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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1911
Page
2
A collage of light notices and quips from the Fremont Eagle pages includes jokes about chestnuts in dark days, cat ranch schemes, silly lawsuits, a diet of foolish fads, and humorous takes on education aviation and misadventures.
In Friceville Tennessee a massive explosion deep in the Cross Mountain mine entombs about 100 miners. Eight bodies recovered. rescuers face gas and cave-in as crowds of wives and families gather at the mouth of the shaft.
A crowd of Italians in Cleveland led by a New York delegation disrupted a downtown film showing titled real views of the Italian war in Tripoli. They tore up posters and forced the manager to stop exhibiting the pictures, accusing them of falsehoods and atrocities.
Madrid’s Imparcial reports Infanta Eulalia hurriedly seeks King Alfonso’s pardon over a family quarrel. She quotes her self titled work Fil de la Vie declaring it "strangles and suffocates." The column notes the royal mediation aims to calm the SPanish dispute.
Washington reports the post office department ended the fiscal year June 30 1911 with a surplus of 219 118 after revenues of 237 879 823 and expenditures of 237 660 705. The year saw no service curtailment and notable expansions including the postal savings system now in most offices and plans for pension for elderly workers. Aeroplane mail service is also highlighted as a hopeful development.
George Giess testified before the Lorimer investigation committee claiming former Representative Charles A. White sought to extort 150000 from Senator Lorimer. Giess cited Frank Seemes as the source, saying the scheme would be compromised for 75000. Giess, indicted for perjury, had not previously revealed this tale.
Lillian Graham testified through tears about the sordid romance that led to the shooting of William E. D. Stokes, the New York hotel proprietor. She claimed Stokes killed Al Adams and was seen near the Ansonia stairs after Adams's body was found, though Adams died on October 1, 1907, with the death saying it was by self-inflicted action.
Rev Frank W Sandford leader of the Holy Ghost and Us society faces trial in Portland Maine without counsel as testimony links him to six deaths aboard the yacht Coronet during a world cruise George McKay describes hunger illness and deaths including Hughey brothers Stewart Wolf and Ralph Merrill Miss Dart testifies no medicines were given to the sick members of the party.
Washington reports leaders of the Republican national committee tentatively agree to Chicago as next year’s GOP gathering. The committee will meet the following Tuesday, with St Louis pressing a bid but Chicago favored by a strong majority, barring a late contest.
Despondent over protracted melancholy Lina Leach Gubelmann wife of Yale professor Albert Edward Gubelmann committed suicide by leaping into the West River in New Haven Conn. Her death follows a period of distress and is reported as a self inflicted tragedy involving a prominent academic family.
Boston. Postponement of the trial of Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, indicted for the murder of Miss Avis Linnell, was requested by his counsel. Richeson has no funds to pay his attorneys.
The Vreeland board and Navy Department conclude the Maine was destroyed by an exterior blast near frames 28 to 31, igniting reserve magazines and causing a chain of magazine explosions. The finding implies a mine rather than a torpedo, deepening the mystery of Havana Harbor’s 1898 disaster.
Mrs Carrie O Cope the plaintiff in a $50000 libel suit against Bishop David H Moore of the Methodist church has been summarily removed from official connection with the National Woman's Home Missionary Society. The Kansas dispute over funds held by Cope as an officer led to a letter from Moore, which she objected to, and she then filed suit for damages.
Robert Winthrop Chanler returns from Europe aboard the Olympic and confirms a financial settlement with his wife opera star Lina Cavalieri. Sheriff Bob says preliminaries are in French courts and divorce is expected in four to five months with no reconciliation planned.
Elbert K. Gary of United States Steel testifies before the senate committee on interstate commerce urging federal government control of large corporations to protect the public and ensure economies of scale. He supports a federal commission to study management, character and extent of firms and to permit pooling when warranted.
Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi suffers a relapse after a November runaway accident. Doctors expect several weeks before full recovery.
Corliss, Wis a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul passenger train No 12 collided with a light engine at a switch cross over. Engineer Forbush was killed and several passengers were shaken up in the Wisconsin accident.
Responding to a call from the rectory two detectives confronted John Golden in a cathedral burglary attempt. Father John Hennessy restrained him with a revolver until police arrived.
Dallas Texas reports Miss Hattie Frandenburger of San Antonio will bake a fruit cake for President Taft and his family to be served at Christmas. The cake arrives from Texas as a festive gesture from the Lone Star State.
The McNamara brothers occupy San Quentin with James B. receiving a life term for murder and John J. a 15 year sentence for dynamiting in Los Angeles. They are processed with other inmates and assigned to cell No. 18 near the upper yard, then to the jute mill for sack sewing.
Washington reports a drop in total farm product value for 1911, totaling 8.417 billion dollars, down 277 million from 1910. Animal products fell by 321 million, while crops rose to 4.604 billion, up 44 million, with dairy cows the sole animal category rising in price.
Calbraith P. Rogers completed his ocean to ocean journey with a 12 mile final leg ending on a Long Beach sand strip. Crowds of about 60 000 witnessed his landfall as he claimed three days ten hours fourteen minutes air time from the Atlantic. He had been injured in a fall at Compton and, though on crutches, climbed into the biplane for the finish.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Prof. T. M. C. Asser of the Netherlands and Alfred Fried of Vienna for their work in international law and peace advocacy. Each winner receives 19500 dollars. In Stockholm King Gustaf presented the chemistry prize to Marie Curie for her scientific achievements.
M C Patterson son of former Tennessee official Malcolm R K Patterson is under arrest in Seattle for the probable fatal shooting of Port Orchard liveryman R T Beal. Patterson admits the shooting.
Paris Pierre Vedrines, famed aviator, was likely fatally injured at Morannes when his monoplane fell seven feet to the ground. The accident underscores the dangers of early flight and the risks faced by pioneers in aerial exploration.
A mother’s guide to using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to keep a child’s bowels regular. The remedy is pitched as gentler than salts and laxatives, with tonic stomach benefits and wide availability through Mrs Belle Hier and Mrs Rose Harper addresses. A free sample offer is stated with Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
A minister, Dr Reed, opened a Sunday service when a stranger in the rear cried for louder prayers. Reed paused, told the man he was addressing God, not him, and resumed the prayer in a quiet tone. The incident appears in the London Watchdog with a moral about focus in worship.
A Chicago lawyer recalled John M. Harlan's storytelling wit in honoring the late Supreme Court Justice. He cited a parable about a Pittsburg millionaire questioned by a New York reporter to illustrate a rebuke for exaggeration and a joke about birthplace and upbringing.
The sick man, calling his attorney, seeks to explain again about his property. The lawyer reassures him and urges him to leave it to the attorney. The patient resigns, accepting that he will receive the property anyway.
A young woman spent a busy day browbeating fourteen people, bullyragging a shop walker, arguing with a milliner, correcting a modiste, stopping a taxi driver's overcharge, halting a street-car mid-run, firing her maid and hiring another, and resisting imposition. That evening a young man asked to be her protector through life, but she did not smile.
A San Bernardino widow credits Grape-Nuts with restoring strength after three months bedridden postdelivery. She reports weight gain from 95 to 113 pounds, steadier nerves, and renewed appetite for meals. Her 4-year-old son also improved, eczema clearing and skin rosy on the diet. Read “The Road Wellville.”
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