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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
8
A New York friend recounts a three year old allegedly eating an entire graham cracker box spread with Cuticura Ointment, claiming it cured a cold. Other notes warn of self harm by alcohol and a quip about a dirigible balloon’s rough landing.
A vast pageant honored Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton with 6,000,000 spectators watching a parade of 57 warships from the United States and allied nations. The Upper Bay flotilla included 120 steamboats, 75 yachts, 300 tugs, 400 craft, and the Half Moon with the Clermont. Fireworks lit the river as crowds marveled at the fleet and city illumination.
Colonel William R. Morrison, a Civil War veteran, longtime Democratic figure and former Interstate Commerce Commissioner, died at Waterloo Illinois aged eighty four after a prolonged illness. He rose to prominence in 1884 as tariff authority and earned the nickname Horizontal Bill for advocating a flat tariff cut. He served in Congress 1862 66 and 1873 87 and headed the Ways and Means Committee from 1873 to 1875 and again in 1883 to 1887.
Kate Patten, 22, a shoe factory worker from Portsmouth Ohio, was found dead in the Ohio River near her home. Authorities investigate in view of her last seen with a suitor Wadnemlay, whose statements fail to clarify the drowning mystery.
Chicago police inspector Edward McCann was found guilty by a jury in Judge Barnes court on graft charges. Sentencing was postponed pending arguments for a new trial. the case涉及 large sums from disorderly houses in return for protection. State's Attorney Wayman led the prosecution with key testimony from Louis.
Frank, unable to read or write, amassed a fortune in the West Side tenderloin by collecting protection payments of 40 dollars monthly from residents. Court saw dated checks and a list of women from whom payments were taken. McCann claimed he suppressed vice with strict measures and blamed a conspiracy led by Louis Frank.
A slight earthquake shook Southern and Central Illinois, Indiana, and parts of Missouri early Monday. No major damage reported, with chimneys toppled in some western areas and tremors felt in St. Louis at 3 47. Residents from Madison to Peoria woke to rattling windows and a rumbling sound as shocks lasted up to ten seconds in Princeton and Evansville, while St Ignatius Observatory clocked vibrations at 3 45.
Oklahoma Banking Commissioner Young announced that the state guaranty fund is paying depositors dollar for dollar from the Columbia Bank & Trust Company in Oklahoma City. The fund plus bank assets will cover claims, with $302,500 in the fund as of April 30, 1909, and an additional assessment levied to replenish the fund. In Kentucky, a sawmill explosion near Spring Lick killed two men Frank Westerfeld and Edward Boone, and fatally injured George Hays and John Boone.
Munyon promotes free medical examinations by mail with a promise to honestly tell if a disease can be cured. The offer emphasizes no obligation and liberty to follow or ignore advice, listing Munyon's Philadelphia address. The rest is an assortment of unrelated quotes about George Moore and Kansas readers.
Mrs. M Working of Rochester Indiana reports backache dizziness and swelling eased by three boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills after trying various remedies. She cites kidney trouble and weak general health ending with the pills. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
A nervous customer asks for beef samples to please an exacting wife while the butcher suggests porterhouse or tenderloin cuts. The scene mixes home dinner worries with brief product pitches and odd trivia on eye salve and remedies.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt describes a newly established Washington bureau staffed to manage cases of West Point graduates who were missed or misplaced, arranging their reinstatement within a flourishing organization. The tone suggests an innovative approach to veteran affairs.
In a domestic moment a husband notes his cook’s ignorance of tariffs while the wife suspects her material may be listed. The exchange centers on tariffs and domestic economy as a dull household observation.
The notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only known positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 to any case it cannot cure and invites readers to request testimonials from F B Cheney & Co of Toledo.
A fragment from a playful note hints that guests at The Palms hotel will encounter a pleasant, secret surprise on their final day, as quoted by Puck in a cheeky aside about the hotel's name and decor.
A description from England explains a method to produce metallic ribbons up to a mile long in about one minute. Molten metal flows through a nozzle onto a cooled, rapidly spinning drum, solidifies instantly, and is flung off as a continuous ribbon. Ribbons as thin as one thousandth of an inch are possible using aluminum, lead, zinc, tin, copper, silver and gold.
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