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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
6
Advertises office locations in Elizabeth New Jersey Newark New York Chicago and more. Lists rates for ads including 2 cents per copy weekly 60 cents for each additional insertion and 7 cents for cards of thanks. Notes Journal as member of AP and UP receiving dispatches daily by Strawn operator.
A town law to permit Sunday baseball in West Orange was defeated at first reading. New Jersey law restricts Sunday play to state action, rendering local ordinances ineffective and unconstitutional. Public sentiment favors state-level reform, not local legalization, and past attempts have failed.
A Trenton Railway Company purge discharged about twenty five trolley conductors amid theft findings. The report notes wage pressures and gambling as factors, while referencing similar misconduct in Tyenton and New England lines. It discusses public trust, corporate protection, and critiques of wages and oversight. It also touches on Benzoate and sulphur preservatives scrutiny and national political mentions.
A plan to hold a tri alumni dimer in Boston on May 15 aims to foster cordial ties among Yale Princeton and Harvard. The item credits Princeton with proposing the gathering and notes railroad wage discussions and local civic initiatives amid scattered remarks and names.
The piece lauds the Senate for advancing the Ackerman civil service reform bill and appoints a committee to confer with the House. It notes past party battles over the measure, highlights Atlantic City’s year round resort appeal, and mentions Taft and Bryan at the State House with party delegate implications.
A fragmented critique cites President Roosevelt and religious rhetoric over national coinage and war. It argues for or against displaying faith on currency and weapons, highlighting tension between church and state in wartime rhetoric.
The passage argues that Americans should not place trust in symbols or sentiment but in their military power. It condemns embedding religious phrases like In God We Trust on coins as mere sentimentality and warns that moral pledges do not reflect national conduct. It contends most trust lies in ships, guns, and money, not in God.
Renulor Clarke of Arkanana excites stenographers with rapid, heated Senate address while Captain F W Katz U A instructs engineering at West Point after Panama Canal inspection. George Crocker of San Francisco undergoes operation in New York. Boston’s Women’s Industrial and Educational Union receives 10000 from Mrs Mary Morton Kehew for training programs. Kate Barnard elected Oklahoma State Commissioner of Charities and Corrections by sizable margin.
A fragmentary quotation captures views on pride, restraint, and public bravado. It mocks those who boast or justify violence and notes Fortune's uneven favor. The passage reflects cynical social commentary from a Chicago Daily News style voice about human behavior and perception.
A collage of jokes and quips from multiple papers, mentioning a prison poem, school journalism debates, Hercules, government contracts and grift, fashion jokes about toads, sharpening scenes, and diners debating soup names. Notable lines from Chicago News, New York Sun, Washington Star, Baltimore American, Chicago Record, Cleveland Leader, Philadelphia Inquirer.
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