Locals Highlight Pleasant Visitor and College Chapel Event
John Shellenberger of Herndon visited yesterday while Gen. T. Sweaney was announced to speak at College Chapel on Wednesday night January 29 at 8 p.m. Monroe Wilkerson traveled from Nelson on Wednesday to order the Republican. Misses Rachel VanDyke, Lawise VanDyke, and Marcia Francisco visited Slater with Mrs. Chas Breele. J. H. Coffey and R. Curry came from the western county. Curry paid a dollar for The Golden Age subscription at College Chapel on January 20 at 8 p.m. by Gen. T. Sweeney.
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John Shellenberger
Herndon
Gen. T. Sweaney
College Chapel
Monroe Wilkerson
Nelson
Rachel
Lawise VanDyke
Marcia Francisco
Slater
Chas. Breele
J. H. Coffey
R. Curry
Mr. Curry
Gen. T. Sweeney
Was Marshall Negro Charles Smith Confess to Sternberg Killings
Charles Smith confessed in Kansas City to involvement in the Sternberg murders. He served two years of a five year term for escaping Marshall jail. His accomplice was the robber nicknamed Dollar Bill. They robbed $76 after killing Mr. and Mrs. Sternberg as they entered a grocery.
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Charles Smith
Kansas City
Sternberg
State Penitentiary
Marshall
Smith
Obituary: Mrs Andy Aulgar Dies After Yearlong Illness
Mrs Andy Aulgar died at her home south of Herndon Tuesday at 9am after about a yearlong illness. She was 67. Survived by husband and five children Ives James Robert John and Mrs Jane Fenwick. Funeral services held at Antioch church at 2pm Wednesday conducted by Rev Carter. The family extends heartfelt sympathy.
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Herndon
Ives
James
Robert
John
Jane Fenwick
Antioch Church
Carter
Sue
New Marshall High School Building Occupied Monday
New Marshall high school building occupied Monday with systematic studies under new conditions. Teachers and pupils resolved to the change. A musical program and several speeches followed before adjournment for the day.
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Marshall High Schol
Patrick Henry Houluhan Led Train Officials Visit Marshall
A biographical sketch details Patrick Henry Houluhan general superintendent of the Toledo St Louis Western and Chicago and Alton railways visiting Marshall with a corps of road officials. The piece traces his birth in 1855 Ottawa Illinois and his career from water boy to general superintendent across multiple lines including the Burlington system and Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad.
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Patrick Henry Houluhan
Toledo, St. Lews & Western RR. Co
Chicago & Alton Railway
Marshall Sunday
W. D. Taylor
Petr Maher
W.m.corbett
J l L. Marquette
W. E. Kevery
JG. But
Jobn Allison
Jengineer
L. E. Phillips
P. &. Clampit
Chas
Rogers
Fligman
Biog
General l
St. Lows & Wont
St. Lows & Wont » Liailrow
Cicero
Alan Railroad
Copany
Chicago
Ottawa
Illinois
Water Boys
Oswego
Fox River Valley Road
Chicago & Alton
Rairoad Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Winona
Streater
Aurora
Lilonis
Fox River Branch
St. Louis
Burlington
Missouri & Kansas Division
West Division
Hannibal and
Under Ten Flags College Chapel Talk by ZT Sweeney
General ZT Sweeney delivers a chapel talk titled Under Ten Flags at the College Chapel on January 29, presented by the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company as part of a school event.
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ZT. Sweeney
College Chapel
County Local Option Election Set for Saturday
Tomorrow is the county local option election day with polls open for voters. Slater votes next Tuesday as residents prepare for the local choice on the ballot.
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Slater
Taft Dinner Open to All in Missouri
EK McJimsey, president of the Association of Young Republicans of Missouri, announces no formal invitations for the February 10 banquet at Convention Hall Kansas City. Secretary Taft will speak. tickets go to applicants first, sold by Charles H. Haskell of St Joseph, secretary of the federation.
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EK. E E. McJimsey
Young Republicans of
Missouri
Kansas City
Taft
Charles H. Haskell
St. Joseph
Judicial Warning on Public Ownership by Supreme Court Justice Brower
Brower warns in Leslie's Weekly that public indebtedness burdens future generations through taxes while private debt harms only heirs. He contrasts private mortgage risk with state debt that taxes posterity, urging each generation to bear its own burdens and fund improvements relevant to its era.
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Justice Brower
United States Supreme Court
Leslie
Functions of the State Analyzed by Bishop Stang
In a recent address at St Mary's cathedral Bishop Stang of Fall River analyzes the functions of the state. He presents a moral and civic framework for government duties, stressing duties to provide order, welfare, and public virtue as essential to a just political system.
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Stang
Fall River
St Mary’s Cathedral
State role in public welfare and private ownership
The government should foster public well being and private prosperity by maintaining peace and order, safeguarding families, and punishing evil. Authority may intervene if strikes threaten public peace or labor health, but not intrude beyond removing danger. The state protects private ownership and aims to encourage ownership, rejecting a socialist paradise.
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Ciel
Public ownership peril to curb political grafts
The Newark Advertiser argues municipal control of street railways electric light and gas plants ferries would create a political archy in city government. It cites 25 000 Philadelphia city employees who kept the Dur la m machine in power and warns public ownership would bind and empower grafting bosses, endangering democracy. Long Branch Record notes the lesson for New York and other cities.
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New York City
Newark Advertiser
Philadelphia
Tourbam
Winler
New York
Long Branch
N. J
Tom Johnson and City Payroll Power in Municipal Ownership
Mansfield Ohio letter argues municipal ownership would boost political power for Tom Johnson by adding 25 000 city payroll employees. It imagines him as mayoral candidate backed by paid retainers and opposed fare or street railways ownership he once supported.
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Tom
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Mansfield
Nowa
To Insist Government Ownership Guards Against Abuses
The notice argues that government ownership is necessary to prevent abuses and defends the form of governance against claims of impotence. It addresses President Fair and discusses implications for national policy and public confidence.
Municipal Macy Cha rges Against City Ownership
Hew London Massachusetts residents voted 109 to something against municipal ownership of public utilities. The piece argues against city control and mocks brick trusts and streetcar debates. It cites a Detroit alderman joke about brick price reductions and mentions a Michigan town lighting plant vacancy and a park department appropriation showing a profit on the books.
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Hew
London
Michigan
Common Council
Park Department
Lighting Commission
Telephone experiences in Nantes prompt government takeover
Fragmentary notes describe a private telephone system in Nantes, France that the paternal government later seized. After years of trial the government reportedly received compensation and aimed to improve service, but readers complain that authorities failed to address issues and expanded control.
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San Francisco Chronicle
la Re Setae
Nantes
France
Sree Space considers sale of municipal lighting plant
A local utility company has decided to sell the municipal lighting facility it owns since 1806. The move aims to raise funds for a broader project, with the sale expected to affect city energy operations and future taxation.
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Sree Space Met
Ans Owporation
Dubin
Bow
Fane
Tien
Failure in Boston 1906 municipal gas and electric plan
The report recounts Boston’s long struggle with municipal utilities showing repeated losses from printing ferries and water systems and high veterinary costs for city horses. It notes Harvey Chase and Thomas Nichols findings of inefficiency, debt, and poor recordkeeping, arguing against expanding city services.
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Blarvey Chase
Boston
Bostes
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Z.t.sweeney
Leral
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
Amos L. Burnside
Miami
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Delakell
Marshal
Florence Shiukie
John Kendrick Bangs
Tommyret Fe
Crosstows
Ty Fathers
Detroit
Nett
Try & Eetablich Municipal Gas and Electric Light Works
Besauee
Weare
Cty Council of
Harvey Chase
Mayer Collins
Thomas P. Nichols
Am Mable
Aston Foltee
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