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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1907
Page
4
A compact collection of satirical observations and short anecdotes touching politics, labor, and society. It notes Roosevelt, Edison, Foraker, and Fairbanks with wry commentary on trusts, wages, ice cream poisonings, a thieving school, women’s dress, and the Peace Conference. It ends with a call for peace.
Ohio Republicans distrust the Taft manager who predicted harmony and accuse weather bureau forecasts of deception amid political tensions and misgivings about assurances given.
Senator Tillman urges a Southern man as the Democratic presidential nominee but fears Culberson of Texas and Hoke Smith may be the likeliest choices. He signals impatience with regional balance and stresses regional loyalty in the nomination dynamics.
The discussion argues that the vice presidential nominee must equal the president in quality and fitness. It notes that all capable Democrats deserve consideration for the presidency and that the vice president may one day assume the presidency, reinforcing standards for both roles.
Secretary Taft will swing around the circle beginning May 29 to corral delegates for the Republican national convention. While he travels the war department and Panama Canal duties fall to his deputies and other underlings who will manage departmental affairs. The administration is criticized for prioritizing partisan politics over public business.
A hostile column accuses Ohio Republican leaders of bribery ties with railroads and tariff support for trusts. It cites Senator Foraker denouncing the state chairman as a dictatorial boss and predicts clashes as the presidential race nears. Boss Cox is blamed, with taft and Foraker set for stump appearances.
The report by special attorneys to the Interstate Commerce Commission urges the U S to annul the Union Pacific Rock Island contract over the Chicago and Alton line. It asserts railroad competition is suppressed over a third of the nation and Western profits fund Eastern control. It argues state legislatures, not federal action, must force lower rates and curb railroad power.
The Washington Post reports physicians now find the lungs of residents in London Chicago and Pittsburg very similar. It notes that claims of moral resemblance are likely to ignite dispute.
The 61 year old Brother Andrew of New Melleray abbey Iowa left forty years of silence for five days to attend his sister Cather in Sheehan's funeral at St Johns Church in Chicago. He described the city as a world of noise after decades of solitude and will return to his vow of silence after Monday.
A narrative fragment describes Brother Andrew living under vows in a Trappist monastery. He rises before mass, works in the fields and shops, and communicates by sign. The order, dwindling to three chapters in New Melleray, Gethsemane and Mount Melleray, adheres to extreme poverty and silence while novices enter slowly.
A Newark baker markets bread sealed in paper bags as a healthful innovation. His move threatens bakers across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Richmond, Jersey City, and Newark, prompting peace talks with rival unions. An elderly patron warned that bread could become unsafe after delivery, urging dust proof packaging and cleaner handling.
Davenport Iowa May 25 Major Riche U S engineer approved the Davenport Water Power company plans allowing harnessing of the Davenport LeClaire rapids. The project promises vast horsepower for development and Davenport anticipates major manufacturing importance once the plans are carried out.
Reverend Schroeder, recently chosen pastor at Green Mountain Congregational Church, has resigned after a church committee refused his request to move his family into town limits. He served two months and had planned to relocate from Dallas City to Green Mountain by May 1. Memorial Sunday address plans were unsettled, with a substituted speaker possible if he did not come. Church members question the parsonage location and Mrs Schroeder’s views on the move.
A St Louis barber begins sending time cards to customers signaling when it is their turn for a haircut, a move reported by the Missouri Chicago News.
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