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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
6
A travel reminiscence contrasts Japanese streets filled with children and open shops with American norms. It recites coinage, old monetary units, and Meiji era shifts, then details marriage rites, the white wedding, female subservience, the go-between couple, and the staged bridal feast amid abundant kimonos.
D. M. Carr reflects on life as a harvest cycle. He urges careful sowing, soil selection, weed control, and prudent seed choice to reap health, respect, and inner peace. He notes luck and calamity are governed by natural laws, yet diligence yields eventual reward.
A discussion of cheap soap offers marketed as “just as good” as standard brands at about one third price. Promoters lure housewives with promised advertising savings and premiums such as clocks, rugs, chinaware, or extra boxes, labeling it a new dress for an old game.
A western town banker points out daily money orders totaling over 600 dollars sent to out‑of‑town retail houses. He argues farmers and others must price shop locally to aid home merchants who fund taxes and town growth, urging pride in home commerce and better economic education.
Towns in agricultural districts are waking to organize clubs and associations for public improvements and home industry protection. The effort targets keeping money local, supporting employment, capital, and services at home rather than sent to distant mail order houses or city stores. Local business leaders should fix internal issues before attracting new commerce.
The article discusses how prominent store names like John Wanamaker Marshall Field and Tiffanys reflect a long tradition of naming in the mercantile business. It suggests that a strong name carries weight in towns across the era.
The piece catalogs the professions of U S lawmakers noting lawyers dominate both houses with 300 total, plus farmers merchants bankers editors journalists and others. It lists named senators and representatives by occupation and cites wealth, claiming 46 millionaires in Congress worth about 293.5 million dollars and that they draw salaries and perquisites.
The Supreme Court upholds Oregon's eight hour day law for women employees in a decision quoted by Justice Brewer. He states that women's rights can be no more infringed than men's and that legislation for female protection may be sustained even when similar rules for men are unnecessary.
The piece cites Senator Elkins of West Virginia criticizing wealth estimates for U S senators and notes that many lawmakers earn only salaries while a quarter have 20 000 to 50 000 fortunes and a small group are worth 1 000 000 to 10 000 000. It highlights the disparity between reported riches and actual earnings.
A damaged clipping describes unsettling depictions in the Capitol rotunda with a magazine roast tone. It mentions a young girl and two children gazing at a heroic figure, noting odd features and alarming interpretation.
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