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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1907
Page
3
D. M. Carr argues that gullibility fuels graft as get rich quick schemes lure readers with promises of “something for nothing.” He cites soap club scams, foreign merchants, and lax laws, urging direct or indirect taxation of out-of-state firms doing business locally to level the tax playing field.
The era of centralized industry is ending as cotton mills rise in the south and flour and cereal production moves west. Locating mills near wheat and corn regions could cut freight costs and raw material expenses, helping farmers and consumers alike while urging support for local manufacturing.
The piece warns readers about deceptive ads that show a store image with a drastically low price, then deliver a much different article. It questions how a home merchant would fare using such tactics and suggests they would be branded as tricksters.
The article argues that over ten years billions sent from rural communities to large cities have funded trusts undermining agricultural areas. It urges awakening to the dangers of sending money away from home towns and the need to reconsider such financial flows.
The article warns that cheapening production and marketing through shabby materials yields dangerously flawed stoves and artificial ice cans. Junk-metal linings, rotten steel, and corroded ammonia cans shorten life while dealers push “big bargains” sold by mail from so called manufacturers.
The piece argues the farmer is a key supporter of the country press and that literacy, telephones, and rural delivery boost farmer influence. It states farmers read newspapers, influence local affairs, and encourage merchants to back home papers to spur town improvement and business growth.
The piece warns that millions are lost to fraudulent investment and insurance schemes in the United States, noting recent frauds by cooperative mercantile and home-building ventures. It argues prosperity invites sharper schemes and calls for stringent state laws and severe punishment for operators.
Gov Folk of Missouri addressing Tennessee visitors warns that industrial growth brings child labor evil to be eradicated. He cites white child labor lowering citizenship standards and urges southern and manufacturing states to unite to combat the issue. He links southern progress with canal and river improvements and warns against blaming the South alone.
Constantinople reports the sultan on Monday ordered the exemption of the import duty on wheat. The move follows a special commission's recommendations on ensuring supply of capital life necessities, with the sultan considering other similar measures.
Police raid on a craps game in Pittsburg ends with gunfire as players flee. Daniel Murphy a 12 year old white boy is fatally shot and Hays Kessler a Black man is shot in the back. Several others escape unharmed.
Washington reports U S observers return from the Far East with high regard for Japanese soldiers. Lt. Col. McClernand notes abstemiousness respect for superiors love of nature and ancestral spirits. He recalls conscript drills and pair fencing a display of discipline and politeness shaping battle conduct.
President Roosevelt will tour the west and south in late September to late October. The schedule includes dedicating the McKinley mausoleum in Canton on September 30, a Keokuk reception October 1, a riverboat arrival in St. Louis October 2, a Cairo speech October 3, a Memphis deep waterway meeting October 4, a bear hunt starting October 5 in northern Louisiana, then Vicksburg October 21 and a Jackson address at Hermitage near Nashville the same day.
The Antwerp dock laborers strike, active since June, concluded Tuesday afternoon with a decisive win for ship owners. Leaders decided workers will return unconditionally to work under employer terms, signaling a long-lasting setback for organizers.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis with wife Kate Eddy Chicago arrived in New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II after a European trip in the summer.
Gulf Compress company in Vicksburg was ruled an illegal trust by Chancellor R S Hicks. It was given one year to wind up operations and withdraw from Mississippi, with no receiver appointed. The decision allows continued business for this season as an appeal proceeds to the Supreme Court.
The lake steamer Alexander Nimmick from Cleveland wrecked on Lake Superior shore near White Fish Point. Survivors struggled to pilot lifeboats as waves froze, leaving six or seven bodies washed ashore. The dead include Capt John Randall and Stewart Thomas Parent. First Mate James Hayes is among the missing.
Seven workmen and two girls were executed by firing squad in Lodz on Monday without trial for taking part in the murder of Marcus Silberstein, owner of a large cotton mill killed after refusing to pay strikers. The new military governor Gen Kaznakoff plans to exile one third of the 800 workers for not preventing the crime.
A broken rail caused the Chattanooga & Washington Limited on the Southern railway to derail near Ryan's Siding early Sunday. Thirty two passengers were injured though none seriously, with the train’s baggage car day coach and three sleepers leaving the track and sleepers nearly burned. A special train ferried all passengers to Washington.
St Joseph Mich Sept 24 A posse led by Sheriff Lenant and deputies pursue Max Minnie charged with cutting out the tongues of eight horses. Minnie has been sighted twice and shot at but not hit. Authorities fear lynching if captured.
Frank J Constantine was found guilty of murdering Mrs Louise Gentry by a jury in Judge Marcus Kavanaughs court. He received a life term in the penitentiary. The trial set a Chicago record for speed, spanning exactly six days.
Taylorville Illinois September 23 J N C Shumway former state senator and president of the National Building and Loan association died of a paralytic stroke at his home Sunday He was 57 years old.
Five million feet of logs held for three years by John Dietz of Cameron dam will be floated to Chippewa Falls via the Flambeau river. The Mississippi Logging Co. contracted A L Moses of Northfield Minnesota to haul five miles by team from Thornapple river to Flambeau river, eliminating trouble with Dietz and removing the need to rebuild Cameron dam.
LaCrosse reports the west Wisconsin conference urges raising representation in the general conference from one delegate per 45 annual conference members to one per 60. The change would cut delegates from about 800 to just over 500, aiming to speed decision making.
In Racine a unique lawsuit concerns the right of way to a lake with a two acre island. Carl Sorenson, former Racine County farmer now Milwaukee resident and island owner, must cross others’ land and water to access the lake. J Christiansen refused to sell and barred Sorenson from crossing. Sorenson applied for a public highway from the highway to the lake.
A Milwaukee Road passenger train derailed on a high river bridge when the engine and cars left the rails. The narrow gap between drawbridge and bridge caused by heat expansion sent the train bouncing on the ties. About 100 passengers were terrified but the train did not plunge into the river.
A compromise agreement between La Crosse City Railway and its employees ends the threat of a Monday walkout. Workers receive a wage increase of one cent per hour, averting a system shutdown.
Frank K. Wambold, early Menomonee Falls settler, died at his home of heart failure at 73. A native of Pennsylvania, he moved to Wisconsin at 15, worked in West Granville's store business, and later farmed.
The state university experiment station presents potato grower findings at the Waupaca county fair from September 25 to 27. The display shows results of Bordeaux and home arsenic mixtures used to prevent blight, which presently devastates much of the crop.
Charles Griffin, a well known Milwaukee railroad worker, was arrested three weeks ago for involvement in wholesale car robberies on the Chicago and North Western railway. He has been held to the circuit court for trial on a grand larceny charge.
The steamer Matthew Anderson, grounded near Fox Point after coal lightering, was released Wednesday afternoon. Tugs continue work on the vessel Alaska to free it from the area.
Lucille Campbell daughter of a local physician suffers a fatal accident when a 400 pound grave stone toppled as she placed flowers on a friend's grave. The stone crushed her jaw while attendants nearby heard the crash and found her unable to cry out.
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