No Charity for the Farmer In East St Louis Cries of License Fees
The East St. Louis Spectator criticizes St Louis officials for arresting farmers and compelling vehicle license payments from Illinois growers who sell produce in St Louis markets. It notes losses from high waters, reliance on relief, and warns of retaliatory licensing by Illinois cities that could strain cross river commerce and harm both sides.
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School Physical Culture in Public High Schools
The piece notes physical culture in today’s public high schools aligns with a plan from progressive educators a score ago. It cites the Chicago Tribune on 1890s concerns that rising curriculum demands endangered child health and argues the body must be protected as studies expand.
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Chicago Tribune
High School Gymnasiums and Carnegie Gift Highlight 1900s News
A visitor notes widespread adoption of gymnasiums in U S high schools with well lighted, ventilated facilities and perfect apparatus. Andrew Carnegie donates 2 50 million to Dumferline Scotland for a theater horticulture and technical education. Wheat in Coshocton Ohio reaches eighteen month peak at 75 cents amid market demand. St Louis robberies total 36 since July 4. Roosevelt furious over postal frauds. Radium price drops to 2 7 million per pound, market slow. Cattle kings shrinking from hundred millionaires to thirty. New York Montreal trolley line planned. Illinois minister supports intermarriage blending races, a controversial view north of Mason Dixon.
Kansas gold mine definition sparks Ledger critique
The Philadelphia Ledger ridicules the Kansas view of a gold mine as a hole in the ground owned by a man who is a liar. The witty charge targets political or economic rhetoric with sharp satire about honesty and ownership.
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The
Philadelphia Ledger
Washington Letter on Roosevelt Labor Day Speech and Post Office Wins
A Washington letter from Sept 10, 1903 discusses President Roosevelt's Labor Day Syracuse speech stressing merit over membership in unions and the need to end spoils in the administration. It notes Postmaster General Payne's removal of Miss Hulda Todd, consular appointments at lower ranks, and potential policy reversals. Indictments loom in Post Office investigations, with Beavers and Machen facing bail and scrutiny. Colombian Panama treaty talk is deemed unlikely to ratify in the U.S. context.
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New York
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Panama Canal Company
Panama Railroad
Church and Society Programs and Armenian Lecturer
Neuendorf of Mattoon preaches the sermon with Rev Fr Streckfuss speaking at 2 30 in the afternoon. At 7 30 Rev Martin Sommer will conduct English language services. A lecture by Armenian student Bogares from Northwestern University Evanston Ill on Armenia’s people and persecutions is set for Monday evening with a small admission fee.
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Northwestern University
This Week in Troy Twenty Five Years Ago September 1978
From The Weekly Bulletin Troy notes William Meiners Jr returned from Highland after an extended stay. William Donoho of Brookside Mills shipped 500 barrels of flour to Belfast Ireland. William Connolly of the Collinsville Argus and Prof O Reed visited Troy for Greenback party meetings at War Freudenau's office.
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Greenback County
Aett Stewart
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