Monument Shop Ad in City View Cemetery
Salem Oregon ad urges visitors to inspect stock at City View Cemetery shop offering monuments headstones and all cemetery work.
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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
3
Salem Oregon ad urges visitors to inspect stock at City View Cemetery shop offering monuments headstones and all cemetery work.
The report states Germany’s response to an arbitration proposal is favorable. Other noted items include English troops firing on strikers in Liverpool and a general transport workers strike call. Also mentioned are a fatal accident in Alaska, labor activity in Oregon, and various political and social notes.
The list details 1911 era market values for grains, feeds, fruits, vegetables, poultry, dairy, hops, and live stock. Notable items include corn at 33-34 dollars, wheat around 77 cents for new crop, hay prices from 8.50 to 16, canning produce with cantaloupes at 1.25, and beef, hogs, and lambs with varied per pound or per hundredweight figures.
Two aviators William R. Badger of Pittsburg and St. Croix Johnstone of Chicago died in crashes during an international aviation meet in Chicago. Badger plunged 100 feet after a wing flaw in the Bald win machine, while Johnstone fell 600 feet and drowned in Lake Michigan after his engine failed.
Germany expressed willingness to join a U S arbitration pact after accepting the general arbitration principles in Secretary Knox draft. Ambassador Von Bernstorff conveyed Berlin's stance and will consult the German government, sailing for home and returning in October.
Rioters attack prison vans escorted by 50 soldiers in Vauxhall street. A trooper opened fire after missiles were thrown, killing one rioter and wounding others. Troops charged with sabers, clearing the street amid further clashes in Bond street with few injuries.
Representatives of companies under investigation were questioned by a special committee chosen by the national convention of insurance commissioners. The panel's report is due Thursday or Friday, with a possible reading at the Milwaukee convention next week.
A day’s hunt in the Wilson Creek draw near Wilson Creek Washington brought forty three rattlesnakes. Hunters Mat Ferral and Frank Lamphere from Kansas along with rancher Bruce Webley living north of Wilson Creek supplied the catch. The largest measured four feet long and several hides were six inches wide. Rattles from the reptiles filled about half a shoe box.
Four attendants at Cook County asylum in Dunning were suspended after secret investigators posing as patients reported cruelty. President Bartzen of the county board ordered the action following the inquiry into physicians, nurses, and staff.
St Louis editor Albert Solomon of the Humanitarian is jailed on a charge of beating his wife and quarreling with his brother in law. The brother in law is held on disturbing Solomon s peace.
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