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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
6
Spoiled eggs drove Rev. George Porter from Lucas Ridge Tennessee as congregants pursued him. Zion faction victory in Dowie case. sugar beets taxed at 25 percent under Dingley. Earthquake shakes Southern Winds area with Clay Flora and Louisville hit. baseball standings include Toledo Minneapolis and Indianapolis entries.
News nuggets note France preparing for a second election and President Roosevelt set for a June West tour. A two hour Des Moines assembly debate over prayer books sparks excitement. Major B. G. Thomas of Lexington dies leaving most of 850000 to Black beneficiaries. Ogden Utah fire ravages Washington Avenue, costing about 3350000 with 175000 insurance. German airman Joseph Wartscher plans a sea trial voyage from New York. Republicans shape mid June Congress adjournment and Panama Canal legislation dominates. Hughes predicts a new business ethics era amid Armstrong committee scandals. Berkeley rites disaster as a barefoot ceremony leads to severe burns. Garfield promises further industry investigation results to the President. It remains unclear if a single or multiple reports will follow.
Des Moines hosts the one hundred seventeenth general assembly with 241 presbyteries and 1 115 662 communicants. Moderator-elect Rev. Dr. Hunter Corbett leads amid fierce debates over the Westminster confession, Cumberland merger, and a new prayer book, while a ministerial sustentation pension plan gains attention.
A circle of New York business and professionals proposes a country home cooperative village near commuting distance to the city. They envision clustered building sites, a park center, a general store for cooperative buying, shared farming gear and expert agricultural supervision, plus low cost carriage service to trains.
A collage of stray remarks and quips updates from various topics. Mentions John Paul Jones burial, a Russian official, Vesuvius crater growth, miners in Pennsylvania, circus Papas, and plans to vent hot air from New York. No coherent single story or dates provided.
San Francisco opens a summer vacation school for refugee children with seventeen tents supplied by the militia. About 600 pupils begin, rising to an expected 1,500 as the three month program uses park spaces for classes indoors and outdoors with excursions to teach reading, arithmetic, history, zoology, botany and cooking.
Clarksville Arkansas elects 21 year old L F Petrie as mayor after a one day campaign. Schley plans Baltimore as permanent home. Jusserand gains fame as orator in Washington. Boston Mayor Fitzgerald to create publicity bureau. Fairbanks’ son Frederick tops him in height. Root tours South America around the continent. Senator Gorman once mentored Douglas. Douglas once made Gorman a Senate page at age 12. Viscount de Alic, Portuguese envoy, leads a reclusive life in Washington.
A rumor from St Petersburg claims the Russian military court condemned Lieutenant General Stoessel and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff to death for surrendering Port Arthur. David Bonowits of Columbus says Stoessel will meet death in obscurity, death by government action, as public notice fades.
W H Stuart American vice consul at Batoum was shot and killed at his country place. Stuart a British subject and ship broker faced threats during last fall's revolutionary unrest. Murder linked to local upheaval and anti government sentiment with possible diplomatic repercussions.
Within twenty four hours of the opening of the Night and Day bank at Fifth Avenue and Forty fourth Street in New York about one million dollars had been deposited.
A New York interfaith group of Catholics Jews and Protestants aims to free Wednesday afternoons for religious instruction by allowing children to leave school for church study. The plan, launched by the interchurch conference, seeks broad cross church support and a standardized schedule.
The northern Michigan peninsula suffered a massive forest fire with four dead and many missing. Hundreds of families are homeless as four towns were wiped out and five counties devastated. Fire crews, refugees, and residents battled the flames along the Escanaba Lake Superior line and beyond, but wind aided the disaster and dangers linger.
Mrs Mittie Huffaker of Columbia Tennessee writes she suffered years with dyspepsia, was bed bound and near death before Peruna helped her. She reports improvement after several bottles and praises the remedy.
A mission worker new to reform work visits a neighbor hood near Avenue A to assess conditions. An Irishwoman named Mrs Muldoon confronts the young reformer with sharp humor, instructing her to read a short psalm, pay 50 cents, and depart.
Jersey City resident Mrs Jane Farrell shares her recovery from backache swelling and urinary symptoms after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She credits improved kidney action and overall health to the product sold nationwide for 50 cents per box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A father receives a note from Henry asking for Jessie’s hand in marriage. The father’s reply mocks Henry’s spelling and suggests he needs a spelling book for a year before writing again.
Maxim Gorky mocked American hypocrisy saying he can be a bigamist in an hour while the United States has spent three years trying to determine if a Senator is a bigamist. He found solace in tea as observers remained few.
A light exchange about marriage and divorce appears in a Detroit Free Press item. Mrs. Quizzit and Mrs. Flygh debate which question is more intriguing while avoiding specifics or outcomes.
A fragmented theater note from Yonkers Statesman mentions a flying man behind the scenes and a line about an angel as the mystery figure. The brief cites Mrs Winslow and a cryptic exchange, then trails into stray text about price and ailment.
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