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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
4
The bridge built by Fletcher Niles and Weller with three Warrick county Republican commissioners is now being pitched for endorsement by Niles and Weller as Republican candidates. No passable highway exists to the bridge, which they seek support to back.
An advertisement urges keeping Chamberlins Salve for burns to dull pain and aid rapid healing with little scarring. It touts skin care benefits and lists 38 cents price sold by T. C. Basye. It also promotes Pineules for kidneys and Wood's Liver Medicine with claims of relief and a one dollar bottle.
Notice to contractors bids will be received in Spencer County auditor's office Indiana until 2 pm Tuesday Oct 6 1908 for Kennedy Bridge Clay township Spencer County according to plans on file. By order of Board of Commissioners John T White Auditor Rollie Morris Deputy Rings Little Liver Pills advertised with health claim. The faulty airship quip closes.
Julia Ward Howe mocks a dilapidated bachelor who declares his wish to settle down as a worried man while wanting youth health wealth and beauty. Mrs. Howe's ally gently notes that he desires all of them.
A man asks to share a seat with a pretty girl in a parlor car and is rebuffed by her sarcasm. The piece captures a brisk social moment amid early 20th century newspaper prose. Also cited are jokes and a health ad promoting Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents.
Frank W. Hitchcock proposed a 5 million dollar raise for letter carriers citing higher living costs. Senators and representatives also received a 50 percent salary increase amid claims that rising costs would deter wealthy individuals from serving.
The Rochester Union and Advertiser cites Senator Burrows and the 1886 Republican Platform to argue that Republican policy has precipitated panic, blighted industry, and harmed work and wages. It contends government must be rescued from those who can’t govern without disaster.
The article contrasts Bryan’s anti Chinese stance with Taft’s view that Congress and the executive should extend justice and courtesy to Chinese nationals to foster international trade, arguing for greater inclusion over exclusion in the western frontier.
In a 1907 letter Senator Foraker receives from H E B Miles chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers tariff committee, forty percent of members support cutting their schedules by fifty percent or more without harming industry or the country. The piece argues this admission should alert Republican voters to tariff issues and prompt investigation.
The New York Journal of Commerce cites a July 28 1998 stock market report noting Secretary Tafts public bark may not imply a serious bite and that Wall Street questions the railroad view amid market commentary. The piece contrasts railroad rhetoric with investor sentiment on policy impacts.
Governor Albert Cummins of Iowa asserts that robberies under the Dingley tariff era dwarf all robberies ever committed by insurers, claiming a single year surpasses the total of past decades of fraud.
The undersigned trustee of Harrison township announces weekly Saturday appearances at his residence near St Meinrad with exceptions on the last Saturday each month when he will be in St Meinrad He will conduct township business on other days when not engaged away from home. Joseph I Vial Trustee Harrison To
The trustee W. Dodd will be at his Richland office every Monday and Saturday and at Hureka every Wednesday to conduct township business. He will also handle township matters on other days when not traveling.
Notice to Second Ward residents that in October 1903 Spencer County Board of Commissioners will consider an application to sell intoxicating liquors on Third Street Rockport in a one story building. The plan includes on premise drinking and sale of cigars with lunch service at the same location.
George W. Schreiner seeks a one year license to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors in a ground floor room of a two story brick building at lot 24 Wright and Griffiths add Rockport Spencer county Indiana. The request includes cigars tobacco and lunch service with drinking on premises. The application will be heard at the October term 1908 of the Spencer county board of commissioners at the auditor's office in the courthouse.
John Rupprecht gives notice of his plan to apply on the first Monday in October 1908 to the Spencer County Board of Commissioners for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in Fulda Indiana in quantities less than a quart with on premises consumption. The place is a two story brick building southeast room on the ground floor of lot forty six, east end, with detailed room dimensions and frontage on the main street. He will also seek permission to sell cigars and tobacco in connection with the saloon.
The brief quotation notes Balzac linking cruelty and fear as intertwined forces. It reflects a somber literary reflection on human behavior and motive.
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