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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
4
The Weekly Truth published by Truth Publishing House comes out every Thursday with latest foreign and local news. Subscriptions cost $1.00 a year delivered to any post office in the United States or Canada. The issue is dated Thursday March 2 1905.
The Chicago Tribune survey reviews anti trust actions over the past three to four years noting court decisions fines including 50 000 and a house bill blocked by the senate. It argues trusts remain strong but rebates stranded as the central issue and expects broader regulation and equal transportation charges ahead.
The piece urges purging graft from government from the U S Senate to village councils. It condemns bribery and nepo tism and blasts the Manufacturers' Association and Frank Fitzjoepisoid for fixing lawmakers. It argues electing upright leaders and punishing offenders to the full extent of the law.
The piece argues the nation moves toward a paternal form of government. It notes Senator Dryden's bill for federal insurance regulation and efforts to place transport rates under the Interstate Commerce Commission. It urges uniform federal laws for commerce, corporations, elections, and other nationwide affairs.
Twenty years from now people will wonder why this generation lived under a patch work system of laws that permitted wild cat banking, trusts, robberies, get rich quick swindling easy divorces election frauds and other forms of public evils.
The West End Mothers Club of Chicago rejects the standard Now I lay me down to sleep prayer and proposes substitutes praising night and morning light. Members argue death phrases frighten children while others defend the traditional cadence as sweet childhood music.
The Manufacturers Association supports an anti trust bill and House Bill 201 banning employment of under sixteen year olds. The anti trust bill mirrors Illinois law, deeming tacit price fixing a conspiracy, while HB 201 aims to keep youths in school instead of factories.
The commission of admirals finds Russian Admiral Rojestvensky justified in firing on English trawlers, mistaken for Japanese torpedo boats. The ruling preserves belligerent rights over neutral vessels, framed as Russia’s rare wartime success and praised by the tribunal.
Richard Croker spurns England after leaving the United States and declares Ireland his next home. Once a New York boss, his actions drew him from the city, and his racing stable was banned in England. He now faces an outcast life and questions about honesty versus wealth.
Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California urged taxing bachelors as a social policy, outlining his view on the social situation and the impact of bachelorhood. He argued that bachelor status carries economic and civic implications for society.
In a Berkeley church talk on Marriage and Divorce Prof Wheeler argued that lax morals threaten the state. He labeled bachelors and clubmen as social abnormalities and suggested a special tax on bachelors to fund communal duties.
The House and Senate advanced or rejected measures including H B 52 on ex officio Supreme Court commissioner, H B 248 legalizing Plainfield incorporation, and H B 306 on desertion crimes. Others renamed districts, regulated insurance investments, and allowed venue changes with mostly party line margins.
Senate action records two bills with vote tallies. H. B. 16 by Bosson would let a life tenant sell real estate and reinvest proceeds. S. B. 312 by Kittinger would restrict securities in which corporations may invest capital stock assets or funds.
Will R. Wood introduces S. B. 354 to continue the Codification Commission until the close of the next Legislature. Judiciary A.
S B 333 Kittinger provides that paroled prisoners of the Indiana Reformatory violating parole be arrested and resentenced for a period not less than one year more than the minimum term originally prescribed. S B 303 Smith aims to aid maintenance of adult blind persons who have learned no trade.
The record lists House actions on bills including B 317 299 274 362 379 429 334 and 425 with party votes and yeas nays. Notable items include road supervisor pay raise from 1.50 to 2.00 and approval of bonds for Gibson County Fair Grounds.
The record notes H. B. 391 by Honan requiring heads of state departments to prepare appropriation estimates for use by the legislative visitation committee. The vote is recorded as 80 to 0.
The record lists House bills including H B 201 Hood prohibiting work for under 16 between 8 p m and 5 a m with dangerous machinery. H B 385 Baker forcing disclosure of mortgagee address under 10 percent penalty. and H B 344 Long raising salaries for teachers with three years service and two year license.
New House bill H B 431 from Sayre addresses appropriations. The measure has not been referred to any committee and awaits assignment.
House bills allocate funds for a Father Gibault memorial volume totaling 2000 while Calvert seeks 50000 for agricultural experiments. A Smith duplicate delays action. Kean proposes good roads institutes in each county and Sendae allows legal notices in daily papers in addition to weekly publications.
Signed by the Governor specifies S B 144 Hugg providing certain details of procedure in the Marion County Juvenile Court.
The governor vetoed H. B. 208 authorizing patents for Michigan road lands. S. B. 174 and S. B. 160 proposed relief for public officials William Watters of LaGrange County and Henry J. Hostetter, former trustee of Clear Spring Township, LaGrange County.
Pneumonia follows a cold but never after using Foley's Honey and Tar as advertised. It stops the cough heals the lungs and offers protection from pneumonia. Refuse substitutes. Houseworth Bros.
A cold neglected may lead to pneumonia and weakened lungs, risking consumption. Foley's Honey and Tar is praised to stop the cough heal the lungs and prevent pneumonia. La Grippe coughs yield quickly to Foley's Honey and Tar, according to Houseworth Bros.
Foreigners in China buy almost everything on credit signing chits for each purchase. They avoid loading up on silver or native coin while paper money remains unstable amid fluctuating values.
The ad portrays night pests like croup and whooping cough as hidden dangers to children and promotes Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar as a doctor-precursor remedy. It claims the product fights illness without opiates and urges stocking by all druggists.
The Chinese in Amenfrica favor dried ducks imported from their homeland over locally available meat due to flavor differences. Ponds near the Canton river provide meat that lacks the taste they prefer in their dishes.
Testimonials claim Foley's Honey and Tar cures pneumonia and consumption from a hard cold on the lungs. A Danville mother reports her daughter's terrible cough settled on her lungs but was cured after using Foley's Honey and Tar from Houseworth Bros.
The Begum of Bhopal, an Indian princess, announces the foundation of a new city named Ahmadabad in memory of her late husband. She offers free plots to all who wish to construct houses, inviting settlers to begin a new community.
English Spavin Liniment claims to remove all lumps blemishes from horses including blood spavins splints ring bone and sprains. Save $50 by using one pottle sold by C H Leonard druggist Elkhart Indiana.
In business practice London banks send gold coin to China but refuse sovereigns bearing the St George and the Dragon on the reverse. The dragon is viewed as abhorrent in Chinese religion, so consignments use older coins with a shield on the reverse. These shield coins are now scarce with only about five in a thousand remaining in general circulation.
Dr. Stueb al, director of the colonial department, says nearly 12,000 troops were used to quell the native uprising in German Southwest Africa. By end of December the cost exceeded 4 million dollars, with white settlers costing about 2.5 to 5 thousand dollars per head of the party.
In New York on February 28 eleven people were killed and more than fifty injured when the Fleet Street African Methodist Episcopal church in Brooklyn collapsed. The ancient building, crowded with mourners, gave way as mourners moved toward the upstairs auditorium, a forty foot wide chasm opening and trapping about 150 people. Coroner Flaherty attributed deaths to suffocation from piled bodies and said the church had been deemed unsafe years earlier.
Sioux City Iowa February 28 Daniel Kelly a farmer near Gann Valley South Dakota is jailed on a coroner's jury charge of murdering his wife The couple were alone when she died Kelly says she fell into the cellar The woman's body is described as horribly mutilated Threats of lynching have been reported
In Cochran Indiana on February 28 a total of 10800 in gold and cash was found in the home of Mrs. Jacob Frank after her death. The money is described as fifty years of savings.
Chicago February 28 Charles Olsen in 58 a cornicemaker died by his own hand inhaling illuminating gas in his home after unemployment left him unable to find work.
Constantinople dispatch reports the sultan of Turkey directing thirty gunboats to be ordered at different European shipyards.
Alexandria Indiana February 28 Ralph Bain died after a brief illness from swallowing a tobacco quid causing a violent hemorrhage.
Feb 28 report: a tramp who was fed by a resident later robbed the home of a family, taking about $800 in jewelry and gold. The incident followed a prior aid by the man. Police initiated an investigation.
A hearse adapts gasoline power for daily use while a plant in the Philippines uncovers a "black lily" discovery. England to add a model coal mine to Birmingham University equipment. Netherlands palm seed exports rise over three years. Windsor treasures valued near $60 million.
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