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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
4
Publication details for the Mooresville Indiana paper announce Friday issues and a subscription rate of one dollar per year. It notes second class mailing from January 16 1905 and directs communications to W H Sage, publisher in Mooresville.
In early May 1908 debate grows over whether the Republican national convention will nominate a candidate without machine backing. Supporters hope the process selects a representative figure not driven by power or officeholders, noting past conventions have chosen worthy standard bearers.
The Brown Township Republicans meet in the Farmers Bank rooms on Saturday at 2 o clock to choose 15 delegates and 150 alternates for the county convention at Martinsville on Wednesday June 10.
In a Washington address to the Normal Teachers Association, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson warned that farm desertion to cities endangers food supplies and higher prices. He urged industrial and agricultural education, urging normal schools to boost farm training, noting philanthropy has aided the south but remain limited.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and ripples from politics, crime, and society. References span Governor Johnson and Colonel Bryan on curves, Paris deaths vs births, Carnegie’s generosity, Roosevelts and baseball, a Kansas police raid for 8800, a New York statue theft, and gossip about Debs and Thaw.
Arthur J. Dodge argues in the American Economist that Secretary Taft gains support from President Roosevelt’s advocacy and because Republicans fear a Roosevelt-led switch away from Taft. He notes Western Republicans, likening their Roosevelt affinity to Democrat Bryan’s, push Taft to avoid risking a Roosevelt nomination.
Fifteen years after a famed New York apartment hotel opened with much fanfare it fell on hard times as ghost stories spread and tenants fled. An expert heating system fix and disclosure of the false haunting revived interest, lowering rents from 100 dollars to about 45 and filling the building again, per the New York Press.
The Philadelphia Record quotes a Walnut Street head waiter urging fair tipping. He supports a 10 percent rule with a 10 cent minimum, criticizing both over tipping and stinginess as social missteps in service.
Sociologist Snodgrass recalls Ginger Magonnicle hosting a grand East Side ball with ticketed admission. The guest of honor’s words stop a group of “guys” mid dance as he asks who brought the newcomers, signaling a tense moment at the party.
The Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale recalls Josiah Quincy as a aide to John Hancock during Washington's 1789 Boston visit. Quincy later, at ninety, described Washington as a perfect gentleman who retained a shy, wary air from years apart from society.
A Rhode Island farmer freed a pie stuck in a fence on election day delaying his civic duties. The town then elected a war representative by one vote, who in turn helped select a war senator by one vote, giving the senate a one vote pro war majority and sparking hostilities.
The Washington Post notes that tiny wooden barrels, mostly birch, range from one and a half inches to ten inches high. They are mass produced in American factories, often by automated lathes, with millions exported globally. They serve as candy containers, perfume bottles, savings banks, button boxes, and toys, and are bought in carload lots by tack manufacturers.
The remains of Mrs. Charles VanZant were moved from Indianapolis to Brooklyn last Friday for interment. She was well known in Mooresville where the family lived several years ago.
A $25 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone breaking window glass or trespassing in the school building. By order of the School Board. A congressional resolution seeks an inquiry into the Weather Bureau and suggests naming Congressmen Studd Moon Flood Yale and Rainey to the investigating committee.
An ordinance authorizes a two dollar per month in advance license for moving picture shows in Mooresville. It requires licensing by the Clerk, with fines equal to the monthly license for operating without one, and penalties continue daily. The measure becomes effective after two weeks’ publication in the Mooresville Times.
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