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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
5
A column argues John D. Rockefeller is treated as a human being in a southern city and expresses irony that his immense corporate power makes him “inhuman.” It portrays Rockefeller as merged with vast corporations, likening them to a glacier crushing human concerns, while acknowledging his charitable gifts and personal yearnings.
Milwaukee man George Willoughby confessed to killing his wife Florence Willoughby and hid a bloodstained pistol. He claimed an illicit four year relationship with another woman and asked police to keep her name secret. The case spurred questions about the unidentified lover.
Wu Ting F ang arrived in the United States with twenty two Chinese youths to receive a full American education. He argues international peace hinges on understanding national characteristics and that mutual education among nations will reduce conflicts and ultimately end wars. He calls for a global society to foster this learning and criticizes US exclusion laws as an obstacle to progress.
A Royal Center resident claimed to have bought one ticket in a humorous boast. The fragment notes a time and context but lacks further details on event, date, or outcome.
A Washington opinion piece blasts party loyalty as blind following for forty years. It urges independent, thinking voters to desert failed parties and support men on the square to curb graft and taxes, warning against Boss Graft and the Almighty Dollar Society.
Oberlin M Carter says he is another Dreyfus. The text questions what Greene and Gay will call themselves when they get out, noting no decision has been made.
Edward Royse, backed by the Republican state convention as a starter, campaigns for controller of the currency. He would succeed Ridgely who may reorganize a Kansas City bank. Royse, born 1858 in Marion county Iowa, moved to Nebraska in 1878 and settled at Broken Bow after working as a telegraph operator and engaging in politics and finance.
A fragmentary poem lauds spring’s scent and nature’s breath. The speaker yearns for soil and plowing while noting another man holding the reins, hinting at shared labor and rural awakening.
A man killed after being run over prompts a critical rebuttal to Cincinnati Mayor Markbreit who said no woman could run an automobile. The speaker argues women can operate motors despite him noting they are nonvoters, insisting the fact cannot be sidestepped.
A fragment hints at concerns over open work in Magdalena Day. The lines note daily minutes and personal targets, suggesting unease during the day.
London reports May Mortimer Maxwell in the Daily Mail attacks American suffragists labeling New York women cowards and untraveled. She says English women would resist police and endure jail for suffrage while American women reject the ballot though they dress better.
Mrs. M. Summers offers a free home treatment for bed wetting in children and adults. She invites mothers to write from Notre Dame Indiana for the instructions and does not require payment. The notice emphasizes not blaming the child and claims the method works for urine difficulties by day or night.
Mrs Lee Dillman of Van Buren dropped dead at her home Monday evening just before retiring. The death occurred without warning and authorities are notifying relatives.
Wanted men to learn barber trade. Will equip shop or furnish positions, constant practice, tools provided. Saturday wages. Write for catalogue. Moler Barber College Chicago.
Hermingsen Cigar Co seeks a salesman to sell retail trade in the locality. Earn $65 per month plus expenses. Commission offered, no experience required. Toledo.
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