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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
3
An editorial condemns modern college athletics for prioritizing victory over integrity. It notes widespread rule bending, recruitment pressures on schools, and costly eligibility rules while urging a return to clean sport and honest conduct across schools and colleges.
A veteran writer argues that most canoe and small-boat drownings arise from ignorance and carelessness. He describes how even very light canoes can carry multiple people when filled with water, details methods to right a capsized craft, and advises staying with the boat rather than swimming to shore.
The text argues that poets and writers beyond the Bible may serve as moral guides, challenging clergy’s sole gatekeeping of inspiration. It envisions future church readings of Shakespeare, Milton, Cowper, and Wordsworth, noting Wordsworth’s suitable religious depth for such use in reforming spiritual life.
The piece lists presidential birthplaces highlighting Theodore Roosevelt as the first New Yorker to become U S president. It cites Washington Jefferson Madison Adams Monroe Jackson and others with Virginia Ohio Massachusetts North Carolina and North Bend contexts. It notes Lincoln’s birth in Kentucky.
London Tit-Bits notes entomologists flock to a small Lincolnshire swamp meadow where the Camberwell beauty butterfly appears rare elsewhere. A Wickham Fen fire wiped out sedge that drew collectors, lowering local insect finds and affecting land interest.
The text lists birthplace notes for U S presidents including Gen Taylor in a Kentucky settlement, Franklin Pierce in Hillsboro Massachusetts, James Buchanan in Cape Gap Pennsylvania, Andrew Johnson in Raleigh North Carolina, and New York presidents like Martin Van Buren Kinderhook New York Fillmore Summerhill New York Arthur Fairfield Vermont and Grover Cleveland Caldwell New Jersey.
Col Renaud, an army aeronaut and auto celebrity, presented a novel device to the French Academy of Sciences. The instrument attaches to the motor axle and measures power by the cube of speed, registering revolutions to determine speed and horsepower up to 150. Self registering tablets remove the need for calculations.
Joaquin Miller presents a New England youth's 1860 Oregon letter to his father. It laments scarce marriageable women in the West and the persistent wish to wed. A playful postscript asks, The girls get new teeth and come out here.
A small plantation at forest edge survives by insects and brings in about $2,000 annually for the owner. The land itself is valued only a few pounds.
The St James Gazette notes Korean women perform labor intensive tasks without machines. They haul rice with pestles, wash clothes by stream beating, and iron with wooden rollers. White dress customs mean constant washing and sewing, with long hours spanning day and night.
From 2.5 million Germans leaving the empire in 33 years about 90.7 percent went directly to the United States. Efforts to promote emigration to Brazil and to German colonies in Africa and Asia have dwindled to a meager fragment.
An English county judge reflected that in every case there is perjury on one side or the other. The remark underscores the pervasive challenge of false testimony in trials and the difficulty of discernment for juries and judges alike.
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees grew from 11 cities at its first convention to over 100 locals and about 6000 members, controlling most U S theaters. Patrick T Barry leads as international president and Lee M Hart as secretary treasurer, praised for organizing and handling strikes. The union covers all backstage workers behind the proscenium arch and has cut hours to eight daily while wages have roughly doubled since formation eleven years ago.
Mrs Florence Maybrick the American woman jailed in England for murdering her husband was released on July 20 the fifteenth anniversary of the start of her trial. She joined her mother in France and then sailed to America to pursue a land suit in Louisiana with Judge Yarrow presiding.
A historical note states a Russian male is not of age until 26, with at least four-fifths of earnings to go to parents if they exist.
Chicago on July 26 27 saw a prolonged stock yards walkout with 30000 policemen unable to curb rioting. Strikebreakers arrived under guard as 7000 more workers joined the plants and a striker named John Stokes was fatally shot amid clashes with Black strike attackers. Sioux City authorities later mobilized militia to protect meat shipments from the Cudahy plant.
Fall River strike orders 12 percent wage cuts prompt mass walkout with 2300 of 81 mills entering gates before 8 am. Central Falls sees 550 workers strike against 12 percent cut. By midday Tuesday no wheel moves in Fall River mills as strikers receive aid offers and seek food via foraging and local donations.
Esopus New York July 26 ex Senator Jones of Arkansas presided at a meeting to elect a new chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Senator Daniel of Virginia chaired the committee that drafted the platform and Daniel J Campau of Michigan attended, visiting Judge Parker at Rosemount where neither Jones nor Daniel had met him before.
In Pittsburg on July 27 a woman, whose family is respected, attempted to obtain $50 from Mrs. Roosevelt by claiming a child’s surgical operation. The charity department is investigating but she will not be prosecuted as Mrs. Roosevelt does not want action. The woman’s name is being withheld.
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