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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
6
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat analysis shows horses fading from city transportation as autos grow. Despite steady purchase, drivers and depreciation curb auto livery. by 1909 licenses rise sharply, with auto sales nearing $1.5 million, yet livery remains viable for the wealthy.
Woodpecker activity causes considerable damage to telephone, telegraph, and electric light poles across the United States, especially in the south and central regions. Holes two to five inches deep weaken poles, but the birds are beneficial for controlling forest pests, so methods should urge a return to boring rather than extermination.
John B. Warrick of Hadford New Zealand may die from a pitchfork wound after a fall from a scaffold. The incident occurred as he prepared to descend from the upper level.
The Chicago Board of Trade plans a new eighteen story building on La Salle Street and Jackson Boulevard, with a projected cost of about five million dollars. A five member committee will push the project, with four to one support for razing the old 1884 structure and bonds of twelve hundred thousand dollars outstanding. Banks and five major railroads seek space in the replacement, which would rise on a ground valued around two and a half million.
A collage of humorous maxims and quips on gender, manners, and relationships from the Atchison Globe Lights column. The snippets touch on courtship, work, health, truth, and social behavior with playful observations about men and women.
Mrs Amos B Cleaver of Reading Pennsylvania has spent eighteen years collecting string into a single ball. The growing sphere now weighs twenty six pounds and would stretch fifty miles if unwound. Children supply strings from across the United States for use as an object lesson in saving.
John C. Greenwood a South Norwalk Connecticut postman reached into his mail bag yesterday and pulled out a rattlesnake coiled at the bottom startling him and causing the bag to drop to the ground authorities were summoned and the incident was investigated by postal staff.
Green wood killed the reptile as it sprang from the mail bag. It was found to have ten rattles.
Brief excerpt lists phrases in various languages with brief English equivalents. Includes Early waster-long knave Dutch, Two captains sink the ship Turkish, and Every man has his besetting sin Chinese. The text appears as a compiled snippet of proverbs and maxims.
The article notes a sharp rise in illicit liquor production in the Southern states, with internal revenue officer Knox Booth citing Alabama's output up about 50 percent since prohibition. Moonshiners report high profits, turning six bushels of meat and 200 pounds of sugar into thirty gallons of whisky sold at four dollars per gallon, risking daily danger for substantial returns.
China informs Japan of willingness to negotiate the Antung Mukden Railroad controversy at Mukden. Japan’s position is reportedly accepted in principle by China. Chinese officials highlight railway development as a key modernizing effort with new memorials and consular reports noting expansion.
A historic contrast of the moonshiner era with revenue enforcement. It recalls deadly clashes in Kentucky Tennessee Alabama and Georgia and describes the shift from armed defiance to reliance on government power and prisons. The piece notes evolving sentiments and criminal risk in illicit whisky trade. It also reports on imperial railway work in China with American engineers and rail orders shaping trade routes.
A compilation of varied trivia notes including German army size five million, a 98 piece watch, early pedal bicycle circa 1840, Sicily earthquake losses in 1693, heart weight nine to eleven ounces, one pub per 730 people in London, water on Mars via spectroscope, Colorado misdemeanor tampering with electric wires, ancient Chinese astronomy to 2356 B. C., Venice 6000 glass bead makers, and a Chinese pupil turning away during lesson recitation.
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