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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
3
New York report says the richest woman, Hetty Green, will abandon the Plaza apartment citing dreadful notoriety after moving from a Hoboken flat. The financier dismisses claims of sudden wealth and warns of anxious borrowers circling her bank.
In New York a saloon attack on William Tiernan, 21, was halted when former baseball star Mike Tiernan rushed in from his home at 5 East 130th Street and retrieved his old bat. He used it to subdue assailants as police arrived. five attackers were arrested on $500 bail each.
Dutch poet and economist Frederick Van Eeden told a New York dinner that wealth fosters ostentation among multimillionaires. He cited a anecdote of a young nobleman smoking two cigars to cope with high costs, illustrating extravagance.
Casper Knobel of 2963 Amherst Philadelphia, sole survivor of the federal party that captured Jefferson Davis, celebrated the 43d anniversary. He told veterans at cavalry post No 51 about tracing Davis from Abbeville to a tent near Norris Street and the exchange when Davis spoke to Corporal Mungier. Knobel received $293 of the $100,000 reward and a gold medal from Congress.
In Summerland California hundreds of oil wells were sunk along the shore starting with a 1895 sea well. By 1900 there were 305 producing wells and 59 abandoned with 15 drilling. Current reports show about 190 wells producing across 14 companies.
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