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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
2
A Harper's Weekly reflection on luxury dinners tracing the source of wealth to the vast labor of peasants across regions. The piece argues the richest spend by paying others, directing a global flow of resources that supports servants, farmers, fisherfolk, and workers who sustain lavish banquets.
The Century describes the Berlin character as formal and self assured with a blunt wit and sharp speech. It contrasts Berliners with other Germans noting their military bearing quick humor and a tendency to interrupt and dominate conversations. The piece links speech to Goethe and Voltaire and reflects on outsiders’ misperceptions of Berliners.
A critical editorial mocks Woodrow Wilson and suffrage arguments, proposing brutal and dehumanizing ideas about women workers and widows as impractical, plotting harsh fates for those deemed disposable while leaving only the idea of female dependency intact.
A speaker urges parents to prepare boys to support families and become good Americans. He stresses self respect and fair conduct, warns against overprotective parenting, and calls for hard work and resilience to prepare youths for future conflict. Mothers face particular challenges from hard lives, but fathers bear responsibility for guiding children toward duty and independence.
An eight year old boy was taken from Sharon Pennsylvania school by a well dressed man who claimed to be sent by his father. A $10 000 ransom demanded in a letter from the captors led to a tense series of police actions in Sharon Warren Cleveland and Ashtabula as investigators followed decoy drops and park money plots. No contact with the abductors has been made despite widespread suspicion and警惕.
The second day of the sixty first Congress shows calmer mood as Speaker Cannon names committees including Rules and Ways and Means. Taft urges rapid action on the tariff revision while stressing need to fund expenditures, with debate limited to five minute amendments.
Nashville jury convicts Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper of murder in the second degree, sentencing them to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Jury foreman explains initial mixed ballots, with final agreement reached after lengthy deliberations amid bond-signing frenzy. John D. Sharp acquitted.
The Census Bureau reports 13,408,341 running cotton bases equaling 13,563,042 500-pound bales with 27,587 ginneries in 1908. State tallies show Texas leading with 3,719,189 bales and Georgia 2,022,828 bales. other states list Alabama 1,358,339 and North Carolina 699,507 bales among totals across the Union.
Washington Special reports the House, in amended form, moved Thursday to consider the census bill. The measure, passed previously but vetoed by the President over provisions removing civil service appointment power, includes an amendment by Mr Sterling of Illinois.
The measure approves appointments under the civil service act and requires census applicants to submit a certificate of good health to prevent tuberculosis spread among government clerks. The Bennett amendment from New York was agreed to.
The semi annual session of the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Drugs Narcation in Washington discussed alcohol's therapeutic value. Doctors debated whether alcohol has medicinal uses with some contending it has none and others noting few or gradually being eliminated as a drug.
The session featured Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore on The Alco holic Problem in Everyday Life. T D Crothers of Hartford spoke on The Future of the Alcoholic Problem and W B Parks of Atlanta on The Effects of Alcohol on Temperament as it Relates to Race and Nationality. Scientists stressed the need for care and protection of inebriates.
An ex-convict named Joseph Brown said to have shot and wounded Chief Boott White at Whitemere near Elkins was taken from jail by a mob at 1:30 Friday morning and hanged on the following evening. White is the son of Mayor Washington White of Whitemere.
Brown attacked Officer White with a revolver after an offensive exchange. Brown fled to the mountains pursued by citizens. he was captured and jailed. Friday morning the town rose in anger and Brown was hanged outside the jail while Chief White was expected to recover. Brown reportedly had prior imprisonment terms.
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