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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
2
A printer from Oklahoma rises to wealth amid oil industry boom, leveraging printing business momentum to capitalize on rising demand for marketing and promotional materials in the early oil era. The story highlights entrepreneurial grit and regional economic expansion.
Roy M. Johnson, a 35 year old former Battle Creek linotype operator, builds wealth through oil. In Healdton Oklahoma two producing firms report daily incomes over $5,000 and Johnson anticipates $100,000 royalty in a decade with seven Indian land tracts bought for $195. His Ardmore Statesman printing plant and mortgage financed his first lease, with further expansion into new territory ahead.
C Dings, president of Guaranty State Bank of Ardmore, helped Johnson secure funds to obtain the first lease in the Healdton field. Dings organized the Coline Oil Company whose lines last year sold for $100,000 and made 12 Oklahoma men rich.
Wellsboro Pennsylvania resident Joseph A Willard shows a carved ivory snuff box engraved Susanna Willard 1306 claimed to have arrived on the Mayflower. The heirloom, passed through the Willard family for six centuries, is highly valued by its owner.
James J. Hagar aged 51 fell from the Holstein building and emerged uninjured. Doctors report he regained his hearing after the incident, having been totally deaf for thirteen years since a head injury from a baseball bat.
Webb City Missouri freight car 78910 arrived loaded with 100000 pounds of lead ore worth 5000 dollars and vanished for twenty days. Officials at Missouri Pacific say they have no record of the first trip or of the latest shipment though the car remains on their tracks at the Webb City smelter.
Professor I V McCollum in Madison conducts long term experiments in the agricultural chemistry department using more than 1000 rats to identify chemical parts of two unknown compounds for an ideal food said to boost life efficiency and growth. Results so far suggest parallels to human nutrition.
Everett Washington educator F D Mack spent about 40000 to educate eighteen students over sixteen years. Seventeen boys and one girl benefited, with many graduates entering professions from medicine to law, banking to mining, and one daughter pursuing further study in Germany before war halted plans.
In a dialogue fragment, Mr Briggs is teased about a speech impediment and quirks. A speaker asks if he stirs tea with his right hand, noting that many people have a peculiarity and suggesting tea stirring as a trait. The exchange ends with a humorous stuttering cue.
In a morning exchange a man asks what his neighbor buries in a hole. The neighbor replies he is replanting seeds, but Jenkins suspects a hen is buried. The neighbor insists the seeds are inside, defusing the moment with a farmyard misunderstanding.
Washington reports a federal push to recover underground water for irrigation in arid and semiarid states. The Geological Survey maps underground supplies, outlines pumping costs, and issues water supply papers while warning of uneven geography and promoter misrepresentation.
San Diego story from the Laymen's Missionary Movement Convention recalls a public wedding plan after a benediction drawing 11 women and one man forward. An unrelated tale from Dr. Alonzo R. Petty has a judge quizzing a divorce applicant about knowing her fiancé, prompting a sharp exchange.
Spokane report covers Army Captain John B. Shuman's talk on Army Regulations. He debunks beans and hardtack as the standard diet, explains enlistment pay scales, clothing allowances, and rations. He outlines unit sizes and wagon capacities in the U.S. Army and details per-enlistment pay increases and penalties for lost equipment.
In Leesville Ohio a hen believed to be a Rhode Island Red cross with Barred Rock laid two eggs in one day twice after moving from Cadiz. Observers note the hen’s unusual two egg capacity and partial broodiness timing, sparking talk of a new breed.
Thom as Horton a 60 year old religious enthusiast collapsed during prayer at the Good Samaritan Mission on East Washington street. Witnesses said he fell with head against the organ but initially appeared not to be dead. He led a large local fruit business known as The Banana King and was survived by a widow and two children.
Mary Madden, of Millville New Jersey, marked her ninety four years as about fifty relatives and friends gathered to shout her name and celebrate the milestone.
Berkeley detectives expand records to include an offender's modus operandi along with fingerprint and measurement data. Chief Vollmer cites that criminals repeat the same methods and that sharing these details with other departments will speed captures. Major Atcherly’s studies support classifying criminals by the crime pattern.
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