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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
2
Miscellaneous excerpts reflect wartime era attitudes and curiosities. Topics range from sugar consumption and troop counts to volcanos, panama canal delays, and reformist views on women, law, and technology. Several passages critique governance, journalism, and social norms while noting electric trains and scientific hopes amid a noisy collage of opinions.
New York Central Chairman E. M. Harriman envisions a massive merger forming a single central management for over 12,000 miles of line and a capitalization nearing one billion dollars. A team of top corporate lawyers in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Buffalo are studying the legal path to consolidate the system under one treasury and leadership to dominate transportation.
Evergreen Alabama reporters recount Bishop Warren Candler addressing the Alabama Methodist Conference. He denounces John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie for attempting to dominate U S educational interests with gifts totaling about 68 million dollars. He warns Northern teachers to desist from influencing Southern education and rejects their money and ideas.
In Frankfort an effigy labeled Gus Willson, murderer of Justice, hung from a bridge over the Kentucky River after pardons were announced for Goebel conspiracy figures. The banner named Taylor, Finlay and others as murderers of Goebel and denounced mob law and the pardoning action.
Henry Youtsey remains the sole person convicted in the Goebel murder case as Governor Willson pardons or clears charges against several figures. Minnie Crosby, widow of the gunman, recounts the fatal swamp attack on KT McShann and details a plotted decoy to lure him to the bridge. Crosby describes threats, marriage entanglements, and her role under duress in the crime near Louisville.
President Whitfiell announces the institute and college commencement speakers Dr. C. D. Gray of Atlanta and Dr. J. J. Agwell of Toursigua, with busy civic and educational events across the region. Major public notices include a lottery law reading, war department honors at Vicksburg, and local agricultural and building developments.
The Waters-Pierce Oil Company litigation concluded with a state payment of 1,808,483.30 to the Texas authorities. Prosecuto r Brady and Attorney General Davidson oversaw the transfer as bank officials accompanied the funds in a fleet of cars. The money was split between banks and rushed to the state house, eight blocks away on Congress Avenue.
Detective Prindiville of the Chicago and Great Western railroad killed a robber in a pistol duel on a moving freight train car Forest Home 11 Friday. Four robbers attacked from the same car stacking lash and blinding him but bullets missed. The detective fired from an adjoining car as the train sped, and the fight forced combatants to balance to avoid being pitched from the train.
Ogden Armour has taken the lead in the wheat market after Patten left, with James A. Patten away fishing near Vermejo Park New Mexico. The report predicts further price declines and hints Patten may join the selling camp to dump May contracts.
Ex-President Roosevelt and his party hunted at Kapiti Plains in British East Africa. He bagged two wild heaats and a Thompson's gazelle, but missed a Grant's gazelle he hoped to see. Weather was fine and camp broke after the day’s sport.
Fire broke out in the Battery Park hotel laundry room at four on Sunday morning in Asheville North Carolina. The blaze knocked out electricity and caused confusion as patrons fled the building. Drunks were seen tossed from windows while some yachts carried down stairs in the panic. Fire was soon extinguished with limited damage.
In Tallahassee Florida the House adopted the McMullen joint resolution to submit a constitutional amendment in 1910 allowing voters to decide the prohibition of manufacturing selling exchange and barter of all intoxicating liquors. Prohibitionists made a strong yet vain fight as the legislative session progressed. Senate vote stood 24 to 7 and the House 53 to 16 in favor.
A granite memorial to Gen Nathan Bossford Farrevt was unveiled by the Forrest Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Rome Georgia. The ceremony honored the Confederate cavalryman, noting his role in protecting the city from destruction and recognizing the attendance of former congressman Jon Maddux who delivered the oration.
A federal jury in the libel case of Samuel Dempster of Pittsburg against Col. Wm. D. Mann returned a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding 840,000. Judge Howe denied a motion to set aside the verdict and said he would decide if the verdict was exgeniive.
Mes Lillien M Stevens national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union says Omaha Nebraska will be the next ground for a general campaign for prohibition. Officials of the state and local unions are enforcing plans with the national body. Crowba is named as convention head for the year, focusing on securing a prohibition amendment here.
Fragmentary ad text claims a man named Mr. Winney was cured after taking Don's Kidney Pills. It cites weight change from 142 to 162 pounds and asserts complete cure. Mentions Foster-Auburn Co. and a 50 cent price.
In a brief exchange, Mrs Highly asks if she truly has two servants. Mrs Muller confirms the situation, saying one is arriving while the other is leaving.
A humorous rural scene unfolds at a general store where locals discuss St Per Iking as Uncle Bill Abbott is ambled. They test his view with questions about calling St Perkins a tar, and Uncle Bill ponders aloud that he cannot label him but notes his feeding time tactic of using others to call the hogs.
Inside History presents a comic exchange where Maria fumbles words and John retorts with wit about listening. The piece leans into banter and social dynamics of a marriage. Mitchell's eye salve is advertised as a harmless, surface eye treatment selling for 25 cents, affordable and widely accessible.
A quirky collection of overheard snippets and quips lampoons social pretensions. It weaves brief exchanges about smoking at home, seeking fame, and a seaside promise while promoting Capudine as a cold remedy amid hazy wordplay.
Testimonies describe women suffering from inflammation and congestion finding relief with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Reports claim doctors urged surgery or warned of tumors, but patients improved, avoiding operations and returning to health.
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