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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1914
Page
3
The Albion New Era edited and published in Albion Indiana issues dated Wednesday July 7 1914. The notice lists subscription terms 91 50 per year if not paid in advance and 1 75 per year.
A Cincinnati Enquirer dispatch notes tariff cuts and Panama Canal opening may intensify competition for southern cotton growers, northern miners, and wheat producers as American capital shifts to mines and Pacific lands. Peru, Chile, and Argentina are cited as future rivals in wheat and beef, with large copper investments by Guggenheim and Schwab.
Indiana editorial notes Senator Beveridge insists the Republican party is dead like the Whig party yet the group gathers in Indianapolis with renewed numbers and enthusiasm to reorganize for 1914. It argues Beveridge leaving the party is like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon and asserts the party will endure beyond his writings.
A note from Mr Marshall to the president accompanies a book marked with the inscription From his only vice. The St Louis Globe Democrat remarks the "silly effervescence of childish wit" will go unrebuked.
Indiana’s state fire marshal warns kerosene causes about 250 fires yearly with many injuries or deaths. May 15 to October 16 saw fifty dwelling fires from oil stove explosions and fourteen from kerosene misuse. He urges metal lamps and smaller bases to reduce overturns and child injuries.
A week in Merriam brings a tatty pub gathering at Wal Gaffs, C M Wilkins moving to Busco, George Kiester convalescing, and locals attending Bug Island meetings. Gd Winebrenner and Birt Kiester travel to Columbia City while the Merriam Reading Circle plans a Thursday gathering at Mrs A F McDaniel’s home. Families visit, and weather remains mild enough to aid big contract ditch work with tile on hand.
LaOtto residents and visitors are listed with many Fort Wayne connections. Alice Sloffer transacted business in Fort Wayne Tuesday while Miss Gladys Siloffer visited relatives in Arkansas Tuesday. Clyde Emerick of Fort Wayne visited Miss Guthrie. and many other locals hosted relatives or traveled, including a Sturgis visitor taking charge of an elevator and an Oyster watch party with friends.
Topeka community updates include Mrs Jennie Yoder confined by illness and Mrs John Shaw improving. Visitors include A L Bender and son Forest from Albion, Dr Cr Brant from Chicago, and relatives from Elkhart Brighton Goshen Warsaw South Bend and Randoph Minnesota. Mr J J Yoder suffered a winter accident but expected to recover with time. A duck roast and family reunions marked the period.
Article by Bert E Collyver discusses 19 3 season tallies with Jockey Buxton leading in wins at Charleston. It laments lack of first class riders era wide and recalls Isaac Murphy as the era’s exemplar, recounting a Louisville incident where Col. Clark forced a payoff and Murphy returned honest winnings.
The article notes large regions of Australia, especially in the west, remain unseen by British or white explorers. It cites a sparse population with about one person per twenty square miles and remarks on the empire’s vast uncharted areas.
The following unions were approved since the last issue: Chester Cooper with Hazel Weber, Chester Victor Joseph with Miriam Mayne Loeser, Clarence Rice with Edith Marie McDonald, and Robert Hefflinger with Edith Kunce.
The Progressive party in Noble County invites all members and affiliates to meet in each township on Tuesday January 13 1914 at 2 PM to elect precinct committeemen. Elected committeemen will meet January 17 1914 at 1 30 PM in Albion Court House to appoint a county central committee chairman secretary vice chairman and three additional committees. J M Schermerhorn Chairman Prog Party Noble Co. Adv Try and in Tue New Era
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