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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1910
Page
2
A garbled column from Marble Hill Press surveys aviation culture, fashion, crime, politics, and society. It mentions airships, ballooning, hobble skirts, the 400, and American trends, with several puns and social observations about current events and public figures.
A Cranford New Jersey police sergeant had $100 gold watch stolen from his pocket while he rested in the police station. The story notes the city’s youth, anti Fourth of July, and calls for a chaperon for the officer. It touches on aviation profits, wireless lighting, and a candy kid robber in St Louis. It questions the era’s moral and technological pace.
French Premier Briand is assaulted in the Tuileries garden during the Julia Ferry statue dedication. A Royalist struck him twice as guards intervened to prevent a mob beating. The attacker, later identified, faced royalist supporters from the Camelots du Roi. Briand reassured reporters and urged protection for radicals.
Count Leo Tolstoi died peacefully in Astapova, surrounded by Countess Tolstoi and doctors. The philosopher had recent years devoted to religious teaching, stressing the Sermon on the Mount as life’s rule. In 1901 he was excommunicated, and in 1902 he entrusted diaries to a museum curator with a 10 year publication condition.
In Chickasha Oklahoma all cases against C N Haskell and others tied to Muskogee lot charges were nolle pressed ending the legal fight after years in federal courts. The action closes the matter in the long running dispute.
Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad agent Albert Lee 50 fought a lone robber who entered the station with a knife and revolver. After a pistol shot wounded Lee in the breast, he wrestled the weapon free, knocked the robber unconscious, and held him for arrest as bystanders aided the scene.
Mrs. Schenk, jailed in Ohio County, was indicted on charges of attempting to murder her husband by poisoning. Judge Jordan urged jurors to probe arsenic in food and water, noting a minimum sentence of three to fifteen years if convicted.
The constitutional convention at Santa Fe has cleared the apportionment issue, with the Democratic minority offering no report or opposition. The apportionment secures a Republican two thirds majority in the first legislature. Remaining work is to adopt revised sections and sign the completed document, likely within six days.
In Duqueen Ark the circuit court jury convicted John Ford and Leila Ford of first degree murder in the September 30 killing of William Nichols. Judge Cowling immediately ordered their execution by hanging.
In broad daylight thieves pried open a wall case at a Cleveland jewelry store in the Arcade and carried off diamond stick pins valued at 5,000 dollars between 2 and 2:15 PM, with many passers-by witnessing the burglary.
In Owensboro Kentucky a four year old, son of Mr and Mrs Laan Long, found a bottle of whisky during revival services drank half a pint and died.
Mexican secret police seized 50,000 rifles and large ammunition stockpiles hidden by leaders of a revolutionary movement in Mexico City. The operation disrupted the planned insurgent activity and underscored government efforts to curb armed opposition.
Maine’s population reaches 742,371 per the thirteenth census figures, an increase of 47,905 or 6.9 percent from 1900. The gain reflects broader national growth across the early 20th century.
London reports Premier Asquith announced dissolution of Parliament for November 24 to permit a general election before Christmas. The Liberal government rejected compromise on Lords reform, pledging a distinct program and swift election machinery, while peers react with concern over the end of hereditary influence.
Theodore Roonsevet penned a proclamation marking Oklahoma's third anniversary. The piece notes the state’s rising population, wealth, resources, and varied citizenship amid a period of new questions and progress celebrated across the state.
The new Thrwailian president Marshal Hermes da Fonseca is inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro. The ceremony solidifies the transfer of power amid national celebrations and formalities marking the leadership change.
In Oklahoma City Oklahoma a hunting party near Colgate Oklahoma saw Orson P Tides killed by an accidental shotgun discharge. A companion was killed and another wounded in a separate near by incident.
State's Attorney John E Wayman is exonerated and jury bribery charges raised by Erbstein, counsel for Lee ONeill Browne, are dismissed by the Bar association.
A state statement by Joseph Zahra, a veteran inmate at Chester prison, claims Vic tim Schluphka was murdered in a plot tied to Collinevity Mine. The coroners jury had ruled the death an accident. Zahra’s interview was given to Justice Louie Weller and will go to State Attorney Ingram at Kedwardeville.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended the proposed rate increases on livestock moved between Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The action delays the May 10 effective date to April 1. The commission also suspended tariffs on Southwestern and related lines canceling through rates with tap lines.
Rep. Robert K. Whiteon reelected to Abe Idinoeia faced a November grand jury indictment in Chicago for perjury. The indictment expands a prior May charge alleging he denied presiding over a distribution of an alleged jackpot at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis on July 14.
Chicago railway officials test the value of lines and equipment at a Western rate hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Tax projections double for roads, while Guthrie Oklahoma candidate A C Hamlin faces possible defeat due to a contest by George Clayton. Four of the largest black precincts have been discarded in the Democratic count.
An inch of snow covers the ground across the Jim River valley in Huron with unsettled conditions noted. In Terre Haute Indiana, about a thousand miners refused to ride in the cold, as the transportation cars to the mines were too cold for work.
Sproule, a member of the executive committee of the American Amelting and Refining company, is chosen to succeed the late Dudley Evans as president of the Wells Fargo Express company in New York.
Jere L. Sullivan, head of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, lamented workers' gains yet noted progress in wages. He contrasted this to a feudal image, recounting a landlord turning a guest away and directing him to an empty room, illustrating hardship and dignity in labor.
Seburs Was Bure dines with a man who owned a poetry book titled and the verses criticized the politics of officeholders. The speaker says he would prefer being seen as a third rate poet than a true statesman, prompting a sharp rebuke from Mehure.
The report describes theft allegations linked to Leah Ward on the Bemators scene as Nashville reacts. Bishop Ward and several senators appeared at a Nashville reception and entered a waiting car amid puzzling, disjointed quotes. The piece notes penitentiary figures and argues that some people are too fresh to be trusted in the event.
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