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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
4
Several residents announce bids for Pulaski county sheriff pending the Republican county convention. Names include GG Oglesby Peter Kabler Joseph Pax and GC Weavey, each seeking the party’s endorsement.
A set of notices from Sam E. Taylor James B. Blew and John L. Rhode announce their candidacies for Pulaski or Lester Bowles county Recorder positions, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention. The announcements urge readers to consider their names as candidates and note party convention dependency.
The announcement names George Burson as a candidate for Circuit Judge in the 44th Circuit, pending the outcome of the Democratic Convention. The notice records a political bid and affiliations.
The South Bend Tribune notes politics in Pulaski County is driven by money with a check book buying jobs. It calls for a cleaner campaign this year and urges reform and ethical conduct in local elections.
The Tribune notes little sympathy for jobless workers in hip cities as Wabash County farmers offer two dollars a day for harvest hands and struggle to hire. Other communities report similar hiring difficulties.
Politicians seem alarmed as efforts to secure President Roosevelt for Indiana speeches are discussed. Voters’ independent ballot marking trends create uncertainty, with each man acting as his own politician and altering the political landscape.
The speaker derides a local figure who fabricates and approves tickets in fantasy and argues prohibition is not dead. He claims the South favors keeping it, while the North lags, noting recent party platforms reflect the stance. Within the last period, shifts are implied.
Alabama Georgia and South Carolina endorse prohibition by decisive majorities with South Carolina carrying the cause by 60000. Tennessee votes in primaries for governor on state wide prohibition and local option with local option winning. Ex Senator Edward W Carmack was the prohibition candidate and is defeated for siding with interests in the Senate. Logansport Pharos notes Mississippi Valley as a key agricultural region with calls to diversify land ownership. Hal's Cash Store offers Osfords at discounts. W A Geer resigns from Street Pine van’s store John Kintz takes new clerical role.
A New York Sun excerpt laments the office railing as more than a barrier to entry. It notes the social lift when invited in by a boss and the warmth of welcome that can accompany a business deal. The piece contrasts impatience at the door with gracious hospitality inside.
A Westminster Abbey pulpit floor was raised for a short would be preacher, forcing a tall substitute to crawl in on his knees to deliver the sermon. The vast congregation failed to notice the awkward posture.
A London Telegraph account compares locksmith craft to armor plate against big guns and details the Bank of England strong rooms. It notes a vast vault with a sixty six foot deep foundation, a seven foot deep water bed, heavy four ton doors, and hydraulic vaults that flood with water to prevent breaches while remaining dry.
Two Lincoln anecdotes recall quick wit at the White House. A Nebraska water body with an Indian name prompts Lincoln to joke that Minnehaha means laughing water, while an English visitor asks about Americans blacking their boots and Lincoln replies with a pointed question about whose boots would be blacked.
A timid woman recounts being followed by a persistent man who loiters outside her door. She asks the hallboy to bar him, but the boy refuses, noting the man’s residence on the building’s third floor. The exchange appears in the New York Press.
While on a lecturing tour Henry Ward Beecher found an envelope in his pocket. He recalled marrying a railroad magnate who handed him the envelope as they parted. Opening it, he discovered five $1,000 bills inside, a bequest he had forgotten.
A picnic story explains how to tell a raw egg from a boiled one. A visitor uses eye and finger to spin eggs. the boiled egg spins like a top while the raw egg does not. The trick solves the puzzle and identifies the raw egg.
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