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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
4
John J. Carney notices Aberdeen Washington post office publication as second class mail. The Herald asserts it is the oldest Grays Harbor paper with the largest circulation in Chehalis County and warns that advertising contracts based on this claim will be void if the statement is not true.
A 1900 newspaper column presents a satirical take on Republican and Democratic platforms. It recites paired phrases from the Philadelphia Press and Boston Herald, then offers a Los Angeles Herald solution listing imperialisms, trusts, and various policies as the platform summaries.
Aberdeen authorities face costs in enforcing court action against men preying on fallen women. Wm Pelland, convicted on appeal from the police court for this offense, was sentenced to a 15 dollar fine plus 75 76 dollars costs or 30 days in jail. The court ordered him remanded to the sheriff for transport to the city jail, but Sheriff Huff freed him and Pelland returned to Aberdeen. An appeal to the supreme court may follow, with bail not yet filed.
The New York World notes rising ordinary government costs from Harrison through Cleveland to McKinley, averaging 861 million, 360 million, and 514 million dollars respectively. It argues the increase totals about 154 million dollars per year since McKinley’s inauguration, separate from war expenditures, and adds debt by 1.79 dollars per person.
A federal judge in Arkansas sharply admonishes Little Rock street car strikers for using the term scab to describe non union workers of a receiver. The judge warns this phrase risks contempt of court and could herald a wider move toward injunction driven government by injunction. The text railingly predicts future bans on epithets like goldbug plutocrat and hopocrats amid a debate over class labels in labor conflicts.
The census began last Friday and Aberdeen's Commercial Club could gain from it by aiding enumerators. Officials will consult the census for postal, customs, harbor, and waterways improvements in the coming decade, so the club should organize listing boarding houses, hotels, and residents working away to ensure all 5,000 residents are counted.
The Boston Globe reports that among 36 of 40 Democratic convention delegates from Massachusetts New Hampshire and Rhode Island 24 favor free coinage of gold and silver at sixteen to one and all delegates support Bryan. It notes Wellington as a lone strong Republican leader in the state and cites Oregon election results hinting at a possible fusion majority.
The Hannaite spellbinders face a limit on quoting the Declaration of Independence or the Bible in support of their party or actions, shaping their public appeal and rhetoric this season.
In selecting his posse comitatus it is to be hoped that the sheriff of St. Louis will complete service of every able bodied stockholder in the street car companies involved in the strike.
A nameless man with money to bet on favored candidates is described as appearing on every street corner, signaling a shifting political influence and public campaigning by financial backers.
The Democratic State Convention at Spokane unanimously adopted a platform reaffirming the Chicago platform. It denounces Republican actions on trusts imperialism bimetallism and tariffs and endorses Bryan for president and Lewis for vice president while opposing Japanese immigration and praising state officials and Senator Geo Turner.
Saturday night council actions include liquor licenses for Crosbie Fellows Dreyer and Johnson, a Broadway improvement contract with Crain at 1.39 per lineal foot, and an ordinance vacating alleys. The street and water plans cover Heron Ests Michigan avenues and a dam above the pumping station.
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