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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
4
A paper presented to the French Academy of Sciences outlines Gustave Gabet s torpedo invention. A revolving wheel with spoke like plates carries glass tubes with mercury drops that rise and fall to close the circuit. The transmitter controls the torpedo at every instant and luminous eclipses allow visual tracking of its progress.
Connecticut recorded forty three murders in 1906, a year with an unusually high toll for the Nutmeg State. Maine reported two murders, despite its smaller population of about 725,000. Connecticut’s rate exceeds its decade average by seventeen incidents.
Owen Owen, a Liverpool dry goods man, notes Americans offer many conveniences but rarely hear the word thank you in shops. He observes shop assistants seem less polished than in his home country.
A list of antique prices is given including Napoleon’s alleged Newton teeth and Descartes skull. Napoleon’s head tooth sold for 7.50 dollars while Kant’s wig fetched 40 dollars and Bterne’s wig 1000. Descartes skull 200 dollars and Newton’s tooth 3400. A Hewish relic fetched 20000 for Heloise teeth. Roveseau waist coat 190 dollars and a watch 100.
A Paris Academy communication by M. G. Charpy reports a systematic study on steel alloys. Chrome nickel steel rivets show 2.5 times the strength of standard rivets without extra precautions in use.
The German Empress, asked what she values most, lists four preferred K words. She names Kaiser, kinder, kirche, and kitchen as her top four, reflecting her priorities of ruler, children, church, and home.
A hundred year old soap tale notes soap use for 300 years and references in the Bible. Archaeologists report a soap boll er’s shop unearthed in Pompeii after the 79 A D ashfall, where preserved bars remained effective after 1,800 years.
A queen wore an elaborate headdress over a light blue head covering, replacing a crown. The headpiece featured symbolic animals or symbols such as a bird, serpent heads, or ox horns, reflecting royal iconography.
The Stockholm Dagbladet notes it is common for children to appear in London plays. It highlights the prevalence of boy and girl actors on the London stage and calls it a rule rather than an exception.
Spain ranks as the world’s second largest honey producer with 1,690,600 beehives yielding about 18,000 tons. Germany leads with 3,000,000 hives and 26,000 tons produced.
The Gerwan Haport Review notes Bariiaa testing automobile free engines with a sump of $12,000 in disposal. An electric car fire occurred in service.
Secretary of the Navy, with Roosevelt’s approval, plans a major reshuffle sending 18 captains to command battleships sailing from Atlantic to Pacific. Four current ship captains will remain, including Potter, Vreeland, Osterhaus, and Wainwright, while a wave of others will move ashore for the voyage and future roles.
Lyndhurst New Jersey Sept 3 A police officer George Cassidy was shot and killed while attempting to arrest two burglars found in the act of robbing a store. One burglar killed himself in a swamp rather than be captured, the other escaped in the pursuit. Cassidy had started toward the station with the prisoners when a revolver was fired from a pocket and fired into his coat. The neighborhood mob pursued the felons as Cassidy fell.
In Buffalo two Polish youths Tony Carola and Guiseppe Zeppa both around 13 were electrocuted on a steel tower carrying Niagara Falls power to the Lackawanna steel plant. Delays in shutting off current left their bodies hanging for hours as blue flames danced around them. In Cumberland Maryland James Valentine of the fire department was injured when an aerial ladder broke under him from 50 feet, breaking multiple bones and causing death within hours.
Fifty men engaged in a fierce race riot in St Chersea Missouri with several stabbed and slashed. An American named Oscar De Toy was stabbed in the back by an Italian amid clashes caused by bad feeling among the men. A seismic shock report from Washington notes a notable disturbance.
Reports from Fez claim the Fazzi brothers Abdelkrim Ben Sliman and Ganam the sultan’s Tangier representative were assassinated by Medinar supporters. The Fazzi clan allegedly held power over the sultan and controlled vast wealth. French fire and bombardment inflicted Moor casualties in recent clashes near Casablanca and Tedala. American missionaries Clinton, Reed, and Engert faced hostility in Fez as others fled toward Tangier. News wires awaited confirmation on the missionaries’ fate and safety.
A Canadian Pacific passenger special from Markdale to Toronto derailed near Caledon Ontario on Sept 4. Five cars left the track after a sudden grade escape, six people died and more than twenty were seriously injured. Names of the deceased include Merman Tucker and Join Thurston among others. The engineer survived with minor injuries.
A tornado hit Ft. Gaines Ga a town of about 1000 people located 100 miles southeast of Montgomery communication by wire with the area is cut off telephone lines to nearby towns are nonfunctional and railroad telegraph wires east of Union Springs are down Ft. Gaines lies along the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama Georgia line.
Havana reports a masons strike stopping building work as laborers demand wages in American money. The walkout may signal a wider push toward American currency following the cigar makers' strike.
In Worthington Minnesota on September 4 widow Mrs William Brayon was shot and killed by William Walsh after refusing his marriage proposal. Walsh then killed himself in the same incident.
News from Albuquerque reports Mrs. Louisa Hill Carabajal and her seven children drowned when heavy rains swept Alamo creek in Sierra county. The flood caused about 60000 dollars in damage and was part of a regional disaster.
Charles Bonaparte, US attorney general, at Lennox Massachusetts, argues fines can deter corporate lawbreaking but calls for a drastic reorganization of the Department of Justice to enable vigorous prosecutions. He denies plans to resign and says he will stay in office to push a tougher program against high finance crime.
Three Italian men sought after for a savage assault on James Connelly of Avelia. He was bound gagged and doused with turpentine before being left in the woods. Doctors fear blinding injuries and death, while authorities warn of further violence if suspects are captured. A separate report notes a derailment scare in Philadelphia where a bridge was blown but no injuries occurred.
Mobile Alabama September 2 Zeke Byrd a known young man was shot to death by an unknown burglar after he volunteered to sleep in a suburban store safe from recent robberies Byrd offered resistance and was killed A second item notes Helen Furla 11 of St Paul Minnesota died from heat while another reports a one year old child struck by a auto in Tamestown New York with fatalities and injuries in a factory explosion in New York appears as a miscellaneous item.
Report of the Ferdinand National Bank at Ferdinand Indiana closing August 22 1907 shows assets liabilities and notes. The sworn statement is signed by Cashier X Bivkelmann and notary Hubert Quante with attestations from directors Marturas OLINGER Joseph PF Kitt and Joseph Honneith. The town scene mentions schoolmasters and local political moves with the county commission meeting pushed to Tuesday due to Labor Day.
County offices closed for Labor Day state observances. Senator R M Milburn returns as Special Judge in Ely’s absence. Heralds beat Oakland City 3 to 2 in a tight game. Dubois County Teachers Institute opens its 43rd session with Prof Cox Dearing and Prof English as instructors. Homecoming basket dinner at Shiloh draws many residents. Rev Duckett delivers a sermonsful afternoon address to locals.
Farmers urged to bring wheat for highest market price. Seller offers stock fertilizer and threshing coal, with both phone lines available for contact.
A report from Bretaville, Indianapolis area, cites Andrew Wagner regarding a hat discovery involving men. The brief notes Wagner's involvement and local curiosity about the find.
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