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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
2
A jumble of notes recounts pirate lore from Oak Island to Gardiners Island, home gardening in Kansas City, seafaring yarns from the Aureole storm to flying feats in France and Ireland, and a Chicago barber’s planned retirement to study philosophy, ending with a bacon larceny arrest.
Washington reports the fourth wife of a tobacco magnate, Mrs. Brodier Twice, arriving after a Camden flight to study dressmaking. She says money mattered little in choosing to marry, praising her groom’s charm while noting his health and need for care. The couple spent a quiet day at the Abbott house amid photographers.
Leslie M. Shaw former secretary of the treasury addressed Hawke Fellow club members denouncing insurgents in the Republican party and criticizing the South as ignorant on political questions. A Southern-born reporter interrupted shouting, prompting Shaw to defend his remarks and praise the South as a place to speak.
In Lake Charles, James Perkins, a wealthy planter, was found burned and unconscious in a pine thicket by searchers. He revived briefly at home, refused to name his attackers, and begged for vengeance before dying, naming Meath barked hh as a clue.
Davie Ranken Jr. donates his fortune of over 4 million dollars to the David Ranken Jr. School of Mechanical Trades and assigns 8000 dollars annual personal support to revert to the school after his death. The founder’s gift aims to enlarge the school and improve its curriculum. Ranken, a private recluse, keeps odd hours and avoids public view, working from a tiny three-room office above a grocery. His schedule unknown but begins early morning.
Beginning September 08 wholesale prices climbed monthly with no break until March 110, and in that month prices reached their highest level in twenty years according to a report released by the Bureau of Labor.
Washington reports over a million dollars paid into the treasury on account of the corporation tax with June receipts at 843,024 and 27 million in assessments levied against the corporation. The tax is due by June 30 and most payments will arrive at the last moment before parity.
Memorial dedication at Sandusky O marks the burial site of about 200 Confederate officers and soldiers. Representatives from Southern states attend as the United Daughters of the Confederacy unveil the statue facing Sandusky Bay, with Gen George W Gordon giving the dedicatory address. The monument was funded by the Chaplin chapter and honors veterans of the Civil War.
Neike and Gorbracht were found guilty in federal court of conspiring to defraud the government of sugar duties. Heike faces up to two years and a $10,000 fine after blanket conspiracy verdict. Gorbracht faces up to twelve years and a $40,000 fine on all six counts.
In Washington a federal grand jury returned an indictment against the Western Union Telegraph Company charging forty two violations of the bucketshop law of March first 1909. The claim asserts the company by tele graph wire and a ticket aided and abetted a bucketshop in the District of Columbia. The forty two counts differ only in the dates of the alleged violations.
Witnesses testified that the Alsop bleaching process used in a mill destroyed rubber hoses and iron pipes, as gas from the bleach ate through components. Ramuel T. Ballard of Louisville said he used the Alsop process from 1904 to 1909, noting damage to pipes. Archie Comptork of Ellaworth, Kansas, stated a rubber hose used to feed gas was rotted.
Fulton county grand jury returned forty five indictments against loan sharks amid a campaign by newspapers and local reformers. Attorneys involved describe a town plagued by usury and harsh intimidation.
North Carolina Governor R. S. Glenn delivered a severe arraignment of Southern states for failing to educate Black citizens. He cited seven Southern states where Negroes, 40 percent of the population, receive only 12 percent of school funds.
Theodore Roosevelt received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford where he warned that dangers come from within a nation as much as from external foes. He urged vigilance against internal divisions, stressing duty, moral obligation, and public discipline as essential to democracy. He warned of declining birth rates and the risk of civilization stagnation if internal decay continues.
The president denied Seattle citizens’ demand to remove the Twenty-fifth Infantry after a soldier was accused of assaulting a white woman. The secretary of war ordered a prompt, complete investigation and confinement of offenders with witnesses kept under command, and directed the Fort Leighton command to stay on the reservation pending inquiry. An immediate report was ordered.
President Carl J. Poster opened the fiftieth convention of the United States Brewers Association. A stateside condition resume says prohibition does little, beer sales up 90 million gallons and spirits up 11 million, signaling reform efforts amid temperance debate.
In an hour long conference ten banks representing capital and surplus of 22,700,000 agreed to consolidate the Continental National Bank, the Commercial National, and the American Trust and Savings. The merger, led by George M. Reynolds, creates a unified bank with 184,442,246 dollars in deposits and places it as the largest bank in Chicago with a proposed president to lead the new institution.
Washington says a telegram from Ambassador Selahman in Rome reports an estimated two to fifty thousand dead in the quake hit district with many injured. Ambassador Letuhman states no American casualties and the event caused widespread alarm among residents.
Girls troubled with menstrual irregularities backache or other symptoms should seek immediate action to ward off serious consequences. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is claimed to restore health with thousands reported helped. Free advice available by writing to Lydia E. Pinkham Mescaline? at Lynn, Massachusetts.
The fragmentary exchange touches on evading tax duties and a remark about divorcing if not for the children. It hints at family strain and financial concerns but lacks clear context or names. The content suggests domestic tension and a joke about tax avoidance within a troubled marriage.
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