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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
2
The piece argues costly funerals profit undertakers and burden poor families. It notes 20 to 40 carriages at five dollars each, leaving bereaved households in poverty. It urges saving on displays and using funds to aid needy relatives, citing the New York Weekly.
Professor David Randall MacIver of the University of Pennsylvania returns from Nubia with a five ton collection of artifacts and Ethiopian inscriptions. He says the artifacts prove a seven century span of early negro civilization rooted in lower Nubia between Wady Halfa and Assouna.
Washington officials study falling immigrant arrivals as May totals reveal sharp drops from 1905 and 1906. Russia and Austria-Hungary lead declines while China, Pacific islands, and Mexico show small gains. European concerns rise over emigration and peonage prosecutions.
OHN WESLEY GAINES, renowned Tennessee orator and longtime guardian of the Hermitage, exits Congress after losing renomination to Joseph W. Byrne in the Sixth Tennessee district. Byrne will assume the seat next March, leaving Washington to miss Gaines’s popular rhetoric and his annual bid for Hermitage care funds.
The divorce suit of Mrs. Frank J. Gould reveals both spouses used private detectives to surveil each other. Detectives watched his yacht Helenita and her home, with allegations of a young singer aboard the yacht and a possible misconduct episode in Sidney, N S.
A night manager notes only three women in New York work as embalmers, yet the occupation pays ten dollars daily and sometimes over a hundred weekly. He says demand is high but interest is low among women, who believe embalming is simpler than nursing and suited to show sympathy for bereaved relatives.
The weekly review notes July 24 as the Mormon arrival anniversary in Salt Lake Valley and details heat deaths in Chicago Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It covers insurance, masonry, military maneuvers, rail rates, lumber mergers, Navajo tensions, Rockefeller birthday, fires in Grand Forks, and other national affairs with a broad mix of figures, places and dates.
Reports say a landslide at Ronco Italy buried several peasants with Ning persons killed. Admirers of William Howard Taft in the Philippines have funded a flag for Cincinnati to be raised July 28 in his honor. Nearly 1,000 workers furloughed at Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. more may return soon. Camila will host the Prince of Wales for six days starting July 22 amid Quebec’s tercentenary battle anniversary. The London Chronicle notes new Times owners Lord Rotherhild, Lord Cromer, and Lord Northcliffe, with Northcliffe having control. Lima Ohio locomotive and machine works announces 500 mechanics replaced after four months of downsizing.
Salvador Y. Agrac of San Jose California was seriously wounded and robbed by highwaymen in Purandora Muchoacan Mexico. The State Department will investigate his status and offer assistance if needed. A separate dispatch reports royalists looted a consulate business residence in Tabriz, Persia, with possible loss of $30,000. the chancellor role is that of a clerk. The Interstate Commerce Commission rules Hepburn Act does not grant full discretion to refuse ancillary connections and requires consideration if practicable and justified by business. Walter C. Reeder is named postmaster at Pictou Colorado, replacing Lee Henderson. Albert C. Shannon of Denver becomes guard at Fort Leavenworth. Colorado and Wyoming land selections totaling 8929 and 6020 acres respectively have been approved for indemnity.
In Grand Junction a Denver rumor notes defense counsel Hilton closing for Steve Adams in the 1902 Arthur Collins killing. Prosecution and defense argued instructions. verdict expected soon with the defense praising alibi and denouncing Pinkerton figures.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks elected officers in Dallas led by Grand Exalted Ruler Rush L. Holland of Colorado Springs. Other officers include John C. Shea Hartford, A M McElwee Fort Worth, Warren G. Sayre Wabash, Edward Leach New York, and Charles E. Decker Minnesota. The 1909 convention city vote favored Los Angeles over Detroit. Forty four new lodges were added last year, with membership rising by 29,789 to 284,821 across 1,126 lodges.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor and about nine million affiliated voters pledged support for William J. Bryan in the forthcoming presidential campaign. The Lincoln gathering saw the arrival of John W. Kern as the rival candidate.
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