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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
1
Camille Saint-Saens, the French composer, claims Mozart as a relative who was chosen with discretion. His mother and aunt were artists, musicians. The child showed early musical gifts and recalls his great-aunt banging clocks to train his ear and memory.
An 860 sensitivity seismograph from Gottingen by Dr Wiechert uses a suspended pendulum near seventeen tons to magnify earth motion 2200 times. It recorded tremors from a gas engine located about a mile and a half away.
London Bystander speculates on converting the Tower of London into a luxury hostelry with prices higher than the Ritz or Carlton Beefeaters will guard rooms while no valets are provided Crown jewels available for hire overnight and chambers with blood stains offered for extra. The Yonkers Statesman quips about weather lies as Crimsonbeak admits deception.
Fragmentary dialogue quotes a father and son recalling money as power and a cuckoo clock from their past, implying shared memories and a sense of financial bargaining within a family.
Outfielder Jude of Columbus posts five hits in five at bats twice this season. Sonoma Girl sets a world record in a Libertyville heat for a green mare trotting race. A New York fall international cricket match is planned between Marylebone Cricket Club and American clubs. Orby the Derby winner may retire to stud. Croker undecided on next year's plans. Comiskey’s Chicago club signs offbeat stars, not using scouts, with Hahn and others rounded from castoffs.
A compact set of maxims on bribes bluffing money youth and work. The Chicago News notes that a small present can be a bribe the bigger bluff shrinks under scrutiny and a fool rarely envies the wise. time and money slip away for both old and young workers with resignation never refused.
A collage of snappy quips and excerpts from several papers. The Boston Globe, Cleveland Leader, New York Herald, New York American, and Atlanta Constitution weigh in on topics from mosquito preservation and kissing on streets to late bedtimes and murder suspensions.
A weary traveler imagines an ideal railway as one whose trains arrive with perfect punctuality and safety, a system aligned with steady dividends for investors. The quotation from New York Life frames the desire for reliable service and financial return.
A humorous exchange asks why friends always doubt a man’s choice in a wife. The other replies they are tempted by the chance they might be right, underscoring playful skepticism about marriage decisions.
A long letter from Don Q. Beitler a Santa Fe telegraph operator at Ludlow California describes frontier life near Death Valley Borax works Catalina Island San Diego and Mexico trips. The writer meets Blaine Bolton Ethel Barrymore sees flying fishes and a glass bottom boat tour and notes camp life in a tent city with Claus Spreckles roads and local sights. He plans more travel and offers vivid impressions of Catalina San Diego and the Mojave desert region.
The undersigned will offer at public auction at his place five miles west of Carey near the St. John Church on Tuesday Aug 20 1907 at 1 pm. Items include cook stoves heating stoves a new oil stove corner cupboard kitchen cabinet beds chairs tables carpet dishes fruit cans tubs a washing machine ringer rocking chairs lounge settee sink and many other household articles Also one bed lounge sewing machine carpet chairs and more. Lieber Stanley Jones auctioneer.
Walton Weber, superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Madison Lake County, issued his annual report describing a well run 38 page pamphlet. The home admits soldiers and their wives and is currently about forty inmates. Mrs Weber serves as matron of the institution.
Crawford Township Democrats plan a primary election on Thursday August 29 at the township house from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. for two trustees one treasurer one clerk one assessor two justices of the peace two constables and two school directors under the Australian system. Candidates must file by noon August 22 with L J Kennerly Committeeman.
Five heavily loaded excursion trains passed through on the Big Four Sunday. Trains started at five from Union City Indiana after leaving there at one o clock in the morning. One service ran Toledo to Springfield. No 93 freight to Toledo ran in four long sections. Regular passenger trains carried many passengers.
Frank L. Stout died from injuries after an explosion at the Penn Iron and Coal furnace near Canal Dover. He was 27, born in Carey, Ohio, married to May Glick in 1901, with two sons Harold and Eugene. A U S Army veteran of the Spanish American War, he belonged to Modern Woodmen of America and Knights of Pythias. His funeral was held this afternoon, with family and local members in attendance.
City council in regular session approves bills for freight unloading labor and street work. Clerk to serve notices to owners in D Straw's fourth addition to remove fences and obstructions within sixty days to open alley access.
The board replaces open arc lamps with closed ones claiming longer burn time eighty five hours versus twelve. Savings of nine cents per lamp on carbons over eighty five hours cited, with open carbons at fourteen dollars per thousand and closed at twenty three dollars. Closed lights also reportedly fail less often, reducing outages.
Mr and Mrs Charles Dame and son Orville left at 5 05 PM Tuesday for a ten day excursion along the Hocking Valley railroad toward Mackinac Petoskey Allegan County and other northern Michigan points.
At the M E Church on Sunday the regular sacramental services will be held. The presiding elder Rev Whitlock will be present. Baptismal services will be held in the morning.
Union services will be held in the M. E. Church Sunday evening At Opera House Friday evening Aug 30 1907 Pauline or An Eventful Day under the auspices of the Athenan Literary Society and Y W G T U This Comic Opera is to be directed by Luella Z Drake It is something to please a popular audience Dont fail to attend.
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