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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
2
Addison Pacey notes a lively aero plane season and jokes about quick riches from flight. He mentions scientists signaling Mars, Japanese blame games over drydocks, a private street car satire, a distraught lover, Chapultepec sentiment, Costa Rica earthquakes, and health officials guarding food from flies.
Women at a New York church propose a reform after ungallant men complain that churchgoing hats obstruct their view of the preacher. The men threaten to quit, but the women respond by leaving them with no plausible excuse, prompting unintended strain within the congregation.
A Chicago paper questions which city will be the nation’s fourth largest thirty years ago. It notes St Louis Boston and Baltimore gaps, predicts census workers and Canada duties, and mentions a Japanese aid offer to Peru. It also notes anti Japanese sentiment, Beunador tension, and new cross border aviation and revenue rules shaping international traffic.
The cotton report notes conditions markedly better than last year with warmer south weather expected to speed maturity and possibly lift output beyond current estimates. Fears of shortage shook markets though prices slumped as some speculators overreached. an Ohio cow has worn a wooden leg for three years and likely won’t kick the pall.
A fragmentary and garbled OCR item references aviation, an ominous era, and what appears to be commentary by unidentified professors. The passage is fragmented, with nonstandard phrasing and unclear subject matter, making specific facts or events difficult to extract.
U S senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin spent two hours with Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. They discussed current congressional issues and insurgent Republicans as reporters chased them, with La Follette praising the Colonel yet calling him a “great lying American” in a rare blunt moment.
Fifteen known dead plus fifteen more reported, with about forty missing after a devastating cloudburst across Magoffin Floyd and Knott counties. Saylersville workers recovered twelve bodies as floods devastated towns near Baylersville, with property losses soaring into the hundreds of thousands.
Washington officials reduce rail charges from Chicago to the Pacific coast after ICC review. The commission found property investments and improvements did not justify higher rates. The Pacific coast cases, heard last autumn, featured across Intermountain territory with general rate reductions. In La Crosse diver John Murray located a body identified as John Pleth near a steamer wreck, wedged by a boiler. Arizona sets September 12 for delegate election to frame a new state constitution.
Rolls the English aviator entered both the international balloon contest and the international aviating contest after crossing the channel twice. He arrives in New York seeking competition and recognition in American events.
Lynchburg Virginia Senator John Warwick Daniel died at a sanitarium due to a cerebral hemorrhage from his third paralytic stroke. He was 67, survived by wife and children, and his passing ends the elder statesman of Virginia’s Democratic delegation. In Louisiana, Senator Samuel D McEnery died at 73 from acute indigestion, with expected successor Gov Jared Y Sanders poised to be chosen by the legislature.
Hamburg prosecutor ends inquiry into Deutsche Vacuum Oil over alleged graft methods. No charges against American manager L. Quarles or company officials. state to bear investigation costs. Result marks a notable American victory amid German suspicion and slander.
Ida Von Claussen, formerly married to Dr William Francis Honan, arrives in county to file suit alleging slander and conspiracy by Theodore Roosevelt Robert Bacon Charles Graves and Mrs Alice Wright Graves. She claims they thwarted a royal marriage to Prince Eugene of Sweden and seeks 1 million dollars in damages.
Bloomfield New Jersey man Frank Christian, 30, attempted to manufacture homemade fireworks in a rear shed. An explosion severely burned him and blinded both eyes, with reports stating he will die from injuries.
The 1910 census is expected to show Southern states including Missouri and Oklahoma with a 21 percent population gain since 1909, according to a release from the Southern Commercial congress.
President Miller rejected reports that the Burlington road planned to raise pay for its unorganized workers. The denial was issued Thursday, clarifying there would be no raise action on the pay scale for those employees.
In Ogden Utah masked bandits robbed the second section of Oregon Short Line train No 1 northbound leaving at 130 am. They forced the express messenger to surrender the safe contents and fled in a buggy. Two passengers and two trainmen were injured. Sheriff Wilson organized a posse to pursue the bandits.
Attorney C W Britt of Omaha lost sight in his right eye after long daily exposure to flickering moving pictures. An operation by Dr Harold Gifford at Clarkson hospital on Sunday aimed to restore sight following a growth under the lid and prior total blindness. In Chicago Glenn H Curtiss, famed aviator, said he may compete for a $5000 Walter Darlington prize for the first successful flight across Lake Michigan during the July aviation meet.
Burlington indicates the University of Vermont will receive a total endowment of 500000 dollars after pledges of 400000 dollars were secured, meeting the condition for a 100000 dollar grant from Rockefeller fund managers.
Forest fires Thursday destroyed the Copper Range railroad station at Elm River in Houghton County as flames spread across the upper peninsula. Emergency crews battled ongoing fires with reports of wide spread destruction in the region.
President Taft and former President Roosevelt greeted each other warmly in Beverly Massachusetts after a sixteen month separation. The meeting at Taft cottage lasted about two and a half hours with Senator Lodge and Secretary Norton present. Details of their private discussion remain undisclosed.
Harvard dominates New London Yale regatta on the Thames with decisive openers. Harvard varsity eight leads most of the race, finishing four lengths ahead of Yale after a tight stretch. Harvard freshman eight wins by three lengths and the varsity four also beats Yale by four lengths in a strong opening day showing.
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission will not suspend official classification 36 affecting over 6 000 terms and approved a one cent per hundred pound rate increase for flour and wheat products from Buffalo to eastern destinations. The commission studied protests and found 58 changes with 28 reductions and 30 advances including lighter and heavier car loads.
Meriden Connecticut Emil L. G Hohen thal of South Manchester, chairman of the state central committee, was Thursday unanimously nominated for governor at the Prohibition state convention.
A blaze Thursday destroyed two four masted schooners named Henry L Peckham and owned by Young Bros along with two ice houses owned by American Ice Co in Richmond Maine causing an estimated loss of 150020 dollars.
A letter extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. The writer claims improvement after using the product and urges others to seek confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts. The tone resembles a testimonial advertising a patent remedy.
A father clutches a manuscript while his son stumbles through an oration mocking tyranny. The boy corrects misread lines with a sharp quip about the palladium of our liberty as diplomacy is described as feigned disinterest.
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