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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1910
Page
2
A meteor display is seen in Ogden with a prediction of a brighter show tonight. The paper promotes Monday trips to Ogden Canyon via the Standard newspaper coupon, touting fresh air and a scenic streetcar ride as healthful and rejuvenating for readers.
A Salt Lake paper accuses the Ogden Betterment League of raiding gambling dens without mayoral knowledge while the Herald-Republican defends its stance. The dispute centers on morality, hypocrisy, and the role of officials in confronting vice amid broader Utah political tensions.
A garbled afternoon column fragments a scene of a man and woman amid cold imagery and a policeman or patrol in a distant place. scattered lines describe a city return, a cream joke, a temperance president in Boston, and a physics lesson on oxygen from Brooklyn Life. The text includes stray names and local notes, with no clear single event or outcome.
A Utah editorial argues for Republican purging of Ballinger and Speaker Cannon, urging resignation and removal of Sutherland for his Ballinger defense. It calls Utah to shed non progressives, aligning with national party cleansing and urging local action against officials deemed tainted.
The Southern Pacific employs 300 workers to strengthen the embankments on the Ogden Lucia cutoff across Great Salt Lake. Work will continue for ten more months to complete a sixteen mile stretch. Supt Rowlands expects the cut to withstand future storms once the final boulder dump is in place. Recent lake level drop of 13 inches accompanies heavy rock placement affecting shoreline erosion.
The Southern Pacific reports fruit trains from Sparks to Ogden covering 840 miles in 33 hours, a vast improvement from ten years ago. A Winnamucca stock train moved 171 miles to Sparks in 74 hours. Modern fast freights beat passenger trains from two decades ago, signaling a shift in rail efficiency.
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