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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1909
Page
4
Notice from the Ogden Utah post office indicating second class matter status and subscription rates for daily editions excluding Sundays. Rates listed include one month, six months, and twelve months in advance with Sunday Morning Examiner Free.
The Evening Standard advertises its 1908 rate card with flat per inch pricing and daily changes. Special positions cost extra, first page rates apply to lower page areas, and contracts offered for weekly or monthly ads. The note touts guaranteed bona fide subscribers and invites advertiser attention in Utah.
A Salt Lake writer labels Senator Sutherland a political jackcrew, portraying him as a tool to be used and discarded, likening his image to machinery cast into a waste pile.
Senator Smoot authored two key laws in the last Congress the dry farm act and a copyright measure. He earned Roosevelt’s thanks for the copyright bill after four years of work. Supporters nationwide applaud its passage and Smoot’s energetic legislative leadership.
Religious fervor fills Denver as Gypsy Smith, a magnetic speaker, preaches without creed urging pure lives. At the Auditorium last week 14 000 packed the crowd, with listeners urged to rise for personal prayer and organized post-meeting prayer groups.
The piece discusses how religious training provides a hedge against worldly despair and the pull of a supernatural power. It notes crowds respond to Gipsy Smith’s confident, hopeful preaching as a manna-like benevolence from heaven. It observes believers reveal earthly sorrows during religious reawakening.
Early this morning engineers marked pole locations along Lincoln Avenue to suspend trolley wire for the Bamberger road. A crew of eight, led by HM Layne, will swell to about forty as surveying and posthole digging continue. The project plans joint operation with Rapid Transit and may include a temporary depot unless track work on Grant to Twenty-second Street finishes in time for the August encampment.
James W. Van Cleave head of the National Association of Manufacturers urges business men to aid President Taft in his policies. He cites Taft as a capable leader, trusted by a broad base, and notes Taft’s appeal in the South and his balance in turbulent times. The Utah legislature debate includes a joint committee bill on local option, saloon closing hours, and licensing reforms aimed at temperance and regulation.
The article advises fertilizing established lawns and reseeding thin areas. It covers ground preparation for new lawns including grading to drain water, enriching soil with manure, and deep tilling. It also details indoor seed starting in boxes or hotbeds with proper drainage, soil layering, watering and sunlight, plus a list of flowers to start indoors for spring planting.
Fred A. Weave, Ogden brewery worker and delegate, argues that Spokane’s victory on equitable freight rates before the interstate commerce commission should extend to all commodities. He notes tables and testimony showing discrimination against Spokane in less than carload and mixed car shipments and urges the commission to fix nationwide commodity rates in line with coast rates. He urges residents to monitor railroad tariff filings and press for further reductions.
The writer argues for a thorough equitable revision and the formation of a non-partisan board of experienced men to conduct preliminary investigations into labor and industrial conditions at home and abroad. This groundwork would support future tariff adjustments by the Ways and Means Committee.
A reader replies to a March 10 1909 Morning Examiner interview claiming Utah State Federation of Labor credentials committee voted unfavorably on the Ministerial Association requests. He notes the committee included varied trades and cites a cited clause of the convention.
San Francisco March 14. Garnett McEracy confirms that the widow of late B J Lughy Baldwin will contest the will of the millionaire turfman. A law firm member left for Los Angeles to pursue proceedings there as the widow faces the Baldwin estate, valued at several million dollars but in which she held only a third interest.
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