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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1907
Page
1
A nationalist push coordinated by President Roosevelt invites the public to shift funds from safe deposit boxes into trade, backing a $100,000,000 issue of government securities paying 3 percent, hoping to ease currency fears and support canal construction payments while addressing southern and western bank concerns.
About 300 Mount Carmel Institute students rebel after the president bans social mingling between young men and women. The unrest follows Saturday stock market quotes from Sioux City and a statewide legislative call by Governor Haskell for Oklahoma to meet December 2. A St. Louis tailoring firm fire causes heavy losses estimated at $190,000.
Forces report reduced hostilities with Ute and Sioux bands near Thunder Hutte. Col. West says peaceful work begins for fifty plus Indians, with troops guarding the area and multiple detachments stationed at Gettysburg Agency White Horse and Green Grass as Indians drift away from camps.
Nora Mey French, 24, poet and author, took cyanide at George F. Sterling’s Camel-by-the-Sea colony house on the Pacific coast near Monterey. Her health and career promising, she left no reason for the sudden act as friends and editors seek explanations for the tragic crisis.
Mary Stadek of Chicago was acquitted Friday night by two jurors in Judge Chytraus court on charges she poisoned her mother Mrs Mary Mette. Sladek remains indicted for her father’s death while a girl born to her weeks ago was kept from stigma by a special court order removing her from jail.
A Georgia court rules that a common carrier does not fulfill its duty to every passenger, awarding damages to Dr. Age car Linden after being injured when a car suddenly started. The Southeast Trade Press association notes rail operations face no safe prevention, signaling a dollar for dollar burden.
Bally, a Hamburg truck broker and brother of Albert Pallin, rector general of the Hamburg America line, committed suicide in a lavatory at the focal stock exchange by shouting. The motive remains unknown.
Charles A. Drew, longtime member of Frank Daniela’s Sergeant Blue company, died at 61 in New York from heart disease. He retired last June after forty four years on the stage.
Wage reductions announced by Massachusetts Consolidated Mines Continental and Allouez and Quircy mines near Calumet Michigan affect about 3906 workers. The notice outlines a wage cut across several mining firms.
Barney, president of the Knickerbocker Trust company, shot himself in his New York home amid the trust’s collapse after the Knickerbocker failure and Otto Holnzy & Co. turmoil. He died around 2 40 pm Thursday at about age 50, leaving a wife who is the sister of the late William C. Whitney. He had resigned the presidency after the clearinghouse break and the Knickerbocker run began, ending a life steeped in financial prominence and public disgrace.
A bold relic swindle in Michigan involved a copper tablet engraved to mimic Noah's diary and sold to a Wisconsin collector. A former secretary of state tied to the case, along with a university museum curator and others, masterminded the fake antiquities. Copper axes and verdigris painted relics were buried and later unearthed by promoters for sale to collectors nationwide.
A United States circuit court ordered a verdict for Leon Willard & Co. of San Francisco against Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company. The award totaled $33,000 with 7 percent interest from the earthquake date of April 18, 1906. The ruling aligned with Judge Whitson in a prior Bergin case, as the defendant had defended on a policy clause excluding earthquake losses.
A teen maid named Clara Parrow, about 18, confessed under arrest to killing Mrs. Bessie Carter at her French Quarter home. Wearing a silk underskirt she claimed the hatchet attack, after alarm was raised by the first to notice the crime. The police say she was instrumental in the grisly wound to Mrs. Carter’s neck and head. The case, linked to a broader inquiry into a smokestack pollution matter, concerns the United States Smelting and Refining company at Bingham Junction Utah, employing about 1,000 men, and follows a U.S. Court of Appeals affirmation of injunctions.
A Joliet jury acquitted former Baptist minister Rev Benjamin I Graff on forgery charges tied to an insurance application after a hung jury in a prior trial. Also, Ensign Ulmo of the French army, arrested last month at Toulon, confessed Thursday to spying.
Jamestown exposition directors unanimously accept a committee report favoring keeping the exposition open next year if $200,000 can be raised by popular subscription. The decision hinges on successful fundraising to extend operations and attract attendees.
Julietta Estelle Prescott Matthis aged 68 long known as a writer of songs and verses. A former resident of Ilinotw she died Thursday at the home of her son Frank G. Prescott in Los Angeles California.
The 83 year old Nebraska landholder Leonard Wolgam seeks divorce from Mattie Douglas a former nurse of Des Moines who married him after nursing him through illness. He alleges threats to murder if he refused to wed the caregiver who became his wife a year ago in California. The lengthy affair includes custody of a baby boy and arrangements about his $100000 wealth and Nebraska property. Mrs Weigand may counter sue through her Des Moines attorney brother Donald Douglas.
In Harlan district court a contest over the probate of Alexander Pritchard's will, valued at 50 000 to 75 000 dollars, ended with a settlement. J W Pritchard of Mitchellville claimed heirship and alleged unsound mind and undue influence. The parties agreed to pay their own costs. Pritchard was a longtime county treasurer.
Word reaches Manson that Prof. Young, former superintendent of the city and county schools in Pipestone Minnesota and long known as an Institute speaker, has lost his mind in Boston Mass. He fears his property will be lost and that he will become a public charge.
SIE IS A FORMER IOWAN. Mrs. Bradley the Divorced Wife of a Citation Man is on trial in Washington for the murder of United States Senator Trown and former Towns. She is the divorced wife of Charles Bradley, son of Lesley Bradley, a former Clinton newspaper man, and the family lived for years on Comache avenue in Clinton with wide acquaintance.
C W Clark, who first framed a number of Des Moines general stenography schemes, was sentenced to ten months in jail at hard labor and to pay a $200 fine. He will be put to work on the new county jail at Atone plie upon completion. Convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses.
A bicycle rider Julian Nelson of Waterloo aged 25 died after being struck by Timotn Central west bound train on his way home from work. Prof. Magowan Deni a 45 year old professor of municipal and sanitary engineering at Town University Iowa City died Thursday morning. A fire destroyed the Chartes City tank factory owned by W D Burnham and run by Alfred Burnham causing about 5000 in loss with 2000 insurance. Alles M Butler promoter of the Davenport Maquoketa Interurban filed for bankruptcy listing 22614 in debts and only 141 in assets. Storm Lake froze over Saturday night hindering venturesomeness as skating resumes with thaw to follow.
Deputy G J Wildwell observed Kimil Nelson attempting to pass a counterfeit silver dollar at Whitney's Grug store in Des Moines and halted the suspect under arrest. Nelson was bound over to the federal grand jury by United States District Clerk McArthur.
Mr and Mrs Robinson of Storm Lake marked fifty years of marriage with a Golden wedding anniversary in the city. Their son W Robinson hosted the celebration, and the couple has lived in Storm Lake for fifteen years.
Chaney Sevurat Twogood of Correctionville drew No 3 in a land lottery at Fort Pierre after initially refusing to register. He had traveled with a friend to view a farm in South Dakota and, despite indifference, won a fourth place through another contestant's disqualification. He plans to move his family there in spring.
At Rock Rapids annual stockholders meeting Lyon County Pair Association directors were elected, including M A Cox J W Ramsey J W Rauch and others. Board re elected J W Harris as president C J Locker as first vice president P J Schenneberg as second vice president A S Wold secretary C J Miller assistant secretary and T G Partsch treasurer. The society reports about 1800 on hand and plans a larger hotter fall 1908 with more improvements to the fair grounds in the northwest.
Man with a cracked skull regained senses at Finley hospital on Thursday and accused companion Joe Tracey of attempting to kill him with a heavy bar near Dubuque. Smith and Tracey were in a section gang housed below Dubuque. Tracey vanished the morning after the attack and denied knowledge of Smith's whereabouts. Both men had been drinking prior to the incident.
Twelve smallpox cases at the Town State college in Ames prompt measures including vaccination certificates and isolation. A college proclamation orders vaccination for all connected with the college. The sick are quarantined in an isolated farmhouse.
Sella won Thousand Acres as nearly 2,000 ficron of Winnebago county land changed hands. N Hi Tannes, president of the Pirat National Bank of Thompson Ta, sold 1,940 acres. Frank Hronnecke of Marshalltown is named in the deal. Average price per acre was about 81 dollars.
A worker named Henry Ferry in the Wanker area near Nvinge Southwest of Sloan suffered a hand injury while operating a corn hunker. His hand was caught in the machinery, resulting in the probable amputation of the second finger on his right hand.
The article argues prohibition shapes Southern politics, noting many states move toward general prohibitions. It cites Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Virginia with varying county or state laws. It highlights enforcement challenges and racial tensions linked to drinking, then references public behavior of Black residents amid prohibition efforts.
A hybrid vehicle merges a boat hull with wheeled axle, capable of running on land and water. It uses a twenty horsepower motor and adjustable gear to switch modes, with rudder control via steering gear. Water exit power and a bow-drag mechanism are described to aid transition from water to land.
M Gurley of Bay City Michigan describes a long endured skin itching that began in infancy and worsened through adolescence. After trying various salves with limited help, a course of Cuticura Remedies provided relief and stopped new breakouts.
An old Baltimore American clipping advertises Frank J Cheney and Co offering a Catarrh Cure. The notice claims the remedy acts directly on mucous membranes and promises a refund if it cannot cure. Notarized December 854 document accompanies the claim.
A community mourns the loss of a loved figure as friends recall his kindness and the support he offered years ago. A child clutches a flower at the church window while her mother muses on the sorrow and the beauty of the flowers sent to honor the departed.
A veteran schoolteacher recounts long illness and nervous break under coffee influence. After trying Postum, he reports clear improvement, no desire for coffee, and a claim of renewed health. He credits Postum with restoring vitality and calls it a fountain of perpetual youth. Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
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