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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
7
The USDA is trying to introduce wasabi, or Japanese horseradish, noting it grows best in marshy soils and is harder to raise than our horseradish. Advertising cautions against discouragement from lack of initial results. A drug ad touts Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as aiding a vigorous old age, sold by J J Crow Drug Co.
A garbled line hints at a court or financial matter tied to Grove's signature and an appropriation estimate. The text references Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Panama Canal funds, suggesting a legal or financial dispute or filing involving signatures and cost estimates.
The case of Antonio Centrolene and Francisco Rangel in Puebla centers on a m urder linked to Gustavo Stein once German consul at Oaxaca City. The trial reveals Stein’s wealth and his wife's alleged liaisons with Centrolene, while the defendants avoid court presence as the judge weighs conflicting surgical and ballistic testimony. Stein had strong American business ties, notably in Boston.
Birmingham May 9 The general conference concurred in the main report of the revivals committee on powers of unordained preachers allowing preaching and wedding rites plus baptism in absence of elders with limited ordination powers. Other measures include fund distribution for superannuated and orphaned ministers and various resolutions on church governance and missions.
A Maxey postmaster shows a young chicken with four legs. It uses two legs to stand and the other two to flap. The creature is not large like a quail yet remains healthy and active.
Naples reports renewed activity at Vesuvius with a dense smoke column rising from the crater on Tuesday. Detonations and electrical discharges accompany the emission as resinau observes the plume and the crater spews sand and cinders.
W M Rose was re elected mayor in a May special election by about 1600 votes after a campaign over enforcement of prohibition and anti gambling laws. He was backed by pro licensing advocates while Venard supported by temperance factions received many female votes. The legality of Roses hold on the office will be tested by future proceedings.
In Jackson Mississippi on May 9 Sam Sims a black man who killed the horse Constable Lamar Hendricks was riding was captured by authorities and hanged by a orderly mob near the public road six miles east of Jackson. Hendricks had been taking Sims to Jackson when the lynching occurred. A passerby found Sims hanging from a tree the next morning.
A campaign to form a life insurance company for union labor was discussed at the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America convention in Cincinnati. The matter was referred to telegraphers to investigate and report to AFL President Samuel Gompers.
Authorities disclosed a plot to assassinate President Caceres as he left a theater in Santo Domingo. Several arrests reported. Boots exchanged Monday night near the city between rural guards and supposed revolutionists.
The Blues are seldom caused by external conditions but usually result from a disordered liver.
She testifies that hundreds were killed by the chief of the Gendarmie and she was tortured before killing him. She says she is happy to die for the people’s cause and asks if she is a fanatic or a patriot and martyr.
Watsons Magazine quotes a humorous dialogue about a minister suffering rheumatism for three years. Uncle Josh suspects the illness explains the silence while Aunt Hetty jokes she could have advised a remedy.
Advertising fragment offers a 9 by 12 engine and a 44 by 16 boiler for sale. Both items can be seen at Norwood Texas in mile marker 23 with a cryptic moral line about haste and wealth following the listing.
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain cough remedy for colds croup and whooping cough. The terse copy also mentions moral guidance with a phrase about setting appetite before authority and labels Cecil as the poorest kind of diplomacy.
A striking carpenter named Habert and another man were wounded on Tuesday by a bomb explosion in a garret of a house in a working class district of Paris. Police, led by Prefect Lepine, found additional bombs after arrests, suggesting an anarchist plot was in preparation.
Advices from Lick Observatory report twenty four seismic shocks on the observatory seismograph since the morning of April 18. The shocks were recorded over the period leading into May, reflecting ongoing tremor activity in the region.
A furious May snow storm swept central Wisconsin Monday night into Tuesday, bringing severity comparable to a winter storm. In Oklahoma City, the Grand Judge of Knights of Pythias held a session May 9 with about 1,000 delegates attending.
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