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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
7
Philip Beard, riverman and shipyard worker, fights to save the barge Besse after a hawser snaps. He rows through drifting ice floes and is eventually rescued by a tug crew, narrowly escaping a crushing ice jam and certain disaster. The ordeal highlights his skill and nerve under looming peril.
A toast at a dinner honors Archibald Deringer and his cheerful nature. The speaker praises his wit humor and optimism calling him a beacon of gaiety and the mortgage on amiability while wishing continued merriment for Artie Deringer.
Philip, adrift in a dory among thick river ice, battles frigid seas as a ferry presses past and a tug with a tow nears. After a near sinking and failed rope rescue, he leaps toward the tug and is saved only to be overwhelmed by shifting ice and water.
A sailor dreads injuring Philp while pulled from the ice by a rope as a tug crew acts quickly with a boat hook to free him. Philp is saved, bruised but alive, warmed by the cook, and later rejoined the barge tied at bow and stern. A passing tug captain later tows the barge to safety after the hawser breaks.
In a New England farmyard the husking bee gathers about thirty pumpkin seats and corn piles. Josiah Andrews and Ophraim Foote lead the huskers while Parson Chase and Deacon Hanford watch. After a long hour and a half of husking, cider and pies appear, followed by dancing and a cheerful feast as the night ends.
A scanned column blends aphorisms about sincerity and arrogance with reflections on honesty and optimism. It laments insincerity, urges restraint in arguing, and cites a morbid anecdote about a man doomed to be hanged before noting resilience and the need to seek rightness rather than gloom.
The American liner St Paul collided with the British cruiser Gladiator in a snowstorm off the Solent. Gladiator beached and later sank with about 36 dead, while St Paul with damaged bow returned to port for repairs awaiting dry dock. Survivors were rescued by St Paul crew and boats.
A massive slide on the Vierre River near Buckingham Ontario buries Notre Dame de Balette village. Thirty dead or missing as thirty to twenty houses are destroyed and residents, including Camille La Pointe and family, perished or buried. Rescuers ferry coffins and physicians to aid survivors.
Huntington resident Clark W. May died at his Hamlin home after a horse accident led to leg amputation and complications from lead poisoning. The West Virginia attorney general had been injured ten days prior and succumbed to the illness at home.
Robert M Hamilton Cotton, D D a St Paul Episcopal clergyman aged sixty seven for twenty five years in Minnesota is charged with heresy. Bishop Edsall refused to renew his license to preach after Cotton publicly called the start of Christ's resurrection a fairy tale.
Third base cornering shows Conroy thriving with the New York Highlanders as Clark Griffith hints at pitching further this season if needed. Claude Jones backs Case Patton as the era’s top southpaw, Ed Kian debunks Hughey Jennings’ famed battle cry, noting the real yell is swee yah.
Roosevelt's message to Congress repeats calls for curbing injunction power, amending the Sherman Act, and establishing a national incorporation framework or executive commission to oversee interstate commerce. He urges postal savings banks and stronger enforcement of Hepburn Act funding to boost railroad accounting oversight.
A grim row in Granite City with about fifty men, mostly foreigners, kneeling and prayers at several churches seeking jobs. The crowd, largely Hungarian and Magyar, trudged between houses of worship in ragged attire, many barefoot, some without coats, as they begged for bread before a violent incident occurred near the aldamen where Christo Antoniss, a Hungarian man, shot a man named Rimeel during the pilgrimage.
The auxiliary cruiser Prairie at Norfolk with 240 men bound for the Pacific to replace expiring terms. They will sail to Colon then cross the isthmus to board the Buffalo en route to San Francisco and other Pacific stations. Also notes changes in baseball personnel and power-boat contests leading to the Bermuda Bennett cup race.
Ten percent wage reductions take effect in New Bedford and other New England mills affecting about 140000 workers since the movement began. Union machinists seek national strike authority while rivals accept lower pay. Fall River and Pawtucket show tight futures as margins and prices shift.
T A McIntyre Co members of the NYSE and several markets announced the suspension of the firm. A representative said Hablibies would likely be valued under 1 million dollars. The company operated branches in Chicago Baltimore Boston Hartford Binghamton Syracuse Rochester and Hot Springs Virginia.
President Roosevelt signed the Employers' Liability bill after an Attorney General Bonaparte opinion that it is constitutional. The measure makes railroads and common carriers liable for injury or death of any of 40 employees resulting from negligence of officers agents or employees or equipment defects during interstate commerce.
Saltpetre from the atmosphere becomes a focal point in Berlin and Naples as analine manufacturers raise capital to fund Norwegian experiments. Anno Gould travels to Naples, arriving at Sagan street in Nares, meeting a contact upon arrival.
Governor Hughes warned at Albsay that race track bills must pass in the special session or become a campaign issue. He pledged to press the matter in the next election cycle.
Cadet Lieutenant H Fairtex Ayres resigns amid disciplinary action following a controversial overcoat deal at West Point. The resignation marks a local end to the cadet’s service amid broader investigations into the incident at the academy.
F L Luketian of Montreal AAA broke the sixty yard world mark at the Mr A A A Indoor races in Montreal with 1 9 seconds, besting the previous 64 3 seconds. Jay Gould of Georgian Court defeated Eustace Miles of London in the national court tennis championship challenge round at the New York Racquet and Tennis Club.
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