21 Apr 1908
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Newspaper
Fulton Journal
Location
Fulton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1908
Page
1
City officials encourage a general spring cleanup focusing on yards and alleys. Emphasis on removing rubbish, planting grass and flowers, and regular maintenance to improve appearances by July and August when families stay home.
About forty residents gathered in city hall to hear a plea for a bond issue to fund a $3,000 artesian well and a $1,100 steam pump. Mayor Mitchell chaired, citing treasury strain and water shortages, while Edmund Jackson pressed for bonds. The editor opposed the bond but supported funding the well from regular revenues. The meeting approved backing the bond and invited The Journal to help promote the project.
Announcement states that from May 1 1908 three local banks will levy a five cent draft charge on commercial accounts with an average balance under 200 dollars. Accounts averaging 200 dollars or more incur no draft charge.
A father laments wishing for millions of Standard Oil shares while the family tends a warm home. The scene shifts to the mother preparing pies and chores, weaving domestic toil with quiet hopes. The piece, credited to Mary F. K. Hutchinson from March Woman's Home Companion, reflects simple family life.
Congressman Frank O Lowden introduces a House bill to appropriate 100000 dollars for the Department of Agriculture to eradicate hog cholera. The measure urges state and territorial cooperation and adoption of quarantine and regulations to efficiently control the disease nationwide.
Sid Bloodsaw, an Illinois-born cowboy, kills eight Texas cattlemen in a Newton Kansas dance hall after defending a friend Bland who was slain earlier. Bloodsaw bars doors, fires from behind the counter, and emerges unharmed save for a single slight wound.
John Whistler was re elected school director Saturday without opposition. A voters meeting at Music hall discussed electric light with election day pending. Several local residents and visitors are noted along with sick lists and community events across Erie and surrounding towns.
A string of visits from family and friends across Erie Fen ton Morrison Clinton and Lanark accompanied by social and civic events. Local clubs hosted initiation and a large Mystic Workers gathering as Dr Wahl and Brant won seats at a school election. A German farmer faced a trial outcome and a Baptist church apron and bake sale drew steady turnout.
Lilian Burkhart debuts The Lady and the Bracelet as Captain Robert Marshall and Alfred Sutro plan plays for Charles Frohman. Henry Arthur Jones drafts a new NY produced work slated for late August. Mile Anna Held, after two seasons in America, opens in London mid May. Annie Yeamans and Edward Harrigan join vaudeville with sketches from The Mulligan Guards.
The New York Herald notes 12 147 Chinese residents in NYC and 12 200 under five die in tenement districts in the last six months. It cites the city’s largest savings bank with over 150 000 depositors and deposits surpassing 100 million dollars. It adds the aldermanic board costs taxpayers 238 856 dollars this year.
Practical kitchen notes on making batter and desserts. It covers adding milk to mush for brown results, using a fork or egg beater to smooth dough, preventing cracking with thick cream, and adding vanilla nuts to enhance cakes puddings and custards for richer flavor.
German notes describe tobacco shop purchases granting one phone call. Hamburg stands as Germanys major lumber market handling most imported timber. The empire lacks its own prison with offenses against the imperial government prosecuted by the imperial attorney who summons state attorneys from the federal states.
Denver provides citizens with young trees each year to encourage planting and green stewardship across the city. The program highlights the community value placed on urban forestry and environmental beautification.
Rear Admiral Charles Sperry selected to command the eighteen battleships leaving San Francisco for a voyage to Samoa Hawaii Australia and the Philippines then through the Indian Ocean and Suez back to Hampton Roads. He succeeds ill Admiral Evans and faces heavy duties steering the fleet home. Sperry, born 1847 in New York, married Edith Marcy and rose to rear admiral in 1906 after serving as equipment officer and later commanding the Yorktown in Philippine waters during the anti insurgent campaign.
The article discusses George Meyer proposing post office stamp slot machines to ease postage purchases. Trials in large cities test reliability and ability to distinguish genuine stamps from fakes, with machines accepting varied coin inputs and requiring correct coin and stamp alignment.
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