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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1907
Page
2
A jumble of humorous notes and snips touches on eccentricities of the rich, a postal mishap, airship talk, a Holmes joke about marriage, a florist in Chicago, glass eyes, Sweden and the America’s Cup, New York building pride, a Solomon authorship debate, a Planned convention to curb fish tales, exit signs in churches, a Denver marriage to a mother in law, and radium as a humane boon.
A garbled OCR fragment notes a Loudee physician claiming fosminity can be cured with surgery. It references appendicitis and mock terms, with unclear details about timing, people, or locations, making the core claim and context poorly legible.
A passenger vehicle traveling at about 70 miles per hour collided head on with a freight train, resulting in three fatalities. Authorities investigated the wreck as emergency crews secured the scene and firefighters assisted.
Over twenty injured after fast No. 3 passenger train collides head on with a freight one mile south of Morganville Georgia. Three killed: engineer C B Spencer of Birmingham Joe Young and Bud Apperson. Serious injuries to H W Elliott Jr J M Tumin William Walker Ed Jackson and others. Mail and express cars burned with contents, track praised as fine. Authorities discuss wreck responsibility.
John Sweeney a married man faced a mob at Marietta Ohio seeking vengeance for an assault on Anna Koon a 10 year old girl. He was saved by police as crowd aimed to lynch him near fair grounds by Muskingum river. The girl’s condition described as precarious. Also mentions a library appointment at Library of Congress and prior roles at Princeton Michigan and Rome.
A nitric explosion at the Petroleum Torpedo Co plant 16 miles from Butler, Pennsylvania, wrecked the magazine housing 600 quarts of nitroglycerin. Several people were cut or burned. A property loss of 925,000 occurred as the factory building was demolished, trees felled, and surrounding dwellings damaged. Cause of the blast is unknown.
During a quarrel at a York boarding house Frank Urbany and Henry Weber fought over the bed covering. Weber was stabbed repeatedly and is in critical condition. Both men were tenants at the house.
Pine Bluff Arkansas night watchman shoots and kills a black burglar at the Bluff City Slumber Co commissary. The suspect, said to have recently shot several people and held up others at Newport Arkansas, carried three revolvers.
Oliver P Temple aged eight died in Knoxville Tennessee. He began public life in a congressional race against Andrew Johnson, where Johnson won by a small margin. The obituary notes a noted career despite the early death.
Announcement reports William T. Bell former managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin and ex New York World dies of stomach cancer at his sister Mrs Thomas P Doles home. Bell was born in this city.
A ship case filed a motion for rehearing in the state associate court seeking reconsideration of a prior ruling. The filing signals continued dispute over the case, with the court to schedule further arguments or a decision.
A blaze leveled a Wyoming property with estimated losses around 100 dollars, half insured. The fragment mentions occupants and a Texas or Tennessee connection, but the report is garbled with misreads and lacks clear names or dates.
Lawton Oklahoma engineering corps of the Oklahoma national Guard called out by Acting Governor Charles Filson to prevent a mob from lynching John Hopkins who attacked his wife with a hatchet after forcing carbolic acid down her throat. Neighbors heard screams. she survived initially but died Wednesday. Sheriff Hammond warned of militia if unrest grows. Hopkins blamed as possibly insane.
In Naples, Eliza Scalisi died days before her wedding and was buried in a local cemetery. Her fiancé Alessandro exhumed the body, embalmed her, dressed her in bridal clothes, and kept the corpse in his rooms for two weeks before neighbors noticed and he was arrested. The body has since been reburied.
In Calhoun and central Kentucky a push by hundreds of farmers mobilized at Livermore to force buyers to quit the 1907 crop and rescind contracts. The march begins at daylight with farmers in buggies and on horseback, targeting Livermore buyers before moving to other towns.
Harry Kendall Thaw will face a second trial for the Stanford White killing on December 2. His chief counsel Martin W. Littleton has decided to plead insanity, asserting Thaw’s unsound mind as the defense rather than a mere theory.
Paducah, Kentucky child sawyer Holden Lewis aged five perished at a Mayfield mill when a wagon backed into him while he worked at the ten inch saw. He was knocked onto the revolving blade and his head portion was severed before coworkers could reach him.
New York report states Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. welcomed a baby boy at their 666 Firth Avenue residence. Value of the newborn is estimated at about 60 million dollars, reflecting the family's notable social prominence.
Superior Wisconsin the steamer Carmo Tant of Edward Heinze Lumber Co burned to the water's edge off the northerly end of Bass island. A tug rescued Captain McKenzie and five crew plus three women aboard. The note about a child weighing 110 pounds appears garbled and not clearly connected to the incident.
Crowds gathered on the waterfront on Thursday noon to witness the arrival of the torpedo boat Destroyer Simpson recently purchased by Bom berechristieney Libertador Bolivar.
The Pittsburg trial is planned with Evelyn Thaw to recount her tale as the volatile influence on Robert Thaw. The defense will argue insanity as Thaw defends himself, hoping the jury accepts a less detailed account than the first trial. If jury seating is difficult, a venue change may be sought to move the case to another state court.
Philadelphia executives of the Pennsylvania RailroadCompany announced trenching and economy as policy for 2008 after Friday’s meeting and the usual semiannual dividend of 3 percent was declared. Despite this, President McCrea’s office reported earnings 11 percent higher than the prior year period.
The Inter Ocean reports officials say correspondence between Attorney General Bonaparte and District Attorney Edwin W. Sims containing bank failure secrets related to former Chicago National Bank president John R. Walsh has disappeared from federal building files awaiting trial.
The Berlin correspondent of the Standard reports that the grand duke of Baden, advised by the minister of justice, has commuted Karl Grau former professor of Roman law at George Washington University Washington D C from death for the murder of his mother in law Frau Molliter to life in penal servitude.
Experiments using intense light at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital aim to relieve pain. Physicians refrain from definitive judgments on effectiveness, yet results are promising enough to justify ongoing trials.
Pittsburg Pa. Professor Earle W Reed principal of the Sheridan public schools is named defendant in a breach of promise suit for 25000 dollars filed by Miss Lucila Lewstattar of Sheridan. Reed recently married.
Norfolk Virginia reports the executive committee of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections selected the week of May 6 1998 for the Bert session to be held in Richmond.
George Phisestor, a Yukon-era figure and brother of the late Frank Phisestor, was involved in a fatal shooting of his wife and then took his own life in Bt Joseph, Michigan. Police report a suspected domestic tragedy ending in self-inflicted death.
Raisin recaptured a man named Bight and chained him after a confrontation. J van Gerstas, lieutenant governor of New Orleans, faced a duel challenge from Deneleos Caffrey son of late US Senator Deusteen Caffrey, angered by remarks from a recent speech and the governor’s refusal to retract them.
Dinner conversation at the rector's house reveals romantic entanglements and suitor tensions. Miss Carney, Mr Ware, and the rector and his wife navigate notes of love, theater talk, and hidden pasts as a nurse is needed for a sick relative. The scene hints at a concealed romance and a plan to remove oneself from the beloved's life.
In a faded drawing room scene Miss Carney flares with mischief as a guest laments his incorrigible behavior. The narrative follows Annie's illness and a shattered engagement, with the speaker reflecting on Jack's actions and the impact on love and friendship.
A fragment from the Greenville Sun recalls a visiting townsman seated to a harshly prepared meal, pondering what locals have when guests are hoped for. The garbled text suggests reflections on social cues and expectations as he questions what the community possesses for company.
The fragment hints at creating or certifying names for individuals, possibly Girty related, but lacks coherent factual content. No clear event, date, or organization is identifiable.
An elderly woman on her seventy third birthday declares she does not fear aging or death but fears paralysis. Mr James F Abernethy of Rutherford College NC endorses Sloany Liniment praising its miraculous results in paralysis cases and urges others to use it, citing a successful case of partial paralysis in a brick mason.
In New York theatrical circles talk centered on the late Rich ard Mansfeld. A colleague mocked his baldness at a party with a jovial greeting. Mansfeld replied with quiet dignity, noting the rudeness of the jibe and refusing familiarity.
A local profile praises Major Franklin Oll City, a Black former slave born, who has never consumed any alcohol tea coffee or milk, and who has remained resolute to drink only water since childhood, as an exemplar temperance figure for Old City.
A reader warns coffee harms health and claims Postum Food Coffee cures palpitations and nervousness. She recounts weight gain after switching and says her family and sister now prefer Postum, citing improved strength and appetite.
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