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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1903
Page
4
A long editorial argues true ability requires freeing the mind from detrimental influences and cultivating brain-cell development through disciplined life. It links mental strength to moral choices and divine guidance, urging right living and persistent effort to improve intellect and character.
A temperance argument supports total abstinence societies among bartenders and saloonkeepers in cities. Chicago formed a Bartenders and Saloonkeepers Society with 16 members to promote temperance, protect cash and stock, and elevate the calling, with aims to include employers and reduce drinking among patrons. The piece argues for workingmen clubs free of liquor to deter drinking and save earnings, while warning against reform efforts that create class divides and urging arbitration to resolve labor disputes and avoid strikes and boycotts.
A call argues trade unionism alone cannot cure child labor. Since most working children come from working families, reform must come from those responsible. Child labor corrupts youth, condemns them to despair, and seeds vice and crime. Parents should provide air, sun, playgrounds, schooling, and moral guidance.
Miss Lucille Eaton Hill head of Wellsley College physical culture warns against unmonitored outdoor sports for girls. She cites basketball as potentially harmful without careful supervision and condemns the rise of incompetent athletics teachers in secondary schools.
An ad-like excerpt touts Scott's Emulsion as nourishment and strength for the exhausted. It suggests the consumptive could improve with its use and frames the product as a relief to tired patients.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty must be concurred by the House before it can take effect. The Senate committee amended the agreement, delaying its enactment by up to a year unless an extra session is called. President Roosevelt may oppose delays, but Congress and the President have generally worked in harmony.
The Macomb Illinois grand jury issues a resolution warning that progressive euchre with prizes is gambling and should be stopped in social homes. Dr. W H Wallace, former state legislator, presided as foreman and directed the resolution amid local Mattoon social scenes.
A guidance note argues praising good deeds is unnecessary as duty. condemning harmful acts should shape public conduct. It condemns vulgar language and sensational stories, urging restraint and honesty in speech and behavior.
John Foster Fraser praises American manufacturers as self-made and daring compared to British rivals. He notes Americans adopt and adapt English inventions, pay higher wages, and rely on labor saving machinery to win. The piece highlights social refinement and entrepreneurial vigor shaping U S industry.
The article warns that seeking freebies, swindlers, and get-rich-quick schemes lure many into greed. It contrasts chronic grumblers with a plea to seek pleasure, endure hardship, and curb fault-finding to improve life.
Governor Cummins defended tariff reform before the Polk County Iowa Republican convention. He asserted the need to curb unlawful gains from high duties and combated monopolistic concentrations at the source, claiming protection should not be used for illegitimate profit.
March 17 report claims the Prince of Wales, already drawing 100000 dollars yearly plus 30000 from the Duchy of Cornwall, cannot live on that sum and that the King will seek parliament for another 100000 dollars yearly. Wheat Crop Is Big Surprising March 18 note from Boston shows New England Homestead estimates a large wheat harvest with about 190 million bushels possible and over 23 percent of total crop as wheat.
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