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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
2
A poetically framed portrait of the farmer as a ruler of the land and time. The speaker links the farmer to cycles of nature, agriculture, and national life, portraying the plow as scepter and throne and the farmer as a sovereign figure who sustains crops, labor, and civilization.
Grace Apgar aids a mysterious engineer Curtiss Thorne after a dangerous electrical mishap in the family home. Amid tension and mistaken meetings, Thorne seeks work with the Apgar firm while Grace contends with a hidden romance and a looming dinner with her father Shelburne Apgar.
The report lists multiple labor activity items from around 1909 era: new waiter union in Salem Massachusetts, a fortnightly pay day for Concord New Hampshire workers, and German law requiring insured old age coverage for workers over 16 earning more than 500 a year. Spinners in Fall River celebrate a golden anniversary, cedar rapids contracts require union labor for a government building, and Canada’s textile federation sees leadership changes. Florida’s women’s clubs spur child labor restrictions, Brockton’s Stitchers’ Union elects a first woman delegate, Charlestown Navy Yard workers form a union, West Virginia inspects mines for new laws, and a labor paper is approved for Puerto Rico. AFL leaders prepare for Nottingham talks, San Francisco unions woo city laborers, and a Gompers conference resolves jurisdiction over stage electrical workers.
Railway progress reported with construction on the Erie and Jersey line and the Genesee River road advancing rapidly. The South Dakota railroad and warehouse commission orders freight rates cut west of the Missouri River and a new tariff is in development. The Pennsylvania railroad shows 1907 earnings of 30 million more than 1906 but labor costs rose by 19.3 million.
In Ottawa Senator McDonald proposes limiting Hindu immigration and seeks imperial aid, then withdraws after McDonald is satisfied. London Times editorial on Roosevelt’s anti anarchist message signals global concern, while Hong Kong money changers boycott Japanese notes amid the Tatree Mara incident. Manila reports clashes between American troops and constabulary near Lanao Mindanao with casualties.
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