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Newspaper
Monroe City Democrat
Location
Monroe City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
Entry shows the Monroe City Missouri post office handling a second class matter filed for processing. The fragment indicates official postal activity and classification under mail handling procedures.
A Baltimore Sun excerpt notes that orthodox papers like the Springfield Republican print ideas about delaying a decision until after March 4, 1904, to entice Theodore Roosevelt to accept the German ambassadorship. It imagines a meeting of two great souls shaping world affairs.
The mayor and state superintendent spoke to students as a local school committee chair urged the pupils to observe workers outside. He described railway workers paid 35, a time keeper 55, an engineer 100, and a superintendent 200, asking the lesson: education yields more.
The text argues precocity may signal degeneration and premature senility, noting a prenatal senile period in the fourth and fifth months. It cites Lombrose on genius often linked to degeneracy and recalls Relief de la Bretonone who wrote at fourteen, with the adage a wit of five is a fool of twenty illustrating the harsh view of precocity.
The Quincy Herald contrasts a politician who seeks benefit from the country with a statesman who seeks to serve the country. It adds a note on religious reluctance and a gardening metaphor about understanding God’s laws, soil, and harvest without explanation.
In Georgetown Delaware Sheriff reports difficulty locating a man named Levin J Harmon drawn for jury duty. The notice aimed to avoid a racial issue by finding no white man of that name, noting no prior summons to a Negro, and acknowledging no such summons had been issued. The episode sparked protests over race in the grand jury process.
The Moberly Monitor argues that past decade conditions foster political demagogues. It depicts them as agitators lacking convictions or knowledge of principles, seeking public attention over justice or expediency, valuing popularity above principle.
Jobn Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader, criticized Payne and Cannon calling them figures who resemble old sayings. He denied that Democrats were filibustering and said they were engaged in forcing legislation amid Democratic applause.
A mothersly Democrat praises Senator Stone for declining to be one of the four delegates to the Denver convention. She argues that a capable non-office holding Democrat should receive the honor and that Stone would join in if nomination fights arise. She urges honoring another democrat while Stone remains free to lead.
In the Cas tead mountains near Alberta canyon Calgary on April 16 a major slide on the Canadian Pacific line swept away two boarding cars carrying Japanese laborers. Telegraph lines were knocked down and no death toll or details are available at this time.
In a string of quotes and notices a claim appears that Hyomei cures coughs and colds within 24 hours. The ad touts a complete Hyomei outfit for 1.00, with extra duties making future need 50 cents, and cites testimonials from Joseph M Harbaugh of Heldredge Neb. as support.
The Howell County Gazette notes a St. Louis Democratic paper endorses William J. Bryan for president and William J. Stone for senator, arguing the stance guarantees their nominations. The piece frames the endorsements as decisive for the party’s ticket.
The Platte City Landmark quotes Teddy declaring “my fleet” and “my army” while Joe Can non talks of “me and them fellers” in a reference to a dignified American Congress. The passage reads as a derisive political aside from a local paper.
The Lewis County Observer questions what Hadley did with the 76000 dollars allotted by the last legislature for his expenses. It asks what percentage he has turned back to the state treasury and taunts Republican opponents to provide an answer.
The Helena Democrat notes Judge Landis fined a man one cent, contrasting with a $29,000,000 penalty imposed on Standard Oil. The difference totals $28,999,999, underscoring the disparity in penalties.
Fulton Telegraph reports the post office department issued another order compelling newspapers to pay postage on rural route subscribers. The piece likens the tactic to John D. Rockefeller as he raises oil prices after giving away thousands. The government raised pay for many postal employees and plans to shift costs to papers.
The Linners Bulletin urges Missouri Democrats after the August primaries to support candidates with broad mass appeal in November. It emphasizes Jeffersonian principles of equal rights for all and opposition to personal favoritism, calling for party leaders to place principled candidates on the ticket.
The Canton Press critiques Judge Evans for last Saturday's Fulton speech, predicting it foreshadows how he would run his campaign for governor. The piece labels prominent Democrats as temerity in backing Folk over Evans and accuses the rhetoric of harking back to disfranchisement days.
The piece argues Hadley could run on his record highlighting more assistants and funds than predecessors, yet no suits won and none fined for treasury. It notes he starts many suits but fails to finish, calling him a good acorer but a poor finisher, with the Kansas City election cited as diminishing prospects.
The National Museum received a forty pound cannon ball fired from Fort Sumter at the war’s start on April 12, 1861. Dr W Hutson Ford of Washington recounts carrying the ball from Sumter to Charleston, Aiken, St Louis and finally to the museum, noting its historic value.
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