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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
6
Five thousand Memphians raised a large relief fund for Italy last week. Memphis expects to entertain President-elect Taft next month on his return from Panama. Other items note Wabash county Indiana votes dry, Alabama goes dry, and various legal cases and local politics including a divorce suit against Riseel J Gardner.
Work has begun on the erection of the new 10 story Lee Hotel at Oklahoma City. This will be one of the largest and finest hotels in the Southwest.
Washington reports last year's pension expenditures set a record since 1893 at 155,894,040.65. The pension roll grew to 951,687 dependents through new applicants, deaths reduced lists by 54,306, and 471 widows of 1812 remain listed. Only two Revolutionary War names remain, daughters of the sole Revolutionary widow.
In Cleveland 11,000 youths aim to live as Jesus would. 1,800 delegates from the Christian Endeavor Society and Baptist Young People's Union pledged to follow his example after Rev. W. Wallace urged a joyous, honest life. Some local clerks risk dismissal if they keep such pledges.
Prof Charles N Gould of Oklahoma State University warns a future earthquake could center beneath the central United States, affecting Oklahoma towns Tishomingo Atkola Denison Waco Texarkana Arkansas Little Rock and Hot Springs. He attributes recent tremors to subterranean rock sliding accelerated by tidal forces. Prediction lacks a date.
In St. Joseph Michigan about 1,000 onlookers gathered on the shore and ice of Lake Michigan as Rev August F Schmittz led ten Church of God converts through a hole in the ice. The cold wind blew while the group, ranging from a child to a 72 year old woman, was baptized in open water after a prayer. They emerged in ordinary clothes, some barefooted, as the ceremony finished.
Georgia town Milledgeville raises alcohol licensing to twenty thousand dollars after successful experiments with ten thousand dollar locker club licenses. The measure aims to keep the town dry and regulate near beer sales, announced Sunday by the town council.
President Roosevelt rebukes Minnesota's Tawney, Iowa's Smith, Kentucky's Sherley, and New York's Fitzgerald after a House debate over restricting secret service use. He asserts no proof of congressmen corruption exists and urges reversing the action. The message calls for proper law enforcement and modernizing the service as a justice bureau.
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