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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
8
Edwin S. Potter surveys a turbulent year with Roosevelt and Taft policy battles, labor clashes, and labor and anti trust debates. It covers conventions, party platforms, campaign rhetoric, and notable foreign affairs from Britain to Japan, plus economic shifts and rail strikes shaping 1908.
A retrospective on early 1900s anti trust actions and graft prosecutions. The piece recounts indictments, court rulings, and notable cases including the oil trust fine upheld on appeal, later reversed, and various federal suits against railroads, tobacco, and other corporates. It notes landmark decisions on labor, monopoly, and interstate commerce, plus aviation progress by the Wright brothers and other flight pioneers. It concludes with religious conferences, athletic triumphs, and notable deaths in 1908.
The News reports plans for three new brick store buildings to begin in early spring, with designs resembling the I O O F building. Contractors also anticipate several fine residences and overall more building in Springfield this year than the past two.
Roseburg Oregon January 2 The R A Booth pack of dogs treed a panther near Peel twenty five miles east of here The cat measured fully ten feet in length It had killed fourteen sheep in less than a week bringing total sheep losses to twenty three Other depredations cost local farmers heavily despite attempts by dogs to track the animal
London Jan 1 Old age pensions become law today after long debate In Britain every person over seventy not a lunatic or offender and with annual income under 130 dollars earns five shillings weekly The pension charge is estimated at at least thirty million dollars this year The program uses local committees for distribution under the central authority the Local Government Board
An article notes the President of the Industrial and Orphans’ Home in Macon Georgia reports long use of Electric Bitters for stomach liver and kidney troubles. It praises the medicine as building up weak people and aiding female complaints. Also mentions boxing champions Jeffries Corbett Fitzsimmons Sharkey retirements.
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