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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
MAN
DEAD IN ST. LOUIS
Captain Aaron 3. Hall Operated on
Steamers Plying Between ST.
Louis and keokuk.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March 9.--Captain
Aaron B. Hall, for more than half a
century in charge of steamboats, on
the Mississippi river and an intimate
friend of Mark Twain, died, here last
night, aged SO years. He and his
brother formerly operated liaa of
staapers between this city and Keo-
kuk, Ia.
Aaron B Hall was a brother Of the
late Nose Hall Of Quincy, who died a
number of years ago at his home at
Sixth and Sycamore streets Nose
Hall was one Of Quincy's best known
steamboat men, and in 1894 he and
William E. Kendall were the two al
dermen Of the first ward. His widow
and children now reside at 1917 North
Fifth street. Nose Hall for some time
was master of the old Andy Johnson,
Aaron Hall was master of the Molly
McPike and Ephriam Kimmel of 1925
Broadway. father Of Mrs. Walter How
ard. was his first mate. That was
back in the sos, when the two broth
ers operated a line of packets between
ST. Louis and Keokuk, of which the
Molly McPike was the flagship. Both
men were very well known in Quincy
and. in fact, the full length OF the
upper Mississippi and on the Illinois
and Missouri rivers as well.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
Don't Merely "Stop" q
Cough
Stop the Thing that Causes II
and the Cough will
Stop Itself

A cough is really one of our best
friends. 1t warns us that there is in
flammation or obstruction in a danger
GUS place. Therefore, when you get a
bad cough don't proceed to dose yourself
with lot of drugs that merely stop"
the cough temporarily by deadening the
throat nerves. Treat the cause-heal the
intiamed membranes. Here is q home
made remedy that gets right at the cause
and will make an obstinate cough vanish
more quickly than you ever thought pos
sible.
Put 2R ounces of Pinev $50 cents
WORTHY in n pint bottle and fill the bottle
with plain granulated sugar syrup. This
gives you full pint of the most pleasant
and effective cough remedy you ever used,
at a cost of only 81 cents. No bother to
prepare. Full directions with Pinex.
It heals the infamed membranes so
gently and promptly that you wonder
how it does it. Also loosens dry, hoarse
or tight cough and stops the formation of
phlegm in the throat and bronchial tubes,
thus ending the persistent loose cough.
Pinex is highly concentrated COM
pound of Norway pine extract. rich in
guaiacol, and is famous the world over
for its healing effect on the membranes.
To avoid disappointment. ask your
druggist for "21S ounces of Pinex," and
don't accept anvthinp else. A guarantee
of absolute satisfaction, or money prompt
" refunded. goes with this preparation,
The Pinex Co., FIT. Wayne, Ind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

Since the interstate commerce COM
mission granted 5 percent increase
in freight rates to the eastern roads
the lines in that>territory have placed
orders for new locomotives, steel rails,
new freight cars and passenger
coaches amounting to nearly $15,000,-
600. Thus it can be seen that half
of the estimated additional income of
$38,666,600 which the percent In
crease in freight rates will bring to
these roads is already in the process
of being spent-aad it means work
for thousands Of men who have been
idle.
During the present winter free
soup houses" and dread lines" have
been the mainstay Of many thousands
of idle men in Chicago The first rift
in the clouds of gloom came several
weeks ago when the railroads an!
nounced that they would give employ
ment to $4,000 men on the new $685.
100000 Chicago railroad station and
terminal as soon as the weather per-
mitted construction work to begin. So
anxious are the railroads to relieve
the troubled labor situation in that
city that some days ago they proposed
to Mayor Harrison to use shift OF
$4,000 mea one week and a new shift
the neW week.-Mrs. giving employ
:nent. ITO $4,000 men part of the time
instead of $4,000 men all the time.
One year ago the American Steel
had 100000 men on its
pay roll Today it has only 100000.
One year ago nine concerns engaged
in the manufacture Of railroad sup
niles in the city of st. Louis had over
1900 men on their pay roll whereas
toGay they are employing only few
over 4,G00-with a shrinkage of over
$4,000 in the amount paid out in
wages during the last twelve months.
That these thousands of idle men
which are scattered from one end OF
the country to the other are in large
measure responsible for the present
Improbable prices of cattle and hogs
is SO plain that 1t requires no added
argument.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
SOME CENTRAL FACTS.

Anderson Pace, industrial commits
sioner OF the Chicago association Of
commerce quotes facts OF general in
terest, as follows:
The center of population, at the
present time, is near Bloomington.
Indiana, a point not far from Indian
apolis.
The jobbing center of the United
States is practically In Chicago.
The manufacturing center OF the
United States is near Fort Wayne,
Indiana
The corn center is in central ILL
nois.
The farm center is near Peoria,
Illinois.
THE cattle center is not far from
Des Moines, Iowa
The wheat center is midway be-
tween Sioux City and Des Moines,
Iowa.
The oat center 10 about forty
miles from Clinton, Iowa.
The lead and zinc center is about
100 miles southwest of Kansas City.
The hog center is west-central
Illinois,"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

The following excerpts are taken
from a talk ON Militant Journalism;
Its Mission and Its IDEALS, by Wll-
liam J. Black of the editorial stan OF
the Detroit Journal
Il speak now feebly to an audience
Of three hundred. speak tomorrow
through the instrument OF print 10
three hundred thousand-yes, to half
a million, readers of the printed page
A newspaper that would lend me It's
multiple columns to appeal to the
cupidity. to the hypocrisy, to the pre-
JUDGES, to the low passions and 70
the ignorance of the public would be
an agency for evil worse than hun
dred debased puipits or perverted
1.-THE sole test of any newspaper
policy should be it's humanity. Show
me newspaper that feels the warm
current of human life in its veins,
championing ever the fundamental
liberties of the people as against ex-
tortion. political fraud, industrial OPP
preston, vice, knayery and the as
sumptions OF superior rights by any
class, and I will show you news
paper that cannot go very far wrong
in its policies.
"The rule of the people, the rights
of the common man to labor and to
the products OF his labor, his right to
Justice in the courts. his right to JUS
tice in the prison, his right for an
equal opportunity. his right to place
in the sun, and the rights OF his pos
terity-here is a simple policy for
newspaper.
1.-The vigorous newspaper must,
however, not be directed toward the
weakest intelligence. The notion that
newspaper must be written down
to, dhe Level of the ignorant can only
b entertained by an ignorant editor
who is delighted to discover some por-
ton of the public as ignorant as him
self
"The great intelligent public doesn't
want to know about Julia Marlowe's
back hair, but it does want to know
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
How TO Fight tuberculosis

In n paper read last yenr before
the Dexnr County Medical Society
and published in part I'm the Louis
vile s.Medicnl ProEress:" DE-. >. w.
Cnrhnrt, OF SAN Antonio, Texas, a
physician who Inns devoted much
time to the study of tubcrcuiOsis,
snfd: aSincc lime salts constitute
three-fourths of MI the mineral sub
stances of the human body, they
must be supplied In the foods or
suppIemented in mineral preparn-
lions, or natural starvation ensueS
with tuberculosis unchecked. me
wi,Iesprea d and unchecked spread OF
tubercuIosis and other preventative
cnIcified 0ime InckinE) conditions OF
muItitudes throughout the civilized
world"
Thus from another authoritative
medical source comes JuStincat1on
for the use of lime in the treatment
since this is one of the ingredi-
ents of Eckman's Alternative. much
of the success attending the wide
spread use of this remedy DOUBTLESS
is due to the combination of this
salt in such way as to render 1t
easily assimilable. 1t causes no
stomach disturbance, and since 1T
contains neither opiates, narcotics
nor habit-forming drugs, 1t is safe
to try.
remarkable results in numerous
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
(consumption) and allied chronic af.
fections of the throat ana bronchlal
passag es. In many instances such
conditions. apparently, have yielded
In case your druggist is out of
It, ask him to order, or send direct
to us
Eckman Laboratory. Philadelphia
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
HEALTH SAFEGUARDS.

Passengers on Interstate vessels
may hereafter drink freely of the
water supplies thereon without fear.
Secretary of the Treasury w. G. Nc
Adoo is sending out today an amend
ment to the interstate quarantine reg
ulations which prohibits such vessels
from serving to their passengers
water from the lake or stream over
which the vessel is being navigatei
unless it's purity is assured. The
text OF the amendment reads as fol-
lows:
Common carriers operating YES
sells in commerce between the several
states and territories or the District
of Columbia, for passengers in inter
state traffic, shall not supply for the
use of said passengers any water TAX
en-, from lake or stream over which
the vessel is being navigated unless
the same is certified by the United
States public health service or the
state or municipal health authority
within whose jurisdiction it is obtain.
ed as conforming to the bacterioloS'
ical standard for drinking water pro-
mulgated by the secretary of the
treasury under date of October 81,
1914: provided, that water in regard
to the safety of which reasonable
doubt exists may be used il the same
has been treated in such manner as
to render it incapable of conveying
disease. and the fact of such treatment
is certified by the aforesaid health
authority or by the surgeon general
of the United States public health
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
The Mission Of a Newspaper

what industrial baron rides abroad
today on the earnings of what fac
tory slave to collect his rents from
what decayed tenements that he nay
contribute to what church plate, AID
especially wants to know what steps
are being taken By the champions OF
the people to circunvelt his SNUG
exploitation.
Many, who themselves could not
write paragraph that would pass
muster, indict modern Journalism for
its. lack of literary merit. In the edi-
torial pages OF newspapers like the
Chicago Tribune, the New York Trib-
une, Times, Sun aid Evening Post,
the Louisville Courier-Journal, the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, the Kansas City
Star and the Portland Oregonian one
finds daily body of matter with full
literary flavor, coura geous, sparkling,
informing, concise. brilliant, Htera-
ture which in point of style, intellec-
tual merit a1d vigor has the maya
zines and the book output at decided
advantage.
Many writer's who have failed at
newspaper work have made good their
vapid illiteracies in the popular maya
zines, or have gushed forth among the
six best sellers, where literary merit
and originality of idea are less In de-
mand.
"The newspaper. has been indicted
because it feeds the minds of the
young with knowledge of crime, aid
stimulates wrong-doing. This notion
does not even attain the dignity Of
popular fallacy. Scientific inquiry has
shown that not a single case Of juve-
nile crime has been traced to the read
ing of newspapers. Criminals do not
habitually read newspapers; If they
did they would learn something to
their advantage For there the Grim
inal is nearly always found in bad
plight. The juvenile offender finds
newspaper reading Stupid bore A
course in newspaper reading would be
the very best cure for juvenile crime,
for il its columns the youth will find
his counterpart hunted and haunted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
What Ohio Does TO Films.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9.-That
demoralizing effect which scientists
say eliminates from movies into the
brains of certain humans who con
sistently watch love, passion, pathos
and comedy thrown on the screen is
at the minimum in Ohio.
OF eighty-three reels, latest to be
inspected by the Ohio board of cen.
sors. seven reels were entirely SUD
pressed and twenty suffered cuts that
will make the small boy who watches
them, less blooithirsty and the love
sick girl less reckless. This is what
the movies characters did in these
censored films but could not do in
Ohio:
Kiss for twenty feet, (kisses are
always cut to three feet in Ohio)
drink poison. drink liquor. stage a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

an enjoyable evening was spent. Re-
freshments were served, consisting Of
punch AID two kinds Of cookies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brady are going on
farm to live. Dr.. Asauith is going to
move in the house they vacated.
The normal class at the NJ. e. Sun
day school was entertained at the Nc
Colloch home south Of town, Friday
evening.
The Eastern Stars had a banquet
Friday at their hall. There Was a
large attendance, several invited
guests being entertained.
Mrs. DR.. Kirkpatrick and her daugh-
ter Mamie were Chicago shoppers last
week, returning home Friday morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

their faults, but the system is better
than no system at ALL declares the
Iowa City Press. discussing the Sioux
City postmastership row.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil Won
ders if the second advent OF prohibit
ton in Iowa will bring to the fore an
other man with an affidavit face" who
will argue so plausibly for the pro-
lection of property rights of the
brewers and Gfstillers as did Horace
Boies.
1.-THE Iowa legislature, having made
everybody sober by law, ought now to
proceed to compel everyone to be
honest by requiring all portable prop
erty to be nailed down." says the Sib-
ley Tribune.
"The county supervisor who is op,
posed to the road law gives, less
thought, the chances are, to the real
merits of the statute than he does to
the fact that he cannot be quite so
much the boss" suspects the Paul
lima Times.
The Clinton Herald notes that Ber
nard Murphy OF the Vinton Eagle,
threatens that unless the newspaper
men quit suggesting his name he will
enter the race for governor. and re-
marks: THAT ought to bring a per-
ceptible hush
Nate Kendall strikes the Sheldon
Mail as the most logical candidate for
governor SO far mentioned by the re-
publicans.
That logical and educative temper
ance would have farce much better
in Iowa if the legislature had left
things as they were until the people
had finally expressed themselves on
the subject" is the opinion of the
Cedar Rapids Republican.
However. the state doubtless will
have use for the hospital for in
ebriates for a year Or two" says the
Knoxville Express.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican
SAYS reaction on the good roads Ques-
ton would set Iowa back ten yera5.
"If Senator Cummins should de-
veIop into candidate for the presf-
dencv on either the republican or the
prohibition ticket, he can seek the
votes of anti-prohibitionists as life
long friend of the liquor interests, and
the prohibition vote because he has
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

service or his accredited representa-
tive"
This is part of the general scheme
which the United States public health
service is putting into operation for
the protection Of the health of the
travelling public Other regulations
have been promulgated in the past
the use of common DRINK
ing cups and common towels upon
interstate trains and at depots, and
requiring the furnishing of pure wat
err to passengers and employees Of
common carriers, and requiring the
posting Of warning notices upon re-
ceptacles containing impure water at
or near railway stations where it
might be used for drinking purposes.
Inasmuch as over sixteen million
people travel every year on the great
lakes alone, these regulations are hay-
ing most important effect upon the
public health. Not only in that they
prevent passengers from contracting
disease and carrying it to their homes,
there to spread it to other people, but
also because such regulations have a
decided educational value. As a re-
suit Of the regulations requiring the
certification- OF water suppiied on
trains, many of the smaller cities OF
the United States have made radical
improvements which are necessary
preliminary to the issuance of GER
tificate have demonstrated the fact
that many sources of water supply
hitherto regarded as above reproach
have been found to fall far below the
minimum standard of water purity
promulgated by Secretary McAdoo on
October 81, 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
nDoN'T TAKE MY DARLING BOY
AWAY"

"DoN'T TAKE MY DARLING BOY
AWAY"
"A mother was kneeling to pray,
For the loved ones at war far away,
AID th.sre by her side,
Her one joy and pride,
knelt down with her that day.
Then came "a knock On the door,
Your boy is commanded to war.
No, Captain, please,
Here on my knees,
] plead for the one / adore.
Don't take my darling boy away from
me-,
Don't send him off to war.
You took his father and brothers
three,
Now you come back for more;
Who are the heroes that fight your
wars
Mothers who have 40 say.
But my duty's done, SO for Gods sake
leave one,
And don't. take my darling boy away.
A hero is now laid to rest.
A hero and one of the bess.
She fought with each son,
The battles he'd won,
Auu Inc DdttleS tHdt proven d Isl
Tho she never went to the war;
She Was the hero by far,
They gave the guns,
But who gave the sons:
M-O-T-H-E-R
Don't take my darling boy away from
me,
Don't send him off to war,
You took his father and brothers
three,
Now you come back for more:
Who are the heroes that fight your
wars4
Mothers who have no say.
But my duty's done, SO for Gods sake
leave one,
And don't take my darling boy away.
by viii Dillon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
FARMINGToN.
i. 1890 ~>>>>>>

We are having quite cold spell
again. after a few days of warm
spring weather.
Rev. Overhulser is going to move
to Oskaloosa to live. He has accepted
a pastorate there to the Nazerene
church.
Miss Cora Ray Of the Burlington
hospital spent few days last week
visiting at the T. Y. Nelson home, re-
turning Friday evening to take up her
studies again.
The Junior league gave a social Fri
day evening at the M. F. church.
There was speaking and music ano'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
Fire AZ st. Louis.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 9.-Fire in
the six story warehouse of the Buff
falo Springs Distillery company here
this morning destroyed the plant and
busted almost the entire fighting
force Of st. Louis The damage has
not been estimated. The fire alarm
was turned in almost a year to the
minute to the fire that destroyed the
Missouri Athletic club with a death
toll.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

Miss Sczepankewicz of Philadelphia
is trying to get rid of her name by the
aid of the law. She has not been in
the country long enough to change 1t
In the conventional way, and desires
legal relief to escape the suspicion OF
being a walking war bulletin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

Thirty-eight women nurses Of the
German ambulance corps were deco
rated with the iron cross by the Ger
man emperor, and it has been intimat-
Ell that more women will soon receive
the same decoration. Heretofore the
cross has only been given to men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

thirty foot fight, lights are flashes
only, if at alD, kidnap someone. muir
der someone, smoke opium, take of
their pajamas and otherwise disrobe,
gamble, put poison tablets in glass
of water, forcibly hug girl, abduct
someone and tie them to load OF
dynamite. drink from bottle, sit On
mans lap, and several other little
scenes that the censors thought would
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

recently seen the error of his ways"
points out the Fairfield Ledger.
at will take big man and a good
man to fill the shoes of Judge Wade,
who has made the best democratic
national committeeman who ever
served Iowa." declares the Manson
Democrat.
IF the legislature really is honest
in its efforts to prevent liquor selling
it will do something to curb drug
stores" advises the Iowa City Repub-
1ican.
The turmoil that has arisen over
the postmastership in Sioux City APP
peals to the Onawa Democrat as an
other argument in favor of the popu-
lar election OF postmasters.
The odebolt Chronicle warns
friends of equal suffrage against over
confidence in the way of taking It for
granted that the constitutional
amendment will carry hands down at
the polls.
"Any law forbidiGng child labor
should be drawn with great care"
says the Eagle Grove Eagle.
The Iowa City Citizen says Iowa is
behind many other states in social
legislation, and it is in favor of a
child labor law that is adapted to
conditions existing il Iowa.
"The road law and the highway
commission have completely broken
up the system OF private letting OF
contracts which formerly governed
practically all contracts and orders
for the millions of dollars of mater
falls and work on the ROADS of Iowa
resulting in favoritism and in all
sorts of effort to secure favoritism.'
asserts the Des Moines Register and
Leader.
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have effect on the morals Of the movl.

have effect on the morals of the moyl.
patron.
Moving picture manufacturers ara
conducting a campaign against tbe
Ohio censors on the ground that the
constant cutting and pastings oi
films is an expense the manufactur.
ers failed to figure on. 1t is charged
the Ohio censors are too strict any.
way, and ought to be eliminated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

The total amount of copper produc-
ed in the United States since 1S45 is
1857, 476,910 pounds, according to the
United States Geological Survey, the
largest production in any one year be-
ing 1,243, 26S,72O pounds in 1912. The
production in 1916 was $4,000 pounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

Louis MaxeinerN Of Altoon, H., is SO
popular as a street car conductor that
the women patrons voted against his
promotion to political office and de-
feated his candidacy. Strange to say,
Louis does not appreciate the certifi-
cate of esteem.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

With 275,00O men idle in New York,
100 900 idle in Chicago and the pro-
portion the same in other cities,
isn't it about time that some sort OF
legislation was enacted or repealed
to change the existing conditions?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

The present legislature appears TO
have in mind the repeal OF most OF
the laws enacted by the previous leg
islature. Unfortunately they are re-
pealing the best ones.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

Titled and other aristocratic Bel
gians are now living in London on
1915 week, and fairly contented with
the handout. War is mighty leyeler
of ranks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

Any patron of The Gate City can find
out all about the, circulation of the
paper by calling at the office and max
ing the desire known.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

During 1914 approximately 53,1S5,0oo
coins Of all denominations, weighing
about 2S6 tons, were taken from the
1860 prepayment telephones In Man
haitian and the Bronx.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

War is just what General Sherman
said it was, says the Burlington HawK-
Eye. The price of beer has been ad-
yanced in Austria.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09

If the legislature wishes to make
ours Greater Iowa" 1t should en-
courage the making of good roads.