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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
4
NE Albany Tribune lists subscription prices for one year six months and three months in advance with quantities of six and twelve copies. It requests payment by registered money order or express and notes mailing to New Albany.
A fragmentary column discusses theater events and social customs, mentioning Uncle Sarg, a performance called Alaska, and a social gathering theme. It references audience behavior, climbing ladders metaphorically, and tension between ins and outs in the social scene.
An OCR fragment mentions Uncle Sam suing a railroad for small cents and possible connisatory actions. The text is garbled and lacks concrete facts or names.
The storied money lender Hetty Green is portrayed as shrewd and wary of bad borrowers, likened to resisting a goose that lays the golden egg. The piece implies cautious lending and prudent financial judgment by Green.
The inventor Hiram Percy Maxim has achieved success with the noiseless rifle and will now devote efforts toward creating barkless dogs, cryless babies, and smelless ion devices, signaling a future aimed at eliminating common sensory disturbances.
Indiana reports Ohio Republicans have embraced temperance legislation this year. Governor Harris spoke in Youngstown with a notable address that should aid his reelection efforts.
A suffragette views a political campaign through a critical eye. Roosevelt urges dropping a hired man over a hired girl, highlighting housewife hardship. Sage built wealth through ventures amid promoters and dollar chasers, while Bryan advocates local option to allow counties to decide on saloons.
A damaged excerpt discusses forests and lumber, mentioning low forest cover in the British Isles and a claim that they consume about half the world market's lumber. The text is fragmented with unclear names and numbers, but conveys a general forestry and economic context.
Governor Hughes criticizes Bryan era policies as dangerous if enacted, praising defeat as preventing disaster. The speech argues ministers must keep clerical roles civic and moral, urging church leaders to withdraw from partisan battle and focus on ethical guidance rather than party politics.
The piece cites a Chicago Labor Day speech by Mr. Bryan asserting that government rests with the people and no department is beyond voter reach or public opinion, while mockingly noting a physical discomfort he felt. It argues the claim reflects truth about popular sovereignty.
September 22 Indiana sends about fifty delegates to the National Association of Republican Clubs in Cincinnati. E. E. Neal leads Indiana Lincoln League's push. Marion club from Indianapolis attends. Delegates endorse William H. Taylor for national president amid disputes with Governor Hanly over night rider dangers and legislative transparency. Attorney General Bingham seeks rulings on brewery case relator rights and court jurisdiction as pork-barrel politics heat up in a lively session.
The piece argues that Bryan remains devoted to his long held principles despite a presidential nomination. It cites his statement that the convention renews and strengthens his faith in those policies, asserting no true sign of personal change. The text questions critics who claim a altered stance.
The text asserts the Republican party is rich in men and practical principles and in its record of promises performed and pledges fulfilled. It voices support for party principles and willingness to back the bearer who will carry the story forward, referencing a Hun and a Mr. James Sherman.
The piece portrays candidate Marshall as cornered and irate about county local option. He dodges a direct pledge on signing or vetoing the law, lashes out at preachers and brewers, and recalls Civil War era rhetoric as Terre Haute clergy defend moral governance amid temperance tensions.
In Copcurdo N. O. Monitor reporting, Labor World women strongly back Taft calling him a true friend of labor. It argues Gompers attacks will not alienate organized labor and condemns Gompers for driving wage workers apart as dangerous.
The Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference at Attica last week urged support for county local option on the liquor question. The gathering said the moral issue has become political and called all good citizens to vote, urging turnout and urging neighbors in doubt to consider the Republican party as the choice.
A 1900 telegram from President McKinley to Judge William H. Taft led to a White House meeting with Long and Root. McKinley proposed Taft go to the Philippines to help establish civil government, signaling a turning point in Taft's life and setting him on the path to the Republican presidential nomination.
The Taft family, long rooted in plain New England stock, traces ancestry to Uxbridge Massachusetts where a Tate reunion in 1874 featured Alphonso Taft. He linked the Tafts to early American battles for independence and Union preservation, noting the family’s unlikely pattern of political reach but hinting at a political ascent ahead.
Ministers of Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference meeting in Attica urge county option to banish saloons and oppose self interested beer interests. They declare temperance crisis requires unity beyond party lines and call for legal county authority to regulate or ban saloons.
The Third district Republican convention at Maennerchor Hall nominated John W Lewis editor and proprietor of the Salem Republican Leader by acclamation. Delegates from Harrison Crawford Perry and Dubois counties attended as supporters praised his past party service and expected strong statewide race.
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