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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
4
The clipping cites President Wilton on sugar tariffs and a China reform note by Sun Yat Sen, plus comments on U S state finances under Democratic and Republican eras. It mentions a California governor’s stance on a contentious law and calls for a referendum amid demagogic rhetoric. Names include Sun Yat Sen and Hiram Johnson.
Mrs. Booth praised Governor Cox and prison reforms during a Columbus visit after touring the Ohio penitentiary. An appropriation of 250000 was approved to fund a model farm for prisoner labor as the governor urged uplift and renewal for inmates.
The text describes laws for indeterminate prison terms based on conduct and a work remuneration act that sends excess funds to prisoners' families. The governor urges inmates to send money home and claims the state aims to build citizenship. He requests letters about families' hardships and promises investigations and help for wives and mothers.
Mr and Mrs Milton Hays visited relatives at Newark last week. Mrs Cora Burch and children visited relatives at Dusty Bottom Sunday. Miss Evaline Schooler is visiting Newark relatives this week. Mr and Mrs O G Taylor of Mr Vernon spent weekend with relatives. Mr Roy Scoles and family of Gambier visited Clyde Thompson and family Sunday. Miss Velma Hall of Bladensburg spent Sunday with Velma Hays. Mr John Wolfe sold a fine flock of sheep last week. A large crowd attended church at this place Sunday.
Poes a er Mr and Mrs Dale Cochran and son Lake visited the former s parents Sunday Mina Lola Frye returned home after weeks with relatives in Utica Mis Leva Forterfield spent the weekend with relatives at Martineburg and attended the alumni banquet Mrs Lene Hall and son Ivan of Utica spent Sunday with the former s parents Mr and Mrs John VanWinkle took armer Sunday with Mr and Mrs Me Camont Mrs John L Wolfe of Katote spending the week with relatives Mr Emmet and family spent Sunday with his mother in Utica who is on the lck list Thomian Porterfield made a business strip to Cleveland Saturday
Music lovers gather in Springfield for the annual May festival opening tonight and running Friday and Saturday. The program includes the Marriott mar imoth festival choir and the How ton Festival Orchestra with famed soloists Mme Schumann-Henk Paranale Amato Mme Gere Villedéoache and others. The festival closes Saturday night with the sacred opera Samson and Delilah.
New York diplomats educators and businessmen of international fame will gather at a dinner at the Hotel Plaza to discuss United States German relations and strengthen friendship. The event is under the German Publication Society with speakers including Ambassador Bernstorf Dr Charles W Bilot and Professor Hugo Munsterberg.
The Vernon area report notes Camp Iliass Co plans relocation to Huntington West Virginia. The association contemplates purchasing land to accommodate the move and future operations.
The Mt Vernon Citizens Association met to discuss Camp Glass leaving Mt Vernon for Huntington W Va and the city’s offer to help with gas producers costing 50000 and a 15000 bonus. The group favored buying the current site for future industry and urged Baltimore and Ohio to restore trains Nos 4 and 8. The meeting adjourned to the first Wednesday in June.
Bayton reports thirty men added to the police force after the Guardsmen withdrawal. The brief state notes also cover a factory injury in Bellefontaine, a train death of a Mason in Bellefontaine, and local civic updates in Marysville and North Lowry.
A fragmentary column recalls an American pun about Brown and a joke Morley planned to tell his wife. It shifts to actor Collier guesting with a duchess who claims to understand Americans. The page closes with obituaries noting Earl Hysell’s suicide by carbolic acid and L Horritt’s death after 32 years as Kent’s only undertaker.
President Wilson will appoint John Parry Mitchell to be collector of the Port of New York, a move seen as a victory for Tammany and a blow to Senator O Gorman. The selection widens rifts with Chairman Murphy and deepens party tensions before the next Senate vote.
The article previews contralto Alma Beck appearing at a Wednesday Matinee in Mount Vernon. Promises unprecedented popularity and a stellar recital, though evening performance was canceled due to expense. Merchants will support employees to attend, and the matinee is expected to attract a wide audience.
Mr and Mrs Fred Colle of Mt Verne visited Mt Liberty residents W C Coe on Sunday. H ER Biddle opened a barber shop in Jonathan Tuckers house. Third quarterly meeting at M E church Saturday at 10 am presided by Rev Philpott John Arnold funeral attended in Newark as cousin hurt in streetcar wreck.
The May gathering of the Ladies Missionary Society of the Congregational church met at 612 Hawt High street, hosted by Mrs Blocher and Mrs Rawlinson. The session opened with My Faith Looks Up To Thee as Mia Bird led devotions, with prayer by Mrs Armatrong. Papers on Missionary Invasion of China Mormonism and China were read by Mrs Tarr Colville and Mrs Armetrong. Ref refreshments were served by the hostesses.
The passage notes the decline of hemp as a staple crop as cotton ban, bermpen, and Manila rope replace hemp for clothing, rope, and sacks. It argues hemp land could be used for more profitable crops, citing cotton and jute as drivers of the shift and predicting the crop’s fading role in American industry.
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