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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1906
Page
8
Erroneous OCR fragment lists a World newspaper and periodical offer with mis-spellings. It hints at combination rates for newspapers magazines or periodicals and prepaid options offering 10 to 60 percent savings, but content is garbled and lacks concrete details or dates.
An advertisement fragment urges readers to consider De Witt's witch hazel salve for eczema piles and cuts, Kennedy's laxative honey and tar for colds, and True and Tried Friends of the Family early riser pills. Schultz sells all items and promotes health benefits and palatable taste.
Rev Algernon G Crapsey of St Andrew's Rochester denounces his Episcopal ministry while bowing to church authority. In a letter to Bishop Walker he reaffirms that the virgin birth claim lacks historical foundation, rejects a literal bodily ascent, and vows to carry the case to the broader world as clergy and laity weigh free thought against church authority.
In a Vienna letter to the Neus Freie Presse the Roumanian queen Carmen Sylvia, a house physician, recounts King Carlos illness over a year. She notes his pain at night, his courage and patience, and claims milk diet and recumbent pasture eased pain, with peaceful nights and days spent reading.
President Roosevelt's near Cape Henry update from Norfolk reports the battleship Louisiana sending a wireless message to the Navy Department in Washington. The Mayflower converted yacht is to meet the Louisiana off Piney Point as it resumes Hampton Roads transit. Colonel Pitcher denies criticizing Negro troops in Cuba amid reports of a published article.
Cornelius Harrison and his wife were fatally and seriously wounded when their automobile was struck and split by a street car in St Louis on November 26. Their daughter Miss Mary Harrison and chauffeur Thomas Rohan escaped with minor bruises. Harrison was thrown, fracturing his skull, while Mrs. Harrison struck the curbstone.
In New York on November 26 the Metropolitan Opera manager said Enrico Caruso’s voice has improved enough to perform by Wednesday evening unless illness intervenes. Caruso plans to sing Rudolfo in La Boheme with Mme Sembrich’s Mimi amid rumors after Cameo’s Central Park case. His appeal will be heard at the Court of General Sessions within a day or two.
Kentucky House proprietor J Frank Emery was shot and killed during a robbery attempt at 905 North Sixth Street. Robbers Lee Simons and San Witton were wounded. Charles Rumble was shot in the heels and arrested. Emery died at the desk as guests crowded the lobby.
A semi official note from St. Petersburg on November 26 states the government will ignore anti Jewish pressure. The note says the Jewish question should be resolved by parliament but will ease harassing police rules and commercial restrictions. It asserts greater freedom for Jews will benefit Russia as a whole.
Accused of robbery, rank V. Vanree held on $4,000 bail after a hotel Majaste robbery. Andras Tipelt, an opera tenor, is said to have lost $2,000 in notes. Vanree previously worked at the hotel and is also sought in a Chicago hotel robbery case involving jewelry missing through a man known as Ogear Wener.
In El Paso on November 26 a collision involving Mexicans and a captain and two privates of the Mexican guard accompanying the Central Pay Car led to Manuel Baretta of El Paso being stabbed to death with a bayonet by a rurales, who then escaped into Mexico.
Two masked robbers shot and killed night clerk William At Goti at the St. Charles hotel in Arkansas City Texas and wounded actor A. Hul ple, who died hours later. The assailants escaped.
Vice President and Mrs. Charles W. Falrmuks have left Jacksonville Florida for Washington. The departure underscores ongoing national duties and travels of high officials as they move to the capital.
A masked gunman robbed fifteen passengers aboard Chicago and Alton No 24 near Glasgow after midnight. He boarded at Slater, looted passengers, then was captured at Armstrong and returned to Glasgow. He is described as five foot five, 135 pounds, wearing a corduroy cap and mask. The robbery mirrors a Nov 9 attack on an Alton route train.
Omaha reports a Dee source says within a week equity held by the Northern Pacific in the Burlington will pass to the Great Northern and in about fifteen days the Burlington Northern will merge into one vast system with J. J. Hill in control. The plan links Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington lines toward a coastward route, though Northern Pacific may be omitted from the merged name.
In St Petersburg November reports a new use for prisoners serving hard labor, many for political offenses. Rather than mines they will build the roadbed for the Transsiberian Railway double tracking, with the ministry of railways vigorously pushing the project.
Samuel Gompers was rechosen president of the American Federation of Labor for the twenty sixth year, with no opposing candidate and full acclamation. The article lists the officers elected for the coming year and notes fraternal delegates to British and Canadian congresses, alongside a lengthy, unclear wartime advertisement-like text.
A Lanett merchant named Jolson was shot and killed in Lanette during the afternoon. The shooter, described as a distraught man, turned himself in but was later killed by a relative to avoid further violence.
At a Sunday night Jewish theater in Newark a balcony floor collapsed under a crowd. One person, Bertha Schwartz, was killed and many were badly hurt. fifteen others were taken to City Hospital with severe injuries, while several more suffered lesser harm. The incident prompted emergency response as injured patrons were assisted from the fallen structure.
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