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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
9
The article profiles Cuba Crutchfield winning a steer roping championship by riding a trained cow pony, lariat from fifty feet, roping and hog tying a Texas longhorn in twenty seven seconds, within six seconds of the best record. It notes dangers to riders like Bill Mahaffey and dramatic jumps of the steer.
Edison asserts that great violinists guess finger positions and adjust by ear, revealing that many notes may start falsely. He discusses his dawning doubt about precise finger stopping and claims trained ears correct errors after bowing begins.
A child alters a printed instruction by modifying the word no to on. Guests bring gifts despite the request. The girl explains she changed every letter, not the intent. This Homespun anecdote from Ladies' Home Journal reflects a playful misunderstanding.
A clergyman and widower with three grown daughters writes from away to say he has married a widow with six children. The story stirs the household until he returns and explains I married her to another man. I ought to have told you.
A reflective saying on achievement in industry art and love. It states success is freed from bitterness when we view it symbolically and rely more on rest and God than we realize.
Rome reports the government prepares strong measures to end a Socialist strike over the killing of carabinieri at Ancona. Troops patrol cities and cavalry dispersed street meetings. Public sentiment has shifted against the strikers.
President approves an amendment to the Covington interstate trade commission bill to give the commission more powers to determine legality of corporate practices and act as intermediary in prosecutions. Senators and representatives seek adjournment after next session. opposition hopes to push a compromise before December.
Advertisement claims deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and urges sending for circulars. Endorses Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists Toledo, Ohio as the company location.
Obituaries recall John P. Hamlin, last Garfield assassination jury survivor, who died in Washington at nearly ninety. Jacob Rogers of Lowell, Massachusetts, banker and manufacturer, died at eighty five, father of John Jacob Rogers. Engineer George Edward Tower, S. U. S., died in Washington, born 1835 in Ohio, once a lake steamer engineer and later a navy third assistant.
Edger J. Sherman longtime Massachusetts superior court judge and two term attorney general died in Windsor Vermont. Born in Wethersfield Vermont in 1834 he served as a captain in the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War.
Militant suffragette leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst again escapes a police drill at Grosvenor square while the Women’s Social and Political Union raid yields few public names. Miss Bertha Ryland, who vandalized George Romney’s Portrait of a Boy, is committed for trial after a dramatic hearing. Her courtroom outburst invoked scripture and divine guidance. No surrender echoed as she was sent to a cell.
Tomitaro Watanabe, a Japanese killer who shot American surgeon Dr Edgar de Mott Stryker in Holkol Hospital, was originally sentenced to life but appealed and was condemned to death. The murder occurred March 20 as Stryker led surgery duties. Watanabe had earlier strangled his wife.
West Virginia judge A G Dayton could be impeached amid misconduct allegations. The probe examines conduct in office and seeks potential removal from the bench. Dayton has served on the state judiciary for years, with details unfolding in current proceedings.
Representative Neely of West Virginia, invoking his office, impeaches United States District Judge Dayton for the Northern District of West Virginia on high crimes and misdemeanors. The House responds with a no quorum ruling and a motion to adjourn. Neely later renews efforts as charges against Judge Delat for misconduct surface in the chamber.
An advertisement touts a mild opening medicine Dean's Regulats priced at 25 cents a box. It claims relief from constipation headaches indigestion and dizziness and urges purchase at all stores.
During the French Elections a witty remark describes someone dining with the Conservative, Radical, and Socialist candidates yet avoiding the polls. The quip notes that delicacy kept him from voting altogether.
The New York World reports Dr Charles Proteus Steinmetz explains electricity as a loose term and details electrical quantity energy and pressure. He notes electrical quantity may be a substance with an atomic structure and electrons as units, but cautions about uncertain foundations.
In a December 15 1846 letter to G W Everett Poe discusses his poem The Raven. He defends possible imagery like the bird shadow and tinkling feet to create a supernatural effect and calls The Sleeper superior in true artistic merit though The Raven remains the better work.
The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead was a guide for souls in the afterlife, a collection of prayers and exorcisms used during passage through hades, valued as a safe conduct. The Westminster Gazette notes it was buried with the dead, named Per-em-hin meaning to go forth from day.
A straightforward method to judge silk quality uses a small sample and a matching. Lightly touch a flame to the fabric. if it holds its shape the silk is adulterated with mineral weighting. If it puffs into a mass and runs, the silk is pure.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip recalls a mother reacting to her baby boy’s ailment with humor. The doctor names the condition as acute rheumatism and the mother replies with a playful line about everything he does being cute.
A humorous exchange labeled Chimgo News features Little Floyd quipping about a husband being henpecked since marriage. Mr Neighbors asks which hen, and Floyd replies about the hen that pecks him. The item captures light, dated daily humor.
A terse exchange is noted with Susie confirming she will check if her sister is present, adding she doubts she will be found as she saw you approaching the steps in Albany.
Sufferers of eczema and itchy skin are urged to try Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. The ad claims first application soothes red rough and scaly skin with cooling medicines and cites Mrs C A Einfeldt of Rock Island Illinois reporting nine years free from the ailment after use. Guaranteed, 60c at your druggist.
Time table in effect Sunday June 15 1913 at 12:05 a m lists northward service details for the Loomsburg and Sullivan Railroad.
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