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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1911
Page
3
A mosaic of 1911 era items notes Italian fleet movements from Tripoli to Turkish waters and anarchist enlistment in Italy, Taft reviewing ships from the Mayflower, a Cambridge pastor resigning amid murder indictments, Harvard Sears prize winners, and various political, social, and aviation incidents across the U S and abroad.
Esquire Milew Chaffee of Grinnell celebrates his ninetieth birthday born in Springville New York moved to Grinnell forty three years ago served as justice of the peace township clerk and other offices for decades. Official war department statement says a full cavalry regiment will be sent to Fort Des Moines. Sixth Cavalry may not be withdrawn. Receivers appointed for United Woolen Mills in bankruptcy case with creditors. Proposals for a horse show at Villisca and winter exhibition plans. Iowa obituaries and accidents including a prominent Carroll attorney, Campbell Patterson, and farmer Joseph Stumpf. Paving completed at Greenfield. bootlegging case in Stratford. injuries at Oskaloosa plant and Davenport hotel incident. Coal fields near Des Moines and drainage district proposals for Green Bay bottoms above Fort Madison. Continued local harvests, real estate sales, and civic projects across multiple Iowa towns.
Rebels take Shanghai without a battle as authorities offer no resistance and forces join the invaders. Officials flee, residents wear white bands, and a republican government is claimed. Wuchang preparations and Yunnan secession are noted as central upheavals. Peking reports a draft constitution preserving the Manchu dynasty with restricted imperial power. Fighting continues in Hankow with heavy casualties and ruins.
Police charge Mrs. Louise Vermilya with murder after viscera tests reveal arsenite in abundance in the home of Policeman Arthur Blasonette who died under suspicious circumstances. Coroner Hofman orders exhumation of two related bodies while guards keep Vermilya under watch at 16 East Twenty-ninth Street.
Allied Turkish and Arab troops captured Tripoli’s outer forts after a fierce bombardment. Resenad Bey demanded surrender of the city and, after Italian rejection, launched a two hour cannonade. The Turkish commander warned foreign consuls and unarmed residents to flee. Escaped numbers remain unknown.
In a meeting the mayor and common council are urged to suppress church rummage sales by law. The group denounces the sales as among the worst disease spreaders in the community and calls for action to halt them.
Newcastle report states heavyweight champion Jack Johnson was fined 20 here for speeding in an automobile. The incident adds to his public appearances and boxing career coverage in local news.
A local appeal urges residents to visit GRO W Sovers & Sons of Huntington Indiana to buy Belgian Stallions and Percherons. The notice promises quality animals at fair prices with a guaranty, and asks readers to mention seeing the firm in the paper to help improve community draft horses.
The London Chronicle reports Ruskin’s remark on Americans and a drastic importation by Mrs. Gardner who shipped an entire chapel to a Boston villa. The chapel’s furnishings, including half-burned candles, were packed into a Venetian hill country and carried piecemeal across the Atlantic.
A gathering of new and veteran teachers turned into a light hearted love feast or reception. They pretended to be carefree as the symposiarch led with a toast to long live our teachers. A new teacher responded modestly with a witty line.
A French Canadian accent joke from a debating club in Quebec shows a countryman drawing the word bat and riffing on three kinds of bats: the baseball bat the bat that flies at night and the bat used to swim, highlighting humorous language and pronunciation quirks.
A railroad town wife writes of her husband once a tea addict who slept poorly and felt wretched at work. After four months on Postum his nerves are steady and sleep natural. he now drinks Postum at every meal and would not return to tea. His brother, lifted from coffee by Postum, also recovered health and strength.
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