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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
8
Opinion piece notes the immense accumulation of money and asks whether such vast wealth benefits the American people. It argues the natural drive to gather riches may not align with public good and questions economic fairness.
The text critiques postwar wealth acceleration in the United States, noting profiteering, wage disputes, shoddier goods, and a push for quick riches. It warns the trend harms future welfare but expresses faith in Americans to return to sane methods with time and patience. It also includes light editorial quips on milk bottles and gender dress remarks.
Wealthy Broadway circle fleeced of 350000 by a manufacturer using marked cards known as readers. Players including Screen Flickers Circuit Rage and Trimmer hosted games at Far Rockaway and Arverne then exposed after Trimmer’s scheme failed. Trimmer beat and was expelled from Screen’s house after the exposure.
A whimsical tale portrays a house fly confessing to typhoid transmission in Chicago. The insect details its travels from a manure pile to a Crystal Cafe sugar, spreading bacteria as it goes, before being executed by the judge and leaving a brood of unseen offspring. The piece ends with moral quips about journalism and public trust.
Aunt Sarah Jennings, 65, who patched 28 229 pairs of trousers at the Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows orphanage near Sunbury over sixteen years, retires to Meshoppen Pa. She claims no other woman has patched so many pants and her record spans 27 500 stockings 2 410 boys blouses 1 206 nightshirts 50 000 buttons and 4 610 garters.
A Russian inmate who had not spoken since April 4 1919 at Leavenworth federal prison has been released. He is identified as KE Rubitiious, convicted at Haut Claire Wisconsin under the espionage act.
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