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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
3
Panorama notes that the House of Lords upheld a ban on women becoming lawyers in Britain. Miss Hertha Croo’s appeal failed as Grays Inn benchers see no precedent or reason to admit women to the bar.
Record shows thirty seven Ohio men and boys killed or wounded during the closed quail and rabbit hunting season with ten deaths. Injuries linked to inexperience and deaths to carelessness. Parker Pen Company in Janesville announces three year workers receive fifteen dollars and five year workers thirty five dollars to deter marriages. Two killed in rear end freight collision near Dover Del as boiler explodes.
Joseph Canovisky who beat his wife to death at their Minersville home on January 7 was hanged in the Pittsburg jail yard. Death occurred after twelve minutes of strangulation. Hon. W. M. Springer II, former Illinois congressman, is seriously ill in Washington with pneumonia.
The Bristow report on postal fraud, with President Roosevelt's memorandum, accuses Perry S. Heath of connections to the Woremus Canceling Machine Co and outlines extensive corruption from 1893 to 1900. It notes 44 indictments, 31 involved, resignations, removals, and calls for extending statutes of limitations.
The resignation of Henry Sanger Snow from the presidency of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute is reported. The Rev. Dr. Luther F. Beecher, kin to the late Henry Ward Beecher, died recently in Boston. Other items note J Wilson Swan entering his 76th year, W W Nichols giving 10000 for a Jacksonville public park, Swingle’s Mediterranean plant study, James Putnam Stewart researching Putnam lineage, A B Seizer suing for divorce after alleged spirit‑directed claims, and Gen C A Whittier returning from Manila via the Trans Siberian route with a Siberian crossing in fourteen days.
A French officer reports Lake Chad's island archipelago with about eighty inhabited isles supporting around 60,000 people. The lake is triangular about 100 miles per side and 30 feet deep, with steamer visits exciting islanders and cattle numbering 70,000 to 80,000, plus horses.
Localities report peddlers selling cheap baking powders claiming purity while alum and sulfuric acid substitutes are common. Health authorities warn alum powders injure health and are illegal in parts of the US including Washington DC. Experts condemn alum use and urge households to buy reputable cream of tartar based powders from known brands and avoid peddlers.
A French Medical Review excerpt outlines ten health maxims: rise early and work, maintain hydration and nutrition with sunlight for health, frugality and sobriety, cleanliness for longevity of tools, moderate repairs to strengthen, sensible dress for comfort, clean cheerful home life, balanced amusements, cheerful outlook for longevity, and keep the mind active while preventing dissipation.
A retired silk manufacturer M Henneberg builds a lake dwelling near Lake Constance imitating a prehistoric model from Zurich. The one room structure sits on piles above water, with a willow wicker wall, mud plaster, yew wood frame, straw ceiling, and a five to seven foot gallery. Walls feature designs drawn with insect resin and bullock blood.
The Senate adjourned until Tuesday after a short session focused on relief bills. Bills included a $5,000,000 appropriation for a patent office east of the Capitol and a Cuban reciprocity measure. House proceedings centered on tariff debate and a motion to adjourn.
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