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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
2
A humorous assemblage of jests and quips on weather trends fashion dogs taxes hats and goats. It riffs on goofs about muzzles fly cops sugar and butter bowls and jokes about income tax and simplified spelling. The piece notes goats in a Chicago man’s tale and muses on future joy riding and littering.
A collage of witty observations on skirts and streets, censoring songs, aviators in Paris, and social quirks. It notes fashion pockets, hobble skirts versus streetcar steps, a Virginia buggy mishap, and jokes about breakfast foods, poetry, and a New York courthouse boom.
President Wilson’s tariff inquiry advances as sixteen senators are questioned. None admit knowledge of any lobby or improper money flow. Democrats plan to proceed under Wilson’s direction as the special committee presses the search in Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt won a libel suit against George A. Newett editor of the Ishpeming Iron Ore in Marquette Michigan. Jurors returned a verdict for the plaintiff with nominal damages of six cents and no costs as Roosevelt did not seek punitive damages.
London detectives uncovered a large conspiracy to arm Ulster Unionists to resist home rule in Ireland. The disclosure follows the seizure of 12 tons of rifles and ammunition at Belfast earlier this week. A second item notes Miss Maude Cooke facing possible blindness after heavy study, exempted from Northwestern University finals.
In Paterson on June 7 a judge found 38 silk mill picketers guilty of unlawful assembly for protests on April 26. Hannah Silverman, 17, a leader, and Benjamin Hagedorn face three years in prison plus fines. Silverman was jailed for contempt after disrupting proceedings. Price received three months. Only three of 41 prisoners were acquitted.
Federal forces under Gen Lucio Blanco fought rebels in Matamoros for 12 hours. The rebels captured the city after fierce hand to hand combat. Maj Estaban Ramos, mortally wounded, died in a Brownsville hospital as his officers surrendered.
The Illinois House defeated the initiative and referendum resolution 95 to 38 on June 7, wiping the governor's pet measure from the program for this session. Speaker McKinley refused to lay a reconsideration motion on the table, keeping the proposal briefly alive but unlikely to be revived.
King Haakon departed Christiania on Wednesday for Bergen aboard the Kristianiafjord on the new Norwegian American line. The steamer sails on its first voyage to New York.
A major blaze swept Valley Center Kansas on Wednesday destroying four buildings and damaging several others. The fire started in a general store and threatened the entire town as crews fought to contain it.
A group of twenty five American Boy Scouts undertakes a cross country hike from New York to San Francisco under the arrangement of Captain Ernest Galiardo the national director. The project aims to promote fitness teamwork and youth leadership across the nation.
Viscount Chinda, Japan's ambassador, met with President Wilson at the White House for about an hour and submitted Japan’s grievances directly. He also hinted at a new proposition seeking official recognition of Japan’s status and equality with leading powers, a move noted as potentially troublesome for U.S. policy toward California and Arizona.
Emily Wilding Davidson, a British suffrage activist with a police record for violence, rushed the track at Tottenham corner and grabbed the bridle of Anmer, causing a fatal trampling incident. The Derby crowned Craganour first but he was disqualified for bumping. Aboyeur awarded the race with Louvois and Great Sport in second and third.
New York reports Carlton S. Glover will earn a bachelor of arts from Columbia University in a June ceremony despite being totally blind. The item lists other scattered updates from cities on June dates, including a hospital burn incident in Cincinnati and clergy views on eugenics in New York.
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture warned that meat supply in the United States is shrinking each year. It notes that imports of animals and animal products exceeded exports in 1912 for the first time, and beef cattle numbers fell from 51,566,000 in 1907 to 36,030,000 at the start of this year. The cause cited includes western ranchers shifting to crop production.
Washington June 5 Richard L Metcalfe editor of the Commoner Lincoln Nebraska was selected by President Wilson to serve as civil governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
Norristown Pa June 6 August Kruger cousin of Oom Paul Kruger former Transvaal president died here Wednesday aged seventy four He served with Kruger during the Boer War in South Africa
Big Four Train No. 4 derailed near North Urbana while running 50 mph. The locomotive and two coaches left the track but no one was injured.
In Budapest on June 6 a riot broke out in the lower chamber as the premier announced the cabinet resignation. Police were needed to eject unruly members from the chamber.
Robert Huber of Chicago pleaded the unwritten law after confessing he killed John Kunzelman a hotel proprietor in Cincinnati. Kunzelman ran a hostelry at Mount Healthy.
Officials of the marine firemen union declared a strike in New Orleans on June 7 among United Fruit Company workers after wage cuts ranging from 2.50 to 5 dollars per month.
Athens reports that boxing bali playing and sprinting were practiced in ancient Egypt centuries before Greece. Reproductions from Lepsius Rosellini Maspero Egyptologists accompany a Thebes rock carving from Rameses II era. The article notes no new ideas under the sun.
Professor Dusty Miller notes a draft from Rameses II era showing Egyptian soldiers engaged in boxing baseball horse racing and even craps shooting. The text likens these scenes to modern sport tableaux with an umpire signaling safe calls and a megaphone man announcing batters.
The body of Mrs Mary E Houston aged 85 was brought to St Louis for burial. She reportedly originated rubber eraser tins on lead pencils. Died in Greenwood Mississippi from apoplexy after revealing in 1859 her idea to place rubber tips on pencils helped spark the first such advertisement.
The Woman's Club of Youngstown petitions the council to require trolley cars to lower steps within eight inches of the street. They argue current steps are too high causing embarrassment when boarding and alighting. The company may blame tight skirts and car stops.
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