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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1913
Page
2
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette comments on public morals, city improvements, and the 1912 sale of newspapers while urging the Commercial Club to attract new industries. It warns against misleading advertising and praises truthful local business practices, noting the dangers of exaggerated claims and the need for public trust.
The Baditor Journal-Gazette notes a possible Democratic candidate for the First Ward council seat, pending voter choice in the upcoming primaries. Abe Schefi an appears as a potential nominee, subject to primary decisions.
Col William J Bryan argues for open lobbying in Congress while supporting registration of lobbyists. He denounces private persuasion to legislators as individuals and calls for a public, registered, formal lobby to safeguard the public interest. He favors public hearings and standardized disclosure at the national capital.
In Green Center Indiana on June 18 a reader derides Dilly Sunday for claiming Jesus is the son of God or a bastard. The letter argues Christ is the one son of God and that believers discern the Holy Ghost within. Writer J. Oostewart criticizes the sermon and accuses Sunday of misrepresenting religious truth.
Letter to the editor criticizes the city platform calling it a joke and notes the public utilities law grants municipalities power to regulate public utilities by ordinance. The writer argues the issue of street railway improvements is not controlled by any party or individual voters.
Paul P. Kinder seeks the councilman at large position on the Democratic ticket basing his bid on three years as Second Ward council member. He resigns to move home, is a Fort Wayne native and building contractor with wide city knowledge and a reputation for fairness and honesty.
A fragment discusses public utility expansion and oversight under a Democratic mayor and council, noting the public service commission review and the principle that public utility law must be upheld. The quotation casts the political stakes as a test of democratic platform and governance.
In Lafayette Indiana two deaths were reported today from the heat. Harvey C. Sense a prominent insurance man and former contractor died at his West Lafayette home after being overcome by the heat last Thursday. Mrs Mary Steinberg also died following heat prostration at the state soldiers home. Sense suffered strokes after his initial collapse. He was 47 and had built the Lafayette M C A and several Purdue buildings.
President Wilson announced nominations including Philip Holland of Tennessee to serve in Basel with ministers Bear of Missouri to Bolivia Vandlike of New Jersey to the Netherlands and Loxenburg. Thomas Ewing of New York to Commissioner of Patents and Robert T. Fraasfer of Tennessee as first assistant commissioner.
In a daily newspaper interview Democrat J. Korte, seeking the Tenth ward council seat, pledged to live by the party platform and aid the workingman. He urged election of candidates who will act for the majority, push for better roads and a functioning pumping station, and deliver on promised parkland and a track interconnector.
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