Local political notes and state legislative actions
The issue includes announcements for Circuit Judge candidates, township offices, and Republican convention plans in Marshall township. It notes bills and vetoes on baseball laws, standards oil penalties, Taft and Roosevelt policy debates, and Illinois senatorial race dynamics with Hopkins and Foss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Township
Marshall
Highsways
John W Lewis R. L. Warriner
B M Davison
Harpers strikes oil at Cyrus Shock lease near Casey
Frank Harper announces a fourth oil well at Cyrus Shock place twelve miles south of Casey. The new well is good for a 40 barrel pumper and power setup will begin this week to pump it. He plans to drill out the lease afterward, earning commendation for perseverance after prior dry wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Harper
Cyrus Shock
Casey
Casey Banner
Cactus Developed for Sugar and Alcohol Attracts Interest
Luther Burbank’s plant development includes a cactus designed to yield sugar and alcohol. The announcement appears as temperance factors challenge alcohol production while interest grows in innovation. Visitors from Bayern Marshall attended the Terre Haute automobile show this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Burbank
Bayern Marshall
Terre’ Hautey
Will Be She Charming This Spring Hats
A humorous verse by S E Kiser mocks spring hat fashions describing toppers as frightful, resembling wash tubs inverted with hanging gardens. The poet urges readers to remain hopeful that women will still charm men despite odd millinery.
Uniform text book bill eyed for Illinois counties
Representative W. P. Holiday offers a Springfield plan to form a five member nonpaid county text book commission to set a uniform system. It would appoint one senator and one representative from each district, plus the county superintendent, and would oversee four year book contracts with a fixed price aim to save about twenty five percent. The piece also comments on subscription practices and praises the Clark County Herald as the local, unbiased news source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Holiday
Springfield
Clark County
Herald
A Benevolent Tyrant Joe Cannon Holds Power in Congress
The Globe-Democrat lauds Uncle Joseph Cannon as a benevolent tyrant whose half dozen years of strong rule wounded few and left scars few can match. The piece hints at why a self-ruling legislature keeps him on its throne and fears any other man enforcing its rules. Cannon, from Danville Illinois, is praised for holding vast power with restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark County
Joseph Cannon
The
Globe-Democrat
Joe Cannon
Danville
Ill
House of Representatives
Taft Names Cabinet Members With States Listed
President Taft reveals his cabinet lineup naming Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state McVeagh of Illinois as secretary of the treasury Dickinson of Tennessee as secretary of war Wickersham of New York as attorney general Huengostir? Huengostir as postmaster general Meyer of Massachusetts as secretary of the navy Ballinger of Washington as secretary of the interior Wilson of Iowa as secretary of agriculture Nagel of Arkansas as secretary of commerce and labor
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President Taft
Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Treasury
Franklin McVeagh
Illinois
Jacob M. Dickinson S
Tennessee
George W. Wickersham
New York
Frank H. Huengoeistar
Massachusetts
Navy
George Voh L. Méyer
the Interior
Richard A.ballinger
Washington
Agriculture
James Wilson
Iowa
Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel
Attasourt
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Indiana
National Museum
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Standard Oil Company
A. B. Anderson
Chicago
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway
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Grover Cleveland
State Senate
Wayne County
Hopkins
Foss
Sherman
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Mason
Funk
Stringer
McGallaghan
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Boston Herald
Ship of State
Senator Hopkins
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Arkansaw
S E Kiser
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