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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
7
The government warns the public against fake agents selling atlas sheet maps of the Geological Survey at high prices. It notes lawful sellers offer maps at five cents per sheet, while bogus dealers charge two dollars. Government-authorized booksellers may sell at a small premium to cover handling costs.
A British steamer bound for Calcutta endured one of its worst storms while transporting camels and goats. A camel broke ropes and swam in green water. the goats wild on deck collided with Mussalee Mohamed Allah, who was knocked overboard but rescued by the crew. Daniel the Indian monkey caused mischief by painting the ship red and green.
A miscellany noting Germany’s 250 000 canaries bred yearly and the economic value of elephants, a Sumatra rafflesia said to be the world’s largest flower, Dan Leno in a mental asylum tale, an Indian tribe worshiping Bismarck after drought, Roussel Gee’s 807 square foot Paris crowd canvas, and a vignette about a shopkeeper and a loafer in a cream parlor.
The Pittsburg millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw fatally shot architect Stanford White at the Madison Square Roof Garden during a late Monday night performance of Marisellé Champagne. White, an old Nesbit family associate and stage mentor, was reportedly a target of jealousy. Thaw was arrested without resistance after the shooting as the audience endured a tense pause before the show resumed. Mrs Thaw, present on the roof, cried out and fainted as Thaw was led away by police.
President Roosevelt plans a three week visit to the Isthmus of Panama in late October or early November to inspect the canal route and study construction and administration first hand. He may be joined by Taft and Shonts, though details remain unsettled.
A London hospital reports progress on a treatment using opsonins to boost white blood cells. If opsonins are scarce, bacilli resist removal. injecting serum made from dead bacteria prompts the body to produce the needed organisms, aiding disease fight.
Disjointed mock news from The Douma Congress and Czar lines, noting protests, graft talk, and personalities. Casual jabs at Gorky, Ellen Terry riches, Longworth, McAdoo, and shipping coal coinage. Light political satire on Russia, Manchuria, and American industry amid a flurry of names and dates.
Diverse union actions are reported from Galesburg to Calgary with women auxiliaries proposed, new labor temples planned, wage trends shown, and strikes affecting miners, pattern makers, carpenters, and printers. Boston and Seattle see gains in organizing and hours, while France and Canada face widespread labor actions.
A garbled passage recounts figures from 19th century politics and society including West Point officers, Du Pont and Addicks Senate seating fights, Muromzeff as Russian parliamentary leader, Serguey Murombre, Norman Mack, Robert Adams, Mark Twain, and Henry De Koven. It mixes biographies, appointments, legal matters, and anecdotes with unclear context and inconsistent formatting.
Gilbert Parker the novelist writes most of his work nowadays while Ups Thomas Garield, a farmer living miles from Hudsonville, has never been in Washington DC and is not connected to the presidency.
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