Elizabeth Daily Journal Ad Rates and Highway Policy Letter
The piece lists newspaper advertising rates and offices in Elizabeth Newark New York and Chicago. It also includes a letter arguing highway safety licensing reforms and cross state vehicle rules with proposed license taxes to fund highway improvements.
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ps /NEWARK
F. N. Sommer
Broad Atrest
Advertiser
Newark
NEW Yoror R ‘Northrup
Wirtharenesence
New York
Chicago
Tribune Building
Automobile Regulation Report From Safe Roads Association
The Boston annual meeting of the Safe Roads Automobile Association outlines aims to improve highway safety by revoking licenses of reckless drivers and advocating enforceable laws. It notes 33 prosecutions, 11 license revocations, 5 suspensions, and extensive auto related fatalities and injuries in Massachusetts between 1907 and 1908, urging stricter patrols and state led investigations.
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Boston
Safe Rohda Automobile Association
Highway Commission
Grand
Essex County
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Association
Appraisal of Rail Tax Case Sways Toward Local Victory
A news digest notes the Court of Errors and Appeals sustaining main stem railroad property taxation. It suggests limited grounds for a U S Supreme Court appeal, doubts railroads will proceed and highlights the local finance impact for towns in the state. The column also mentions political shifts in Boston and Brooklyns committee resignations and other assorted notes.
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Masachusetts
Court of Errors and Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Supreme
Appellate Courte
Press Commentary on Voting Machines Debate
The report critiques Secretary of State Dickinson's defense of voting machines, noting claimed low ballot rejection yet highlighting that misreads can disenfranchise voters. It argues that paper ballots expose errors, while machines can obscure them, leaving no trace of disenfranchised individuals.
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Dickinson
Les
Biennial Sessions Aim Sparks Statewide Debate
The piece argues that machine voting errors risk voters and cites calls for biennial state legislative sessions as a reform idea. It traces historical support in New York and other states, noting varied constitutional limits and the hope to curb legislative overreach. It references Governor Hughes and past advocates.
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Hughes
Tfue
New York
Black
Roosevelt
Senate
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Georgia
Minninssippia
Alabama
Madison
General Court of
New York Evening Mail
The Black Hand and Immigration Policies Debate
The Black Hand crimes rise in eastern cities as Detective Lieut Petrosino argues for tighter immigration limits on Italians to curb Sicilian Sardinian and Calabrian criminals. He says the United States has become a dumping ground for banditti and that such policy harms innocent Italian migrants.
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New York
Petrosino
United States
Sicily
Sardinia
Calabria
Thie
Criminal groups in unrest over deportations and crime links
The Boston Transcript reports on European actions and the rise of criminal factions in the wake of mass deportations from Tunis. It notes no single Black Hand group exists here, but various criminal organizations align under stronger leaders to exploit society.
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Tunis
Wmys
Dantes
Boston Transcript
Tobacco monopoly profits reach eighty million in France
France earned about 80 million dollars last year from its tobacco monopoly, a sharp rise from 1811 when the first monopoly year yielded around 2.8 million. The note recalls the historical change and contrasts past and present revenue figures.
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France
Proverbial Pith From The Chicago Daily News
A collection of pointed aphorisms on money, time, and human folly. It jokes about poverty, undertakers, news ethics, and the old saying about nine tailors, framing sharp observations in compact lines from the Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
A Laugh or Two and Other Light Bits
A collage of quips and snippets from cartoons and jokes. The dialogue spans American heiresses and baronial wit, a teacher’s query to children about happiness, and punchlines from innkeepers and artisans. The pieces resemble gags from period humor pages.
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Crane
Broad Street
N. J
Jervey
Fiet Street
The
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American Newspaper Publishers
Avanciation
United Press
Ts Telegraph
Congress
Brooklyn
Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company
Southwest
James Mazon Hyde
Philadelphia
James Hazen Hyder
Justice Dowling
Lynn
Mass
Michigan
Europe
Winfield
Kan
London
John Hetherinton
Haberdasher
Paris
Notanes
Chicago Journal
Washington
Heart OF the Nation
Pennsylvania Railroad
J, R Wood
Pase F.bowd
Jenera
Elphia
Day ‘& Cornish
General Ae Union ‘Building
Newark,n
Glasgow
Londonderry
Caledonia
Roek
J.wiss & Sons
Ourry
Sala
Ayeance
Mackey Bros
Schuetzle’s
John Nwrth
Snk
St ST
Elareth
Oes Witte
Elizabetts Th Avenue
S. T. Morton
J. Kueghel
Pisa
Elias Eure Avenue
Caval Cabortn
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