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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
6
In Sedalia Missouri on September 15 a car of black powder exploded near Windsor killing six men and injuring thirty, four are not expected to live. The blast started when John Wesley threw a lit match into spilled powder from a broken keg.
Dover Del Sept 15 Dr Rowland G Paynter of Sussex nominated for governor by the Democratic state convention A full state ticket and presidential electors named J Irving Handy of Wilmington nominated for congress The platform endorses the national party declarations and pledges support to Bryan and Kern.
In Kankakee Illinois on September 15 a Chicago and Eastern Illinois train struck a handcar at Martindon near here. Six section men were killed. portion of four bodies found on the engine when the train reached the next station half a mile away.
A New York piano tuner Aftas Cohen who has been blind since age nine regained sight by grafting a rabbit eye core onto his own. Dr Henry R Lesser conducted the operation last May and Cohen now reads numbers and colors at twelve inches and moves about alone.
Five men died and sixteen were injured when a boiler exploded at the Laura mine near Heerlen on the Dutch border. In Detroit, two men suffocated and three were injured in a fire at the Windsor end of the Michigan Central tunnel with two hundred workers escaping. four did not.
A morning fire in Sage Maine caused about 500000 in damage. Eighty five tenements and nine million feet of lumber were destroyed leaving six hundred people homeless. It is the largest fire in the state since the Portland conflagration.
George W. Banks & Company brokers closed their doors this morning as bankruptcy proceedings begin. An unrelated note mentions an Asiatic squirrel climbing a tree with scales on its tail. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is advertised for piles and sold by druggists alongside school supplies and a free blotter and ruler with purchases from Flat Top Book & Stationery Co.
Rome observes a public holiday as Italy marks the fourth birthday of Humbert, heir to Piedmont. The lively prince is praised as strong and healthy, expected to grow into a tall, robust king like his father Victor Emmanuel, with three sisters including the eldest Tolande, seventeen.
Lynchburg 4 Norfolk 3. Portsmouth blanked Danville 7. Richmond beat Roanoke 1 to 0. Standings show Richmond 85 39, Danville 74 48, Portsmouth 54 69, Lynchburg 51 73, Norfolk 49 76. P C 685 607 439 411 .392.
Governor Dawson proclaims that on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1908 voters will decide two amendments. The first, Qualification Amendment, sets age and residency requirements for state and local offices. The second, County Court Amendment, alters selection, terms, and compensation for county commissioners.
A humorous dialogue features a self described "achpealker" and a speaker proving his stance that he will not trust what he does not understand. The exchange includes playful mispronunciations about a beast eating grass and growing wool feathers, ending with a rueful shout.
A passage from Dunstan's Life of Spencer notes Spencer’s early worry about health and mood. At age twenty one while pursuing philosophy he described persistent feelings of dejection and fear that his mind was less vigorous and his memory weaker than before.
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