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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1907
Page
4
A frank medley of Missouri legislative proposals and national political chatter. Bills seek to boost homestead exemptions, compel railroads to form incorporations, and fund legal revisions with costly commissions. Taft eyeing Supreme Court move and anti trust measures loom amid railroad and county secession debates.
In the State Senate discussion, committees are formed and chaired as Senator Brown leads the effort to assign memberships and oversee the legislative agenda. The move signals a strategic reshaping of panels and influence within the chamber.
District committee assignments include appropriations agriculture roads and highways mining and miscellaneous laws with Christie Obriotie and others on railroads and internal improvements The Indian affairs committee weighs abandoning Carlisse Indian School but not Haskell Institute A text book commission bill seeks county level selection maps by five member panel Senator Brown proposes pay raise and longer sessions Attorney General Hadley sues to dissolve rail and express company mergers and revoke charters Sinclair Farris proposes seven percent max interest rate Speer backs a freight rate bill and aims to pass the old measure with minimal change
Debate rages in the legislature over the collateral inheritance tax. Under current law the tax proceeds amount to over half a million dollars annually and go to the state university. Some lawmakers seek to divert the funds into the general revenue fund.
Discussion centers on whether to fund the state school system or abolish the tax. Critics note most revenue comes from St. Louis and Kansas City and suggest directing proceeds to denominational schools or the school fund. Lawmakers expect modifications to the current measure.
The piece argues that Attorney General Hadley’s action against the Missouri Pacific Railroad seeks to test law on coal mines express and elevator businesses run through rail subsidiaries. It warns that rebates and favorable rates rob minority stockholders while benefiting insiders. The report notes many large railways have or may form express outfits with high dividends and cites regional differences in railroad mine relations.
The text argues railroads may abandon hauling coal for profit to drive independent mines out of business. It warns that unless railroads are barred from mining or limited to supplying only their needs, their market power could lead to railroad monopoly over the industry.
In a Pittsburgh scene, an iron founder laments his son William John, a Harvard graduate with honors, now back home. Father attributes the return to Harvard and questions drinking, social circles, and possible reform influence as the boy faces troubling change.
A business announces a change in operations and will liquidate the entire stock of groceries at cash prices. Fixtures to be sold include show case, safe, ice box, large coffee mill, and scales. Creditors are invited to settle debts by coming in to sell or settle their accounts.
Discussion on word formation and suffix pronunciation shows that autoneer becomes autoneer with price of lawyer for lawneer and teachneer for teacher. The proper ending for such coined terms is er, often shifting to yer or ier for phonetic reasons. The term engineer is explained as encluder rather than engine-neer.
A theory notes that wire bails and wire senens corrode faster than ron under similar exposure. Cold working is blamed for creating unusually large intermolecular spacon in the metal, accelerating corrosion.
Miss Madelyne A Bartlett of Boston profits by carving artificial teeth from cases and descriptions provided by dentists. She creates the work from a color sample and aims to match natural teeth, noting the care required in shading.
The earliest seventeenth century clocks bore maker names in Latin at the bottom of the dial. In the next period makers’ names appeared across the lower dial face between the V and VI figures.
A fragment notes Itow claiming the line Mother may I go out to swim dates back about 1300 years with later variants around 1400 by 1.000, suggesting widespread parodies and enduring harmber references.
During an all-night sitting the British House of Commons disposed of large quantities of beverages. The tally included 1 000 cups of coffee, 600 cups of tea, 70 whiskies and sodas, 420 bottles of beer, and 700 cases among other items.
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