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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1908
Page
6
A chaotic blend of editorials and items notes a wine shortage looming in Grand Rapids with rising prices and frantic consumer demand. The piece mentions industry rumors, patent disputes, and speculative bets on market moves, alongside unrelated civic and cultural notes.
Mrs. Derit McDonald widow of Michael McDonald was found not guilty of murder in the case linked to artist Guerin’s death. The courtroom filled with relatives as Judge Trestano read the verdict to a tense crowd before clearing the room.
The court appointed Deleville as receiver for Cahokin village after granting the Federal Union Security company of Indiana a restraining order against George Lepeleb and the supervisor of Cahokin. The ruling, amid turmoil, turns over duties to a successor and signals a historic step for this town. It also notes a related murder-suicide in Carsonville and other regional incidents.
Ohio Republicans reported a landslide Taft victory in Tuesday primaries with 22 national delegates and one slate to the state convention to be selected March 2. Knox and Cuyahoga counties backed Taft, while a Foraker-aligned independent emerged briefly in Knox before Taft supporters prevailed. Arthur J. Vorys announced every county chosen Taft delegates, promising an amicable state convention and unanimous Taft support at the national gathering.
Frank J. Gould, president of Ute Union Mallcable for Works and Western DHnors Noentral for the Insane, committed suicide in his Watertown bedroom. Financial troubles and ill advised investments, including the Illoals Stean Frod urta Company, are cited. No suspicion of peculation. mind believed temporarily affected. Gould was about 66 years old, son-in-law Josue Hole noted, with a reported fortune and connections to Judge John M. gui.
In Belleville Clyde Gant faces a murder case after his wife’s witness Cara Simpson stated she and Gant were never married. Separately House committee rejected the President’s plan for four battleships, authorizing two Delaware-type ships instead at $9.6 million each.
Map details a route from Esatcape near the Bering Strait along Arctic shores to Verchojansk and Vakutek on the Lena, then Irkutsk, the Siberian railroad, Moscow, and finally Paris. Includes numerous geographic landmarks and travel distances in a historic auto race plan.
A sensational Clinton trial reveals alleged money-for-gold trade by Mrs Hamilton, wife of Ray E. Hamilton, with a 15 year old daughter. Letters claimed to be written by Mrs Hamilton were admitted as evidence, detailing payments for houses and favors. Rev. Hamilton’s knowledge of the letters remains contested as witnesses describe a sordid motive for wealth. In a separate Kentucky scene, Judge James Hargis’s funeral occurred amid family turmoil. A Minneapolis coachman, Christopher Fagen, killed himself after a dream accusation of crime. Lisbon reports a cabinet stance on King Carlos era decrees. Geiger, longtime arbiration official Chauncey B., dies in Ashley. Oregon Short Line mystery widens with new developments in Butte.
A large crowd greeted more than 200 cars as they departed Times Square, moving along Broadway toward Albany for the New York to Paris rally. Officials delayed Mayor McClelan. Colgate Hoyt started the event amid crowd cheers and band music, with traffic snarled across the city.
Murphysboro reports W B Smith and James Nall of Kentucky sentenced to up to five years in the penitentiary for conspiring to defraud the Bikville State Bank of 5258. Nall, president of the Mississippi Valley Banking Co of Grand Tower, and Smith formerly led banks in Louisville. A $2,000 fine added to Smith’s sentence.
Claimant Mrs. Long of Augusta Street Staunton Virginia testifies in 1893 that Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved her kidney pain urinary troubles and that by 1907 she had not suffered kidney trouble since. The ad cites Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as distributor and includes a 50 cent price. The rest of the fragment includes a story about a bird and a cemetery inscription, lacking clear news value.
An ad extols a cereal product claiming it uses wheat and barley to form a digestible brain and nerve food. It highlights phosphate of potash as the key nutrient, basing cures on supplying this deficiency in nerve fluid and promoting mental balance. It urges readers to trust Old Mother Nature and GrepeNuta.
A female writer and mother touts Grape-Nuts as ideal for brain activity and growing healthy children. She describes morning appetite improvement after starting the cereal, noting better nourishment during nursing and steadier energy for writing.
A garbled clipping blends a dubious philosopher quotation about wife sleep with notes on starch in laundry, praising Defiance Starch for strength and thin application. It also cites a street interview vignette from the New York Sun about cigarette prices, plus a plan for a forest graveyard in Munich and a stray courtroom exchange.
A collage of quoted vignettes and fragments covers courtships in colonial slang, rural manners, and household tips. It parodies social pretensions with brisk humor, referencing marriage costs, rubber from corn, walking veterans, starch improvements, and moral musings from a miscellany of columns and adverts.
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