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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
3
An editorial argues for immediate practical steps to aid public employees in old age and attract top talent. It critiques merit systems, notes low actual superannuation, and suggests tenure security and varied pension ideas as solutions. It cites Germany’s example and emphasizes stable, well paid careers.
A discussion urging industrial peace through efficiency and education. It argues health and broad industrial knowledge improve labor relations, notes superintendents must be skilled, and emphasizes mutual interests and social sense between employers and workers.
A prescient essay by D. M. Carr extols the harmony of cooperative community life in towns, emphasizing agriculture as the town’s base, interdependence with surrounding farms, and the need for local business, schools, churches, and roads. It condemns external trusts and urges patronizing home enterprises to bolster prosperity and happiness.
Big manufacturers with trusted brands reject defective items and discard flawed cutlery, shirts and similar goods. Damaged stock is remodeled or sold to job-lot buyers or large urban houses at 30 to 40 percent below the price of perfect goods, masking defects to sustain low prices and protect profits. If only big cities existed, farmers and workers would suffer from these practices.
The passage portrays over 100000 commercial travelers as trade missionaries and key distributors. It argues travelers serve as protectors of small city and rural commerce, oppose concentration of trade in big cities, and support local merchants and their customers.
Jane Addams of Hull House in Chicago warns wage earning women to beware of fake investments and swindlers who target them through appeals to business sense and feminine vanity. She cites wireless schemes and home work scams that exploited women teachers and others, urging caution and proof of merit before investing.
A Review of Reviews notes that since 1830 American diamonds have mostly appeared after rocks broke down washing into river gravels in South America and parts of the U S. Now several surveying groups along the Quebec to Winnipeg transcontinental railway seek their original resting sites.
The 70 year old Mexican president Diaz reportedly amazed American tourists at Chapultepec when he stripped to climb a rope hand over hand to the top of a gym rope. He then remarked that Americans could now say they had seen a man of 70 perform that feat.
Bank presidents earn far less than rail executives. James Stillman, president of National City Bank in New York, makes $25,000 annually, illustrating the contrast between banking and railroad salaries in major cities.
Extensive beds of lobsters are to be planted soon in the waters of British Columbia with expectations that the lobster-taking industry will be established on a large scale within four or five years.
Helen Virick Roswell plans to establish a series of women clubs along the Isthmus of Panama to foster social and civic activity among residents and travelers. The effort aims to provide meeting spaces and programs for women across communities.
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