18 Jan 1912
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1912
Page
1
President Taft explains a special commission found extravagant and outdated methods across federal offices. He outlines goals to cut waste, extend merit in hiring, retire superannuated workers, and adopt labor saving devices, advocating a unified budget to raise accountability and reduce costs.
The U S Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision by Justice Vandevanter, upheld the constitutionality of the employers liability law of 1908. It allows state courts to enforce the act where permitted by local laws, marking a federal move to regulate interstate railroad employer relations and abrogate the fellow servant rule.
In Lawrence a broad mobilization occurred as seven infantry companies, artillery and police reserves were called from nearby cities. Thirty thousand workers were idle as mills faced vandalism in wage-dispute riots tied to a reduced workweek under a new state law. Police battled crowds at Woodworst, Prospect, Washington and Pacific mills. arrests reached thirty with several injured. A bayonet charge followed a riot act reading as guards arrived.
Violet Buehler, once hailed as an heiress, was missing from Chicago foster parents since November. She was located today working as a servant in an upper East Side tenement in New York.
The editorial recalls an older companion couple who avoided extravagant standards, taught moderation, and kept daily routines modest. They raised children with simple care, weekly baths, shared meals at once, and social evenings in plain attire. It notes the idea that many so called tragedies are comedies.
Ophelia treats Hamlet as a peer glass, naming him Lord Hamlet in a witty exchange about manners and status. Her measure of him rests on social rank rather than sentiment, reflecting a sharp courtly observation.
In a Chicago session Thomas J Webb attacks a Brazilian coffee combine he says uses government backing to push famine prices on U S consumers. He traces how removal of duties shifted revenue to Brazil and a later plan with export duties tightens supply to raise profits for planters.
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