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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1908
Page
8
The Denver rector Markham Allerdyce Brown, en route to Chicago, loses Helen Mosby’s address and a calm wedding timetable. After telegraphs, hotel trials, and a visit to the police, a sensational Ubiquitous Press notice crowns his misadventure, delaying the wedding as reporters chase the groom.
Century Magazine highlights the move to relocate Washington railway traffic from Pennsylvania Avenue to a marble main station on Massachusetts Avenue facing the Capitol. The new Jim station, with a 600 foot plaza, a grand classical facade, and space for troops, aims to make Washington the most beautiful capital and boost rail travel. It lauds the scheme as a modern gateway, inspiring similar terminals in New York, Cleveland, and Atlanta.
Rev Markham Brown recalled the uncle James Grant Evans as Helen Mosby’s guardian. Reporters trailed him as he hurried to 611 Porter Avenue in wedding attire. Evans, a hardware merchant, offered calm and curious restraint amid the unfolding misadventures.
Construction started in 1904 and has cost 2,600,000. The site sits on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between Thirteen and One Half and Fourteenth streets, roughly at the city’s center.
A Washington Star item mocks senators and barbers for a fanciful plot to harvest hair clippings for a mattress. It recalls Bald Senator Spooner and jokes about fame, fashion, and pricey Panama hats, blending satire with light political jabs about old time Congress.
An English visitor describes inspecting Greenough's statue at Washington and misreading it as a symbol of a president's death by his own hand. He recalls a fellow spectator suggesting remorse as a possible meaning and notes the Senate and House galleries presenting routine business and long speeches with a colloquial tone compared to British parliament.
Government employees total 186, as per the data. Of the workforce 156,021 or 83.9 percent are native whites, 18,525 or 10 percent foreign born whites, and 11,328 or 61 percent colored. Within the colored group 8,852 are negroes, 1,725 Indians, 1,047 Filipinos, 143 Chinese, and 62 Japan as In the District of Sages Toe employes are ie That.
Robert Stafford, a J. C. Blane ranch teamster near Kerman Fresno, fought off agitated bees to free a trapped wagon team. A runaway span panicked through a beehive field stinging him severely and leaving his face and body swollen and nearly unrecognizable. Doctors treat hundreds of stings as Stafford recalls the struggle to save his horses.
In mid December Nigakuse, a musker, faced a polar bear when his rifle clogged and failed. He dodged, used a knife, and was saved when another native shot the bear. Nigakuse survived after crude surgery and later feasted on the bear’s flesh.
The York club paid 20000 for two players, exceeding previous records. Mordecai Brown is mentioned alongside Rube Marquard, noted for height and pitching ability. The report cites critics praising Marquard as among the best pitchers seen.
In Wilmington at St. Pauls Catholic Church a rabid looking big shepherd dog caused alarm during the six oclock mass. Sexton Bartlett Crogan chased and caught the animal in the gallery and organ loft. He choked it and threw it from a window, killing it when it fell breaking its neck. The dog is believed to have rabies.
George Barlow of Trenton New Jersey proprietor of a city hotel, fell asleep aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad train after leaving Broad Street station. Believing he had reached Trenton he stepped from the car onto a stone platform, receiving painful but serious injuries as the train sped on. Passersby at laterton station heard his cries for help and found him injured.
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