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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1912
Page
3
Read about new child friendly features in the city library including two height appropriate tables, quaint chairs, new shelving, and a large list of books for young readers. Books arriving early next year will be placed on shelves promptly as rules allow. The passage also highlights Brandeis as a devoted public servant who funds his own legal practice while serving the people.
Boston observers believe Louis D. Brandeis of Boston is Wilson's strongest nominee for Attorney General with limited alternative contenders like Senator O Gorman and Judge Westcott. Brandeis, born 1856 in Kentucky, Harvard Law School graduate, long prominent as a Boston lawyer and national publicist.
New York December 23 indictments were returned by the extraordinary grand jury investigating a police grant case. Named were policeman John J. Shelley liquor dealer Sol Watts and Emanuel Mast in connection with Mary Goode’s disorderly house operation.
Paris December 23 Madam Block a French woman was acquitted of murdering Mrs Berchman an American in her apartment months ago The defense invoked the unwritten law and the court freed her on the murder charge leaving the motive to remedy the theft of love by M Komvsta
The Georgia legislature protests Congress direct election of senators as unconstitutional. It cites that two-thirds of both houses did not approve, urges governors to notify legislatures nationwide, and pledges support only if amendment is proposed in a constitutional manner. The report emphasizes states rights and strict conformity to the Constitution.
Gen Domingo Diaz a prominent Central American soldier and patriot died in New York City from double pneumonia at seventy one. Diaz led liberal factions in Panama before its separation from Colombia and commanded an armed uprising against Colombia.
In San Antonio Texas on December 23 Felipe Baldic a farmer was shot by his nine year old son as he stood at the door saying goodbye to his wife. The child crawled between a gun and his father blowing out his head.
Five men and four women are detained in Chicago connection with the murder of diamond merchant J. H. Logue at his MecVicker Theater building office. Police inventory lists dynamite, nitroglycerin, safeblowers tools, skeleton keys, revolvers, stamps, diamonds, silverware and jewelry. A woman factor is noted as target of investigation while fingerprint analysis proceeds.
In New York on December 23 four auto bandits knocked unconscious two Silk Finishing Company of America paymasters and robbed them of a bag with the weekly mill payroll. The robbers fled in a large car up Greenwich Street and eastward, taking $1,200.
Washington reports that railroads have stifled water carrier competition by buying steamship lines. The study says 90 percent of U S canal traffic is rail owned and seaboard and Great Lakes steamers are largely controlled by land interests. It urges broader ICC reach over joint rail and water traffic and notes the New York New Haven and Hartford monopoly in New England water routes.
Washington rumor claims William Jennings Bryan would join the Wilson cabinet as secretary of the treasury. Bryan dismisses the idea, denouncing anonymous sources and saying he will respond only to written statements with identifiable authors.
Vincent Astor Frederick Vanderbilt Mrs Van derbilt and Miss Huntington listen to five suffragists addressing 300 villagers in front of the Rhinebeck hotel after a 17 mile walk from Poughkeepsie. The group has now covered 91 miles of their journey and remains in good spirits.
A slight earthquake shock shook Fort de France Martinique on December 23 causing excitement but no damage was reported.
A 24 year old man named Fred Clinton uses supposed logic to judge a girl on a roof. He misreads the risk, but when she falls he rushes to help. He consoles her with camphor and calls a doctor, issuing a rescue that ends with her dislocated shoulder and safe relocation to a nearby house.
Mavis, a provincial writer with a string of unpaid or small acceptances, endures hunger and frugal meals while chasing a hoped for career. She nurses pride, laboring at sewing and dog walking, paying debts to the day, and planning a celebratory Christmas dinner on a tight budget. A final pink cheque envelope arrival hints at a cruel setback.
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