Campaign Advertising by Southern Commercial Congress
The Southern Commercial Congress is praised for its advertising effort and reported as doing good work in promoting business interests.
03 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
1
The Southern Commercial Congress is praised for its advertising effort and reported as doing good work in promoting business interests.
The piece argues for continued national and international advertising to boost Southern economic interests. It cites Canada’s successful campaigns, recent big U S ads, and argues significant real estate and commercial potential in the South justifies costly nationwide outreach despite high prices.
New Orleans reports a $13,000 defalcation by Gaston Dominguez assistant cashier and ledger bookkeeper at Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. The 25 or 26 year old, linked to director John Bourg by marriage, confessed after being discharged January 18. His family covered the shortage, and he left for Texas as investigators review the case.
Peoria Ill Feb 3 A fire started at 530 pm in the tipple of the Shell mine near the main shaft. A rescue party entered the escape shaft and brought out two miners who were near death from suffocation. Fire damaged upper works and wooden structures. volunteers extinguished the blaze two hours later. Mine owned by Sholl Bros Peoria.
A deadly gas ignition in the No 3 shaft of the Esperanzas Mining Company in Las Esperanzas Coahuila Mexico kills fifty six with many injured. sorrowful villagers gather as candles illuminate corpses and mourners console each other. In Washington the Senate takes up a fight for larger weevil control funding as House efforts falter.
A cablegram to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from W. W. Peet reports continuing misery in parts of Turkey near the Adana massacre site. The relief fund treasurer in Constantinople notes severe hunger and suffering.
Dr K E D Bued Shepherd heads relief work in the Aintab region delivering aid to a distressed population. The message highlights great distress among Moslems and widespread starvation as the crisis deepens.
The Plant Industry Bureau supporters vow to follow demonstrators and press for higher cotton boll weevil control funding. Mr Wickliffe cites House debate as a near miss that could open the door to renewed Senate action and an eventual appropriation increase.
In Little Rock and Hope Arkansas, Governor Donaghey offered to send a special train and militia protection to guard Charles Dove after he was shot while jailed for allegedly insulting a white woman. Authorities feared a lynching before he dies, and militiamen guarded him en route to Texarkana hospital. In Kentucky, Frankfort observed the tenth anniversary of William Goebel’s death with unveiling of a monument and the burial of his brother Arthur Goebel.
The American exposes the beef trust as a monopolistic force harming consumers with high prices. It accuses Armour, Swift, and Morris of profiteering via vast capitalization and stockpiled meat and dairy stocks stored in cold storage. The piece argues prosecutors should shut the trust down for false profits and market manipulation.
A unanimous caucus of the insurgents in the House approves the administration's legislative agenda including railroad and conservation measures and postal savings banks and anti injunction efforts. Representatives Gardner of Massachusetts and Hayes of California will inform the president. They exclude ship subsidy and Federal incorporation from the list. They expect no caucus on the rules issue, ready to act on the floor if raised.
Oshkosh Wisconsin February 3 delegates attended the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Consumers League Mrs Carl Stern presided Speakers included Lewis Hine National Child Labor Committee Miss Rose M Perdus state factory inspector and Rev H H Jacobs warden of the University settlement in Milwaukee
Jackson reports a stalled Mississippi senatorial caucus as ballots show no clear winner. On the thirty-eighth ballot Vardaman had 69, Percy 84, Alexander 36, Kyle 14, Byrd 13, Street 4, Humphreys 1. The thirty-ninth shows Vardaman 68, Percy 38, Alexander 35, Kyle 13, Byrd 13, Street 3. Adjourned to 7:30 tomorrow.
The Cooper Carmack murder case heads to a final appeal for a new trial. Attorneys for the defense argue pivotal errors affected the verdict, urging reversal and retrial in the high court.
General Luke E L Wright pleads for new trial on behalf of Colonel Duncan B and Robin Cooper convicted of the Carmack murder. He argues political influence tainted the case and that a fair jury could not be found, describing events leading to the slaying. Arthur Goebel's body rests beside his brother, the confessed murderer, in a charged Nashville scene.
San Francisco February 3. The public welfare committee says Mayor McCarthy used the spoils system to reshuffle city boards and commissions. The school board seeks a permanent injunction. ten days to answer. Notable ousted officers include Henry Pagot and F W Dohrmann.
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