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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
2
Freight handlers rejected a one cent per hour wage increase proposal. The item appears among a string of national and international events including deaths, political clashes, and economic shifts reported by the Ashton Gazette.
A massive explosion at No. 3 coal mine in Palos Alabama entombs 45 white and 140 Black workers. Two bodies recovered as flames rage and rescue efforts struggle with cave-ins and gas. Palos Coal and Coke Company operates the mine near Birmingham. authorities suspect gas buildup in abandoned entries caused the disaster.
Illinois politics reels as Representative Charles A. White testifies to the State's Attorney that he took 1000 for his Senate vote in the Lorimer case. He accuses a slush fund of 900 and says votes were bought for 1000 to 2000. Lorimer denies any payments. Browne calls White's tale blackmail. Wilson denies funding a jackpot.
The fishing tug Spruder was brought into Port Stanley Ontario by the Canadian cruiser Vigilant. It is alleged the tug was poaching in Canadian waters, with Americans held by authorities.
Edward Payson Weston ends his record breaking trek at Manhattan shore after crossing King's Bridge Spuyten Duyvil creek and walking down Broadway toward City Hall. The 3,480 mile Pacific to Atlantic journey was planned for ninety days and ends in triumph as crowds cheer the veteran walker.
The elderly philosopher Weston completed a seventy seven day transcontinental walk despite rain storms heat minor accidents and a sprained ankle. He did it without a prize and intended the feat as a lesson to American youth on the benefits of walking.
Amanda H Moss of Saint Paul leaves Macalester College a 2500 endowment. Wisconsin University summer school offers agriculture and domestic science courses for the first time. Jesse Ames returns as history professor at River Falls Normal. Carnegie Science Hall cornerstone at Macalester laid with Prof Kingery officiating. Purdue’s Moses Cobb Stevens dies at 84 in Tallapoosa. Columbia awards a top scholarship to a distinguished negro student George W Scott. College of Agriculture Wisconsin plans a garden oriented course for June 27 to August 5.
Four masked bandits dynamited a safe at the North American Manufacturing Co building in Newell West Virginia at 2 30 am. They stole $200 and several valuable papers while a guard held residents at bay. Police from five communities and bloodhound possees chased the trail.
Mrs Bert Skirt of Signal Ohio a farmer's wife has slept in a trance for several days. She had near continuous wakefulness for forty five days after catching the grip in February. She vowed to write her life story and then sleep forever. Her husband hired a stenographer to record the tale before she fell into a trance.
A head on wreck on the Ohio Electric Railway near Urbana between a freight car and a passenger car from Springfield left two dead seven seriously injured and eleven with minor hurts. Investigators cite brake failure as the likely cause and say the freight car became unmanageable on the hill.
Government bulletin notes imports under the new tariff risen in eight months August 1 1909 to March 31 1910 compared with the prior year. Manufactures material up 33 percent while finished goods rise 26 percent and foodstuffs 3 percent. Bureau of Statistics figures show the changes.
The will of Samuel L. Clemens filed for probate in Danbury Connecticut names daughter Clara Mrs Ossip Gabrilowitsch as principal heir. Redding home valued at 30000 with about 150000 cash on deposit and literary assets estimated over 750000.
Frank Benzer aged 42 died five minutes after being brushed from a crowded car in Pittsburg while returning from an amateur ball game. Two others are in a hospital in serious condition.
President Taft met with the Business Men's League and Governor Hadley in St Louis and attended a breakfast at the St Louis Club and a luncheon at the Southern Hotel. He watched opening baseball games before returning to Washington. In Cincinnati he dedicated a statue of Theodore Thomas at the May music festival.
The Roosevelt dam completes the Salt River irrigation project in Arizona and the U S cement plant at Roosevelt is shut down. The reservoir becomes the largest artificial water body, with 61 billion cubic feet capacity. The project costs about 8.64 million dollars and will irrigate 240000 acres, with yearly crops expected to repay the investment.
Tom L Johnson visits London seeking health improvement. Prince Frederick Heinrich of Prussia converts to Catholicism and donates his fortune to the church, entering a monastery. Argentine consul A Geiger dies in Munich car crash. his wife and others injured. King Albert pledges funds for sleeping sickness campaign in Africa, Congo hospital and pension programs. Fighting in Cape Palmas Liberia worsens. Rev Speare killed and white residents threatened.
Package mailed free on request by Munyon's Home Remedy Co. promotes Paw-Paw Laxative Pills for stomach and liver ailments, claiming quick relief from constipation indigestion jaundice and related disorders. Ends with a foreclosure scene featuring Old Hanks and a widow.
An opportunity titled An Opportunity Grasp It invites readers to invest in the Mann Indicator Company. The note claims protection by patents and a monopoly and asserts potential profits rivaling the Bell telephone model, citing historic gains of $100 in Bell telephone growing to $400,000 with over $200,000 in dividends.
A man with big eyeglasses addressed the Sunday school class, discussing the meaning of the word line. He called for a simple definition, explaining line as a predetermined boundary beyond its usual sense of longitudinal extension.
Mrs. M McFadden of Iowa City credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing years of severe backaches and nervous symptoms after doctors failed. She states she nearly died before starting the treatment and urges others to remember the product name. Sold at 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Grandmotherly Pride joke ends rural humor snippet.
An ad dense page touts home remedies and secret cures for drink habit and eye ailments. It promotes free trials from Chicago addresses, lists various tonics and salves, and includes flirtatious social quips and product pitches.
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