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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
4
A muddled column lampoons global affairs from the Hague peace conference to Panama Canal costs. It notes high foreign-born populations in New York, a Utah Sunday baseball ticket law, and a wary view of Mars communication claims, with satirical jabs at politics and society.
Senator Bradley accuses American Tobacco of aiding the Night Riders. Senate considers tariff measures and sugar duties as Congress debates isthmian canal funding. Porto Rican citizenship delegates arrive in Washington. Mrs Taft improves but misses Pittsburgh trip. MacArthur retires. Wood becomes army senior. Julia Ward Howe turns 90. Standard Oil’s Moffatt to succeed Rogers. Benson denied new hearing in land fraud case. Durand named census director. Taylor arrested in San Francisco on swindling charges. Burttelsen sentenced eight years for Parma bank failure. Rockefeller recovering from pneumonia. Baum appeals to Taft for Moree clemency.
A Brooklyn woman died by leaping from a high window after a prior tragedy, and fireman Thomas J. McCue perished jumping from an adjacent building. Interstate Commerce chairman Knapp and Postmaster Stewart moved to resolve a Georgia railroad strike. U S cruiser Albany sailors saved their ship from a blaze near Corinto Nicaragua. Moros killed a private and wounded a sergeant in the Philippines. Bandits robbed the People’s Bank at Benbow City NL, taking 3000. Weat Point bandmaster George Essigke died by own action amid war investigations. U S Steel elected J P Morgan Sr to the board and honored H H Rogers. Seven geese swept by a tornado near Mattoon Illinois. John Mitchell fired back at John Kirby’s NA Manufacturers speech. John Carter and three grandchildren perished in a yard fire at Ekon.
Three Omaha boys helped police capture three men suspected of robbing a Union Pacific train. They will share in a $15,000 reward.
Philadelphia reports strike of street car motormen and conductors. Strikebreakers from other cities operated cars but none left barns after 8 pm. Police arrested many for shouting at strikebreakers as mayor Reyburn vows to keep transit running, possibly by city takeover.
Two men were injured and patrons fled as a gambling bomb wrecked the five story brick building at 261 Wabash avenue in Chicago. Police blame rival gambling houses for the blast which shook the Illinois and Studebaker theaters and caused about 25000 dollars in damage.
Travel Magazine notes London officers carry no clubs and use light signals with dark lanterns while Paris patrolmen wear blue caps and coats with white trousers in summer and use a capochon hooded cape in rain. Paris adopts white gloves on traffic patrols and signals with white clubs, while German police wear helmets and present a martial air.
London Times notes that English literature elevates national character through genius poets. Shelley and Keats are praised as exceptional figures who distinguish Britain from mere shopkeeping stereotypes, echoing comments by Victor Hugo and M. Bourget on English poetic impact.
The Eschweg merchants' association invited explorer Sven Hedin to lecture and he replied he would agree but would require 4500 marks in return. The secretary said the price was beyond their means and speculated the invitation came from American gold mine owners.
Dr Mary Mills Patrick heads the American College for Girls at Scutari the Asiatic suburb of Constantinople. Founded in 1871 as a high school she became involved early. Graduates now help shape history across eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire with students from Roumania Servia Bulgaria Persia Mesopotamia Egypt and other lands.
An anecdote from Foreland about Weymouth mayor during a George visit. Instead of kneeling to present an address, he grabbed the queen’s hand, claiming he cannot kneel because he has a wooden leg, prompting a royal smile and King’s laughter.
H A Kruts koff of Chicago Illinois reports severe itching with pus lesions all over the body. After trying doctors and other treatments he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, stopping itching in days and clearing eruptions in about three weeks. November 18 1907. Potter Drug Cory sole props Boston.
A near miss at a theater caused alarms after a villainly act of lighting a cigarette and tossing a match into the snow. Weston, an Ocean-to-Ocean Walker, gives a pep talk about walking off bad thoughts. Old advertisements push Allen’s Foot-Ease and Murine eye remedies amid a slice of fiction and jokes.
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