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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1912
Page
2
Taft pushes reform with express rate reductions and the Bourne parcels post law. Judges credit the administration for progressive measures enacted to curb costs of living, expand distribution, and boost production. The article lauds Taft’s restraint and calls the era a lasting progressive epoch.
A reader writes after fifteen years of paper reading criticizing Wilson and Willson with strong party views. The letter asks if re election would affect helped want ads and help wanted sections, noting eight pages of help wanted and two and a half pages of situations as evidence of the paper’s value to the city. The writer presses for clarity on political outcome and newspaper usefulness.
The article argues Woodrow Wilson avoids a tariff discussion, labeling his platform as flexible and not a real program. It accuses him of evading debate on trusts, shifting positions, and proposes that his campaignについて lacks commitment to scientific tariff revision while noting Democratic controls on trust investigations.
The Wilson defense bureau rebuts misinterpretations of Woodrow Wilsons writings on immigrants and unions by urging publication of his own words. The statement asserts neither Wilson nor his allies can blame workers or European immigrants for misreadings and cites Roosevelt from November 8, 1904, about term limits and candidacy.
An advertisement extols Fels-Naptha Soap as a time saving aid for housework. It contrasts frugal living with luxuries, suggesting washing clothes easily without gas or coal, and promises cleaner clothes with less effort in cool water. The copy urges following wrapper directions to prove ease of use. FELS & CO. PHILADELPHIA
A joint resolution proposes amending article nine section four of the Pennsylvania Constitution to permit the state to issue up to fifty million dollars in bonds for highway improvement and rebuilding, while adjusting existing debt limits. The measure, Acts of the General Assembly, is recorded as Joint Resolution No. 1.
A joint resolution proposes amending Article Three Section Seven to permit local or special laws regulating labor. It lists current prohibited local laws and includes a new clause allowing regulation of labor, trade, mining or manufacturing, with provisions on repealing general laws and limits on special powers.
A scanned excerpt outlines broad constitutional restrictions on local and special laws including township changes, court procedures, taxation, education funding, debt collection, labor regulation, and corporate charters. It lists prohibitions on local acts that would grant special powers, and notes it is a true copy authenticated by Secretary Robert McAfee.
The concurrent resolution proposes constitutional amendment changes to section three of article eight. It allows all state at large judges to be elected at general or municipal elections as needed and shifts judicial and local officer elections to the municipal day on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd years. It preserves ongoing terms for judges ending in odd years and sets two thirds approval by both houses.
The document outlines Joint Resolution No. 4 proposing changes to section one of article nine of Pennsylvania's constitution. It would authorize classification of subjects for graded taxes while preserving existing exemptions for public property used for public purposes religious worship burial grounds not for private profit and public charity institutions. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4 ROBERT McAver
A joint resolution proposed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth seeks to amend the state constitution. The text outlines the amendment process and legislative procedure for adoption.
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