II went to visit several sections of
your city which can but reflect the in
difference OF the people. They are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
Takes Choicest Spirits.

"Tuberculosis takes the choicest
spirits from the community" DR.. Keep
ford said. 1T does not take your loaf
er and bum 1t takes the business
man, the mother, and the promising
child. 1t does not take the long
tongued, sharp-nosed old woman who
does nothing but meddle in every
ones business, and stir up trouble.
For if it did would not be lectur-
| ing on how to prevent it.
Now what is the wisest step to pre-
vent this disease. 1t is to isolate the
cases. Construct adequate hospitals
to take care of the INDECENT advanced
cases. One Of the most important
steps in this disease is to hospitalize
the disease and to isolate the patients
| You have splendid sites here to begin
the evolution of a process to cheat
| tuberculosis.
Power to Build.
aBy an act passed by the last legis-
lature, boards Of supervisors have the
power to appropriate without the vote
of the people $4,000 for a building.
Sixty dollars per month or SIS per
| week per patient pays for mainten-
ance. Provide twenty beds for the use
of INDECENT patients and get the CO.
operation of your supervisors and you
will begin work which is invaluable
in the fight against tuberculosis.
C. F. Mcfarland presided at the
meeting last night. He called on Mrs.
Corydon M. Rich, president of the Wis
iting Nurse association, who spoke on
4 the subject Work Of the Visiting
Nurse Association in Promoting Pub.
i lie Health" Mrs. Rich traced the evo.
/ luton OF public health work. First
i friends and neighbors came in times
of illness. Then came the trained
nurse, but only the wealthy persons
could afford this luxury. Then came
! the idea that it was better to keep
people we'll rather than to get them
well, and with this idea came the Wis.
4 iting nurses work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery

You can obtain DR.. Pieree's Golden
Medical Discovery in tablet or liquid
form from ell dealers in medicines--or
send so one-cent stamps for trial bog
Of the tablets to DR.. Pierce, Invalids'
Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-11
MRS. ANNA MAY cox.


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CITY, Mo-, Route g, Gays: 1T IL
with pleasure ] write to express my
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Medical Discovery, Favorite Pre-
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for six months with inflammation of
stomach, caused from indigestion.
l had six doctors In all treating me
but grew worse all the time-none
of them could do me any good. FIJI
nally wroteto you for advice which
thankfully received, and have
taken eighteen bottles of Golden
Medical Discovery and .Favorite
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Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-02

wives he wouldn't have soothed her a
 bit. She"
 About Alicia broke in the fluffy
 woman, determinedly. '1 never saw g.
 girl who liked pickles the way she did
 There seemed to be some sort of a
 weird affinity between Alicia and
 pickles. She purred over them with the same delight that other girls dis play over candy. When she read or studied she always had a jar of pickles and hatpin handy and would eat as she read or worked. It seemed abSo- lutely impossible for her to compel her mind to work unless she had her ! favorite food at hand. = If Alicia had ! to decide question of Fdress samples {; she always reached feveriShly for the pickle jar to stimulate her judgment.
 If she was trying to make up her
 mind whether to go to the Hegells'
 dance or the Swartz card party she ate pickles during the making up pro- cess. She said her thoughts simply
 would not get into running order un- less she stimulated them with pickles. That was why when Win Gibbons proposed to her she didn't know what to say. Win says that she sat looking at him with widening eyes, her hand absent -mindedly reaching toward the ! little table beside her, as if clutching i for assistance. But it wasn't that she was feeling for the pickle jar. hSe told Win he'd have to wait, that she'd
 write him. This occurred when she was out west at her brothers ranch 1 and Win lived in the next township. That evening she got her paper and ink and pen and spread them out in her room and then slipped down 1 the back stairway for bottle of pickles. All of them had been eaten up and the ranch was many miles l from supplies. Alicia took along an l orange and some cookies and sat down 1 in her room to consider Win as a hus- band "One bite of cooky-no result 1 Two sections of orange - even worse.
 l 'She began to feel faintly irritated with Win.
 Second bite of cooky-she recalled i how queer his nose looked at certain
 angles.
 Another piece of orange-his way l of using his eyebrows was exasperat- | ing, and how he smokedi l By the time she had finished he1 1 eats Alicia seized pen and wrote Win that, while she esteemed him as a l friend, her feelings never would rise above that level. and she remained his very truly.
 1 Twin read that letter in the post
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-02
Influencing Alicia

Tt Is perfectly terrible" said the
 fluffy woman. how dependent some
 people are on eXtraneous infiuencesI
 Did ever tell you about Alicia and
 the pickles? She-"
 'I had an uncle once" broke in the
 large eyed woman, meditatively "who
 never could talk unless there was the
 head of pin sticking out of the low
 CT edge of his vest for him to full with. He'd rub one finger back and forth across that pin and eloquence would flow from him like a mountain torrent. The night when he had to
 accept the nomination as alderman some person with an awful dispo- sition abstracted the pin and-''
 I'm sure I never told you about Alicia went on the fluffy woman, brightly. "She-'
 T remember a girl at school" said the young woman in the plaid suit sweetly. She never could think unless she could take out her side comb and run it through her front hair from forehead to crown. It seemed to help her somehow and she could answer providing she could hypnotize her brain by the regular motion of the comb through her front hair.
 Tt took her quite a long time to tell anything" continued the young woman in the plaid suit, "so that usually when she had made her point all her hair was standing straight up in the air like a tower of some sort and the ends were dripping around in the breeze Once an absent-minded professor who looked at her suddenly asked who ii was that had brought into the room that war mask of the Fiji islanders that he supposed was not to be taken out of the college library He was looking at the girl I am telling you about. He asked her to marry him afterward. but she never quite got over the Fiji islander incident. She said that if he had been a Mormon and had asked her to be each of his dozen
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-02

office and started to burst into SObS. Then he remembered something. Af- ter pausing at the general store long enough to make purchase he gal loped over to Alicia's. He burst into her presence carrying large glass jar. which he pressed into her hand. The cover was already loosened.
 "As Alicia mechanically began to eat pickles he said: Alicia, love YOU. Will you marry me-? And, without pausing or thinking, sine purred: '(1es, Win, darling, I will That shows how
 'I never heard such ridiculous story" protested the large eyed woman. T don't believe it. There's no point to it.
 Maybe not" unused the fluffy wo- man. But wouldn't it have been aw- full to have had our two lives wrecked if that general store had had no pickles? You see, I was Alicia!'- Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-02
NEW LONDON NEEDS INDUS TRIES
Much Good Work Can Be Done Holding Onto Those Has
 Maintenance of Fire Companies Work of the State Police

demand for the pay of drivers. aside from the usual allowance for sucn
 purpose but the rumors were dis credited by those familiar with the
 circumstances Therefore it was g.
 surprise to those on the inner circle
 to learn that the company had actu-
 ally voted to make demand for a sum
 sufficient to pay the drivers a speci-
 fed salary to be received monthly di-
 rect from the city and for the pur-
 pose specified. This demand was
 made direct to the fire department
 committee and, it is understood IS not
 sanctioned by the committee. on the
 ground that no provision was made
 for such payment when the appro-
 priation for the maintenance of the fire department was made in annual
 city meeting, and Foreman Holt has
 been notified to that effect.
 There are four fire companies in the city supplied with motor driven aPpa-
 ratus and the Northwest is the only one that has asked the city to pay
 salaries direct to drivers The Niaga- ras and the Pequots are satisfied with
 the present plan, a specified sum Tor
 responding to fire alarms, the same as
 is paid lieverymen who furnish the
 motive power for horse-drawn fire ap- paratus, but these companies do not
 object to any plan that the city may
 make with the Northwests, or the
 |
 is understood that the Thomas com
 pany is in readiness to fall in line and
 reach out for city coin to pay for the
 drivers. The Niagaras have possess
 ed a motor-driven apparatus for four
 teen years and the PequotS for hve years and they do not want change from the present plan so far as they
 are concerned. These companies have
 had experience in modern fire-hght-
 ing apparatus maintenance and are be-
 lievers in the old and rusty saw:
 Let well enough alone"
 Recent developments indicate that
 the stay of the state police in New
 London was not time wasted, as much was accomplished along the line of keeping the sale of intoxicating Hq- or within the legal limits It was common knowledge that liquor was being dispensed by illegitimate deal CTS, at all hours, and that even some of the licensed dealers are contin- uing in the business at hours proh1D- tied by law This illicit business had become quite general and to the detr1- ment of the law-abiding liquor deal
 CTS who pay. a big price for the priVl- lege of carrying on and conducting a legal business. Some of the illeged places are so closely picketed that To- cal police would have difficulty in ob- taining evidence sufficient to convict Therefore those interested in the en- forcement of law and order, called in the regular state police and their as sistants and required much sleuth work to get some of the offenders Quite a number have already paid the penalty of violating the~ liquor law which was inflicted by. the police
 court, and the end is not yet.