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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
10
Early estimates show as many as twelve hundred dead with over 600 bodies recovered. Property damage reaches about $2 million and thousands are homeless after a weekend flood in Monterey Mexico. The Santa Catarina river surged to half a mile wide, sweeping buildings and people away.
Salt Lake Tabernacle choir refused admission fee to hear themselves sing at the hall and later performed outdoors to 25 000 fans. The episode angered many paying attendees who felt insulted by the committee overseeing the Eisteddfod contest and praised the Utah visitors.
A fire in Grand Forks Idaho wholly destroyed the town and left about 400 people homeless. The blaze began in a room of an unnamed hotel where a steam shovel engineer named Mulhern was staying. Flames spread to the forest reserve, burning roughly a square mile before being checked. The hotel and store were among the destroyed buildings.
In Salt Lake City Mr and Mrs Frank J L Kaiser died after mistaking rat poison labeled Rough on Rats for baking powder. The poison caused the deaths at a Sunday dinner. Kaiser was a railroad engineer.
Five people were killed in a Sunday collision between a car and a Rock Island passenger train near St. Louis. The party had been at Croye Coeur lake twelve miles west of the city and were speeding homeward when the wreck occurred. The driver could not hear or see the approach of the train due to motor noise and steered into the train’s path as it traveled about forty miles an hour.
The Lackey basin section of the La Sal district in southern Utah opens excellent copper prospects. A smelter and concentrating mill site is secured at Winnemucca Nevada to treat ores from nearby camps. The article notes a mix of projects, strikes, and reorganizations across Nevada Utah Idaho Montana and Wyoming, including 1908 sulphur production, reorganizing Panhandle Smelting at Pomeray Idaho, and new ore shipments from Little Belt and Tele graph mines.
In a tense street scene two men quarrel over a girl whose identity remains unknown. The incident unfolds in a vacant lot as onlookers watch the dispute escalate into a brief confrontation. No injuries reported.
The article stresses durability in painting and defines pure white lead mixed with linseed oil as the standard. It explains past risks of adulterated white lead and notes the Dutch Boy Painter trademark from National Lead Company guarantees purity, guiding buyers toward safe purchases.
The author notes how waist measurements shift unpredictably and cites Mrs. Wilson Woodrow's remark in American Magazine that fashion trends and body sizes drift with time. The piece emphasizes uncertainty in predicting the body’s proportions and critiques fixed norms.
A Atchison Kansas Globe item recalls a young woman praised for charity and gentleness who turns abusive after marriage. The piece observes marriage can bring out hidden meanness in both spouses, noting she showed grace for years until strife with her husband.
A collage of snippets includes a taxicab dispute about fares, a Washington Star anecdote, an Allen’s Foot-Ease ad, a Yonkers Statesman line about courting, a remark on belittling, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil claim, Davis Painkiller tout, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, and a note that experience counts.
The event honors Cornwallis’s surrender with fiery speeches. Maj Arthur Forster of the First Royal Dragoons speaks, quipping how Yorktown’s feeble garrison and militia surprised the British commander. The chairman cuts in with a toast and a wink, shouting Shake to end the moment.
Quoted lines describe motor boats superior to canoes despite a required chaperon. A humorous note mentions a noisy "chng chug" that drowns out sound. The piece ends with a quirky reference to undertakers and boxers in a scientific context.
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