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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
1
A collage of satirical vignettes from midcentury life, noting price shifts meat and cabbage, crime and courtship, tech marvels and aviation fears, plus oddities about hats and telephones. It wryly pits urban absurdities against changing modern standards with humorous, clipped observations.
Washington The house passed a pension bill adding 45 million to pension rolls, provoking Senate managers. Critics warn it defeats fiscal savings and widens the deficit, while President Taft opposes the increase, favoring existing generous pension laws. A senator says the measure has drawn heavy condemnation in cloakroom deliberations.
A discharged naval cook named Sigrist slashed Rembrandt's The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Rotterdam. He said the vandalism sought vengeance for his navy discharge. Experts believe the painting is potentially repairable and remains a centerpiece of Rembrandt's group portraits.
Twenty masked men stormed the Shelbyville jail and hanged three Black inmates on a railroad bridge. Eugene Marshall and Wade Patterson were killed when the rope broke. Patterson’s body was riddled with bullets and West was shot, with his body not recovered. An investigation is planned but no arrests are expected.
B D Updyke nephew of Gen G N Haskell is sought after the slaying of Christensen and serious wounding of T D Anderson. Nora Updyke wife of the accused is held as accessory as Christensen, an electrical engineer, had come from Chicago. Anderson testified Updyke quarreled with his wife and her cries drew him, triggering the shooting as Christensen remonstrated.
Constantine Erdman, author of the arbitration labor law once pivotal in strikes, died at his Allentown home after years of failing health and strokes. He served two terms in Congress and his Erdman arbitration bill withstood many judicial challenges.
Chicago reports the Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothing company and the joint conference with the strike committee have reached an agreement ending the garment workers strike. About 10,000 strikers will return to their jobs with no discrimination against United Garment Workers members. A three person arbitration committee will arbitrate all grievances under the compromise.
Troops summoned to quell the riot fired volleys into the crowds, killing eleven and wounding fourteen as annual Muharram festivities sparked clashes between Sunnites and Shiahs. A procession was prohibited amid the unrest.
Washington senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island has been in seclusion for two weeks due to a severe cold. He started Monday for the south to recover and will keep his address secret to avoid business contact during the illness.
Prof. James Edwards of Notre Dame University died Sunday in South Bend Indiana from paralysis and Bright’s disease. The event marks the loss of a scholar associated with the university, with limited details available in the fragmentary notice.
Champlain of Kansas City Missouri proprietor of the Agricultural Journal was mistaken for a spy at Guernsey Monday and arrested but released shortly after. He had visited Fort George carrying a camera.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was renominated by the Republican caucus on Monday without opposition from the caucus. The record notes the presence of a substantial Republican membership turnout and the rallying support within the party.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt enters the Massachusetts senatorial contest via telegram to Speaker Walker. He backs Senator Lodge and accuses Congressman Butler Amos of a deliberate falsehood in response to an Ames statement opposing Lodge’s re election. The telegram from Oyster Bay sparked the dispute.
Five men are dead and eight others seriously hurt in a wreck at Batavia New York when the Western Express westbound from New York to Chicago struck the rear of the Boston and Buffalo Express. The collision crushed the last car of the rear train sleeper and the engine of No 23 was wrecked. Four bodies were recovered beneath the wreckage with mutilation hindering early identification.
The Cherry relief fund report shows total $54 594 562 paid to widows and children of miners killed in the November 13 1909 Cherry mine disaster. Six widows remarried, 102 residents remain in Cherry, six children died, 11 beneficiaries went to Europe, $224 593 53 remains to be paid.
Busy days at the University of Mnoia as the Corn Growers and Stockmen convention and the School for Housekeepers open. Monday features farm mechanics work, corn and stock judging, milk testing, soil study, and lectures on silos and ensilage.
A boy was killed and four others injured when a bobsled coasting downhill struck a moving automobile at a street crossing in Kansas City Missouri on Saturday. The crash left two persons fatally hurt and emergency responders rushed the injured to area hospitals amid investigations by local authorities.
Fire of unknown origin Sunday destroyed the twenty two stall roundhouse of the railroad and twelve engines inside. Marshalltown, Iowa suffers loss as flames gutted the structure, the exact value of damage not yet determined.
Rear Admiral Bo ward B. Barry requested immediate retirement after only months as fleet commander amid rumors of scandal. President Taft approved the application. Barry moved to the retired list. A conference on the West Virginia reportedly discussed a loaded revolver sent to the admiral’s cabin, but no action was taken.
In Wheeling West Virginia detective nurse Elinor Kline testified about Mrs Laura Farnsworth Schenk offering $1000 to poison her millionaire husband John O Schenk. Attorney Samuel O Boyce challenged her credibility for six hours while revealing Kline is a distant Schenk relative and that she was briefly jailed with the defendant to coax confidences.
William F. Sheehan was nominated Monday by the Democratic caucus of the New York legislature for United States senator to succeed Chauncey M. Depew.
Carl J. Cutting, a San Francisco dealer in oriental goods and known in club circles, was arrested on a charge of defrauding the government by under-valuation of imported品. He died by his own action Monday after the arrest.
Sunday School lesson outlines Omri as Israel’s sixth king and founder of Samaria, notes his strategic capital choice and ensuing decline. Describes Ahab as ambitious yet morally lax, Jezebel’s domineering influence, and warns against false friendships that lead to ruin and idolatry.
A compact fragment discusses moving forward despite past mistakes. It contrasts memory with action and urges attention to the future, not regret. The tone evokes reflective guidance and forward momentum for readers.
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