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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
1
The New York American excerpt argues against mandated vacations by proposing absurd tests of employment and family roles. It satirically suggests outsiders in a firm to prevent manipulation, and asserts true rest comes from daily balance and meaningful work, not annual getaways.
A wine promoter hosted an elephant themed party on a frigid night in New York. Guests dressed as robes attended a midnight to noon spectacle while a bread line and municipal shelters served the hungry. The piece contrasts lavish revelry with cold hardship amid New York’s social divides.
In a Harper's Bazar excerpt the city woman is praised for greater polish, assurance, and quicker speech gained from urban life. The city provides lessons from preachers, lecturers, actors, musicians, and venues like churches, theatres, galleries, and concert halls. Rustica’s sister learns daily by watching neighbors in the streets.
The Century notes that Germany saves about 500000 annual US fatal or disabling accidents, valuing lost work at $250 million. Dr Zacher cites one billion marks saved in wage efficiency via sanatoria museums of safety and other social insurance to protect workers' health and economic output.
Dr Samuel G Walker notes a concept he calls motor mind a gas tank of thought. New York Mail cites angleworms may live ten years after Marburg experiments. New York Tribune discusses stage makeup as raw material for economic use. Assam India rubber output last year reached 8346 pounds from 642 acres, 13 pounds per acre.
Washington DC taft proposes opening 2.872 million acres of Indian allotments in Idaho Montana and Washington for homeseekers over nine months. Areas include Coeur d Alene Lemhi Flathead Spokane Yakima with farming timber and mineral lands. Applicants numbered in the thousands nationwide with Nebraska and Iowa leading.
Seattle leader J J Hill of the Great Northern Board argues against claims of Patten cornering wheat. He notes rising per capita use, a 1910 census population around 0,000,000, and a projected need of 630,000,000 bushels for U S consumption with a 650,000,000 bushel domestic yield. He warns of export surpluses shrinking to 29,000,000 bushels while Eastern Washington wheat is shipped eastward and cites livestock drop and corn prices as drivers for farmers to sell grain rather than guard against cholera and labor risks.
Philadelphia report says Dr. Alexander Graham Bell told the American Philosophical Society he hopes to perfect a tetrahedral kite powered flight concept this summer. The design, a large triangular cell structure, promises stability and gentler landings, reducing aviator risk even in shelling. Bell cites tests in Braddock Nova Scotia and Ammondsport, N. J. as the base for his anticipated demonstrations.
Notices posted at the company's plants state that after June 30 the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, Sheet and Tin Plate Workers will no longer be dealt with. The United States Steel Corporation subsidiaries are urged to deal with union labor no more, signaling a broader shift in policy.
The Cigarmakers International Union claims jurisdiction in the United States Canada Cuba and Porto Rico. The Boston Bartenders Union funds to promote Boston as the next international convention site. In Birmingham England employers withdrew wage reduction notices for engineers preventing a six month strike.
Chicago plans to station funeral cars for surface line service. Bion J. Arnold, chief traction engineer, sent orders to the Chicago City Railway Company as a drivers strike accelerates action. A first test will run on the Calumet and South Chicago Railway, now run by City Railway, with cars already used by the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway.
Prominent people discuss the Maine issue as Admiral Evans urges raising the battleship. In St Petersburg, ex police chief Lopakine receives a five year penal servitude sentence for criminal association links. Henry H Rogers body laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery Fairhaven. Professor Jenks of Cornell defends college instructors against influence by protected interests.
Engineer Flannigan on the New York Central halted near a child between rails, wrecking freight cars. Ohio inmate West awaits execution. leg amputation may delay death sentence. Philadelphia riot relief showed fire hoses beat mobs. Mrs. Rebecca Burns, 115, dies in Ohio claiming sight of George Washington. Taft starts Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair via gold pistol signal. New York Mayor sends start signal for prize run. Robert Lincoln suffers sunstroke at Hogansville monument event. Nurse Miss Alice Prout dies after surgeon’s pad left inside in January. Dr Leary toxine shows promise against blood poisoning in Boston. Rat study pegs annual cost at $100 million. A jury hung last week but reached verdict Sunday.
A bizarre mix of sensational items fills the page: a man accused of murdering a boy is found to be insane after the body is revealed to be a dog, a devastating tornado kills dozens across Texas Oklahoma and North Dakota, and Oklahoma City reports fifteen fatalities in a cyclone. Also noted are Greek Jimmy Ryan's prize fight death in Savannah, Taft remarks on the army and Gettysburg monument speech, military dismissals for alcohol and gambling, a Sauerkraut prize, Annapolis marriage limits, chemistry congress plans for 1912, Cuba’s finances, Roosevelt’s Africa hunting and book, and the drifting steamer Precursor rescued by a tow.
A weary tale from a Hot Springs dinner describes a sleepy one horse town like Squash. Representative Burton recalls a barber incident where a customer asks how long a haircut will take and the barber wakes up, then shouts for the editor to fetch scissors as he finishes editing the paper.
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