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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1914
Page
2
The Herald announces it has the largest circulation among Clark County newspapers, asserting leadership in local news distribution and readership reach.
Democratic candidate Joseph W Wallace of Auburn township announces his bid for County Sheriff pending the Democratic primary. He runs on a platform pledging law enforcement, community safety, and party strengthening within the county.
For Commissioner of Highways Mike Moore will be a candidate for Marshall township, subject to the Democratic primary.
Plans for Marshall township and Wabash township collectors include Joseph L Carles Mack Rolfson and John Nolach as Republican nominees. The Youth's Companion editorial notes tariff expectations and actual relief, discusses eggs clothing and foreign competition, and highlights pay issues for absent Congress members and the Hobson case.
The article argues tariffs on clothing and lumber will not quickly lower costs or rents. It notes natural price fluctuations matter more than policy shifts and that cotton cloth and steel prices depend on crops and global exports, with steel facing strong foreign competition even after tariff reductions.
Major General William H. Carter returns after eleven months on the Mexican frontier praising the Texas-based division. He extols the soldiers as the finest and best drilled corps he has seen, drawn from the central division, with noted sharpshooting feats.
Gen. Carter lauds a roughly 20 000 strong army contingent as highly efficient and capable. He notes soldiers live up to best traditions, attracting better recruits and forming a strong nucleus for defense of the nation’s honor and life.
The Burnett immigration bill, approved 241 to 126 by the House, requires admission readers to demonstrate ability in English or another language by reading a 30 to 40 word passage. The measure, vetoed by Taft and Cleveland, awaits Senate action as President Wilson voices no support for the literacy test.
Majority Leader Underwood told the House that equal suffrage is dead within the Democratic party. Representative Lentout of Wisconsin charged him with choking off the issue in caucus, but Underwood said the judiciary committee could still report a suffrage constitutional amendment while he would not push for a favorable report.
Robert Gunn Bremner a member of Congress from New Jersey's Seventh District and editor of the Passaic Daily Herald died at a Baltimore sanitarium after radium treatment for cancer. He was 39, survived by a wife and seven siblings, and had hoped to push a bill for a government-owned radium institute. President Wilson, a close friend, sent messages and flowers.
A Walt Mason style verse laments lack of optimism in everyday tasks from drawing stove wood to guiding stubborn pigs. The speaker notes many fail to smile when misfortune strikes, and warns against forcing sunshine on others, describing the unserious, crippled optimism of a too cheerful worker.
Chief Sam of the Akim tribe arrives in Chicago from M TE Okla to launch a voyage back to Africa. He claims a boat is waiting in New York to carry 1200 on this trip and 1200 more in six weeks, urging blacks to return to the Gold Coast for farms and gold. The voyage is tied to a trading company offering ship transport.
Captain Thomas I Porter of the US Secret Service writes of ten million pesos printed for a non existent Mexican government. The bills were found packed in twelve pine boxes weighing 1290 pounds and shipped as printing paper from Washington to Chicago then Nogales via rail. Washington authorities ruled the money could not be considered counterfeit since no government exists in Mexico, so it was to be released.
More than 5,000 workers lose jobs as express companies cut expenses after a double blow from the parcel post system and Interstate Commerce Commission mandates. Executives say further layoffs or pay cuts are expected, with smaller firms consolidating offices and reducing rents and drayage by housing multiple firms under one roof.
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