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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
2
A compilation of varied oddities and current events mentions ATOLE HILL Missouri football, social antics, dynamite mishaps, a Chicago professor dispute, Halley’s Comet sightings, Wyoming thefts, Mexico crop loss, and Spain’s King Alfonso. The piece surveys public life, economics, and politics with satirical tone.
German textile experts consider kapok from the tropical kapok tree as a potential cotton substitute. Experiments will be thorough, but many factors must be considered before kapok could surpass cotton, and immediate replacement is unlikely.
The article reflects on booming profits of big corporations while warning against inflated conceits. It urges staying grounded and not being carried away by wealth, emphasizing prudence amid economic success.
The reception for Creat of Aiesia by the King and people of Italy was cordial and warm. The display of goodwill along the czar's travel line is expected to strengthen peace among nations.
Washington dispatch reports Nicaraguan insurgents advancing toward Rama and Greytown with the potential fall of Managua. Senor Castrillo says munitions landed on Bluefields can reach Rama in under three days. USt Stein supply prompts imminent conflict. State Department declines to confirm Marines landings or size of any force, citing evasive replies.
In New Orleans Consul General Sussman reports liberal contributions from Nicaragua’s business interests to the insurgent cause. He says large industrial and commercial interests, taxed by Zelaya, have pledged ample financial support to the revolutionaries.
The gunboat Princeton, under Commander C. H. Hayes, sails from Bremerton for Nicaragua to join gunboat Wickeburg at Cartagena. Princeton will stop in San Francisco to load ammunition and stores after extensive repairs at the navy yard.
Nine men are missing from the United States gunboat Marietta lying off Port Limon Costa Rica after a Friday night heavy weather incident. The gig, with four crew, and the whale boat with five aboard, were sent to set in the rough sea. A general alarm was wirelessed and ships in the area were asked to keep lookout. Nothing has been seen or heard of either boat since.
Washington D C 122000 corporations will be issued their first annual license under the new corporation tax law. Failure to pay the tax will incur heavy fines. Firms must obtain blanks from the department of internal revenue, or be barred from paying the tax. All returns must reach collectors by March 1 and licenses will date March 1 each year. Secretary MacVeagh and Commissioner Cabell told President Taft the regulations are ready for the printer and net revenue is about 25 million dollars.
In Chicago Illinois Mrs Joseph Wyda of North Chicago died after dancing at a Thanksgiving ball in Waukegan. Her prolonged waltz and sustained exertion led to her collapse as onlookers hurried to aid her, marking a tragic ending to a festive event.
Howard Little, accused of six murders, was found guilty by a Grundy jury in Judge Burns' Court and sentenced to die in the electric chair. The verdict was delivered Saturday in Bluefield area proceedings.
City of Para reports forty Corinto citizens shot by order of President Zelaya for cheering an insurgent victory. Corinto under guard. passengers did not land. Salvadoran President Faguera denies troubles, says unrest stems from Nicaragua invasion plans. malcontents arrested in Honduras.
In New Orleans secret agents of Nicaragua's provisional president Juan J Estrada search for Juan Delphas who allegedly tipped off Zelaya loyalists. Delphas fled. Consul Getfalsusaman notes lawyers say 14 years is the harshest legal penalty under Nicaraguan law for offenses linked to Cannon and Grace executed on Zelaya's order. Cannon's role sparked Zelaya's enmity, per J L Mather of Memphis.
Galena resident Mrs Ben Webb has adopted the Apostolic faith and, in pursuit of healing, fasts for six weeks with only water beyond two meals daily for two months, living on two meals a day and a brief water intake.
Flagstaff Arizona report notes Dr Low ell of the Lowell Observatory plans a 124 inch telescope installation at San Francisco Peak altitude 13000 feet to ensure a clear atmosphere for Mars study.
The 60 year old former actress Florence Bishop was found dead from burning in a smokehouse rear at employer W. A. Haviland’s residence near Lockport Rochester. Authorities suspect self-inflicted death.
Jefferson City reports St Joseph resident Joe Albus has been appointed by hotel inspector Johnson as deputy hotel inspector for northwest Missouri. The appointment covers duties related to rating compliance, licensing oversight, and enforcement in the region.
Ulrich Sorensen of Herwyn Neb ten miles east of town wed the daughter of a local wealthy farmer. Sorensen gained fame June 13 when his self built aeroplane climbed 2,500 feet then crashed in a somersault, destroying the craft though he was not seriously injured. He now says he will focus on spectacular pursuits at his bride’s request.
Former Treasury Secretary Lyman J. Gage and Frances Ada Ballou were married Thursday at the Coronado home of the bride’s parents. The license lists ages 71 and 35. Witnesses included the bride’s parents, Miss Helene Richards, Col Weeley Brainerd, and the ceremony was by Pastor Wiz ard Bt. Thorpe. The couple departed for Denver after a wedding supper aboard the Ontrata.
The Stapitats of Louisiana at their Mansfield meeting adopted resolutions opposing Sabbath desecration and intemperance. They pledge to memorialize the next legislature to suppress all Sunday sports including baseball fishing and hunting and to restrict store openings while allowing drug stores to operate only for physician prescriptions.
In Washington District of Columbia Herbert Erfurde a white boy aged 12 was accidentally shot and killed by Henry Gibson a colored boy aged 13 while they were out hunting. Both were public school pupils in the city.
The Cook County marriage license bureau reported more than 1,000 marriages on Thanksgiving Day in Chicago. This surge reflects a notable wedding throughput during the holiday.
Virgil Nash of Triplett Missouri and Miss Alice Buckner of South Bend Indiana were married in a chair car aboard a passenger train at the Macon railroad station. The ceremony joined two families by a quick rail-side wedding in Macon Missouri.
Former Missouri preacher John F. Laugh, 24, a Methodist Episcopal minister from Purdy, Missouri, died in Vancouver Washington from injuries suffered at the Ryan and Allen sawmill in Hastain.
Adam Weingart, 35, of Dunmore, slipped at the Leggett Creek shaft mouth and plunged 600 feet to his death. Every bone in his body was broken in Scranton.
Federal prosecutors push for more indictments amid a widening probe of customs frauds. Assistant custom weigher Thomas Olddines was arrested on conspiracy charges tied to imported figs. Port Collector William Lael Jr. announces ten more removals, bringing total expelled to eighty three since March.
Prescription touted as fast acting uses whiskey glycerine and Concentrated pine compound. Mix half pint whiskey with two ounces glycerine and half ounce pine compound in a bottle shaken before use. Dosage four teaspoons to one tablespoon every four hours. Pine product sold in half ounce airtight bottles labeled Concentrated.
A brief, odd exchange notes that Smythe pays nothing for coal while Jence claims to live near the railway and supplies con for brimaces made by engineers of all the trains as they pore.
Patient reports intense itching and skin tearing from eruptions on the body. After using Cutiura products the itching ceased within days and all traces disappeared in about three weeks, with no recurrence since.
Washington report says Attorney General Wickersham earns a reputation for bluntness after Treasury Comptroller Robert Tracewell accused a Justice Department opinion of being wrong with no precedent. Wickersham, reading the typewritten copy, muttered that he wrote the piece and then modified it to align with the comptroller’s views.
An attempt to wreck a southbound Illinois Central passenger train three miles north of Pana failed as three piles of tires 26 to 35 feet high were placed on the track. The southbound freight cleared the obstacle at 10 o clock, injuring only the engine pilot. Decatur bloodhounds were summoned and detectives are investigating.
H EE Agar of Princeton Ind was sentenced to two to fourteen years in state prison on embezzlement charges after allegedly arranging a bogus death by drowning to trap victims in grain swindles. He was captured at San Benito Texas. Wind caused the death of Charles Herrick and Ida Lydston by coal gas asphyxiation when a parlor stove damper was blown shut.
The gunboat Princeton was ordered from Bremerton Navy Yard to sail to Corinto Nicaragua to join the ship Vicksburg in the Pacific area.
A study cites 1.41 percent of children with tuberculosis in Linktelm Beetles and estimates about 2,700 U.S. children aged eight to fifteen would be affected. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis laments only 11 open air tuberculosis schools nationwide and notes many more are under consideration, with facilities far short of need.
A boy in a London school writes about clothing and climate. The extract humorously contrasts English attire with that in colder countries, noting that heated or thin outfits would cause illness. It describes coats, caps, and frocks as markers of gender and identity while mocking excessive winter wear.
A Memphis wife recounts her husband’s illness linked to coffee and how stopping coffee and using Postum improved his health. She notes weight gain and recovery over a year, after following proper brewing instructions. The testimonial endorses Postum as a remedy and mentions a booklet titled The Road to.
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