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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
2
The Brimfield News reports Lieut W E Bennett Jr of the New Orleans recruiting office says a high percentage of young Southern men are unfit for army service due to cigarette smoking late hours and other bad habits.
Reports say three trainmen died in a Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg wreck at Harmony Pennsylvania. Other items note Montana mining stock tax, juvenile crime cures, and a string of political and legal incidents across the nation.
The Pennsylvania Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty with city health officials performed surgical operations on seven children to prevent future crime. Experts including Drs Mitchell Abbott Dougherty Dercum Hawke Gordon Mills Starr Freley participated, while 1,407 cases were examined for potential future interventions and eye refractive issues were found in about half.
Eli A. Gage son of former Secretary Lyman J Gage killed himself in a Seattle Tourist Hotel room. He used the name J W Gorst, fled debts, and left $7.50 on the day of death after drinking heavily. His wife and child searched for him with detectives as associates recall his erratic behavior and recent Alaska connections.
Newsreel style report details mutinies among over 2,000 sailors at Kronstadt, Sveaborg surrender, mutineers on the Pamyat Azova killed officers off Estonian coast, and a looming general strike in Saint Petersburg. Sailors loyal to the government fire on mutineers. Sveaborg collapse leads to end of revolt. Martial law in Kronstadt. imperial palace panics. tsarist family reportedly not yet fled.
A compact, scattered chronology covers Nihilist plots and assassinations from 1863 to 1908, highlighting Polish revolts, outbreaks, and waves of repression. It lists key events: Finland’s assimilation, student disturbances, agrarian strikes, interior ministry murders, zemstvo meetings, and the 1905 petitioning unrest leading to the legislative assembly and Douma actions.
The American Federation of Labor executive council issues a general campaign program urging labor support against corporate influence, naming Samuel Gompers James OConnell and Frank Morrison to lead. Separately a hotel for working girls the Trowmart Inn in Abingdon Square New York City will serve self supporting women aged 15 to 33 earning $15 or less, charging 4.50 to 5 per day with free sewing washing and library facilities. W H R Martin backs the project and expects self funding.
Interesting News Items from Brook lyn report Sophia and Corinne Piddian drowned while boating on Lake George. A large Franco-American Oil Company warehouse at Marseilles burned injuring six. Ferdinand Von Saar, author and Reichsrath member, is dead by self infliction. Russian Terek mutineers landed in Spain and sent to Russia by consul.
Baltimore’s United Electric Railways board approves a merger plan uniting the city’s tram and lighting firms. The accord substitutes thirty-year bonds at a higher yield for the existing four percent bonds, consolidating the region’s electric utilities under a single entity.
A sweeping state railroad commission order at a Minnesota rate hearing requires every railroad official who testified to furnish all record-based statistics to the State railroad and warehouse commission. While aimed at the Great Northern, the measure could apply to all lines, potentially centralizing offices at the state capitol if enforced, unless railroads allow examinations in their own offices.
Henry Phipps, Carnegie ally, long linked to the Glen Quoich deer forest and major holdings in United States Steel, is profiled alongside Andrew Carnegie. Rosewater, Bryans, Patterson, Mott, and Beott are noted for political runs, Civil War service, and military and business leadership. The piece ties 19th century industrial figures to public life and national campaigns.
A damaged reader letters page quotes Hon. W. Kelbaugh and Mrs. Clara Litterst praising a medicine named Perana. Kelbaugh cites personal health improvement and cost savings after trying other doctors. Litterst says severe cold improved with Perana, enabling her to resume work.
A terse exchange shows an employer scolding a returning office boy who admits he was away on vacation. The boss orders him to resume work and organize the room promptly.
An old advertisement describes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes for tired swollen feet aching feet and ingrown nails. It asserts quick comfort and names ingredients and the address of the seller, Ina Pinch.
In Lower Hentley a centenarian woman known as Old Judy, a rare person of color from a slave family, reacts with fear to a August display of shooting stars. She speaks of an impending judgment and expresses awe and confusion as the sky lights up and the stars begin to fall around her.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item cites a chance for dialogue as a moral prompt. A quip reflects marital dialogue with the line about thinking and talking roles. The piece underscores restraint before speaking in domestic exchanges.
An Illinois man reports relief after switching from coffee to Postum claiming long term indigestion and nervousness eased. He describes thirty years of coffee irritation, quitting after a friend’s advice, and crediting Postum for better hunger and digestion.
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