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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
9
A Cleveland Tribune page review rails at gilded philanthropy and social pretensions, noting Mrs. Russell Sage’s $10,000,000 charity plan and lampooning celebrities, fashions, and political stances. It quips on crime, wealth, poetry, and destiny while urging resilience over complaint. It cites Brander Matthews, Rockefeller, and a Paris typing contest as vivid examples.
The piece critiques Professor E A Rosas views on civilization and birth rates, arguing human nature and unequal conditions shape family size more than government frames. It cites London University data showing lower birth rates among the educated and affluent, higher rates in poorer districts, and warns against assuming restraint improves offspring.
In Rennes the wife of Alfred Dreyfus faced scorn and isolation as the traitor’s return sparked mob hostility. For five years Lucie Dreyfus bore her burden with dignity, hiding the tragedy from her children while France’s anger flared with anti Jewish hatred.
A Columbia University philologist explains that noon originated from the monastic ninth hour at 3 p.m. Monks began their day at 6 a.m. and could not eat before prayers. Over time they shortened prayer time, moving the meal to midday and redefining noon as twelve o'clock.
A Philadelphia Press anecdote notes Miss Chatterton boasts never hearing an opera in her life. A dialogue reveals she attends only as part of a box party, highlighting social habits of opera attendance among society figures.
The Toledo Blade argues the 1903 Iroquois Theater fire shows neglect of precautions and defective Chicago theater ordinances. It notes delays in trial, venue change, and discharge of the manager, urging city legislators to craft safer laws and enforce accountability. The piece condemns negligence but avoids naming individuals.
A Missouri bill abolishes mandatory death sentences, leaving juries discretion to impose capital punishment in extreme cases while life imprisonment becomes the norm. The measure, passed by large majorities, reflects a shift toward mercy and reform, though debate cites deterrence and Mosaic justice. The Kansas City Journal notes the broader societal trend and potential effects, with forestry concerns adjoining in New England on a separate page.
A St. Louis Republic editorial denounces hazing citing West Point and Annapolis as opposed to it. It notes a Missouri academy expelled twenty three cadets after upperclassmen assaulted a younger student near drowning. The piece cites Roosevelt’s Harvard speech and condemns hazing as dangerous cowardly and unmanly.
The piece lauds the U S Army Engineers for supervising the Panama canal and other major projects. It highlights Gen John Newton at Hell Gate, the Washington aqueduct, Cabin John bridge, lighthouses, and the Sault Ste Marie work. Maj George Washington Goethals is noted as the Panama project leader with West Point training and prior engineering commands.
The article details Italian immigrants in Bryan Texas forming a flourishing 2500-strong farming colony under Father Giovanni Militello. They grow grain and cotton, live cheaply, pay $5 an acre rent, and save heavily. The parishioners funded church improvements and the priest travels to hold mass in a tent.
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