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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1910
Page
1
A humor filled rip through Victorian era quips notes and curios from Fayetter Reporter pages. Jokes about beans prices trains comets and peasant life mingle with tall tales of aviation mishaps and goat meat psychology. The piece catalogues lighthearted observations and oddities reflecting everyday concerns and whimsy.
Gifford Pinchot, former forester, took the witness stand at the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry and charged Secretary Ballinger with falsehood and disloyalty to President Taft. He said Ballinger aimed to overturn Roosevelt conservation policies and restore water power sites to private control, threatening the nation’s public property and trust. Pinchot promised to detail how Ballinger acted to injure the conservation movement and insisted Glavis spoke truth about the Gravis charges.
In Philadelphia, 100000 labor union members will strike next Saturday in solidarity with street car workers. The move, ordered by 700 delegates from 140 locals, followed days of trolley labor conflict. Leaders urged caution, but the strike date was set with some hope for arbitration.
Motorman Joseph Fuller was paralyzed and speechless while operating a High street street car on Saturday. The car ran out of control for three blocks causing panic among passengers, but no injuries were reported.
American heavyweight Sam McVey halted Michigan’s Al Kubiak in the tenth round of a scheduled 20 round bout at Cirque de Paris Saturday. McVey delivered a decisive knockout to extend his record in Paris.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer told the House Naval Committee of a bold plan to build a world record breaking battleship displacing at least 32000 tons at a cost near 18000000. He said Congress would be asked next year to authorize the project to make the United States the leading naval power. The committee welcomed the radical naval expansion and discussions were held privately without a stenographer present.
Illinois Supreme Court leaders in Chicago ordered a stay on all further Joyce case proceedings. The parole law of 1893 was declared valid, and no final judgment on the Joyce decision will stand until a rehearing petition is resolved. The stay delays efforts to free inmates under the questioned parole law.
Cincinnati police received a surrender from Christian Keppler who said he helped kill Elizabeth empress of Austria in 1902. He cited coercion by a former convict who forced theft and then extortion, prompting his surrender.
A mob of about 600 men gathers outside Dallas county jail vowing to batter down the doors to lynch Allen Brook, the man accused of assaulting a white girl. Deputies inside protect the jail while Chief of Police Ryan is summoned for aid as a 30 foot steel rat is displayed. Charity Gets a Crumb, Troy N Y The will of Mrs Hannah M Earl widow of Williams Earl of Troy founder of Earl Wil son collar makers is filed for probate valuing the estate at 2 million dollars with only 66 thousand left to charity.
Deputy Sheriff W. H. Lucy tried to arrest a Black man near Memphis Tennessee on Friday. He was struck and fatally hurt. The Black suspect was fatally hurt by two other deputies.
Senator Aldrich secured senate committee support to exclude the proposed court of commerce from overseeing the Interstate Commerce Act and to broaden court review of administrative actions by the Interstate Commerce Commission. If the floor fight ends similarly, corporations gain leverage for long litigation, potentially undermining the Hepburn bill’s aims.
Managua reports a decisive government victory over Insurgents at Tipitapa. Gen Chamorro’s army is said nearly annihilated with about 1500 dead or wounded. Insurgents reportedly 1100 casualties and 400 government dead or wounded. Hospitals overwhelmed as relatives plead for admissions amid devastated scenes. Chamorro remains uncaptured, with a new force possibly appearing unexpectedly.
Cambridge reports George W. Cole man, a bank bookkeeper, accused of embezzling at least 160000 from the National City bank and aiding six women. arrested on arrival and jailed without 50000 bail. Washington moves to criminalize accepting deposits in insolvent banks. bill favored by House committee. Providence boy, Gerald Guiness, ten, died after asphyxiation in locked room caused by accidental gas ignition.
Florence Freeborn Fairchild Raymond a Boston lawyer and cousin of President Taft died suddenly Saturday while traveling with his young daughter in Florence. The unexpected death occurred during a trip details indicating cause not provided. The deceased was connected to Taft family circles and remembered by colleagues in Boston and political circles.
New York reports a Hudson county grand jury handed down a broad indictment in Jersey City charging criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade against eight corporations led by the National Packing Company and twenty one directors. Included are Armour Swift Morris Hammond and G H Hammond. Indicted individuals include Armour and Swift family names. The grand jury continues probe into impure food storage in Jersey City cold storage facilities with more indictments likely next week.
In Galveston Texas a half interest in the Valvedera ranch in Jeff Davis County transfers from Sam Jennings to Francis R. Strome after Strome rescued six year old Julia May Jennings from beneath a locomotive on the railroad tracks. The ranch is valued between 700000 and 1000000 dollars. Strome, a 50 year old machinist, had wandered westward after personal troubles and drink, seeking California before the heroic act that changed his fortune.
Washington reports that since 1890 over one billion dollars in tobacco and tobacco products have moved through U S ports. Exports totaled 646 million and imports 386 million. 1909 shipments from Porto Rico and to Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico add about 8.75 million. The United States remains the leading tobacco exporter with about 41 million sold abroad in a 150 million market.
Henry L. Diedrichson, court clerk, shot John Barry in Justice Reichmann's courtroom amid a political feud. Barry, nicknamed Bad Jack, allegedly had a knife and threatened Diedrichson before the shooting. In Nebraska, Judge Harrington sentenced Walter Riefenberg to be hanged June 17 for murder, while Boise juries acquitted William F. Kettenbaugh, George H. Kester and William Dwyer of conspiracy to defraud the government.
L Cooper promotes a New Discovery claimed to rejuvenate the stomach in ninety days and to fix all diseases by first curing stomach disorders. He tours major cities with a campaign that has drawn large crowds and strong endorsements from followers, including Chicago and Boston residents quoted praising the remedy.
Fragmentary dialogue suggests domestic discord and humor as Hewitt Jewett and others comment on marriage and sorrow. The readable lines imply a stage snippet where a wife’s behavior and a husband’s resolve drive a domestic exchange.
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