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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
3
President Taft hosts Baron Uchida congratulating Japan on a new treaty and cites exceptionally cordial Sino US relations with no war talk. Reports say Taft and others discuss arbitration with France as amid Mexico’s unrest. Indictments against Chicago packers move forward and various legal cases unfold nationwide.
Mrs Amanda Teher mother of Walter L Fisher secretary of the interior died at her son Dr Howard Fisher’s home in Washington from a nervous breakdown after an accident a year ago. Franciscan friars will return to San Antonio Texas to occupy missions linked to the famed Mission Loop. Peter F Dunne resigns as two year general counsel of Southern Padilla Company to resume private practice. Democrats from across the country attend Lincoln Dollar Dinner with William J Bryan. Senators Kern Indiana and Owen Oklahoma speak.
The report notes Emperor William I's manufacture of glazed tile at Kadinen has grown so successful that expansion is needed. It cites Limantour saying Mexico faces a crisis event and that no definite plan exists beyond continuing the military program. Irregularities in Russian artillery lead to dismissals, while health concerns afflict Empress Augusta Victoria. A large strike occurs near Kit bowle Scotland, and Italy sees the cable net resign after debates on electoral reforms.
Readable items show Ames and Grinnell debating reciprocity, St Patrick day at Ames college, a barn fire near Brooklyn with $4000 loss, Mardis fire in Cherokee halted by town firemen, Missouri Valley shop upgrades, Red Oak cement contracts, Davenport lawyers seeking extra judge for Scott County, Grundy Center fires at Kruger Racket and Peterson markets, lawsuits over railroad injuries and a brakeman’s arm loss, a self-inflicted gun wound near Aurelia, Keokuk triplets parents, a saner stranger Ostby found in Kelley, injuries in California from Indianola woman, Keokuk election fraud subpoenas, arrests in Milwaukee for a hotel assault, Judge Smith sworn in, grant train collision near Neola, stoves explosion injuries to Rev Holmen, Colfax coal buyout, Maybray gang guilty pleas, Dr Jolly acquittal, Story City injury from saw accident, Shiloh anniversary reunion at Oskaloosa, custody ruling in Waterloo, Edson charged with illegal liquor sales, Nelson released on own recognizance, murder plea by Rose in Keokuk, and Lake City to get a concrete bridge.
A veteran clerk recalls mice in a mail sack sparking the idea to speed mail on cars. The tale links to Armstrong's push for railcar mail distribution leading to an 1864 trial on the Chicago to Clinton route. The accompanying image features Charles Guthrie with his cat Billikins, now retired in Austin.
Georgetown Virginia church once linked to Westover Hundred was built by Theo derick Bland who settled in 1660 and gave land a court house and jail to Charles City county. The Byrd family later possessed the plantation and Evelyn Byrd is said to have wed here before the church was moved and rebuilt with lands preserved by Mary Willing Byrd in 1814. The Elyelynton neighborhood name honors a Byrd daughter and a silver communion service remains, gifted by Sarah Brayne.
President Taft faces pressure as a Mexican junta urges Madero to seize Chihuahua by May 4 and warn of U S intervention. U S war department mobilizes 6 000 to 7 000 recruits across Texas and California while reports detail executions of Dignowitty relatives and rising border tensions.
In New York, Judge Noyes refused to quash indictments against James A. Patten Eugene M. Scales Frank B. Hayne William P. Brown and Robert M. Thompson over a conspiracy to monopolize interstate trade in the cotton pool. The ruling orders the defendants to stand trial.
Judges of the United States circuit court for the Eighth district appointed Louise B Trott of St Paul as circuit court clerk succeeding the late Henry D Lang. Trott, formerly deputy clerk, takes the post after Lang's death.
Louis Weebter formerly of Philadelphia was found guilty of murder in Denver Colorado. The jury recommended hanging for W Clifford Burrows’s killer in Thursday’s verdict.
A sister describes a year long eye ailment that produced burning and swelling. After futile home remedies and a doctor's painful treatments, she found relief using Cuticura pills for blood purification, Cuticura Soap, and Cuticura Ointment. Within weeks swelling subsided and mucus and watering ceased. by six weeks she was cured. Mrs. Julia Csepicska, Aug. 25 1916.
Stuart C. Leake, a Richmond Virginia railroad supervisor, is hailed as a top southern dancer. A branch mishap prompts the president to ask where Leake was, and the general manager replies he was leading a German, sparking the president to call it a dirty Irish trick.
A brief dialogue shows Bill is sick in bed after meeting a girl who teases his tobacco use. He hurries, swallows his two chews, and talks with the girl for five minutes, illustrating a simple cause and effect moment.
A farmer Hornbeak encounters a village paper’s typographical blunder and mocks the Plaindealer editor who speaks his mind about a distorted line attributed to the Hon. Thomas Rottenby. The spoof highlights linotype perversity and local humor.
A widow of a prominent Ohio editor and political figure declares she is 70 and far stronger than most. She credits her vitality to Grape-Nuts, recalling a long stomach injury and painful digestion before switching to the cereal three years ago. A letter from Battle Creek Michigan praises the product as lifesaving, with a prompt to read “The Road to Wellville” for the saga behind the claim.
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