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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
2
A stream of dated quips touches on politics, suffrage, fashion, and travel. It notes spring freezes, Atlantic newspaper editors, satire about taxation of bachelors, a Dreadnought and peerage, and a kitchen maid inheriting a fortune. It also mentions a Russian Salvation Army, a polar mountain, and a playground of peculiar observations.
The article reports women’s club members in Chicago disputing claims that club activities harm family life. It notes The West End Women's Club and Chicago Culture Club with 360 and 150 members, respectively, and the Social Economies Club, all citing low birth rates among members. A Omaha dispatch claimed only one mother among 400 Omaha Woman's Club members, and Mrs. David B. McCully’s birth of a boy was the only club child cited.
Mamie Price of Bowdon Georgia used an ax to free her father trapped under wreckage. The storm killed her mother and left the father with a mangled arm. She applied a makeshift tourniquet, then cut the arm free and retrieved help, while aiding other victims. The Carnegie hero medal is planned for her action.
Cincinnati reports a dig at the St. Francis Church site in Dayton Ohio drawing crowds as residents chase a buried treasure tale tied to Gen. John Hunt Morgan’s Confederate raid. Supposedly hidden since Civil War days by Caldwell, a Confederate spy, the outpost’s old tunnel history sparked local folklore.
New Orleans reports a Sunday open day for the battleship Mississippi with visitors filling the ship. An automatic counter logged fifteen thousand entries as crowds toured gun decks turrets and upper areas while state rooms and below deck quarters remained closed.
Nora Perry Campbell, wife of a pastor from Stamping Ground, Ky., was arrested in St. Louis with Josie Hoxly. She says her husband’s former congregation raised funds for her support. She will rent a rooming house under her own name to support herself and declares a plan to punish him.
New York former banker Charles W. Morse, now imprisoned for violation of national bank laws, testified in supplementary proceedings that he owed creditors and faced debts far exceeding his fortune. He claimed $30 million as his estimated wealth and said he transferred property to creditors to cover debts. In New Orleans, the battleship Mississippi arrived from Guan Lanuya with a warm reception, drawing crowds along the riverfront as it tied at Jackson Avenue and proceeded upriver amid cheers and signals.
Ponsacen Harlan and three Jackson Lumber Company foremen from Lockhart Alabama were sentenced in the Atlanta federal court for conspiracy to compel peonage. Assistant superintendent Robert Tinlhyher and managers were implicated in holding foreigners as forced labor at the large Lockhart mills, with Harlan, nephew of Supreme Court Justice Harlan, connected to the case.
The U S battleship Mississippi was boarded by about a hundred Louisiana editors touring New Orleans after the Louisiana Press Association meeting in Covington. Officials plan a banquet to honor Navy crew with hospitality from local leaders and a key Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway officials expected to attend.
Weather notes report improved Texas crop prospects after ten days. Rain from Waxahachie to San Antonio and Brownsville aided growth, with late but steady harvests under way. Reports from many towns indicate fields coming along, with some fruiting and early maturing yields advancing despite delays.
Representative Murphy of Missouri plans to file articles of impeachment against Federal Judges Philips and McPherson. He announced the move after a Telegram from Frank Hager to Attorney General Wickersham called Murphy’s inquiry into the judges outrageous. Murphy repeated the charges in the House, with Me. Rucker corroborating the attack on the judges over Missouri rate legislation and maximum freight law.
A 12 year old boy, Iryan Alexander, son of Lt. Alexander, was kidnapped in San Bernardino and taken aboard a salt ship toward Mor mont Tennessee. An unknown party furnished money to start the boy home. the mother is suspected of involvement.
Lexington reports a wave of distress following the Irvine force murder sentence of Beach Margin for killing his father Judes James Hargis. The case draws attention across families in Lexington and mentions Edward Margis of the U S Navy and former Senator Alexander Hinrgik amid ongoing illness and tensions in Jackson area relatives.
The board of supervisors rejected Sheriff BE M Clarke’s claim for 25.40 tied to recapture of George re land, the river and railroad thief who escaped to Portland Oregon and was recaptured. Clarke charged 4 167 miles at 20 cents a mile. county attorney Ernest J Brown advised denial.
An old advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative and stomach regenerator. It claims cures for long standing stomach trouble and biliousness, cites testimonials from Lanham and Woll, and invites readers to request a free trial bottle with medical advice at no charge.
A jumbled column mixes office chatter about pay and promotions with a kindergarten anecdote about a child asking if promotion comes by arm or leg. It also reports on 1908 fish hatchery output, and a light feature naming the fat French recruit at Corbell, M. Laverdit, who weighs 268 pounds.
A patient describes chronic severe constipation from childhood linked to laxative dependence. After using Grape-Nuts cereal as a daily food, digestion improved quickly, with claimed permanent relief and restored bowel function, prompting the author to endorse the product’s claimed cure.
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