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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
2
This Ottumwa style column from Marble Hill Missouri mixes farming advice with a parade of humorous observations. It notes rainy weather aiding crops, jokes about umbrellas and market quirks, and references oddities from fashion to transport, crime, and city life, including a fable of a Norwegian inventor and remarks on weariness with modern life. The piece skims many topics in a breezy, miscellany format.
A French submarine Vendemaire sank after a collision or structural failure amid naval maneuvers off the French coast. Twenty seven crew members perished, including three officers, as battleships engaged nearby. Rescue attempts failed and officials reported no survivors.
Max Dube Unger a pioneer Linonly merchant attempted self harm with a razor and escaped hospital. He drowned at Lowt last week his home burned and the head of his elderly wife was found among the ruins.
President Garner issues a decree suspending the constitution amid martial law as Cuban forces report clashes with U S authorities over marines landing without invitation. Detachments move inland while indignant locals denounce intervention. A separate Paola murder case bears eerie similarities to the Bernhardt and Showman crimes, with a blue coat stranger and a single ax used in the Hudson cottage mystery.
Harold A Sanderson of White Star Line testified at the Board of Trade inquiry that the Titanic crew were not as familiar with lifeboats as they should have been. He blamed the difficulty of getting crews to participate in boat drills and argued larger crews might have caused more obstructions rather than prevent loss.
Charles P Taft contributed large sums to his brother William Howard Taft during the Ohio primary effort. A formal disclosure filed in Columbus shows about 60 000 for Taft in Ohio with Laylin's report listing Charles P Taft as the largest contributor.
The commerce court ruled that the interstate commerce commission did not act arbitrarily in setting lumber rates from the Willamette Valley Oregon to San Francisco. The decision affirms the commission's authority over pricing and shipping terms in the route.
In the wake of the Titanic disaster Mauretania arrives with dual command. Captain W. T Turner is listed atop the passenger manifest while another captain Silaff Caplin 8. G. 8 Mc Neil, RDN. R. appears beneath in the same prominent type.
A group of Chiragro women in New York estimates winning the Albany Legislature is easy if suffragists present a united front. They have decided to open an office in the city to reconcile warring factions and help secure the vote.
United States Secret Service Agent E. J. McHugh assisted by police raided two lodging houses and found a plant for raising bills. Two suspects were arrested.
Delegates are accepted daily for the national prohibition convention with 1,484 delegates expected in Atlantic City on July 10. Preparations for the quadrennial gathering are well under way.
Warren Lally of Dizon in a rescue attempt prevented twenty high school girls from going over a dam on the Rock River. He was carried over the dam in a launch and drowned while saving others.
Harry Marshall known as Enrico Masciol died in Charlestown electric chair for the murder of Frank Cusumano in September 1910. He remained calm murmuring prayers and hissing the crucifix after the fatal adjustments.
In Muskogee Oklahoma Fritz seeks divorce from husband Thomas Frits. The plea involves a hangman’s foe facing execution for the murder of Walter Watson, a white man, eighteen months past.
In Bath Maine Amos Pinkham’s bald head shone as rescuers pulled the captain from the cold water after he toppled overboard on a dark night. The incident highlights his shaved head serving as a beacon guiding the rescue team.
Warren Lally of Dixon high school class of 1913 drowned while saving around 20 girls from a rock river incident. Local authorities report the boy bravely stepped into the water to assist others and lost his life in the attempt.
Riots followed the strike order by workers of the Boston Elevated Railway Company which runs surface, subways and elevated lines in Greater Boston.
Washington United States Senator Nixon of Nevada is dead after spinal meningitis developed following an operation at the Episcopal Eye Ear and Throat hospital. Nixon had been treated for pasacatarrh before his condition worsened to critical.
Washington senate adopts a resolution to appropriate 200000 dollars for equipping army transports with Self Fighting lifeboats, sufficient to accommodate all passengers and crew.
Mrs. Mary Bernheimer, wealthy wife of Sidney Bernheimer, was bound and gagged in her Manhattan apartment after being struck with a potato masher. Her maid and two accomplices looted jewelry valued at about $10,000 in the daylight robbery.
Mexico will settle with American citizens who suffered injuries on the American border in the battle at Agua Prieta and Juarez, the American embassy reported here.
Indiana senator Kern leads a Lorimer case review urging restitution of Lorimer’s seat. He cites Funk and Hines testimony about a $100 toward Lorimer’s election and details a Chicago Union League Club discussion. The proceedings focus on corroboration and inconsistencies in Edward Hines and others testimonies.
Rich Hill, aged 50, Frank Williams, a well known farmer and civic operator, committed suicide by self inflicted wounds to the left breast. He had arranged for his burial outfit with a local undertaker, as a bachelor with no relatives in town. He provided shipping instructions for his remains and was described as well to do and a Royal Arch Mason.
The Supreme Court, on multiple decisions announced by Chief Justice White and joined by the full court, reversed the Commerce Court and upheld the Interstate Commerce Commission as the proper regulator, declaring the Commerce Court could substitute itself for the ICC.
Mrs Hannah Dwight Greene’s will distributes her $60,000 estate among three bellhops who showed courtesy to her. The bequest specifies beneficiaries in Boston Providence and Littleton New Hampshire.
Essen Germany reports over 200 people mostly children receive medical care after a total solar eclipse due to exposure without proper eclipse glasses. Sunburst event prompts widespread eye injuries and medical precautions across the city and region.
Rochester mothers praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing monthly cramps and dizziness in teen daughters. Messages from Mrs. Rienang and Miss Coma Fosnavon credit relief and improved health after using the remedy, with hundreds of similar letters supporting its efficacy.
A story from the New York Mall recounts a tense incident at a residential building where a small girl and others teased a younger boy. An elderly man confronted them, warning that disturbing others is illegal and could lead to arrest, prompting the girl to respond that she does not care.
Ancient mariners recount fog bound voyages off Newfound coast. They describe thick weather forcing crew to cling to rails and tops, weather lights failing, and the ship tipping toward peril before fog suddenly lifts.
A California physician with four decades of experience extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as ideal brain and digestive aids. He praises their digestibility and says they sustain mental work, noting he carries them while traveling. The endorsement appears with Postum Co. branding from Battle Creek, Michigan.
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