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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
4
The Winchester News Co publishes daily from South Main Street Winchester Kentucky with Sunday exclusion and second class entry dated November 28 1908 at Winchester post office under March 3 1879 law.
Rates listed for one year at 5.20 dollars with weekly payment options. Office pickup and weekly collection available. Mail delivery requires advance payment.
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The Winchester Base Ball Club directors renounce Sunday games here and in Lexington Frankfort and Paris to honor neighbors consciences. They face a potential $1,400 yearly deficit and big gate receipts elsewhere, choosing principle over profit. Directors named include W. B. Oaks RB D. Goff R. W. Rounsavall W. H. Hodgkin B. R. cetigM Jeff. 2g aeenet George Phillips.
The article calls on church members to support the Winchester baseball club by subscribing for $1,400 in additional stock. It argues baseball is a wholesome activity and urges immediate purchases from those who have objected to Sunday games, noting the newspaper will also subscribe for another share.
President Taft pledges to uphold reforms begun by Roosevelt addressing railroad and corporate power abuses. He calls for further legislative and executive action to sustain change and promises an extra session on March 15 to revise the Dingley Act. He backs the Panama Canal lock plan and monetary reform.
The piece portrays Taft as a steady, plain spoken leader with clear convictions on race appointments and labor law. It credits his legal training and governance in the Philippines and Panama Canal with preparing him to lead the whole country, beyond party lines.
The passage praises Theodore Roosevelt for his courage and empathy toward wage earners and the common people. It argues his sincerity, connects his leadership to Lincoln, and asserts his lasting influence as a defender of real interests amid class tensions. It envisions Roosevelt as a major moral leader in the nation’s public life.
John Savis known as Savis, a Greek man, was arrested in Omaha after trying to sell a necklace valued at about 50 000 dollars. The police recovered 63 pearls linked with a large diamond and linked the find to a Knickerbocker hotel theft in New York on November 26 last year. Savis claimed to have swept the gutter as a hotel sweeper and said the owner would claim it if valuable.
Reports from St. Petersburg claim a conflict between Russian and Chinese forces near Harbin with no confirmation. The disruption is thought to stem from tensions over Harbin railroad authorities trying to oversee local administration.
The will of the late BE Baldwin discloses a third daughter, Mrs. David F. Shelby, wife of an Oakland candy maker. She is noted in Oakland society and church circles for charity work and inherits about $50,000 from her father.
Wealthy members of the Aero club of America announce the formation of a company to manufacture airships. The merger of various American airship interests is reported, with a factory to be built at Hammondsport New York.
Patrick White, champion Irish runner, and Mat Maloney, former amateur Marathon champion, meet at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory for a 26 mile 385 yard marathon. The purse totals $2,500 with $2,000 to the winner, as Maloney makes his first professional appearance.
Paris reports Taft's inauguration and Roosevelt's retirement. Critics call Roosevelt's career remarkable and pictorial, crediting him with moral influence domestically and internationally. Taft is seen as capable and morally strong, a safer choice for America and Europe.
Frank C. Hollins aged 60 a noted financier and promoter and brother of H H Hollins died by inhaling illuminating gas in New York March 5. He faced ill health and a collapse of multiple ventures including straw pulp schemes, leaving H B Hollins & Company after a 1886 dispute to pursue independent ventures.
The body of a woman found in tree branches near Venice on the Great Miami river receding waters has been identified as Eva Ferris of Lindenwald Hamilton suburb. She had disappeared Dec 9 after her husband was arrested on a drunkenness charge.
Sacramento March 5 the senate adopted a resolution urging Congress to pass an Asiatic exclusion law. It would keep Japanese and Chinese aliens out of the United States.
George Edward Waddell files for divorce alleging his wife showed a violent temper and once ordered dogs to attack him after he threatened to leave. The dispute centers on spousal conduct during their Lynn Massachusetts residence. Separately, Lorain mayor A King accuses a city council member of pressuring a woman to relay stories against police, calling the conduct revolting and unfit for publication.
Governor Marshall sent a message to lawmakers stating he will neither sign nor veto the Brosley bill legalizing baseball on Sunday. He plans to let the courts decide its constitutionality.
In Pittsburg on March 5 independent sheet manufacturers meeting led to a price reduction of all steel sheet grades by 2 to 6 dollars per ton. Report claims of cuts in steel bars and billets are not correct.
A February March 5 report from New York states a woman Mrs. Nathan Hadilowitz and her 12 year old son Harry died in a three story double tenement fire at 3123 Seventh Avenue Brooklyn. Five men were taken to Henry Hospital after the blaze. Several others had narrow escapes.
Cleveland March 5 coal dealers from Ohio and Pennsylvania accuse railways serving Lake Erie points of discrimination. They plan appeals to railways arguing current charges are unfair with 90 cents per ton for about 250 miles versus 1.12 dollars per ton for roughly 500 miles from West Virginia.
Olympia Washington March 5 with only two votes against it the local option measure passed the house. The bill now goes to the senate.
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