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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
4
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Democratic nominee William J. Bryan, before a large Des Moines audience, assails Republican tariff revision and calls for gradual reform to ease taxation. He condemns protectionist interests and cites the Homestead strike to illustrate how tariffs benefit manufacturers while workers receive little. Bryan argues the party favors fair taxation, income tax equity, and honest schedules, challenging the Republicans to reveal contributor lists and explain farmer and wage earner benefits under protection.
Louisville, Ky August 22 a $25,000 damage suit claims the defendant factory damaged Richard Devine by allowing tuberculosis germs to persist in old carpets used for rugs. He says he worked there since Nov 9, 1906 at age 20 and did not know the carpets carried germs. The case marks a novel angle in damages.
Rev. Edmund A. Nevilin of New Albany Indiana recounts his capture by Papua New Guinea island natives. He describes fifteen months among cannibals, massacre of his party, survival by chance, and rescue when a Dutch gunboat arrived with armed sailors who took him aboard a steam launch.
The American Medical Association exhibit in Chicago drew protests from wives who demanded suppression of a new style corset demonstration. The event was halted after wives complained, though many male observers found the display scientifically interesting. The model was Mina Louise Clarkson, 21, employed by a corset firm to showcase a Carmet garment. She wore a union suit and knit petticoat, drawing crowds before the interruption. Doctors among the onlookers reportedly defended the display as educational.
Mrs Mary Tindlett of 201 Green Street Williamsburg New York was awakened by a sudden cry from her two year old John The family saw a large dock rat jump from the cradle and lacerate the child s wrist before the rat fled to a corner The husband defended the attacker while the mother protected the other children and moved to safety including Jewale aged four The incident ended without further harm to the baby but left the wrist wound and a moment of alarm for the family.
Thousands of Virginia Republicans at Hot Springs hear William H. Taft defend the people ruling in government. He cites McKinley and Roosevelt as examples of popular will, argues the people’s desires guided Republican administrations, and attacks Democratic tariff theories. Taft, with Mrs. Taft and officials, leads a country picnic scene at the Ball Park.
Washington August 22 Charles Strael catcher on the Washington baseball team won a $500 bet by catching a regulation baseball dropped from the top of the Washington Monument. From 560 feet, Street caught it on the thirteenth try after a brisk wind. The ball traveled about 135 feet per second.
A body found in an old trunk near Camden New Jersey is identified as Solomon J. Rosenblooom, a Windber Pennsylvania merchant. The name is confirmed by a Rosenblooin store clerk Harry Friscman. Figures from other reports include burning barn incidents at Carroll Iowa with livestock losses and a phonograph advertising crackdown in Altoga Pennsylvania led by Mayor Moyer.
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