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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
2
A declared journalistic vow pledges pro progreso and reform, opposing injustices and corruption. It commits to public welfare, sympathy for the poor, and unwavering independence, never tolerating demagoguery or privileged plunderers.
Reports from Elkins Virginia show ginseng cultivation is highly profitable. A farmer after five years claims his acre may be worth its weight in gold and this year received offers around fifty thousand dollars for the crop.
A reader questions Ogden’s celebration of Lincoln Highway mapping arguing Ogden is not on the route. The proposed map shows a path through Wr Anston Echo Farley's Canyon Salt Lake Garfield Grantsville Karate Ranch then to Ely Nevada with a note calling it the authentic Lincoln Highway route announced by the national association.
A historical report outlines Britain's welfare measures including land reform, old age pensions, and a national insurance act. It details unemployment protection funds funded by stamps, weekly pay deductions, and government contributions, noting job loss benefits and limited eligibility across trades while praising agency efforts to match employers with job openings nationwide.
The text outlines how applicants may be offered two or three job options and how travel tickets may be advanced if funds are lacking. It explains deductions from wages, precludes drawing benefits while on strike, and states penalties for voluntary quitting or misconduct. It notes employer testing and training funded by the unemployment fund, with six months of claims totaling over one million dollars.
City physician br W. 8. Whalen warns Ogden residents as 86 typhoid fever cases surface. Boil all drinking water to prevent spread amid autumn rains and contaminated runoff entering the water supply. The Standard repeats the warning to stress preventive action to avert a serious epidemic.
A review by L P Jowell in Collier's notes the high cost of the canal project during the American period. It cites about 6000 deaths in ten years under US work and contrasts with far higher fatality during De Lesseps era amid yellow fever. The piece describes progress toward flooding Miraflores and Gatun lakes and the ship passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The piece notes how Associated Press coverage during Thaw’s escape exposed widespread alertness in New England. Walter Draw details missteps in tracing the fugitive and how a mistaken lead traced to a Progres representative. Deputy Aherity A Knee of vote Crank is mentioned as part of the homeward journey.
Drew and Kelson chase Thaw and Roger Thompson from Colebrook after August 18, following fresh clues from a driver and local witnesses. A night-long pursuit ends with Thaw jailed in Coaticook, Canada, and Boston AP confirming the capture at 9:09 a.m., with rivals delayed in reporting.
States Attorney Chartea H. Hadley leads about a dozen Chicago detectives to a Hyde Park building after a tip on the killer of Mia Mildred Allinon Rexroat a Tango teacher. The informant claims the suspect uses the name Spencer and once worked as a bouncer at a dance hall near Bushoell Minnesota.
In Baltimore County a meeting urged the Maryland legislature to push a segregation law for the metropolitan belt, mirroring Baltimore City rules. The plan divides counties into blocks where one race would occupy an entire plat, citing Mount Washington as the contested site for Morgan College. Trustees deny any purchase or gift of a site, while residents fear a Negro invasion and rising indignation.
New York reports a practical demonstration of the tariff law effects with foreign goods already imported and held in bonded warehouses to enter under the lower duties. Journal of Commerce tallies inland goods to New York at 67 million dollars on August 31 with total value rising. retail price effects remain uncertain.
Nashville. Governor Hooper issued a proclamation setting October 13 for a second extraordinary session to consider prohibition law enforcement bills. He urged whether state laws should be enforced in cities as well as the country or let outlawed saloons corruptly dominate cities and the legislature. Bills were killed by a filibuster in the previous session.
Denver hearing opens as rival receivers seek Kansas Natural Gas property. At 11 15 oclock the court allocates 2 1 2 hours per side. Charles Blood Smith leads the receivers appointment arguments for Judge John C Pollock in the U S district court case.
The Kansas Natural Gas company faces federal adjudication as Attorney General Dawson outlines state grounds for appointing receivers. Judge Pollack invites Missouri and Oklahoma judges to sit in the hearing. The interstate nature of the business is stressed as state courts argued lacking authority. Chester Long to follow on behalf of the state. In Philadelphia hearings begin on the U.S. Steel antitrust suit, with testimony started in May 1912 and expected to continue for another year.
A blaze in Los Angeles on September 30 destroyed the Barker Brothers warehouse. Furniture valued at 250,000 dollars burned, with the building valued at 50,000 dollars. The fire endangered the entire wholesale district, origin not yet ascertained.
Mrs Clara Melcher, a Viennese laundress, claims Prince Stanislaus Buikawski promised marriage then deserted her in the country. She was removed from California as an undesirable alien and boarded the Kronprin Wilhelm for deportation to New York. She later married Miss Marle Lawise Freese, a California girl.
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