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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
7
A long column of farm and home listings notes properties for sale in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Sizes range from 58 to 864 acres with cultivated land, houses, barns, outbuildings, orchards, and stock included. Listings name contacting agents or towns and often include sacrifice or bargain wording.
New York’s Bowery loses its pull for marks and sailors as dives and dime museums decline. The era of “death by own action halls” fades with McGurk’s death and police pressure on trick games. Remaining venues show little profit with old “envelope” and “dart” swindles failing to draw crowds.
Rome reports a 1909 law to protect Italy’s patrimony led to a right of pre emption on exported works. An art dealer mispriced a van Ruysdael painting, the commission bought it for 2000 dollars, later sold as a 15000 dollar fake, sparking a parliamentary inquiry and a hush money outcome for the dealer.
Benjamin Lucky of Birmingham, Alabama, a circus attache, faced prison for manslaughter but was released when another man confessed. The district attorney dismissed the case after the confession by James Gaughan from the state reformatory. Earlier a June circus clash in Boston killed a boy. In Pittsburgh, eight year old Katherine Barrett asked to fix her injured doll at a doll hospital.
London reports a severe shortage of mill operatives in Lancashire and Yorkshire as factory girls abandon the traditional dress of clogs and shawls. Managers discuss making mill work more attractive to prevent import of foreign labor amid rising dissatisfaction with current attire. One manager notes girls dropping shawls and clogs for flower laden hats and dogskin gloves.
The North German Lloyd steamer Neckar bound for Philadelphia deviated from course to avoid a herd of deer swimming across Delaware Bay. The unusual sight impressed the pilot and officers as the animals swam toward the New Jersey shore escaping hunters.
New York report says twelve policemen teamed to place H. Lorrie in a patrol wagon after his arrest on a begging charge. The man is described as one-legged.
Ex Governor Pennypacker jokes about the divorce trend in Philadelphia. He recalls a friend at the Historical Society who exclaimed with glee, then wonders aloud if the man is married, engaged, or divorced. The remark underscores shifting attitudes toward marriage and separation.
Rev Edmund Heslop of Rigton Pennsylvania describes a year of dropsy and swelling eased after using 65 boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills. He reports renewed vitality and faith in the remedy and invites correspondence. Also promoted are Dodds Medicine Co and Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets with health advice and free literature.
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