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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
2
A miscellany of quirky social observations and forthcoming projects. The item surveys aging public figures and events, notes Oscar Hammerstein health and finances, mentions a Boston matrimony school, and highlights the Grand Central Station expansion with its vast planned scope and sixty two tracks.
The piece questions urban elites urging rural people to farm while living off city riches. It recalls Armour, Rockefeller, McCormick, and Pullman as farming-born yet distant from daily plow work. It mocks politicians who lecturing on agriculture without practical knowledge and clerks who claim farming expertise beyond their experience.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer cites a debate on the terms fan and rooter in a baseball game. A “fan” is seen as regular and passive, while “rooter” is an enthusiastic, time-limited attendee whose energy adds gaiety to the occasion.
A quotation style piece notes that many men earn well yet live poorly while others build fine lives with modest means. It references Success Magazine and its plans to establish wireless stations as part of broader progress.
Farner living near Holstein, 40 year old Piedler, was killed Saturday afternoon by a buzz saw while cutting wood on a farm. He had placed a heavy plank and it did not align with the blade, causing the plank to throw and strike him as the saw operated.
Waterloo launches a one of a kind amusement venture the Fat Men's Bell Team and Amusement company. Manager Frank C. Knee weighs 450 pounds and umpire Oliver Kimball from Chicago stands 48 inches tall. Baby Bliss of Bloomington will catch while the 640 pound Giant leads the lineup alongside Bart Holm 250 pounds Wolfgang Schmidt 425 pounds E J Sheehan 190 pounds M V Hinds 400 pounds Charles P Van Luren 375 pounds Pinkey Howrey 325 pounds J A Brownell 370 pounds The total weight reaches 3735 pounds The tour begins June 9 and the team promises surprising agility in base stealing and sliding to showcase skillful play.
Miners refuse accepted terms and plan a broad shutdown of pumps and fans. Operators and United States industry leaders stand firm, with Illinois Manufacturers' Association backing a hard line despite fuel cost surges and equipment damage risk. Federal intervention may be sought, echoing 1902 actions.
Mrs. Frank B. Sherwood died after being struck by Illinois Central train No. 5 at the crossing of the Illinois Central Milwaukee and Northwestern at Arion. She wed last Wednesday at Sioux City to F. B. Sherwood of Cottonwood, Iowa.
The railroad commission on Saturday required Colfax and Northern to upgrade cars for miners commuting to Yaleria. Citing dangerous conditions and unsafe cars, the commission noted improvements to the road bed and now demands shorter trips, better earnings, and maintained sanitary conditions.
Lou Harrizon, son of W. F. Harrison of Nashua, is 14 years old and has attended school consistently for one and a half years. During this time he has never been tardy or absent and maintains good health and steady study progress.
Cowboy Brand stepfather of Harry Brand, recently acquitted of murdering his father on an Indiatopia farm, was jailed in Des Moines on charges of attempting to murder his wife. The case follows a public dispute tied to the Garraher murder case and a February incident at the Carraher farm inn near Virginia.
Veterans memorial flags were stolen from graves at a local cemetery late Friday. A man named Samenne reportedly damaged several graves and moved among the Une civil war resting sites, taking the flags that marked each grave.
Founding for the annual picnic of the Woodmen Picnics association of north Iowa totals over 1 000 as a committee in Allison City tamwed Saturday. The picnic occurs on June 2 with about 2 000 people expected and special trains will run on eight rounds.
Des Moines Saturday afternoon a guest named Harlezs narrowly escaped death by asphyxiation in the Grand hotel. Hotel attendants smelled gas, broke in his door and saved his life, amid an Altoona map gag incident involving J. J. larless of Alfonns.
The vice president is expected to attend the Jawa Bankers association convention in June 76. He plans to be in Iawa City the day before for a university function and will address the bankers there.
Reports say Italian laborers engaged with locals in a dispute at Danisen and Arion. A citizen was assaulted amid alleged petty thefts, but police could not identify the assailant among the Italians. Talks consider removal from the area.
Two prisoners escaped from the Tongan jail on Sunday but vanished only briefly before being recaptured by Kherkt Trick and returned to the jail. The incident caused a notable disruption before authorities restored custody.
The town railroad commissioners granted the petition of the Sioux City Live Stock Exchange and Stock Yards Company restoring the minimum stock shipment rate to 31-foot cars. They claim the former rule harmed small shippers who rarely had stock in a single shipment for larger cars. The ruling takes effect immediately.
Committees from Laverne Mint Rack Rapids Doon and Hawarden met a Rock Villew committer Thursday to press a plan for extending the railroad from fiean to Tias warden. The outlook was optimistic that the extension will be achieved by fern Tang.
Mrs Dora Elizabeth Doxey was found not guilty by a jury after a Camden jury deliberation. Co-defendant Dr Loren B Doxey was to face trial within two weeks. Doxey, born near Aledo Michigan, faced murder charges in the case of Elder and was rearrested on Blooming charges late the same night. Kate Erder, sister of the dead man, helped arrange the arrest in Columbus Nebraska.
J J Mahood received a 15 year sentence by Judge Clavie in Emmetsburg district court after pleading guilty to forgery on multiple counts.
Dispatches from Mozambique report a terrific cyclone sweeping East Africa and adjacent ocean. More than 500 persons drowned and several ships lost, including a vessel carrying 409 miners bound for the Rand mines. The storm caused extensive land damage as well.
The Fort Trodae Tiesines and Southern Railroad Company operating an electric interurban between Des Avednes Apres and Beart Dodge is forced into bankruptcy with liabilities exceeding 5 000 000 dollars.
A farmer near Mau Tien spotted a blaze threatening the Tridge just north of the town. Prompt action by the farmer and the work train crew prevented the fire from causing major damage to the structure.
Prof. Reuben McKittries of Michigan Wisconsin will succeed the late Prof. J W Parrish as professor of economics at the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls.
The Fifty fourth regiment BN 62 encampment is set again in Laws City this year. Adjt Gen Lepan Tarlington has been pressing for the encampment prize with strong bids.
James Hardley his wife and son were found murdered at their farm home sixteen miles southwest of Marshalltown on Monday morning in a grim, undeclared case.
A meeting of younger local residents established plans for the coming week in Aveast Were. The permanent organization of the association was effected with J. Jolly James, president.
State senator and father of the town educational board William P. L. Whipple died Monday afternoon at his home in Vintan. He served in public life and influenced local education policy.
Five residents were detained after dynamiting incidents near Mason City. The four men named Pignartite were fined $50 and received probation. Police say the case involved damage to local property and ongoing investigations.
The State Bank of Unity Wisconsin was dynamited and robbed of 2006 dollars. Two men, suspected to be the culprits, had lingered near the bank for days before escaping. The bank, founded in 1866, had a 10000 dollar capitalization.
In Bridgeport Connecticut a one year old boy named Warry Silvikas found an ounce bottle of carbolic acid and, while his mother was away, forced the liquid down his infant brother’s throat. The baby died within an hour.
Massachusetts Senate defeats the income tax bill that would have imposed a general state levy on incomes exceeding 492000. The measure failed by a tie vote, stopping the proposed tax initiative.
The fragment lists varied events from 1621 christening to 1900s milestones including wars declared in Boston against the Dutch, colonial union formations, witchcraft imprisonments, British evacuation actions, early U.S. cotton mutinies, municipal openings, capitol cornerstones, railroad launches, canal sods, blockades, battles, burials, territorial appointments, storms, legal indictments, and expositions. It weaves dates with places like Boston, Philadelphia, Beverly, Quebec, New York, Toronto, Richmond, and Seattle, naming figures and institutions such as Sir Henry Clinton, Winfield Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Yukon.
The International Paper Company mills at Palmer Falls resumed operations after ten weeks of idle time. Workers returned under a contract allowing Sunday work, about a 3 percent wage increase, and an eight hour day in most machine rooms.
At the Lake Avhenk Conference closing session Secretary Krox and State Department solicitor James Brown Seat signaled a likely early creation of an international court of arbitrary justice. Delegates from Worcester Eastland and Rev William Thomas urged American churches to join in a world unity.
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