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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
3
The Post Office Department leads a crackdown on mail order swindles as inspectors chase fraudulent ads across magazines and newspapers. Old schemes gave way to tighter rules, with culprits ousted and the system returning to a legitimate sales model selling high grade goods, often on installment, under rigid guidance.
Edward Paygon Weston attempted a 4000 mile walk across the continent in 104 days and 5 hours at age 70. He failed by a narrow margin, yet his record reveals extraordinary stamina and resolve against storms heat and rugged terrain.
Movement led by Charles Farwell Edson of the Garnet Club proposes to place music in public schools. He argues that 54 percent of children are in primary grades and that integrating art through stereopticon, piano, and talking machine in high schools could attract younger pupils and counter cheap entertainment. He urges English-language opera and in-school music as essential to building future art lovers and notes U S efforts to foster industry.
A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent details Reno Nevada converting from frontier status to a divorce hub as East adopters flock in for six months residence. Revenue from the divorce industry nears a million dollars annually for a town of 18 000, amid calls to reform Nevada divorce statutes and a broader cleansing of gaming and moral concerns as legislative changes loom in 1910 1911.
Two full grown lions escaped during a carnival in St Charles Missouri scattering a crowd of more than 2000. Showmen captured the animals an hour later after one fatally bit a pony and another attacked an elephant. Lions were corralled with lassoes and confined in a portable cage.
Rolla Perkinson, a carpenter, nearly crucified himself when a four inch nail driven by a slip punctured his left hand while he nailed scantling on a ladder in the Luini Hotel interior at Alton. Fellow workers freed him as he suffered intense pain.
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