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Newspaper
Democrat Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
1
A noon lightning strike damaged the Hugh Stephens Printing Co building but caused only minor damage. Fire crews arrived quickly and extinguished a small fire that burned wiring. Superintendent Kilby oversaw the response.
United Press reports at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin this morning three men Edward Foley Patrick Maher and an Englishman named Mitchell were executed after being convicted of murder.
A major blaze in Lasing Michigan destroyed the Wor den wholesale grocery company warehouse causing a total loss estimated at 300000 dollars. The fire began at midnight and burned into daylight.
New Rochelle N Y June 7 More of the Stillman ditty linen will be washed in public when the hearings resume before Referee Gleason at Poughkeepsie June 15 For a permanent wave more beautiful than nature call at the Mari nello Shop.
Miss Marian McArdle, 20, and her mother Mrs Mary Brickel and stepmother Mrs Eva Kaber plead not guilty to slaying Dan F. Kaber, wealthy Lakewood publisher, in his home in 1918. Prosecutors say Brickel admitted Kaber planned murder and McArdle pressed a false burglary tale. Marian was later arrested as a fugitive from Ohio.
Forrest Gordon and Alice Gang sevich of Jefferson City. James C. Rock and Hazel M. Jackson of Petersburg Tl. Samuel Loethen and Grace Beha man of Jefferson City. Tom and Geo Nay return from an overland trip to Molden Mo.
In a White House conference President Harding and several Senators and representatives agreed today to vote one million dollars for Pueblo relief in the House and Senate. The War Department will administer the fund.
Attorneys for James T Bradshaw petition Governor Hyde to specify charges against the warehouse commissioner. They seek clearer accusations that higher salaries were paid improperly and that trips for private and political purposes were charged to the state. The hearing is set before the governor next Saturday.
Mr Lipsitz, president of the Washington Heights Realty Co. of St. Louis, is visiting his daughter Mrs. Jos Goldman.
Helpful mood in steel sector, says magnate Chas. M. Sewab, as industry reports only ten million tons produced annually though capacity suggests forty million. He claims the downturn will push business leaders to tighten efficiency and cut costs.
Big Dan, the silent daily watcher at a New Jersey beach, reveals his method to tan without burning. He advises coating shoulders, face and neck with linseed oil before sun exposure, limiting initial sun time, then rubbing alcohol on return. After several days, a dark tan appears without warning.
Theodore Clark on Boonville road caught a thief in his chicken house at one this morning. Clark grabbed a sack containing twelve chickens but the man escaped. Police suspect the same thief who robbed hens from Senator Irwin and others along the road.
In Toki on June 7 Baron Sekatani former finance minister and disarmament advocate said Japan is not considering curtailment of its army and navy or abandoning its program. War navy and foreign departments backed the view while noting economies are needed to avoid higher taxes next year. Premiers Hara and followers worry Japan cannot sustain the naval arms race at current pace.
Albert Beardsley of Melrose Park shot and killed his estranged wife Alice Beardsley after a street quarrel over flowers at their baby's grave. He then shot himself and died shortly after. The couple had separated two months earlier following their baby's death.
Fire at the Muser Cedar Company in McKeesport spreads to the McKeesport Tin Plate Company in a Pittsburgh suburb. Officials estimate property losses at more than 2 million dollars. The blaze began tonight prompting a sheriff arrival.
The County Court ordered a requisition on Osage county for payments made by Cole County on the Osage river bridge. Frank I. Jones was declared insane and sent to Fulton hospital. County Treasurer John Faust was ordered to requisition from the State Auditors for the second installment of the teachers training course fund for Jefferson City High School amounting to 275.
The article argues that long term harmony in marriage appears in faces and that facial form and expression reflect a person’s character and life. It suggests thoughts shape plastic matter in birth and that occupations and social groups produce recognizable physical similarities among their adherents.
The transcontinental railways announce lower rates for carload shipments of vegetables melons and apples. Vegetables and melons drop to 1.75 per hundred pounds from Pacific Coast terminals to destinations east of Chicago and the Mississippi River, effective at once. Apples fall to 1.50 per hundred pounds without storing in transit, effective September 1, from Pacific Coast terminals to eastern defined territories including Colorado and most points east to the Atlantic seaboard.
Chicago June 7 reports a nationwide 33 1 3 percent cut in retail prices for dry goods. Merchants say the year’s sales exceeded last year, and prices won’t fall further until wage levels for common labor ease.
Ed Noland, once from Jefferson City, now an executive with Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co., recently visited the city.
Five thousand immigrants, mostly Italian, are imprisoned on ships in New York Harbor awaiting landing under new immigration limits. Commissioner Wallis warns many may die if they cannot be allowed ashore or sent back promptly as Secretary Davis rushes to resolve the congestion. An estimated ten thousand more are at sea near Ellis Island, with June quotas expected to fill quickly.
Witnesses before the Daily legislative commission investigating building graft testfied that labor union business agents forced firms to move out of Chicago. One large can company reportedly left the city, with other firms deciding to relocate to avoid graft by union leaders.
Mexico City June 17 President Obregon assumes personal supervision of all Mexican railroads. The move centers authority in the executive branch effective June.
J Diamond of St Louis arrived back home yesterday after completing a business visit in town.
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