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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
8
The article lists Thomas J. Brooks as editor with Pred B. Otis as managing editor Bert C. Wicker as news editor and circulation manager Mrs Harry Askew as society editor and phone contacts for the staff.
A compact farming digest covers corn silage value for beef cattle, feeding hens at dawn and dusk, safe cattle dehorning, cement water tanks, calf weaning, hoof care, and pasture wire fencing. It urges raising horses, cattle, and hogs for money, notes feed surpluses, lime uses on cabbages, care of young fruit trees, and diversified farming with orchard and vegetable lines. It also details stock feed advice, machinery upkeep, milk management, lime content in lime types, hog profitability, peanut as stock feed, and global grain output with Russia leading oats.
The United States files a civil anti trust suit in Chicago to dissolve the Elgin Board of Trade and the American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers accusing a conspiracy to fix butter prices harming farmers small dealers and consumers. Defendants include Elgin Board of Trade Potter Christians Walker Haskell Hoard McKay and others with a price fixing committee and wash sales alleged.
Paris reports note Marie Barnes shot Walter Mumm and vanished. Detectives press, family silent, Barnes believed wounded and hidden. Investigators seek cab driver and Barnes cook and maid while Mumm’s entourage shuns inquiry.
Christchurch reports the Terra Nova departed for Ross Island to bring back Captain Robert F. Scott and his British expedition. No word has come since March 5 when the ship last left Hut Point, leaving a nation anxious about the polar party’s fate.
Washington reports Frank K. Sturgis and Rudolph Keppler, former NYSE presidents, testified before the House Money Trust investigating committee that part of stock market transactions are gambling. They discussed short sales and manipulation, with Sturgis noting moral objections to short selling and Keppler acknowledging some gambling nature in exchange dealings.
Thomas Pierce and his family from Williams spent Sunday in the city visiting friends and relatives.
In San Francisco the liner India from Yokohama faced a Japanese crew mutiny threat against Capt Parsor and four European officers. The steamer’s chief steward fed the crew then assaulted officers with knives. Three sailors were shot as a police launch hurried to the ship. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner carries 78 Orientals and arrived a week ago.
An agricultural note emphasizes quick hog profit, renewing poultry housing, and the value of fairs. It cites feeding strategies like tankage for fattening hogs and silage with alfalfa for dairy stock, plus water access for cattle and mineral concerns.
United States ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid is seriously ill with asthma. Several specialists attend him at Dorchester House. His condition worsened after a relapse following his October 31 speech at Aberystwyth.
Bloomington Illinois December 16 George Gottschalk prominent farmer shot Saturday by John Burton of Somerset Kentucky an employe in a wage dispute is dead Burton claims self defense
Miss Florence Fields suffers a nervous breakdown at her home on West 21st Street. Details remain sparse as authorities respond to the incident.
London reports Greek peace envoys as Greek forces clash with Turkish units in Epirus and Janina. Aegean naval combat allegedly devastates one fleet, while Greek land attacks push toward Janina amid stalled armistice talks.
Frank Rucker, a prominent farmer, was shot likely by his seventeen year old son Frank while hunting rabbits. The incident occurred near their farm in Sterling, Illinois, leaving Rucker gravely wounded.
McAlester Oklahoma December 14 118 000 acres of unallotted Indian land began selling under George Wright commissioner of the five civilized tribes. The first tract sold brought far above its appraised value.
S B Inman returned to Springville Monday where he is teaching school. John Gresham returned today from Grawfordsville where he had been on business. Thomas Cathers of Payettesville is quite ill.
Justice John P. Hand of the Illinois supreme court suffered an apoplectic attack in his private office at the temple of justice. Doctor K C Taylor reports his condition as critical and hopes for a reaction.
In New York Dec 14 a New York county court jury ruled Terrence Burtnett, a brakeman, is entitled to $10,000 from the Erie railroad under the federal employers' liability act as he lost a foot while serving in the interstate service of the line.
A blazing ring of fire fed by paraffin swept the Naples waterfront destroying about 100 small vessels and piles of merchandise. The blaze, fueled by 100 tons of paraffin from the liner Adriatic, caused about 100000 dollars in losses before fire brigades contained it.
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