Improving Influence Of Good Associations
A playful exchange centers on Chimmy who cracks a golf ball and exclaims in shock. The joke reveals he is caddying for the bishop who recently joined the club.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
11
A playful exchange centers on Chimmy who cracks a golf ball and exclaims in shock. The joke reveals he is caddying for the bishop who recently joined the club.
Norfolk, June 19. Bodies of Midshipman Walter Carl Ulrich of Milwaukee and Seaman Hurley Vandorne were found bringing total recovered to six from the ill fated launch of the battleship Minnesota in Hampton Roads. The first body to be sent home was Midshipman Holcomb, with his father and Lt. Thomas Holcomb Jr. aboard for shipment to New Castle Delaware.
The entire crew of the tug Chrisfield was summoned to appear before Supervising Steamboat Inspector Cast for examination regarding the Minnesota launch wreck and eleven navy crewmembers drowned. Officials expect a rigid open hearing to determine if the tug or its tow caused the disaster, with confidence that the steel bow hawser struck and upturned the launch in the roads.
Six firemen were severely scalded during a night blaze at a nine story building on Spring Street when steam and hot water burst from a standpipe nozzle. Fire crews had connected hoses to the standpipe and the water blast turned the system into a boiler.
In Monchan on Lake Sammamish five people including Antone Myer a 13 year old boy his sisters Lizzie and Ida Myer their mother Mrs Myer and Mrs John Herter sister of Mrs Myer died. The four women perished while trying to save the boy.
Leavenworth Kan June 19 Lieus tenant William Stewart of the Eleventh Pennsylvania infantry in the civil war was killed by sunstroke at the battlefield or encampment following years of service in a reference to his death during a distant conflict.
Secretary Taft arrived in Sturgis amid cheers after a Rapid City stop where he received a carved Indian tomahawk and at Fort Meade a bead work bridle. He announced Roosevelt’s policy as the western standard and was escorted by Colonel Rogers before reviewing the troops.
Appleton Wisconsin June 19 After stealing a revolver to end his life M J Lover collapsed in heat and was revived by a physician He returned the gun in payment and was arrested for larceny The officer noted the man no longer wished to die after the near fatal loss of consciousness The tale includes a wartime anecdote about a private who planned to rust a gun in his yard after the war.
James Bryce the British ambassador and party visit Guthrie as guests of Governor and Mrs. Franz. They traveled through western Oklahoma and met Quanah Parker the Comanche chief, sharing a peace pipe and observing Indian villages.
In Boston on June 19 celebrations of the 121st anniversary of Bunker Hill caused about 100 accident cases in hospitals. Juvenile revelers suffered roughly thirty five lacerated fingers and faces burned by powder along with numerous scorches from firecrackers toy pistols and small cannon.
Scranton reports Charles Craig engineer and John Keyter fireman both of Carbondale Pa were killed when their empty coal train ran into the rear of a second train on a siding at Bainbridge N Y the switch had been left open while returning from Oneonta N Y on the Delaware and Hudson railroad.
Thomas Johnson, 25, a clerk in the agriculture department, fatally shoots Jennie Washington, 17, then kills himself with a head wound. Officials say jealousy sparked the double tragedy in Washington, D. C.
In Harlowton Montana a gasoline explosion at Marshall's general store sparked a major blaze that destroyed nearly all commercial buildings. Only one store and the railroad station remained. Estimated loss runs around 128000 dollars. In New York City a US grand jury indicted the Central Vermont railroad for alleged refunds on coffee shipments under the Filkins act.
Captain A Sherman of Boone Indiana received a government commission dated April 20 1866 after a forty one year delay. The document was signed by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary Edwin Stanton and reached him only recently through a chain begun by Captain Kelly who misplaced it.
A metallic coffin with a Civil War past is unearthed in Shra der Bros. wareroom in New Albany Indiana. The coffin once housed a Confederate soldier whose body was shipped home after a steamboat sank near Brandenburg Kentucky. The vessel sank, the body lay in the hull for six months, then was moved to another coffin and sent home.
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