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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1903
Page
3
A Women advocate argues home labor is wasteful and inefficient. She asserts industrial growth requires organized labor and greater use of professional cleaners, predicting specialization will shift tasks out of the home while preserving family life and work. The piece emphasizes women’s productive power and the home as cradle of life.
Elizabeth C Wheeler argues for college graduates to join shops and factories as social secretaries to improve morale. The role covers library oversight, entertainment, health, accommodations, and aid to workers, aiming to harmonize employer and employee interests and foster a culture of care.
A fragment arguing that industrial freedom is essential to womanhood and political emancipation. It contends there is no fixed gender superiority, urges equal skill and pay across vocations, and links economic independence to broader equality, with calls for women to pursue political rights if their efforts succeed.
President Roosevelt delivered twelve speeches across South Dakota and North Dakota on April 7 and 8, visiting Sioux Falls Aberdeen Yankton Mitchell and other towns. He praised American troops civil government and Taft while noting the Philippines progress. He then rested in Yellowstone with John Burroughs for 16 days at Cinnabar and kept in touch with Secretary Loeb. No word reached him on April 11 as he stays in a mobile camp near the park studying wildlife.
Manila reports the seizure of Bacolod in Mindanao by Capt. Pershing's forces after a three day fight that left 100 Moros dead. Seven cannons were captured and 11 Americans wounded though expected to recover. Pershing shelled forts with McNair and Gatley batteries while infantry and cavalry crossed a bamboo bridge under fire. The sultan's whereabouts unknown. Maj. Gen. Davis reached Pantar and coordinated with Pershing to supply Marahai.
Bristol April 13. Capt. Nat Herreshoff launched the cup defender Reliance, sliding into Narragansett Bay in a steady debut. The article contrasts Herreshoff designs with earlier cup boats while a long discussion on American emigration to Canada highlights railway and real estate interests opposing settlers seeking free wheat lands in the Canadian Northwest. The piece notes 87,000 Americans already settled there since 1897 and mentions a government agent offer for land rates.
News from Willemstad reports revolutionists defeated government forces near Caracas capturing two cannons and large ammunition stock. Barquisimeto fell with many prisoners taken. heavy fighting continued at Coro. Direct cable to the United States delayed by unrest in Santo Domingo.
Five Missouri packing firms including Armour Cudahy Hammond Swift and Schwarzchild and Sulzberger have mailed a draft for 27136 to the state supreme court covering fines of 5000 per firm plus costs. The payment comes before the 30 day deadline from March 20. Frank Hagerman represented the firms.
United States Consul Maxwell in Santo Domingo City reports insurgents entered the city on the ninth and shelled by day and night as government forces responded. He notes batteries and infantry checked the advance and missiles flew over the city when the cablegram was sent.
Baltimore dispatch reports a Royal Blue train on the Baltimore and Ohio between New York and Washington ran 20 miles with no engineer at the throttle. Engineer J Frank Furley likely killed by a pole strike near Wilmington Delaware the body found by the fireman and train halted in Baltimore. London endorsement by William OBrien supports John Redmond on the Irish land bill and criticizes hostile rhetoric ahead of the Dublin convention.
Madison April 10 Gov La Follette appoints Circuit Judge Robert G Siebecker to the supreme court to fill the late C V Bardeens term E Ray Stevens of Madison is named to succeed Siebecker as judge of the Ninth judicial district.
Bond purchases in Washington as of April 10 total 18 328 400 dollars for exchange into two percent consols. The treasury department reports three and four percent bonds received to date.
Dr J G Gordon superintendent of the Illinois institution for deaf and dumb died Sunday in Jacksonville after surgery for appendicitis.
The ad highlights two danger signals from the kidneys back pain and abnormal urine. It promotes Doan's Kidney Pills as a simple cure and features J. F. Wainwright of Bones & Wainwright Pulaski Virginia praising the remedy after relief from pain and abnormal secretions. A free trial offer and Buffalo New York manufacturer Foster Milburn Co. are noted.
The widow of a wealthy landowner, having married a poor count, obtained a legal separation after three weeks on the ground that he wore a wig. She argued the bald head caused a shock and that she would not have married him if she had known. The court accepted the plea as valid.
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