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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1903
Page
1
Ex president Cleveland urges a balance between wealth and rural sentiment, praising independent farmers while warning against city-leaning trends. The piece argues for preserving conservatism, justice, religion, and practical citizenship as foundations for a hopeful American future.
Rising Sun editor Lewis Woods argues high schools flood Kansas City with graduates who cannot find suitable work. He urges less emphasis on academics and more vocational training to prepare Black youth for skilled trades, factory work, and entrepreneurship, including machinists and restaurant work.
A sorrowful woman seeks passage across the river of forgetfulness to erase pain from lost love and betrayed children. The boatman tempts her with drinking to erase memory, but she resists, choosing to remember instead. The tale ends with a moral urging gratitude for the past and rejection of erasing memory.
A poem about racial injustice and gendered violence, contrasting white arrogance with Black suffering and a call for solidarity. The speakers, a Black woman and a white man, reveal centuries of oppression, ending with a plea for kindness and aid to every stranger.
The poem attributed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, said to be written over a year ago and dedicated to Paul Laurence Dom bar, was not published until the National Progress Company organized. It is described as revealing much of the white man's honor when read and pondered carefully.
Lincoln Neb Sept 18 state conference of the Methodist Episcopal church adopted a resolution reaffirming allegiance to the existing discipline prohibiting dancing and card games. The move ends debates sparked by liberal elements seeking amendment.
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