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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1909
Page
4
This item notes second-class mailing status at Ogden Utah under Congress act and identifies daily publication by William Glasmann with Sunday-excluded schedule.
The Evening Standard publishes advertising rate cards for special positions on pages six to eight with various inch surcharges and first page rates. It promises weekly or monthly contracts and claims superior subscriber base in Ogden, urging advertisers to compare with The Standard Publishing Co.
The Salt Lake Tribune questions Senate moves to seat Reed Smoot on key committees. It accuses the Tribune of shifting views about a powerful Utah figure and hints at a longstanding hierarchy influence in Washington. The piece mocks claims of the hierarch’s political demise.
The piece cites Greek theory on safe government size and notes a Spokane dispatch claiming near starvation among Colville Indians unless the government promptly sends funds for lands purchased. It frames the political and humanitarian stakes in a concise briefing.
A testimonial from Mrs Thos HH Reader of Ogden Utah extols Dean's Kidney Pills for curing years of kidney trouble and backache. The letter says the remedy revived health after doctors and other treatments failed and credits Badcon's Pharmacy and Foater Milburn Co of Buffalo as distributors.
R Coleman of Meteor claims the government promised 600000 to Indians for land taken. He states 1897 appropriation of 200000 and a further sum the next year were never paid. He warns that credibility of assurances erodes in the American republic today.
Denver crowds rejoiced as 5,000 men led by Gipsy Smith marched city streets while 50,000 watched a gospel demonstration. The story notes Ogden invites the evangelist to pour out his eloquence and hopes for a similar response to prayer. The piece questions whether Ogden can match Denver’s spiritual fervor and convert the unchurchly.
Lewiston Idaho prepares a peach blossom carnival inviting regional visitors, while Ogden Idaho aims to obtain reduced rates for a week of events. Harriman line officials in Salt Lake City oppose the plan, arguing their duty to Harriman interests over regional promotion.
Ogden prepared for a major Harriman empire push as E H Harriman and Julius Kruttschnitt visit. Kruttschnitt predicted Ogden would become a west railroad center, with yard capacity and a network of tracks forming the core. Harriman could press Ogden to 100 000 population while centralizing shops and offices.
North American Review discusses Archibald Henderson’s view of dramatic technique moving away from soliloquy and actors’ aside toward naturalism. He notes heroes face environment and heredity rather than grand conquests, and cites a New York premiere where breaking audience agreement sparked derisive laughter.
The death by his own hand of Hinton Rowan Helper, former Consul at Buenos Aires, aged eighty, is reported from Washington. Helper, once famed nationwide for The Impending Crisis, attacked slavery’s economic foundations, arguing that free states prospered while slave states lagged. His 1857 book sold 150,000 copies, influencing the Republican Party and urging non slaveholding whites in the South to question slavery’s costs.
Mothers should always have a box of Mothey Gray's Sweet Powders for Children to ease colds feverish nose teething headaches and stomach troubles in their sickly kids. Sold at drug stores for 25 cents no substitutes. Free trial pack offered to mothers who write Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
The piece contrasts Richmond slave aristocracy hostility to industrial enterprise with Massachusetts efforts led by Abbott Lawrence, praising the South’s need to end slave labor to match Northern progress. It also reports the Chicago Tribune’s call to eradicate the house fly as a typhoid carrier and outlines state efforts in Florida Georgia Louisiana and North Carolina to curb breeding sites and improve sanitation. It urges public resolve to “slay and kill” flies this spring.
New York chronicles a barber chair encounter with James J. Jeffries as "Logie" the barber teases the boxer about his past, wind, and comeback hopes. The scene features Jack Welsh, Henry J. Goldsmith, and the barber bantering about Taft and Johnson amid Broadway chatter.
Yusif Mah mout defeated Henry Ordwan, a Minneapolis blacksmith, in a wrestling bout in Minneapolis on March 16. Mah won in two straight falls, the first after an hour of nonstop effort and the second in ten minutes.
Chicago White Sox beat Sacramento 6 to 2 in a March 15 exhibition game. Batteries included Smith and Sutor for Sacramento and Baum and Graham for Chicago. final score reflected Sox power after a tough start by the River City club.
March 15 Los Angeles saw multiple world records in motorcycle racing. De Rosier of New York set a 4:09.5 five mile professional mark, with a 0:47.5 fastest mile. Chicago’s F Huyck and E Lingenfelder also lowered two and three mile amateur records.
New Orleans March 15 The state supreme court upheld the Locke law prohibiting gambling on race tracks and approved sentences of several months in prison and a $400 fine for Robert Sheffield and Placido Frigerio bootmakers who were tested under the law at City Park race track.
The colored community in Galveston plans a warm greeting when Champion Jack Johnson arrives by train next Thursday. Locals are preparing to welcome the famed boxer with a Buna program and crowd celebration.
A fragment notes that Galveston leaders warn disapproval by canceling entertainment if Johnson is found to have a white wife, signaling racial tensions affecting public events and the reception committee's stance.
Chicago reports world wrestling champion Frank Gotch failed to throw Charles Butler in a handicap bout. Gotch aimed to throw Butler once in fifteen minutes but did not succeed in the match held in Chicago.
Favorites and second choices swept the card at Santa Anita with strong showings. King of the Mist won the mile and a quarter race by two lengths over Oberon who was disqualified for fouling St. Jare. The day featured close finishes and notable results across seven races led by Timothy Wen and King of the Mist.
At Emeryville on March 16 the highlight was the two and a half mile event where Nadza overtook Milford in the final stretch to win, Orcagna a close second and First Peep third. Julian Powell captured the seven furlong purse with Warry Tide half a length behind. Race results include Racontour winning the Futurity course and Cinnamon taking the three and a half furlongs purse Sixteen with Warfare in a nearby placing.
Historical racing summary lists multiple races with horse names odds and outcomes. Early Tide Red Leaf Yankee Tourist Prince Gal Mary Davis and others show finishes and times across six events, including miles and furlongs, with winners and placing details and jockeys noted.
Edward Pay son Weston, a 71 year old veteran walker, left New York at 4 o'clock this afternoon on a cross country trek to San Francisco. A crowd at City Hall Park cheered as 20 soldiers from Company Bb, Seventh regiment, escorted him to the route’s start, with police aiding along the way. Weston plans to pass through Troy, Ben to, and Pittsburg and reach Chicago by April 17, aiming for the Pacific coast by July.
An explosion in the retort of a gas generator at the Washington Gas Light Company plant on Twenty sixth Street in Northwest Washington fatally burned three men. Property damage was slight. The incident occurred early today.
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