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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
4
The piece extols gritty persistence over talent and diplomacy, citing Civil War General Grant’s resolve as proof. It argues that relentless holding on wins contracts, orders, and loans, combining gracious manners with dogged endurance for success.
The article notes ten thousand people in salmon catching and canning along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. It cites 200 canneries, a short season of one to three weeks, and annual packs of 4 to 5 million cases valued at about 28 million dollars. It mentions rapid processing and the Iron Chick machine replacing hundreds of workers, with a two horsepower engine doing the work of sixty Chinese laborers.
Historic Petersburg notes Taft dedication of a Fort Mahone monument by the battlefeld commission. It recalls the Ninth Army Corps roles in the Civil War and Hartranft’s division leadership. Center Hall Davis hosts Taft. Lincoln held a final conference there with Grant before his assassination.
Katherine Glo seeks political office by posing as a man to level the playing field. Trudy Middiebrook, a youthful stenographer, wins an employer’s favor while gender bias shapes local politics. The employer, Francis Merriam, pursues a mayoral nomination, masking his views on women.
In a dramatic twist Merriam learns his stenographer Katharine Gile, disguised as a man, sought the mayor’s office by winning women’s votes and manipulating him. Middlebrook sows doubt yet remains loyal as the election nears, tearful tears and wrenching vows mark the shock reveal.
In a tense exchange, Trudy Middlebrook withdraws from the race after a push from her ally. Katherine Gemar marries the mayor as he secures the position, reshaping leadership and personal dynamics in the campaign.
Charles B Crane of Chicago is appointed minister to China, linked to negotiations on an American role in the Chinese Tallend Loan. Taft seeks a figure with broad business experience to influence Chinese commercial development and succeed William Rockhill as ambassador to Russia. Crane has extensive travel and commercial insight.
Mr Crane born in Chicago fifty one years ago is a son of Richard T Crane founder of the Crane company employing 5,000. He has studied China Manchuria and made seventeen trips to Russia and married Cornelia W Smith of Paterson New Jersey in 1881. The Chinese railroad loan settlement relates to the open door policy in China.
The new minister to China welcomes a policy set by Secretary Ung and advanced by Root and Knox. He notes bankers back the move, emphasizing national prestige and future commercial access, while stressing no web gains but shared opportunity and American manufacturing contracts in Chinese rail projects.
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