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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat is a weekly Friday edition with a semi weekly Tuesday issue. W L Slinkard serves as proprietor and editor. Subscriptions are payable in advance: one year $1.50, six months in advance, single copies five cents. Advertising rates are five cents per line with a 25 cent minimum. Postage is second class and telephone number 80.
The Supreme Court declares the Adamson eight hour law constitutional in a decision joined by Chief Justice and Justices McKenna Holmes Brandies and Clark. Dissenters include Justices Day Van Deventer Pitney and McReynolds. The ruling draws a line between private employment and interstate commerce related work. The decision is hailed as a major victory for the President and railroad employers, ending a national railroad strike.
The Women's Club league of Fort Wayne met March 3 at the Anthony hotel with Twentieth Century club Saturday club and Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society as hostesses. Dr. Kenosha Sessions spoke on the delinquent girl and described teaching methods to prepare girls for independent life. County chairs were appointed for Owen, Morgan, Daviess, Monroe, Sullivan, and Knox counties, with plans for endowment fund momentum and regional convening May 28 in Spencer.
Representatives from the U. S. Navy recruiting station in Indianapolis will visit Bloomfield March 23 and 24 and April 3 and 4 for recruiting. Local young men considering naval service are urged to meet the agents during these visits.
Erwin Hicks, who waited 30 years at the mountain gate for his mother who died after being struck by a train near Hik park, passed away inside the local country churchyard. Neighbors recalled his lifelong devotion as townsfolk mourn the solitary guardian of a vanished parent.
Mr. F. L. Burns estimates 165000 millions English sparrows in the country, far surpassing humans. The essay argues the bird thrives by simple, self sufficient habits, with no politics or culture, living in the fresh air and handling its own affairs.
A tribute cites the value of humorists who preserve sanity and kindness across a full lifetime. It reflects on how a continual smile sustains national pride and humane outlook, contrasting humor with satire and noting laughter as a force sent to the world.
London Observer notes the antiquity of lengthy prose with seventeenth century romancers such as Mile de Scudery and La Calprenede. It cites Le Grand Cyrus and Cleopatre as multivolume works and highlights Roger Boyle's Parthenissa where even page eight hundred Massively delays introductions between the main characters.
A fragment shows banter about a gay young soldier among girls, with lines suggesting danger and fear of a spark turning into powder, reflecting period attitudes. The text uses coded humor to signal worries about sexuality and propriety among troops.
Mr Dustin Stax compliments a grand house while a servant discusses the employer problem. The dialogue highlights the tension between wealth and labor, with servants noting the house is full of people who rarely work and instead gather to talk about their employer.
Governor James P. Goodrich campaigns for a constitutional convention in September. He cites abuses in the new appropriation bill, urges veto power over items, and calls for centralized executive authority to curb tax dodging and improve state finance. He loops in tax reforms, vessel of the state fair, and court rulings on city bonds.
The dispute over reappointment of J. G. Collicott as superintendent of Indianapolis public schools was eased when Horace Ellis, the new state superintendent, announced plans related to the upcoming term expiration on April 8. The controversy centered on non re employment by city school commissioners and drew public attention.
Public instruction announces Collicott will serve as deputy state superintendent directing vocational education while Charles A. Greathouse retires after six years in the office. Greathouse began under Governor Marshall to fill Aley’s term, completing six years plus five months in office.
The conference committee of railroad managers authorized mediators to arrange with the railroad brotherhoods to call off the threatened strike. The accord grants pro rata overtime on the eight hour day, with pay for ten hours for eight worked, aligning with the Adamson law expectations. Brotherhood leaders notified all general chairmen that the strike was declared off.
In a wartime dialogue, the speakers note how conflict creates new vocabulary and reshapes old terms. They discuss neutrality and how its interpretation shifts amid war, highlighting evolving language driven by conflict.
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