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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
1
A speaker urges a friend to pursue hard duty without expectation of outer reward. He asks if one can endure loss of honors and remain patient as slander tests character. The poem praises inward virtue and the soul’s crown, touching envy and public praise.
Claude Merrill, fallen from grace, reunites with Major Graves in Washington. Merrill's tale of love with Lila Lake, a glove counter girl turned singer, ends with Merrill learning Lila is Mrs. Lorton, wife of Senator Lorton, while Graves confronts his own missed chances and fading pride.
A compendium of observations notes electric post tests in Italy, vast coal exports from Cardiff, rail weights in the United States and Europe, Siberian exile totals, book publishing gains, and a census on lawyers in New York City. It highlights railway technology and uniforms, including Belt Line rails in Philadelphia and London and Northwestern Railway cap varieties.
A Danish girl living in Denmark aims to collect postcard views from New South Wales. She sent a card to the Girls' High School in Sydney promising to receive 500 replies. The school, with about 500 pupils, will forward one card each to the Danish girl.
An ingenious Yankee operated a toy factory with a loco motive during repairs at the power plant and faced a backlog of rush orders.
The Let Us Alone Society formed in St Louis as a direct outgrowth of B F Yoakum's efforts. Prominent local business leaders including E C Simmons lead the group as Yoakum stresses a Let Us Alone policy to restore confidence in commerce and prevent derailing Western and Southwestern development.
The formation of the National Prosperity Association of St. Louis with its “Let us alone” and “Give us a rest and sunshine” platform signals a broader national push to revive confidence and industrial activity. Leaders cite widespread support from merchants bankers and unions across the country and note improved business conditions and rising money supply.
Yale News reports a policy labeled “A Startling Innovation” to gradually install women janitors in dormitories starting with Vanderbilt Hall. Bursar Osborn states younger women need not apply and preference given to middle aged women with families becoming self supporting.
Former Senator William E. Chandler takes command of the anti Taft campaign strategy joining allies opposing the nomination. He previously acted as intermediary between the White House and Democratic Senators and played a role during the President Taft debate.
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