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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
8
The President and cabinet rejected proposals to shift government clocks to daylight hours. They concluded not to alter established work times despite touted benefits for clerks and business. Changing schedules would disrupt banking, commerce, and railroad timetables, so no action will be taken now.
Taft orders Nina L. Carrington widow of Maj. Frank del Carrington to be appointed to a classified civil service position without examination. Carrington, once a Twenty first infantry officer, was court martialed over Philippine financial charges, later freed after US Supreme Court nullified a 60 year penal servitude sentence. The case drew support from officers who blamed carelessness rather than crime. Carrington died in Manila. widow and two daughters later obtained government jobs through influence before this appointment.
SNAY H. Denham, Kentucky-born senator and former Kentucky assembly member, served as an elevator conductor in Washington during the political fight to aid Senator Bradley. Denham carried a pistol during a pairing dispute with Capt. Longmeyer, declaring he was paired with the sergeant-at-arms. He is paid about 1200 dollars yearly and was ill with pneumonia during the campaign.
Louise Pearsons Dolliver wife of Iowa senator Jonathan P Dolliver is noted for her mental fitness and social influence in Washington. A Wellesley graduate and former Northwestern mathematics chair, she oversees her children, follows public debates, and participates in DAR activities while hosting gatherings on Massachusetts Avenue.
Sandy Pikes plans a grand enterprise and asks a kindly Lady for a dime. He aims to save ten million dollars, then telegraph to Mars to announce his venture and seek backing.
In St Paul, former prosecutor and judge James Egan pleads with the state board of pardons to release R. L. Underhill and George Washington, life prisoners convicted 34 years ago on largely circumstantial evidence after a Summit Avenue burglary and fatal police shooting. The confession reveals possible injustice and prompts a full review.
Bernice Cunningham, 19, daughter of James R. Cunningham of Berkeley, promotes experimental air travel as she plans to fly in a new airship developed by local enthusiasts.
In London Richmond the Star and Garden hotel failed to sell at auction for the second time in two years. Once a famed resort for royals and luminaries, it cost about 700000 and could serve as hotel or rink. The crowd recalled its 100 year history and glittering patrons including Queen Victoria Napoleon III and Maxmillian among others.
New York reports the Grand opera house at Twenty third street and Eighth avenue sold by executors of the Jay Gould estate for 1 million dollars. The theater is linked to Jay Gould and Jim Fisk with memories of Black Friday 1873, including a vault and a Gould family box seating 20 to 30, unused by others.
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