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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette announces Ralph J. Dean as publisher at Ashton Illinois. The notice identifies the paper's leadership and the town's local media frame.
The Missouri River steamboat service is revived after a decade with the Lora from St Louis docking at Kansas City. Bells, whistles and crowds celebrate the launch as the fleet escorts the Lora downstream. Merchants backed the plan to lower freight rates and tie towns between Kansas City and St Louis into river commerce. Regular trips will start once suitable boats are secured.
The United States foreign commerce for the year ending August totals 3,501,381,633. Imports reach 1,254,399,735 and exports 1,759,417,898. August alone shows imports of 105,588,604, surpassing 1905 and marking a first for monthly imports over 100 million.
Jennie Birch a 14 year old nurse to infant Wilbur W. Winship confessed to Coroner Mitchell that she gave poison killing the boy and started a fire that destroyed barns on Arbert Winship's farm at Cowles Corner. She spoke while funeral rites for the 22 year old Wilbur were underway in a room below.
John Asher was found dead with a bullet wound in a North Lewisburg roadway. Tate Seaman and David Sharp, aged 13 and 11, say a loaded revolver discharged during a game at the Seaman home, then the boys dragged the body outside and fled, the coroner reports.
James Neal a one year old convict once sentenced to life in Torr Leavenworth for murder died in Vinita federal jail. The jail physician cites morose sorrow as the cause, describing it as a broken heart.
A Chicago charity worker estimates more than 10,000 boys in poorer districts are worse than homeless, poised to become criminals or public charges. They can buy weapons easily and target isolated city areas at night, waiting for police gaps to steal valuables and fuel revelry.
Government irrigation works in Arizona and Montana employ large numbers of Indians, mainly on road building and canal sites. Apache laborers in Arizona and Klamath workers in Montana expect daily wages from $1 to $2, with potential higher pay for skilled tasks, as lands are opened to settlers and projects advance.
A survey of labor conditions shows day laborers in Japan earning about 20 cents per day, Porto Rican cigar leaf strippers averaging 2.65 dollars weekly, and Maori tobacco workers in Samoa seeking higher pay. The Iowa, Chicago, and Milwaukee unions report membership changes and wage debates while the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen notes rapid growth and large insurance reserves as it nears 90,000 members.
Cable dispatches describe a devastating typhoon that swept Hong Kong Island, sinking numerous small vessels and promising a thousand deaths. Hong Kong harbor losses were heaviest among crew in port with many ships foundered or driven ashore. The article notes Hong Kong as a British colony with major exports and imports and highlights its strategic role. Additional cables mention changed Pacific currents affecting recent shipwrecks near the Hawaiian Islands and by the Empress of China’s Tokyo arrival.
Gen. Trepoff known as Russia s evil genius dies at Peterhof of angina pectoris amid rumors of poisoning. Once master of the palace and dictator of Moscow he steadied the city with iron rule, quelling plots and ensuring imperial safety while shaping post‑1905 reaction.
Dispatches report autumn arrival amid Pacific turmoil as ships Pacific Mariner and Manchuria, Sheridan and Mongolia hit reefs near Midway and Valparaiso, causing passenger congestion in Honolulu and widespread transport disruptions. The text also hints at political turmoil surrounding Trepoff after multiple assassination attempts.
James C. Colgate leads a New York based twenty eight policy holders of Mutual Life with 5 million in coverage to back the present administration. Colgate, the second largest policy holder with 1.5 million on his life, chairs the group which adopts the name Colgate holders protective association of the mutual Life. Wm Harrity of Philadelphia is named chairman of the executive committee. The group contends the international committee seeks control and has leveled false accusations.
A French inventor famed for motor boats has adapted a new mechanism to apply motor power directly to the human body. The device uses air bags and a back box housing a small engine and propeller, with a saddle seat and two rods. The wearer steers by shifting hand positions in the water.
Consul Milner reports Calais lace 80 percent exported to the United States worth 6 million dollars. Notables invited to the trans Mississippian commercial congress open in Kansas City November first. Hearst backs Independence League for New York governor, hints at Democratic option. House leaders Andrus McKinley Hearst top three richest in Congress. Huff and Morrell follow. Governor Guild receives replica of Bunker Hill flag from the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution. Benson Prescott La Follette, a Kansas senator, helped frame early prohibition law. La Follette described as vegetarian with a diet of fresh vegetables Copra walnuts and milk, while a prizefighter might envy his condition.
A Saturday and Sunday clash in Atlanta leaves about twenty Black people dead and many others injured as white mobs attacked Black residents across streets and shops. Police powerless, governor deploys militia to restore order amid reports of multiple fatalities in the city and surrounding areas.
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks laid the corner stone of Cook County courthouse in Chicago on a Friday ceremony attended by about fifty thousand along Clark and Randolph streets. He praised Cook County, with May or Dunne and Gov. Deneen speaking, as bands played and Illinois songs were sung.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and nervine for women's conditions including irregularities and pelvic pain. It claims to ease painful periods, aid nursing mothers, prepare for childbirth, and alleviate nervous symptoms, citing medical authorities and offering a free booklet by mail from Buffalo.
A Toledo Blade pickup recalls quips about ex-Speaker Henderson and free seeds for constituents. Cartoonish letters mock political generosity, offering hairpins and jackknives as payback, while a farm family debates vacation rest and harvest labor in rustic speech.
A bachelor asks if married life costs more than single life and a seasoned marrier replies that it costs about three times as much for his wife to live. The exchange frames economics of marriage with wit from a rugged speaker.
An emphasizing brief odd ad copy notes Lewis' Single Binder straight 5e cigars made of extra quality tobacco priced 10¢ for cigars not so good from Lewis' Factory Peoria II with a humorous exchange about a girl's father observing a wild suitor.
Deacon Hardesty laments a terrible meal and blames fate, while a waiter quips that the lack of tip was foreseen. The exchange turns on the notion that events are foreordained, delivering a wry, humorous moment.
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