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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
3
A fragmentary column blends playful social quips, tangential jokes, and fleeting opinions. It touches on college life, international news, and odd anecdotes, mentioning Abdul Hamid, Greek letters, and the British royal family’s tastes, with light satire on manners and current events.
A fragmented report discusses head-hunters yielding to civilization along with wave warriors to be watched for possible crime. It mentions North Judien and higher grades among natives, implying tension in the Oriental archipelago.
Cotton farming in Memphis Tenn and across Arkansas Tennessee Mississippi and Alabama faces drought. Reports say scattered showers occurred Friday and Saturday but most areas still lack sufficient rain. The crop is in fruiting stage with uneven stands and drought stress. General rains would improve prospects as heaviest growth occurs in central and northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. Weevils rising in Louisiana while overall plant remains stocky and healthy in many districts.
Mrs Tony Panella a Canton East End grower's wife shot her husband as he embraced a clerk, then turned on a Mrs Pizzana, and with a butcher knife cut her to pieces. She fled to a barber shop, phoned police, and said she was not sorry for the crime.
State Entomologist E L Worsham cites reports from across Georgia showing black root disease threatening the cotton crop and causing more than a million dollars in losses this year. He advocates for a $10,000 appropriation in Rep Henderson of Irwin county’s bill to address the pest. Black root kills entire stalks, unlike boll weevil which only harms a portion of bolls.
Twenty-one wet counties in South Carolina face local option elections on August 17 to decide liquor retention. Statewide prohibition now includes all Southeastern states, with the drought to be temporary unless these voters opt for perpetual dryness. The legislature views the contest as a balance of pro prohibition and dispensary supporters in a half and half state.
Catholic Total Abstinence Union plans an evening parade of 15 000 participants in Chicago followed by a temperance meeting at the Auditorium Theater. Thousands of women expected. Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Father Mathew to provide 3000 members.
Severo earthquakes hit from Atlantic to Pacific in central Mexico causing at least fourteen deaths with ongoing reports of destruction in Acapulco and Chilpancingo. Peasants feared prophecy of disaster as Popocatepetl snow melt spread alarm among crowds in Mexico City and Guerrero towns.
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright built a plane with Lieut. Benj. D. Foulois of the Signal Corps. They surpassed contract speed, covering ten miles from Fort Mawr to Shuler Hill in 24 minutes 42 seconds. The flight reached about 500 feet high with an average altitude near 200 feet.
An amendment to the near beer tax was introduced by Representative Alexander, a prohibitionist leader, doubling the tax on manufacturers and distributors. The bill, which would raise annual taxes from $500 to $1,000 for manufacturers and from $200 to $500 for retailers, payable quarterly, passed the house.
Treasury report shows gold coin 854,687,700 dollars silver dollars 487,097,000 silver certificates outstanding 487,687,000 standard dollars 4,908,978 current asserts in transit 040,001? bank credits 33,241,4135 in banks to credit of treasurer 1,814,101 curbsidiary silver enn 20,542,475 minor sums 952,400,422 total balance in general fund 107,007,187
In Opelousas Louisiana near Grand Prairie two Black detainees, unnamed, were seized from deputy sheriffs and killed by a mob. Thorn wounded a white farmer Thomas Fontenot two months earlier. officers later found the two prisoners in the House of Antoine. The mob shot the Black men, ending their capture.
Atlanta Georgia the state senate voted 23 to 18 to remove SG McLendon from the railroad commission chairmanship. He had been opposed by former Governor Smith on charges of leniency toward railroads and violations of campaign pledges.
Washington lawmakers discuss a Hollingsworth resolution demanding more information from the secretary of the navy about the silver service presented to the battleship Mississippi. The measure asks whether Muchwift was accepted by anyone, and if so by whom and under what authority.
Orville Wright and P. Labi of the Army Signal Corps set a new two-man aeroplane speed and time record at Fort Myer. The flight covered one hour twelve minutes forty seconds at roughly forty miles per hour, surpassing the previous year’s mark by Wilbur Wright in Lamoure France with Prof Painleve. President Taft witnessed and congratulated the Wright brothers on their achievement.
John H Wisdom who riding sixty seven miles from Gadsden to Rome Ga saved the city from a Federal raid led by Gen Straight died Thursday at 78. He became famous in 1865 for an overnight ride that helped Confederate forces capture Gen Abel D Straight and secure Rome’s stores. Wisdom was a former Confederate mail carrier who used a fast horse and seven horns to reach Rome hours before Straight's approach, allowing the city to prepare and witnesses say he saved Rome from destruction.
U S Senator William J Stone of Missouri was arrested in Baltimore after slapping Lawrence J Brown a colored waiter on a Pullman car near Wilmington Del The incident followed a delay in serving food and a quarrel that led to the slap The conductor intervened and Stone was turned over to a special officer upon arrival in Baltimore Four Die in Chicago Wind and heat caused deaths and injuries in Chicago with several people prostrated Meridan Milk Pistols Destroyed court house yard Buckley judge ordered twenty two pistols destroyed by hammer under sheriff Moore.
The 172 mile run from Denver to Oakley proceeds with a pathfinder reaching 4120 this afternoon and contests arriving in good weather. The group travels via Colorado Springs then west across the plains heading to Oakley for an early morning run tomorrow at seven.
An advertisement promotes Capudine as a quick relief for headaches. Claims target headaches from colds heat or stomach nerves with immediate effects. Directions note Capudine is pleasant to take and available at drug stores.
The article notes England’s Cornwall Devonshire and Lancashire villages recognizing Mothers Day for generations on mid Lent Sunday. It contrasts American belated discovery with a provincial sense of tradition.
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