Father Calls Himself Devil to frighten Truancy Son
Walter Rock of Flint dressed as a ghost at night to “cure” his 10 year old son Earl’s truancy. He shouted threats about seeking him for running away from school. The boy fled home then went to school the next morning but did not report. Police asked to help locate Earl amid fears he might have fallen into the river. The father said the scare was a plan to improve the boy’s school habits.
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Walter Rockafellow
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Earls
Railroad Earnings Gain in Michigan First Quarter
Earnings of Michigan railroads for the first quarter show a total of 12 717 750 35 dollars, up 1 020 438 14 from last year. Freight earnings were 5 921 723 6, while passenger earnings rose to 2 655 771 75. Mail transportation fell by 4 081 49 dollars.
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Michigan
Milliou
State Railway Commission
Brother Saves Baby From House Fire in Battle Creek
Four year old Willie Willuichen nearly suffocated when a candle on a table ignited bedding in an upstairs upstairs bedroom of the Willinghen home in Battle Creek. His 12 year old brother John pulled him from the blaze after another brother failed. Fire Chief Weeks warned the smoke would have killed him with even a brief delay. Fire loss was minimal.
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John
Willinghen
Battle Creek
Weeks
Gratiot County druggists ban liquor sales on prescriptions
Gratiot County druggists resolved at Alma to not sell liquor after July 12 and not renew government licenses, in protest of the Warner Consumption bill restricting liquor sales in local option counties to physician prescriptions. Eaton County druggists planned similar action.
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Gratiot County
Alma Fr
Eaton County
Twelve-year-old sparks derail Detroit Mackinac locomotive
A 12 year old Joseph Jeskowski climbed into a cab with steam up on a Detroit and Mackinac Railroad locomotive at Alpena, pulled the throttle, jumped off as the engine sped toward a standing freight. The locomotive and several cars were demolished, damage $2.0, the boy slightly injured and arrested.
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Detroit and Mackinac Railroad
Joseph Jeskowski
Alpena
Standings
Horse Dies in Quicksand Near Port Huron
A. E. Stone of Water street Port Huron lost a fine horse after it strayed into marshland. He encountered two boys who said they had seen the horse roaming nearby. Stone located the animal buried neck deep in quicksand and dead.
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A. E. Stone
Water Street
Port Huron
Mr. Stone
Cow Adopts Piglets Near Niles
Rodney Miller of near Niles reports a cow nursing five piglets. The animals thrive under her care, each piglet weighing about 1 pounds. Visitors travel from miles around to witness the unusual family.
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Rodney Miller
Niles
Miller Farm
Morley Fire Destroys Major Block Worth Fifty Thousand
A fire of unknown origin possibly lightning burned through Morley destroying about half the business district. Hunt ers dry goods store and Charlies Hawley's hardware store were lost along with the old National Hotel and several other shops. The total property loss above insurance will exceed $35 000.
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Old National Hotel
Harding & Co.s
Boy of Seven Fires Through Curious Impulse
Seven year old Arthur Bobier of Bethany has a growing fire setting habit. He broke a window to reach matches and started a fire in C Mills barn and granary, destroying both but horse stalls saved. Other fires were detected before serious damage. He has no other bad habits.
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Arthur Bobier
Bethany
Coldwater School
C. Mills
Mills
Fires Without Looking Up William Little's Carelessness
Farm foreman William Little of Caseville shot and instantly killed his wife in what Sheriff Honeywell ruled accidental after a rifle jam while repairing it. They had been shooting. she stepped from the house as he tested the gun, the cartridge fired, and the bullet struck her heart. Mrs Little was 40 and leaves one child.
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Caseville
Honeywell
Little
Mrs. Little
Prescott Inn Fire Leaves Three Families Homeless
A noon blaze destroyed the old Prescott inn a large tenant house, an old landmark for thirty years, leaving three families homeless. Old settlers call it the largest fire in fifteen years. Loss estimated around 6000 dollars, partly insured.
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Prescott
Prescott Inn
A Busy Michigan Patchwork of Tragedy and Trouble
A series of incidents across the state includes Frank May crushed at a Bellevue cement plant after sleeping on machinery. Owosso’s Ann Arbor railroad shops shut for up to a month affecting about 200 workers. A Huron River near drowning near Ypsilanti narrowly avoided for Sheridan Hawks family and Jay Davis. Finnish hermit John Vaisanen dies in Laurium leaving an estimated fortune fueling heir battles. A warrant for Howard D Millard on larceny charges emerges from Schnierle Bros. A band of gypsies north of Ionia is driven out after petty disruption. Detroit reports two deaths in a weekend automobile toll while two men die and three others injured.
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Burt Cement
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Sheridan Hawks
Jessie Hawks
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Lloyd
Earl
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Ypsilanti
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John Noonan
Legal Contempt and Damages in Early 1900s Courts
Summary of multiple states rulings: Michigan upheld contempt fines and jail for defense attorneys who fled, Georgia limited liability in a “magic healer” case, Minnesota rejected a disparaging horse remark as a factor in damages, and evidentiary admissibility allowed past accidents to prove street conditions for negligence.
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Gregory
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Northwestern Reporter
Sunday School Lesson June 20 1909 Review Overview
Historic Sunday School lesson series outlines several gospel topics from Acts and Psalms. It lists golden texts for each lesson from Peter and Cornelius to the Council at Jerusalem, noting themes of grace, holiness, conversion, and missionary zeal.
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Paul
Cyprus
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Lystra
Jerusalem
Jesus
The Queen BEE and Servant Folk in Nature’s Parlor
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt compares a bee colony to a perfect household service. It details the queen bee’s egg production and the dedicated corps of workers that digest food, ventilate the air, and tend to the queen, highlighting a living parlor where servants maintain every need.
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New Orleans Times- Democrat
Protestant missions and church events across regions
Presbyterians in Baltimore marked the 400th anniversary of John Calvin. Seoul will celebrate a quarter century of Protestant missions in Korea. Morocco restricts missionary work. World Protestant churches spend about 20 million dollars on foreign missions. In Munising Michigan a revival reports over 300 conversions. About 300 delegates attended the twentieth annual St Paul District Epworth League convention and 300 attended the Crookston Minnesota State Sunday School Association meeting. Bishop John Stariha of Lead South Dakota resigned to the Pope. St Paul Knights of Columbus contribute 7500 dollars to a 500000 dollar Catholic University fund in Washington. China shows signs of spiritual awakening. Rev P R Campbell of Stamp ing Ground Kentucky arrested in St Louis with Josephine Hosley.
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The English Three R's in Foreign Eyes
A London Mail anecdote recounts a French visitor misinterpreting the English three R's as ripin rotten and right-o, after his first day in England. The tale contrasts slang with standard English manners and signals cross cultural misperceptions.
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Clarence Rook
London Mail
Inside the White House Cabinet Room and Techno-Defense Plans
Description of the cabinet room with olive green decor, leather seats, and the President’s higher back chair. Notes on budgeted canal expenditures totaling about 210 million, defense plans for the Panama canal with sea level versus lock proposals, Navy cutbacks, and new Lincoln pennies to be issued in August. Includes Taft remarks on merit system and Annapolis cadet exam results, plus quick hits on interstate commerce reform and a long list of historical dates.
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J. Franklin Bell
Panama Canal
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Atlantic
Civil Service Retirement Association
Taft
Wisconsin Legislature Bans Public Profanity
The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill prohibiting the use of profanity in public places as a misdemeanor. The measure targets loud, abusive language in streets and civic spaces, with penalties outlined for violators.
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Skipping Rope Fatality Threat Hangs Over Sioux Falls Girl
Bertha Snow a 16 year old from Sioux Falls collapsed after attempting a longer skip ping rope than her peers. She suffered a burst intestine and lay unconscious for four days, with officials fearing for her life.
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Pepper
Littl Bertha Snow
Sioux Falls
Radium Deposits Found in Portuguese Stream Bed
Lisbon dispatches report extensive deposits of radium in a stream near Guarda on the Paris Lisbon Railway. A British mining engineer, enticed by stories of health uses, discovered the ore as uranite phosphate crystals along the stream bed.
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Portugal
Guarda
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