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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1908
Page
4
Notice lists yearly, six month, and three month subscription prices for the Fairfield Tribune. The paper is mailed as second class from Fairfield Post Office. The motto “A drop of ink makes millions think” is quoted.
The Democratic State Central Committee of Iowa calls a Cedar Rapids convention for March 26, 1908 at 10 a.m. to select four delegates and four alternates per district for the National Convention in Denver on July 7, 1908. Delegates are apportioned by county and vote totals. voters upholding democracy invited. Des Moines, February 7, 1908. C. W. Miller and J. F. McGinty chair and secretary.
A terse assessment notes Florida Republicans are more scrappy than numerous suggesting vigorous local action. The piece also reflects on diplomacy as restraint and questions the effectiveness of Illinois anti cigarette law amid youth trends.
The piece contrasts campaign literary bureaus with Philander Knox's efforts, notes Evans fleet has twenty six mechanical pianos, and claims a friendly cruise. It mentions a snow flurry affecting trade and a money flurry hoarding circulating medium, highlighting a satirical difference in approach.
An Illinois woman who runs a large stock farm says flattering a calf is nearly as easy as flattering a man, reflecting practical attitudes toward animal husbandry in her operations.
A Nebraska woman shot her husband in the leg after a domestic dispute. The incident prompted police investigation and the case was sent to authorities for review.
A Pennsylvania man committed death by his own action to avoid election to the city council. The incident reflects a dramatic choice in the local political scene.
An Iowa miner sues for 25000 dollars claiming his mule halted suddenly and sat on him, a mishap he says could have been avoided. He notes luck that the animal did not use its feet.
A Paris editor calls American girls flirts hypocrites and geese while refraining from naming the girl who jilted him. Walter Wellman predicts Taft for president and Fort of New Jersey for vice president, shaping the republican ticket.
A Wisconsin man files for divorce claiming his wife refused him control of the furnace. The case underscores domestic tensions and questions of petty dispute versus marriage viability.
The article notes northern farmers face a perplexing profit puzzle feeding 57 cent corn to 4 cent hogs. It compares their challenge to an impossible sum in Ray's Arithmetic, Third Part, highlighting arithmetic difficulties in farming economics.
A Kansas banker praised for refusing to declare a loss to depositors faces talk of a Carnegie hero medal. The Oklahoma legislature kills a hotel bed sheet bill. Four Chicago milk firms and eleven officers indicted for conspiring to raise milk price from 8 to 9 cents per quart. Possible wider warning to milk dealers.
The Pennsylvania railroad issues an order prohibiting its workers from swearing. The note reflects the era’s tension with railway conduct and the demands placed on employees and customers alike.
The national convention of the Prohibition Party will meet in Columbus on July 15 with 1,512 delegates. Delegates are apportioned to states based on the 1904 presidential vote.
The Michigan constitutional convention votes 37 to 4 against including women suffrage in the state constitution. In Washington a separate bill is introduced in Congress to grant suffrage irrespective of sex.
Samuel Gompers of the AFL announces he has suspended the law of supply and demand in a dramatic statement. The scene is likened to Mrs Partington sweeping back Atlantic waves with a broom in a vivid, hyperbolic comparison.
A lightning bolt hit a 10 year old girl seated in her cousin's lap in Georgia causing injuries to the girl while the cousin escaped uninjured. The event is cited by politicians as proof lightning's unpredictable nature.
A Wisconsin Agricultural College cow yielded 1200 pounds of butter in a year prompting an editor to note that a college education is not affordable for every farmer to give his cows.
A tidal power plant is proposed on the Atlantic coast near Portland to develop 25 000 horsepower for electric cars and city lighting. This would be the first such project in the world, marking a landmark in tidal energy use.
Rear Admiral Melville counters the charge that U S battleships are defective in construction saying ton for ton and gun for gun they are the best warships in the world and the American people will accept his assurance with confidence.
The article lists large gifts from John D Rockefeller totaling 43,315,000, Mrs. Russell Sage 13,205,000, Henry C Frick 10,205,000, P A Wildener 1,000,000, and Andrew Carnegie 8,957,000, noting the exhibit as highly creditable.
With one dissenting vote the Methodist Episcopal Ministers Association at Cincinnati endorsed President Roosevelt's message to Congress praising his lofty conceptions and patriotic ideas of morality righteousness in political social and commercial life calling him our God-appointed president.
A Chicago woman visiting in a Nebraska town visited a poultry show and asked the keeper what breed the hens were. She was told Brown Leghorns and quipped that she might have known if she had noticed horns on their legs. Grangers recall the joke with a snicker.
Dr E C Dudley told a Northwestern Medical College class in Chicago that the average woman wears seventeen bands around her waist totaling about thirty four feet of bandage. He notes many have larger waists yet jokes Chicago women are tight in the divorce courts.
The passage notes modern students acknowledge the Psalmist’s claim that denying God is foolish and accept Harvard President Eliot’s assertion that a man’s progress is measured by his idea of God. The tone reflects a religious-ethical stance defending belief in God.
United States and Canada railroads spent 447 million dollars on cars and engines in the past year. Canada accounted for 15.599 million, excluding in shops built under frame construction. US road construction outside Missouri and Oklahoma totals 2,988 miles this year with 3,339 planned next year. Louisiana leads with 536 miles and Texas 460, with Texas set for 800 additional miles. A notable downturn in railroad expenditures is expected next year.
A Bradstreet study concludes four-fifths of failures stem from the trader's own traits and eight internal factors such as incompetence inexperience lack of capital and unauthorized credits. External conditions account for the remaining one-fifth with three largely uncontrollable causes. The report traces yearly shifts in failure rates and associated liabilities from 1893 to 1907.
Union College philosophy professor Frank Sargent Hoffman argues in the February North American Review that religion should be defined by the whole man as a knowing feeling and willing being. He contends irreligion is rebellion against one’s true beliefs and the substitution of an inferior religion. Every sane person must worship something, he writes.
A summary of Charles M. Harger’s Atlantic article on the country banker. It notes the banker’s role in funding autumn payrolls, his influence in frontier communities as local leader, and his continued independence and usefulness in times of financial stress.
The article argues William J. Bryan will be the Democratic standard bearer at the 1908 Denver convention, while William H. Taft is seen as the Republican nominee. It warns that Roosevelt’s policies failed, and that many conservatives fear Taft but will still back him, with Bryan preferred by thinking Republicans and a broad reform agenda shaping the race.
A call to aid in defeating a demagogue whose administration has faced serious mistakes and bluffs causing financial and commercial peril to the country.
A Washington Post report describes Daoud, an astrologer at 1622 Q Street NW, predicting no war with Japan in 1910, a U S navy expansion, and a 1913 White House return by a stranger. He foresees a U S–Japan war in 1910–11, a great 1910 fleet calamity, labor versus capital unrest, widespread epidemics, and major fires and mine disasters along the Atlantic and Pennsylvania. He also predicts Democratic nomination for Bryan with Roosevelt out, while Taft’s chances are similar to Bryan’s.
An old Washington Post prognostication foresees Roosevelt rising to unmatched popularity in 1912 while Taft faces risk for the party. It predicts Cuba seeking self rule, possible arms conflict with the United States, Turkish trade opening, and a year of ambitious alliances and royal matches among the elite. England is seen as pursuing progress secretly but risking war and rebellions.
Norman R. Coulter of Delberting San Francisco endorses Bitters as a universal tonic. He claims it cures ad liver and kidney disorders promptly and efficiently. Electric Bitters is advertised as the best spring medicine, a purifier, and unequaled at Shriner's drug store for 50 cents.
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