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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
4
A jumble of 1911 era items is cataloged, including jokes about lawn mowers and joy riding, legal quips on spanking and dynamite, a milk diet driving insanity, prize offerings for a rose at the Panama Exposition, and rumors of genuine antique books. It notes fashionable sleep portraits in Berlin and a Brooklyn suit for kissing earning six cents, with other quirky tidbits and a roundup of curiosities.
Attorney General Wickersham told the House committee he advised United States Steel Corp while with Strong and Cadwallader and received about 26000 in fees funneled to the firm for services to American Sugar Refining. He testified on related government sales of friar lands in the Philippines and connections with Henry W Taft and other firms. He noted prior representations for the New York Cotton Exchange and commented on a 2000000 settlement with American Sugar Refining over under valuations.
Rays Harroun won the first 500 mile speedway race in Indianapolis with a Marmon in 6 41 08. Ralph Mulford finished second in a Lozier. Forty cars started ten finished amid spectacular crashes and injuries. Dickson died after rear tire failure. Greiner injured. several others hurt.
Washington reports the post office department is now self-supporting for the first time in 30 years. A $3,000,000 surplus is returned to the treasury as revenues exceed expenditures. The department notes a current surplus over $1,000,000 and expects continued solvency despite past deficits of over $17 million, aided by financial reforms and new deposit practices.
Washington report of a collision near Alexandria between the presidential yacht Dolphin and the power boat Culprit Fay as Miss Taft and Miss Helen Taft traveled with chaperones. Alexander Yellowless drowned. two survivors rescued. President Taft visited Yellowlesss family and urged all efforts to recover the body from the Potomac.
Galveston Texas Governor Colquitt is expelled from the Methodist church for campaigning with prohibitionists. He plans to defend Bloomington Wisconsin while Armington, 60, has a twenty year Joliet penitentiary sentence for a fatal quarrel with Jerome Cray, a Venona horse buyer, in Marshall County Court last fall.
A terse report notes a wireless case involving Bamuel and an art matter. No further details are clear in the fragment. The item hints at a legal or regulatory dispute centered on communications and value.
A five minute storm swept through northern Ohio causing ten deaths and widespread destruction. Seven drowned in Lake Erie, Lorain reported three drownings, with many missing and numerous injuries. Boats, trees, and buildings were wrecked, with live wires and shattered glass filling streets.
Henry George Mitchell, a Racine Wisconsin millionaire and automobile manufacturer, died suddenly of heart trouble. He was the son of the late Henry Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell Wagon Works.
Washington hearings reveal how the United States Steel Corporation formed to throttle competition. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie figures appear in a tale of mergers, stock swaps, and a 1907 panic rescue involving the Tennessee Coal and Iron takeover.
Spokane dispatch reports an eastbound Columbian steel passenger train derailed at a sharp curve 26 miles east of Lind Washington on the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound line. The engineer and fireman were killed and one passenger severely injured. Eighteen dead and two more expected to die in a Burlington wreck near Indianola, per a dispatched report.
Washington report notes William Jennings Bryan criticizing Democratic support for a revised wool tariff. Representative Harrison of New York publicized the statement. Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee asserts the tariff will pass despite Bryan's stance, with a two thirds caucus majority.
San Antonito residents struggle to save their village as the Rio Grande floods, carving a channel through the center and threatening the town. Snowmelt-fed waters swell with little hope of saving the community. no lives reported. Pendleton Oregon notices mark attorney Peter West's death at sixty one after twelve marriages and eleven divorces.
A bold man enters a Broadway store with a large bandbox containing a hat he regrets buying for his wife. He demands a refund of thirty five dollars as his wife already bought three hats this spring. The sale clerk notes the man’s audacity while a bystander compares him to Napoleon, calling the gesture courageous and disruptive to the shop.
A girl named Sydney sports a discarded millinery hat with a long red ostrich plume hanging over her face. Her mother asks to adjust it, but Sydney prefers to see the feather herself, noting that others typically notice it for her. The judge quotes the line about who sees the hat.
Lollerby asks if Hawkins accepted his punishment and Dub bleigh notes he did. He hollered and yelled, using strong language to beat cree Mon, per a Harper's Weekly snapshot.
Fragmentary note asks what is taken for a headache with a cryptic line about Joe the night before. The text resembles a stray quotation, offering no clear names, places, or events to anchor a concrete summary.
A Wisconsin creamery manager says coffee harmed health and business. he quit coffee, tried Postum, and after wife followed box directions, several days of use brought digestion relief, reduced fullness and heart palpitations, and improved mental focus for office work.
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