State Salaries and Taxpayer Burden Prompt Outcry
A garbled list shows salaries for various state roles including lieutenant governor, assistant secretaries, clerks and supervisors with figures in the 1 500 to 2 500 range. The piece ends with a blunt critic accusing state officials of overpay and draining funds from education to prop up a pay-hike for government hangers-on, asking taxpayers how they like it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Board of Railroad Missioners
Berane Ass’t
Cief
Public Instruction
Insura
State of Agriculture
Ithaca learns value of public water works ownership
A piece notes Ithaca New York faced typhoid deaths after private water works failed to protect the system. It cites Cornell University and hospital strain, urging municipal ownership, and argues public control echoes lessons from the coal strike and railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithica
N. Y
Cornell University
Thica
Leaders Enjoined Over Threatened Wabash Strike
Judge Elmer B Adams issued an injunction restraining trainmen and firemen committee members from ordering or aiding a strike on the Wabash road. Writs served to prevent any action delaying interstate traffic. Attorneys call the injunction unconstitutional and seek its dissolution in federal court amid wage dispute. The piece argues government ownership would avert labor disputes and strikes.
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Elmer B. Adams
Wabash Road
United States
Contemptible Legislature Seeks Tuition at Agricultural College
A critic denounces a $9 yearly tuition for Agricultural College students as ruinous to work students and worthy youth. The speaker argues the legislature, which he calls the most contemptible, should expand aid and facilities rather than burden farmers' sons and daughters seeking education. He cites state savings as negligible and condemns wasteful payrolls.
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Agricultural College
Noison
Agricultual College
Sale of White House relics shocks Mrs Hayes circle
Friends and admirers of Mrs Lucy Hayes condemn the sale of a sideboard presented by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The same brewery bought other White House relics for a White House saloon at the St Louis world’s fair, with President Roosevelt alleged to know of the sale. Republicans blocked an investigation, and the incident is called a burning shame.
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Lucy Hayes
Hayes
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
White House
St. Louis
Roosevelt
Big Families and a Failing System Explained
In People's Voice reflecting on Roosevelt's stance, the writer argues that wealth concentration and political corruption deny ordinary men and women any future beyond low paying clerical work. Marriage becomes a financial risk as family costs rise, and the system blocks opportunity for the average person.
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Roosevelt
Roosevelt urged to change system to support large families
The writer argues the president should reform conditions to ease the burden on young couples. A fair living should be possible without perpetual worry, making family expansion a source of sunshine rather than strain, and removing grounds for complaint about scarce prosperity.
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Roosevelt
State Senate Votes Exempt Idle Money from Taxation
The senate approved exempting idle funds from taxes, with Senator Crum voting in favor. The plan allows capitalists to call in most of their money before the assessor's yearly visit, leaving funds effectively idle.
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Senate
Crum
Stop and Think on Public Ownership and Prices
Stop and Think urges readers to support public ownership to curb rail and oil costs and curb corporate influence. It cites Carroll D Wright on 15 cents per 100 miles and Rockefeller's Standard Oil as price drivers while praising a charitable hospital gift and arguing for a cooperative commonwealth to end distress.
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Warren
Herald
Carroll D. Wright
America
Congress
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Lorenz
Vienna
Co-Operative Commonwealth
Inverted Fable Shows Deer Proud of Hunting Skill
A fable recounts Promil and a buck boasting about tracking a man, draining moral pride from a hunter who used hounds and canoe to kill. The fawn questions bravery, while the father insists pride comes with his prowess and future power.
Burton linked to notorious St Louis get-rich scheme
The Denver Post reports no doubt Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas was connected with a notorious St. Louis get-rich concern. He served as the attorney for the company, described as a nice man to represent Kansas in the United States senate.
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Denver Post
J. R. Burton
Kansas
St. Louis
Attorney
United States Senate
In the Melting-Pot Prom George T Herron
In a speech Herron argues American Socialism is being tried in the political melting pot to emerge as a national effort for freedom and a fuller life. He says his place is with comrades sharing their struggles and early defeats in the movement.
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George T. Herron
Oil price hike blamed on demand and plant shutdowns
The Standard Oil Company justifies a price surge by rising demand while shutting a large New York refining plant and threatening closures affecting Brooklyn and Long Island City workers and families. The notice claims plants are unnecessary, implying scarcity to justify higher prices, a tactic likened to railroads exploiting coal users.
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Standard Oil Company
New York
Brooklyn
Long Island City
Olathe Tribune
People’s Party State Central Committee Meeting At Topeka
The Kansas state central committee met in Topeka on February 20, 1903, and adopted resolutions urging continued education through the press, leading Kansas in People's Party principles, opposing corporate control, and planning full county and state conventions in 1904. W. J. Bann chaired, J. H. Cugran served as secretary.
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People’s Party OF Kansas
Topeka
Kansas
Otter
People's Party
Ald
W. J. Bann
Chm
People's Party State Central Com
J. H. Cugran
Coal Confiscation Critique Sparks Alarm
A newspaper exchange notes that capitalism has already produced confiscation of private property during the coal famine. Reports claim coal was taken from railroad trains without authorization at several points, with little law enforcement effort. The excerpt cites a mayor, a clergyman, and other prominent citizens participating in wholesale confiscation.
Lone Elm Items Reveal Local Happenings and Loss
Read in Lone Elm items this week with movements to Kinewil and Blue Mound, stock shipments to Kansas City, store work on Kempton’s building, and a surprise veteran gathering at G. Whinby’s. The district notes illnesses, a fatality, and a funeral in Lowell with a large community sendoff.
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J. P Reltew Ie
Jno
Kidwell
Blue Mound
Olin Reeve
Kansas City
Nessie Schuessler
Messer
Amos Anderson
Richard Rogers
Tol
Luntherman
Vrs
Cornelia Minckley
Elo
Weasera
Win
Irwin
Air Cand Ars
Lewin
C. H. Nichols
Nathan Anderson
Tommy Anders
Nicholg
Asec
G. Whinby
Ginbey
Lone Elm
Holcomb’s Headache Powders Promises Quick Cure
A brief ad promotes Holcomb’s Headache Powders claiming they have cured others and will cure you. The copy stresses rapid relief and appeals to readers seeking fast headache solutions.
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Holcomb
District 57 Paper I Reciva Report
In Washington and Lincoln districts the day’s discussions cover sense training and classroom focus. Winifred Day and Hattie Selanders lead the talks while Sadie Roakes from Greeley School lends input with Bila Steward and other participants contributing to the exchange.
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Reciva
I. B. Studebaker
Lessins
Washington
Lincoln
Winifred Day
Hattie Selanders
Sadie Roakes
Greeley School
Bila
Thaitg
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Tme Maier
Weamly
Champe
Anna Champe
Editora
JM. Alexander
WASP
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Garnatt, Kis
Promil
Reeve
Kinewil
Dowartin
la Marpe
R. J. Hulert
Lola
Mark Shockey
Incx
Tella
M. F. Cur
Lowell
Cornine
Farrow
Tita
Anderson County Teachers Association
Westphalia
Studebaker Tnynention
Caldwell
Eva Kershner
Dist
O. Leah Stephenson
Reading Circle Work
Price
Hinsdale
Reading Circle
Jennie Hollingshead Watkine
Mabel Say
Nellie Turnett
Wella
County Sperintendente
Dayce GR Laweltar
Og Wistland
LIN McDonald Broge
Proprietors
Ardera
Pourth Avenue Hotel
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