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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1909
Page
4
The standard was entered as second class matter at Ogden Utah post office under congressional act. Published daily except Sunday by William Glaemann at the Ogden office.
The Evening Standard prints its advertising rates with daily changes per inch for flat rate ads and special positions. Page and section extras apply to top of column and first page slots. Special contracts exist for weekly or monthly runs. The paper boasts subscribers and invites advertiser comparison in Ogden.
The Utah legislature adjourned amid criticism for timidity and inaction. The article denounces the session as ineffectual with no major laws enacted and constant indecision from opening day to adjournment. It laments the failure to regulate or prohibit aquor traffic and mocks the session as a farce of incompetence.
The Salt Lake Telegram attacks President Taft over his Inaugural address and his stance on silver demonetization. It argues Taft is justified in describing silver as a heresy and discusses gold and silver monetary debates, noting gold production and money supply changes since 1894.
The text argues against using the Roman empire’s decline as proof for silver theories. It notes many alleged causes, including intemperance and immorality, and rebukes the Telegram editor for adding another supposed reason to humanity's fall.
The article argues that Britain and Germany race to build ever larger warships, noting Britain's heavy naval spending and the obsolescence of older ships. It contends that dreadnoughts have shifted naval power, urging inventive tech like torpedoes or airships to erase naval advantages and push all nations toward equal destruction engines.
Ogden capitalists David Eccles and HB Rolapp anticipated opening Philippine markets and sugar land deals. They warn tariff changes could let Philippine sugar, aided by Chinese labor, dominate prices, urging Western objections to ensure fair, nationwide trade.
The Boot Sugar Gazette in its tenth anniversary issue dedicates a dozen pages to biographies of key builders of the U S beet sugar industry. It features Dawid Keeles and Judge Roelapp among others with two-page portraits and notes on their earnest work.
Hon David Eccles president and Judge Henry H Rolapp secretary of Amalgamated Sugar of Ogden Utah spearhead the drive for a beet sugar industry. The company operates plants in La Grande Oregon Ogden Utah Logan Utah and Lewiston Utah built in 1898 1901 and 1905 respectively.
In Harper’s Weekly an opinion notes husbands fail as a class to attract wives, with opposing motives often straining marriages. It argues men of affairs are too busy and environment shapes character. The piece suggests marriage is a perpetual compromise amid evolving wealth, luxury, and female refinement.
The Omaha Bee reports debate over a federal inheritance tax in a new tariff bill. Six states already tax inheritances and fears of double or treble taxation arise if Congress imposes the tax nationally, with New England opposing federal action and rail against revenue schemes.
An early 20th century advertisement claims women suffer from catarrh and mucous disorders. Rexall Mucu-Tone is promoted as a blood-based cure with a money back guarantee from T. H. Carr Drug Co in Othana Grant. It asserts high cure rates and urges free trials if not satisfied.
The draft tariff proposal envisions a special agent at $3,000 yearly to oversee collections. It hints at a nationwide offer creating state appointees to track evaders, but faces potential strong opposition from states that would bear the first burden.
The Cincinnati Times Star debates replacing Uncle Joe Cannon with Asher Hinds as House Speaker. It portrays Hinds as the master of precedents and parliamentary rulings, a figure who wields control while Cannon commands the chamber in public.
In a Human Life piece Julia Hawthorne reflects on Ralph Waldo Emerson as an early distinct figure in memory. She recalls his physical look as a lean tall Yankee farmer and contrasts it with his spiritually graceful, eloquent Emersonian presence.
Paris reports the post office workers strike ends as unions agree to resume work with concessions. Government ministers Bartholou and Demencean meet mediators, demands include no dismissals, resignation of under secretary Simyan, and direct grievance access. About 6000 strikers attend a mass meeting. over a third return to work in Paris. Police maintain order as normal conditions begin to return.
Poem fragment where The Man claims insight into the beloved while The Maiden apologizes and recounts how her father checked Headstreet’s and found nothing. Puck’s aside frames the dramatic moment in a playful manner.
A lighthearted exchange shows a teacher asking Willie how many months have twenty eight days. Willie replies all of them and adds some have three days over, capturing a classic playful classroom moment.
Ely reports plans by Nevada Consolidated Cumberland groups and partners to expand Steptoe Valley Smelting and Giroux Consolidated works. Officials expect 200,000,000 pounds of copper output in 1911 with four units underway and a fifth planned, aiming at a production scale rivaling Butte and leading the western copper belt.
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