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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
4
Truth Publishing House announces ELKHART INC. Weekly Trat published each Thursday afternoon. Subscription price is $1,000 a year, delivered to any post office in the United States or Canada.
A 1905 discussion argues for government control of railroad rates to curb abuses by five dominant systems. It warns of loss of public voice, lack of competition, and the risk to cities if rates are set by private interests rather than public welfare. It cites the need for a rate commission and public service over private profit.
The report from San Francisco warns that China will cease buying American goods until the Chinese exclusion act is repealed. Shanghai chamber of commerce leads a boycott while a German tariff law may cut U S trade by about 40 million dollars annually, prompting fears of broader retaliatory moves.
A New York report laments increasing auto accidents with 793 killed or injured as drivers chase speed. It urges stricter rules and calls for limits to six miles per hour until safety measures curb the carnage.
In testimony to a Senate interstate commerce panel, President A B Stickney of the Chicago and Great Western accuses President Roosevelt of accepting free railroad transportation and ignoring the law against free passes. He says Roosevelt would set an example if he acknowledged the transgression. He cites widespread disregard by officials from congress to governors, judges, clergy, and editors.
President Roosevelt and his cabinet face a growing treasury deficit of 36.547 million dollars. Secretary Shaw, speaking at the International Railway Congress, suggests higher taxes on beer and tobacco and possibly coffee tariffs to curb the deficit. Daily imports of foreign goods reach about 2.5 million dollars, underscoring the scale of funding needed for 80 million people.
The article condemns the guilty men who forced a 14 year old girl to spend the night with them in an Elkhart factory. It calls for the harshest punishment to reflect the offense and warns parents to supervise their daughters and avoid escorts unless of proven exemplary habit.
Governor Folk of Missouri advocates the right policy by prosecuting the lynchers of a black man for murder. He argues lynching is never justifiable in a country that upholds law and order and emphasizes human life should not be treated as cheap.
A Goodland Kansas correspondent notes rapid land rushes in western Kansas with buyers paying cash for prairie parcels. Swedes from Minnesota buy land near the Colorado line. settlers improvise sod houses with cement coatings, windmills, and telephone connections. Modern town architecture emerges as new homes feature low roofs, large windows, and decorative fronts while banks fund improvements.
A Japanese newspaper recalls heroic acts before Port Arthur. A sergeant acts to torch an enemy crowd with an explosive shell. Sublieutenant Ota discovers a gunless comrade whose hand was blown away by shellfire. The warrior Bunzaemon Nisihikawa is praised.
Professor Burtis Burr Breese in a University of Cincinnati psychology demonstration showed students cannot distinguish tastes without smell. Miss Luella Latta tried to separate flavors while breathing through the mouth and failed to tell wintergreen from peppermint or peppermint from cloves.
In a Pittsburg Dispatch piece, Admiral Bob Evans recalls a former Japanese servant who learned quickly and impressed him. On a later European assignment, Evans describes a Jap captain aboard a Marseille battleship who playfully identified himself as Captain Kato, illustrating persistent cultural adaptability.
Santa Rosa reports Luther Burbank, the California horticulturist, has over 10000 potato varieties in trial. He aims to cross wild and cultivated tubers to create superior potatoes and a new fruit form named pomato, with further hybrids to resist disease and improve size and flavor.
Fragmentary lines evoke spring winds and playful poplars as a poem fragment hints at the breezy mood and wireless telegraph imagery. The readable text centers on May winds and nature without a clear narrative or named individuals.
A Japanese official discusses future US Japan trade growth, the need for raw materials from America, and a vision of a broad far eastern market. He warns of postwar recovery and urges an economic alliance to avoid conflicts while expanding commerce and peace.
Dr William Osler of Baltimore told McGill Alumni in New York that professors need more time to think and cited German and English university methods. He recalled starting at McGill in 1870 at age twenty four and praised Montreal General Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital. He noted Canadian graduates often move to the United States and quipped about Canada’s birth rates and marriages as he prepared for an Oxford post.
A Scotland county farmer notified the state labor bureau he needs sixty workers on August 2 to harvest cucumbers for pickling. Pay is 20 cents per bushel with expected output of ten to twenty bushels daily. The harvest may last six to eight weeks.
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