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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
4
Citizens argue that mail order and credit practices harm local trade. They claim Omaha and catalog houses offer better cash terms, urging merchants to adopt lower margins, cash sales, and a business association to boost competitiveness.
The State Bar urges amendments to expand the Supreme Court to seven judges with salaries rising from 2500 to 4500 annually. It also proposes investing the eight million dollar permanent school fund in broader securities. The items are on the primary ballot with non partisan intent and endorsed by both parties. John A. Maguire, a Lincoln lawyer and Democrat candidate for Congress, campaigns in Plattsmouth urging Western representation and opposition to East interests.
Rudolph Ramsell of Edgemont South Dakota departs for Seward Nebraska then Hannibal Missouri for brief visits before returning to Germany to visit his parents. He is a Burlington shops foreman and will be away until nearly Christmas. Friends bid him farewell at the depot. Mrs Becker and daughter Carrie and Miss Dora Peacock planned to go to Omaha for the day.
In Hot Springs Virginia on August 22 William Howard Taft argued that achievement matters more than theory. He contrasted Republican policies with Democratic ideas, criticized Bryan methods, and asserted Roosevelt’s policies improved business standards while warning against a silver standard and rapid statutory changes amid a crowd of about 5000.
Springfield August 22 The assistant state’s attorney predicts fifty additional indictments based on riot evidence as the grand jury accuses twenty offenses tied to Lopez restaurant trouble. Names include Ernst Bumphrey Rudolph Bredewmeyer John Schienle William Sutton Herbert Carey and others with bail set at 2000 per indictment.
In Des Moines Bryan opened the campaign at a baseball park attacking Republican tariff promises. He argued for a revenue tariff with income tax and criticized the GOP for acting for protected interests. He cited tariff profiteering and warned against wage intimidation by tariff advocates.
In Tinffalo and nearby mining camps tensions rise as refugees flee arsenal areas. A posted notice calls men to leave town by Monday midnight signed Buffalo Sharpshooters. Racial distrust grows among whites and blacks amid nightly blackouts and fear of raids. One refugee woman, pale and weary, fears for her child and considers moving away after her husband’s absence. others wounded in a riot hint at ongoing danger.
Peoria man Burkhalter wed Miss Josephine Scherer of Mirplystore and brought her home before departing for a civil engineering post on the Panama Canal.
John Lusemker battled John Barleycorn all week in a folk campaign. Police restrained him after he rambled near railroad yards and he was escorted to Hotel Manspeaker. Judge Archer fined him one dollar in his brand of justice, suspended, pending work with broom maker James Rebal.
A group including J. L. Young L. H. Young C. L. Wiles S. L. Cole and son E. V. Cole and Will Stokes left Omaha bound for Canadian points via St Paul Minneapolis to Winnipeg and Alberta to scout land bargains. Judge Arceste recalls a frost forty five years ago that killed corn but spared wheat, shaping the region’s crop history.
The New York World editorially endorses William J. Bryan for president. It says it has opposed Bryan and the Democratic party at times, but now agrees with the Democratic platform in opposing Rooseveltism though disowning some Bryan positions. It stresses endorsing the cause over any man or machine.
The article recounts the harp’s ancient origins from a Tyre priest near Osiris lore who fashioned a musical instrument from a carved tortoise shell. It notes the harp’s long romance and religious associations and advertises a Monday evening performance on August 31 at Parmelo with tickets through Riley.
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