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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1913
Page
4
In Cincinnati a call is made for higher regard and better pay for public school teachers. The piece argues teachers deserve compensation reflecting their training and duties beyond classroom hours, noting nine months of work and costly professional commitments. It urges public support for a wiser payroll to sustain an efficient school system.
The essay argues that as more states grant women voting rights, female voters gain decisive influence in elections. It predicts increased representation from suffrage states in Congress and conventions, and suggests federal action on an amendment is imminent to avoid alienating female voters.
The piece portrays Thomas A Edison as America's greatest man who rose from peanuts on the Grand Trunk line to immense wealth through invention. It notes his relentless work ethic twenty hours daily, a health decline in 1876, and his absence from political life or society clashes, while tracing key inventions and his New Jersey laboratory.
The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor releases a public address from Beattie. Excerpts urge perseverance in labor, claim forced work builds virtue, and stress employment as key to progress. The text calls for constructive treatment of unemployment and stronger public confidence in organized labor.
The Executive Council report to the American Federation of Labor calls for educating non union workers, organizing them, and using organized labor to ease unemployment. It proposes public works, longer hours for employed workers, and direct aid to those without a chance to earn a living.
A compilation of statistics and remarks cites Pan American exhibition halls in San Francisco as the largest modern building in the country, Tampa’s population surge from 1900 to 1910, U S famine relief to China, farm prosperity in the Southeast, a wheat record for 1913, Japan's health concerns and cholera figures, corn stock and value shifts, and Tom Barron’s White Leghorn hen Princess Didit TM setting a world laying record with 282 eggs in a year.
A dialogue between a woman collecting for the poor and a man questioning the need. The woman asserts deep concern, recounting long visits to sufferers and discussions at their homes to understand their plight.
Forty thousand railroad employees east of Pittsburgh are to join a single tabour organization. Details will be set at meetings next Sunday in Pittsburgh. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the Order of Railway Telegraphers will form the new entity.
The mayor can remove any commissioner for inefficiency neglect or malfeasance and appoint a new one, shaping whether the merit system functions or collapses. The state commission can only require publicity of reports and the mayor remains central to city governance.
An editorial praising Jessie Wilson for choosing a principled partner for life. It lauds her fiancé described as clean and upstanding, with strong ancestry and a future oriented mindset. It notes Frank Caverre’s path from college to public service through law, aiming to aid justice and the less fortunate.
Two Yonkers shoe merchants, close neighbors, vie on price with eye catching placards. One offers Cracking Good Patent Leather Shoes 2.23 per pair while the rival proclaims Patent Leather Shoes warranted not to crack 2.19 per pair.
A seasonal quatrain laments the coming cold and urges early shopping to beat the Christmas rush. The poet notes bare trees, frost on streams, and a melancholy wind as autumn yields to winter. The refrain repeats: do your shopping early before the rush.
A poem recalls a muddy stream and old canal days in Hamilton. It contrasts a foul aroma and debris with a future boulevard on the shore once used by cargo boats and mules.
A reader laments the City administration's handling of a local plant odor issue in West Mind. The letter describes harsh smells, health and property impact, and questions why the mayor did not address the problem more effectively. It urges action from authorities and questions contractual promises.
Harper's Weekly argues some planets experience inhabitants and air, noting Earthlike needs for oxygen and moderate warmth. The piece compares Saturn Uranus and Neptune with Earths light heat, orbital periods and extreme winters, portraying outer worlds as icebound and dark with vast, ancient potential.
The War Department orders General Hugh L. Scott of Fort Bliss to rush to the Navajo Agency in New Mexico to negotiate with the Navajo Chiefs and urge surrender of eight renegades amid an incipient outbreak. Scott, regarded as a trusted friend by the Navajos, is expected to pacify tensions.
The piece argues President Wilson will study real economics by testing how government challenges the steel and other trusts. It questions presidential power to force operation and suggests he may become a tool of economic forces shaping policy.
The piece questions government egg production statistics from 1899 and argues that higher production should lower costs. It contrasts monopoly effects with production-driven price declines and criticizes distribution while defending farmers’ output as sufficient for home consumption.
An idea proposes forming a company to extract carbon from Cincinnati air. The note argues gold-like profits from sea water and abundant carbon waste around the city, suggesting a potentially large opportunity.
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