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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
2
The Standard Publishing Co offers monthly and six month subscriptions with advance payment options. Rates include Sunday Morning Examiner Free. Advertised pricing lists twelve months in advance and annual terms.
Special position and per inch rates for ads, with extra charges for certain placements. First page rates in cents per line and weekly or semiweekly contracts offered. The Evening Standard advertises as the cheapest in Ogden with a large guaranteed audience.
The article notes a wide attendance at the Welfare Congress events this week in the White House, with numerous societies and organizations for men and women joining the efforts to aid charitable causes.
A wall of text extols mothers as central to national strength, praising their role in childrearing and public education. It urges residents to back playgrounds and humane labor rules, noting the need for legislative action to extend protections and prevent child employment.
A Washington Avenue section near Twenty Fifth Street faced heavy dust as street cleaners labored to clear debris from city washing operations. Businesses kept doors shut, fishy odor and debris drifted through blocks, with retailers reporting losses while authorities pieced together the cause and scope of the disruption.
The article details the ambitious subterranean transit project linking Manhattan blocks via a vast underground system under the Hudson and East River. It recounts failed attempts from 1878 to 1892, the shift to compressed air and tunnel tubes, and the eventual multi-building Metropolis complex planned with a 1000-person-capacity downtown station and a 470,000,000 future system. Major entities include New York, Cortlandt and Fulton buildings, the Hudson River tunnels, and rail interests advancing the rapid transit dream.
New York March 14. Neighbors Murtha and Nieman long fought over four inches of ground and a red rosebush on West Twenty third Street. Courts cost thousands and delays persisted until attorneys agreed to private arbitration as a quick, cheap end to the quarrel after years of Supreme Court wrangling and fractious fence lines.
Chicago March 16 a son named Yinrd alleges his father failed to draft a valid will and Mia Ta H seeks the court to act on the late father’s estate valued at $609000. The will leaves the estate in trust to grandchildren with income for two daughters during their lifetimes. The elder Mr Hurd, a noted Chicago lawyer and reformer, died two years ago after a long career.
Captain H. 3 Henderson of the cutter Theta aided a perilous Malaspina rescue in November. Survivors were brought in after four months on the glacier, a difficult operation that united many Japanese residents in support and thanks for the effort.
Petersborg March The committee for national defense began final discussion of naval estimates. The drafting committee proposed no amendment to the plan for new battleships in 1408 while seeking higher funding for torpedo boat destroyers submarines and hospital ships and to accelerate mobilization. It urged keeping the Black Sea fleet on a war footing year after year and faced opposition to suspending battleship construction.
A jury yesterday convicted Howard Stealin, a 17 year old colored man, of attacking Mabel Miller near her Breele home last December. The jury deliberated briefly before finding Stealin guilty and sentencing him to life imprisonment. Stealin protested his innocence.
A brief item from New York dated March 14 notes a dispute involving 38 Gopley Street Stapleton and residents Plushie at 48 South Prince Street. The report hints at rental payments or evictions but provides fragmented details about dates and parties.
An Utah man reports using a kidney remedy purchased at Badcon's Drug Store and claims it regulated kidney function after treating a forty year chronic condition. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills, sold nationwide, for alleviating symptoms and urges others to try the product.
A damaged OCR fragment describes a family with relatives and a month tied to a property action. It lists several named individuals including Catherlus Couiwell, Mrs Christine Nix, Red Rick York, Lori Ditz, and John Moore as having moved or allied to the Mireos Bricketts, with property taken in good order at their expense.
New York City proposes to acquire the Steinway tunnel under the East River as a municipal purchase enabled by legislation. Pendleton announced a bill to empower purchase of prebuilt or under-construction rail routes, with estimates pressing the board of estimate to act. Theodore P. Ghonts and August Balmont had offered the tunnel for 7,243,800, shaping the pending legislative move.
Governor Johnson's presidential HQs in Chicago may extend to New York and Washington. Frank A. Day and F. B. Lynen in Chicago seek suitable quarters. Day was there for the HQs talk. no commitment yet. If opened and campaign expanded, additional HQs could be opened in New York. Johnson claims no knowledge of or connection to further activity planned.
Jerusalem March 18 Charles J Gidden of Boston and Mrs Gidden Wert drove a motor car from Haifa into Jerusalem. It was the first automobile ever seen in the city and caused a notable sensation among the population.
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