Two little butchers vs big beef trust in 20th century worries
The piece malgrades labor and industry, citing New Jersey factory workers including 51 090 women earning 530 weekly and 8000 under 16 employed at 3 a week. It rails at packers, consumer prices, and child labor while urging reader responsibility for social ills. It condemns wage slavery and notes a Kansas City bicycle accident involving a working girl and public scorn of dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Kansas City
Darrow on justice and power across society
A quotation attributed to Darrow speaks against entrenched injustice, noting lawyers, judges, the state, the press, and the church as complicit in oppression. It condemns truth crushed by malice and the mob, arguing that liberty is denied to the disinherited in modern society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church
Darrow
Miles and Senators Tangle Over Suppressed Papers
A terse, period styled note describes how Senators faced by Miles pressed for action. The text hints at a conflict over suppressed papers and the fate of Mr. Root within a political snafu. The fragment emphasizes intrigue in legislative ranks and a targeting of press or documentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Root
Miles
Beef trust politics and war office secrets debate
A satirical broadside criticizes Republican leaders over Philippine policy and war office disclosures. It questions Miles’s discipline, calls war office secrets hard to obtain, and mocks debates on beef trusts, currency plans, and tariff impacts amid political infighting and public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippines
Miles
Carnegie
Mr. Carnegie
War Office
Waller
Two Men in a Park Story from The Worker
A pale, recently released iron-worker from Bellevue and a red-faced thief talk on a park bench near Forty-second Street. The thief taunts him about the bag of tools, while the pale man notes the criminal’s own weak lot. The exchange touches on jail, hospital, and social help, ending with the pale man alone, considering his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Worker
New York
S. Weir Mitchell
Reservoir
Forty-second Street
Georgia Development and Lumber Company formed in Atlanta
Insatiate money kings of the East move to seize valuable land as a ten million dollar corporation is formed in Atlanta by sundry New York millionaires under the name Georgia Development and Lumber Company, aiming to control land nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Atlanta
New York
Georgia Development and Lumber Company
Land trust plan to seize vast state lands alarmed citizens
The Southern Mercury warns that a company seeks to acquire property across the state and develop it on a colossal scale. It aims to become the largest landowner in the world, then import laborers to farm it, risking dispossession of native settlers and the founders' heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Mercury
Committee Meeting of People's Party in Garnett
The People's party county central committee will meet in Garnett on Saturday May 17 at 2 pm to arrange primaries and the county convention for delegates to the state convention in Topeka on June 14. Members urged to attend to discuss important questions. L. D. Watrap chairman C. T. Hiarr secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People's Party County Central Committee
Garnett
Topeka
L. D. Watrap
C. T. Hiarr
Opie Read urged toward Wall Street by publishers
Chicago publishers accuse Opie Read the novelist of failing to meet a contract. They say from July 1897 he was paid £40 a week plus a percent royalty to write two novels yearly for six years. By July 190? they claim he owed four novels and had drawn $6,000 overdraft. They deem his talent wasted and advocate a business career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Opie Read
Mr. Read
Rgor
Roosevelt Rebukes Funston Over Traitortalk In Kansas Populist View
The Kansas Populist harshly criticizes General Funston for his remarks about traitors and Philippine soldiers. It claims President Roosevelt delayed in silencing Funston, suggesting Freddie would have inflated his importance without being asked to stop. The piece contrasts Funston with General Miles and questions the timing of the rebuke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Funston
Roosevelt
Freddie
Miles
Kansas
Railroads taxed by valuation compares across states
The piece notes taxation valuation for railroads, $6,780 per mile in the state last year, far lower than mortgage or watered stock values, and far below Missouri at $11,430 per mile. It argues railroads pay less than half their just share based on earning power and mortgage value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Missouri
Industrial Free Press
Winfield
Propriety clash between two local "heroes" sparks editorials
Ottawa Republic notes a quarrel between self-styled heroes, one from Santiago and another from Bagbag, who rebuke each other for speaking out. The piece questions propriety and decency among supposed city champions and humorously laments the public discord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santiago
Ottawa Republic
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sagitatord
Narnen
Purlinned Weekly
C. Champe
Anna Duiampe
M. Alexander
Big Beef Trust
Joplin
Washington
Globe- Democrat
Mr. Rat
Breaise
Mr Root
Chivaman
Hill
Democratic Party
Unite the Beet Trust
Jp State Journal
Canada
Bellevue Hospital
Avams
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!