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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
4
Logansport Daily Reporter issued daily except Sunday with address 525 Broadway Logansport Indiana. Details include subscription rates Ten cents weekly Forty cents monthly yearly options and delivery by carrier with reporting of irregularities to the office.
An essay contrasts muckrakers exposing abuses with whitewashers smoothing over issues. It argues railways suffer under regulation and finance, while Roosevelt policies will squeeze out profits, and questions moral duties to maintain dividends during hard times.
In Washington on May 11 a letter laments no appropriations for DC playgrounds while Congress funds public buildings at about 30 million and stalls child labor legislation. The writer notes closed playgrounds due to lack of money, political maneuvering by Jim Tawney and Speaker Cannon, and an informal poll mentioned in the piece.
Senators discuss voting on a bill amid looming re elections with Hopkins Hemenway Allison Dolliver Bev eridge. Bev eridge moves to report next year. A wit on naturalists cites a pest parable and Lysiphlebus plan to curb wheat bug. Campaign finance reform surfaces as a key issue in Cannon era politics.
A senator quips about a colleague's "mouth over there" and a sneer as a public debate on home consumption rhetoric unfolds. The piece recalls Tom Reed dismissing a loud voice amid caustic rhetoric and notes that the Sherman anti trust amendment is stalled with Theodore Roosevelt potentially extracting a few good laws.
C H Taverner denounces a North Carolina political machine as a business operation serving Southern Railway and American Tobacco interests. He cites U S District Attorney A E Holton’s probes and federal agents’ actions against distillers, noting corruption and deliberate obstruction by machine allies.
John Adam examines the financial world’s anxiety over Grover Cleveland’s illness and potential death. He argues Cleveland’s neutrality and role as a balancingarbiter in Wall Street feuds could end the market’s “armed peace” and trigger shifts among powerful money interests.
A rural station scene shows a terse exchange as the Inquirer asks if the 4 11 train is on time and the agent directs them to be there at 4 11, clarifying that the time refers to tomorrow.
A breezy author markets a new book titled The Pit with a whirlwind sale that sweeps through readers and collectors, creating strong demand for the work. The seller drives rapid interest as copies move quickly.
An advertisement urges action against consumption the so called white plague noting Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds and is safe without unknown proportions. It urges customers to ask for Foley's Honey and Tar through druggist W. H. Porter.
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