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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
1
A jumble of observations and anecdotes spans rail travel costs and lemon shipments, fashion, labor, and notable figures. Topics include Rockefeller advice on saving, a jail sentence for husband beating, King Edward carrying chairs to Biarritz, and theories on modern ailments from sitting.
The text discusses parental guidance methods for raising a child and hints at the saying Spare the rod and spoil the child. It contrasts Western and Mohammedan attitudes toward animals, noting impiety laws in Muslim regions and the insult of calling a Muslim a dog. It also mentions The Swiss Family Robinson not being admitted at the Turkish custom house due to a dog named Turk.
The passage explains that to dun means to pressure a debtor and links the verb to John Dun, a Lincoln bailiff in Henry VII era. It notes the creditor would say Dun after the slow payer, making the phrase proverbially associated with pursuit for payment.
Russian forces of about 400 Cossacks a sharpshooter squadron and machine guns attacked Kurdish raiders near Belesuvar in Persia on April 13. The battle left 34 raiders killed and 60 wounded, with one Russian officer and seven soldiers wounded. Villages Belosuvar Kodzhabeklu and Zarlah were destroyed by cannon fire and house to house searches.
Washington. The house committee on banking and currency voted unanimously to table the Aldrich financial bill. A hearing will be held for Rep Vreeland of New York who proposed a substitute measure. The brief discussion centered on whether to issue a formal report. it was decided not to provide reasons, and the report will merely state the committee action.
New York State Senator Patrick H. McCarren, Kings County Democratic leader, was unseated as a delegate to the state convention at Carnegie Hall. The convention then chose delegates at large and adopted a platform urging an unhampered delegation to the Denver national convention.
Helena Mont in the Hauser Lake flood a 70 foot dam breach devastates Craig wiping the town from the map cattle drowned ranches damaged and millions in losses. Dam rebuilt at under 260000 with third Wolf Creek dam planned. Great Falls river areas spared though Wolf Creek track flooded for 20 days.
Boston reports intimate friends of Assistant Secretary of State Bacon have learned he is likely to become Secretary Taft’s successor. Taft is said to plan retirement, a determination described as definite and not tied to the national convention outcome.
Fort Worth reports Clear Fork and West Fork raging with water at twenty year highs. One man drowned in Clear Fork as residents failed to reach him. Many evacuations from lowlands and numerous near drownings. Levees breaking on the Lower Arkansas river. convicts helped seal a break above the state farm, with levees opposite the farm to be cut to save them.
Three Baltimore society women Misses Mary Bayly Fanny Bayly and Mildred Dulany helped carry water on a sloped roof to battle a chimney fire at Miss Marie B Rogers residence near Rogers Station. Fire teams arrived and they extinguished the blaze after significant rear damage while the guests Mina Dulany and others watched.
Two gunmen robbed Citizens' Bank in Chautauqua 25 miles west of Coffeyville, seizing about $3,000 then fled toward the Osage Hills in Oklahoma. Pursuit commenced. one robber identified as William Tenant, 23, a former Chautauqua resident and recent escapee from Nowata jail, with Tenant having previously borrowed a sum from the bank.
Minneapolis Minnesota The Minnesota Republican state convention on Thursday elected four delegates and instructed them to support Secretary of War Taft for the national nomination until he is selected by the convention The convention action directs Minnesota’s 22 national convention votes to Taft while all 18 district delegates are Taft‑instructed.
Panic avoided as theater patrons exited quickly after smoke from a gasoline lighting plant explosion in an adjoining building. Firefighters battled flames and contained the blaze with no reported injuries. The incident disrupted a Friday night performance at the Bijou vaudeville theater in Saginaw Michigan.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota, head of Indian affairs, was named Heap Big Indian by Chief Plenty Coos and Crow tribe members in a surprise ceremony. The chief presented a war bonnet, symbol of rank, saying he becomes a man of peace and suggesting the bonnet could honor the senator in Congress and the Senate. Plenty Coos and band head toward their Montana reservation after the event.
San Diego hosted two days of pageantry for American naval officers led by Rear Admiral Thomas. About 2,000 sailors visited 16 vessels at anchorage off Coronado, enjoying boat races, a baseball game, free lemonade, fruit, horseback rides, trolley excursions, and night fireworks. Exhibits and launches ferried visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to see the fleets and enjoy a seaside parade.
Lincoln Nebraska based grain dealer R E Godwyn secretary of Beaver Valley Grain Co Danbury claims members of the association seek to deprive him of business by paying several cents more for grain at Danbury than market prices and higher than they pay at elevators in other places where they have no competition.
A stampede incident involving elephants in a care setting resulted in a fatality and serious injuries. Authorities report a person died and others were hurt during the uncontrolled animals event. Further details are pending police and veterinary investigations.
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