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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
4
Arbuckles Ariosa Coffee is cleaned roasted and packaged by machinery with no hand touch. A self contained machine from their own shops pens weighs wraps and seals the coffee before it reaches the cup, offered by Arbuckle Bros in New York City.
Multiple real estate transfers across towns including Arthur Duvall to various heirs, Mary A Stevenson, and other buyers. Transactions mention property details such as blocks, lots, tracts, and monetary figures like 2400, 5200, and 400 dollars, with locations including Deer Creek, Adrian, Rockville, and West Boone.
Fragmented report describes a remote rescue in a 200 mile south of New Zealand setting. It notes seven deaths, seven or more illegal possessions, and a scientific expedition locating the castaways. The narrative suggests modern rescue shifts from piracy legends to expedition institutions and eventual retrieval near the Andes and Amazon headwaters.
The Norman death of Mrs. Julia Hill, former wife of Alexander Jester, evokes the John Gates linked murder case in Missouri. Jester faced trial in New London for the Gates killing over thirty years ago, was acquitted, and later lived in Shawnee and Bartlesboro before dying.
Ralph D Paine recounts a 1774 maritime event from old logs stored at the Essex Institute in Salem. The Amity mutineers cast adrift its master and mate. later Captain Duncanson spotted his schooner returning to Salem, Derby aided a flash boarding, the mutineers were overpowered, and the Amity was restored to its rightful captain and crew.
Oliver Perry Bevine aged 71 a First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price died at his home 111 West Tenth Street Kansas City Mo Born in Kearney he taught Frank and Jesse James as a youth and later joined the Vigilance Committee after the Civil War Funeral set for Sunday in Kearney Mo He leaves a wife and one son
Columbus Ohio January 27 Lawson E Emerson ex clerk of the state supreme court and ex Senator L L H Austin of Toledo were released after ten days in jail for unlawful acts tied to a supreme court practice application. While jailed they received outside meals and fruits from visitors. Judge Dillon noted jail rules forbid outside food giving rich prisoners advantage and considered charges against the sheriff for the practice.
During the financial crisis newspapers served as the country’s salvation, calming towns and cities and publishing financiers’ statements to reassure the public that bank finances were secure. In Iowa the State Auditor’s circular eased danger, urging bankers to patronize home printers and avoid costly city firms.
The Philadelphia North American accuses New York banks of owing the nation 500 million and groans that they delayed payments. It claims Wall Street coerces cheaper money and humiliates the country by extracting from treasury deposits and bond deals. It questions the paper’s concern for national business and accuses it of treason to the country.
Florence Wilcox, claimed to be daughter of J F Wilcox deputy sheriff, was found helpless with rheumatism and nearly frozen in a deserted shed on Tulsa’s outskirts. She was hospitalized in critical condition after traveling as a chorus girl with a comic opera company for three seasons, before winding up ill and homeless with two companions wandering between towns. Police plan to contact her parents.
Philadelphia reports Southern New Jersey paralyzed by storm since Jan. 27 with telegraph, telephone, and railroad service disrupted. No wire communication with Atlantic City. electric trains from the shore fail to report due to broken wires. Reading line traffic blocked below Winslow Junction. Cape May branch snowed in from Millville. Seashore Pennsylvania trains operate by steam and are tied up. Telegraph poles blown across tracks cause most of the disruption.
Washington January 27 drew a tense moment in the House when Speaker labeled Elmer L Fulton from Oklahoma as “the gentle man from Arkansas” in error. Joseph T Robinson of Arkansas protested, calling the misattribution near the worst thing said about Arkansas. Fulton apologized, praised Arkansas, and the two men shook hands as colleagues applauded.
Police in Los Angeles launch a poster campaign along the rail line to the desert warning hoboes to keep moving. Posters promise long chain gang sentences and work after arrival, citing a scheme originated by Yuma marshal Anderson as a model for deterring vagrants.
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