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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
4
English chemist Dalton, a schoolteacher without a lab, tested heat transfer using a crude setup. He heated water with a red hot poker and observed the thermometer rise from 47 to 52 degrees after intervals, proving water conducts heat contrary to Rumford.
A man enters the central police station and confesses to a life of crime as a bigamist and polygamist. He asks to be jailed to pay his penance, revealing the entire family was married. The report also notes a train of 100 miners switching to Thurber and several local deaths in Rock Creek, Thurber, and Burnet counties.
Washington March 5 All cabinet officers were confirmed by the senate. Paris Tex March 3 The jury found Bill McIntosh guilty of murder of Constable Draper with death penalty. A clash occurred in court between District Attorney Lattimore and E P Scott as Judge Denton ordered order.
Madison Wisconsin March 4 After one of the bitterest struggles in a Wisconsin legislature United States Senator Stephenson has been chosen for his own successor in the upper house Isaac Stephenson finally secured the coveted number Thursday after days of ballots and delays in the senate race Stephenson is reported to return to the Senate after a protracted contest with rivals and supporters.
Atlanta reporting a Georgia possum hunter dubbed the Marsupial blind tiger faces a legal ban between March 1 and October 1. The market has risen from 50 cents to $1, but a forgotten state law blocks hunting during those dates, risking a seven month halt on shipments.
Paris dispatches praise Theodore Roosevelt as a man of action and moral force who shaped the world stage. Taft is described as a safer president with strong capacity, while European observers fear no theatrical shifts under his tenure. In Ogallala Judge Grimes sentences Lafayette Dale to life and Mrs. Jennie Geiger to thirty-nine years for murder tied to a October incident.
In Chartiers township Edward Bush was pulled into a belt wheel at his saw mill. He suffered multiple severe injuries including four broken bones and loss of part of his ear. He was taken to Canonsburg hospital with a critical prognosis. Meanwhile a blizzard halted train traffic causing large crowds en route to Washington to be delayed in Baltimore.
Five hundred iron shipbuilders and boilermakers at the Chicago Ship Building company in South Chicago walked out in protest of a 10 percent wage reduction. The strike has halted yard operations.
In Monte Carlo on March 4 an unidentified man shot himself in a well known restaurant before diners after losing all his gambling funds.
Washington reports Hon. Myron T. Herrick of Ohio declines an ambassadorship tendered by President Taft for business reasons.
The article contrasts Bulgaria’s peasant majority with few large landowners, noting most villagers own land and rely on personal labor. It describes thrifty peasants in simple, crowded living, strong health, and widespread poverty among the few wealthy, with a foreign banker’s claim that fewer than fifty rural residents earn over $5,000 a year.
A collage of items includes a joke about a separation deed jokingly blaming a wife for flaws, Italian sunny towns with long life claims, Herodotus inspired slave revolt humor using whips, and an advertisement for Hyomei a catarrh cure with testimonials from 1908 claiming success and health benefits.
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