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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
2
A dated miscellany notes quirky items from American life including aviation jokes, a Seattle skyscraper plan, New York hobos, a Pittsburgh cure for bay fever, and a warning to wives about temper. It jokes about a statue of Liberty gown, a duel with a fatal hatpin, comets, and Los Angeles police on roller skates.
President Taft and his party climbed Mount Ranier by automobile reaching near the glaciers. The vehicles bogged in mud and edged a cliff as forest rangers aided with horses and searchlights. Night fell with a storm threatening, but Taft reached his train safely at Ashland after the perilous edge of the precipice.
A fragment discusses a presidential visit to Tacoma area, references to Mount Tacoma and Mount Rainier, with scattered anecdotes about politics and society. It mentions a Seattle Tacoma exchange, a joke about Mount Tacoma, and local chatter on travel by train and plane, plus assorted vignettes on weather, crime, and daily life.
Reports describe Allied naval presence and tremors of a pending occupation as Turkish forces retreat inland. No Turkish attack occurred. government signals no delay in military preparations while scattered private dispatches hint at strategic talks and relief efforts underway.
Westchester judge acquits George Froll the second of two men charged in the Coatesville burning of Jack Walker. In Salonica a Turkish warship seized a British steamship Drehis, finding 40 barrels of powder. Dr Welsaman, linked to a Chicago diamonds theft, is arrested in Davenport Iowa. Lincoln cotton mills to reopen after summer shutdown, employing 500 operatives. Seaboard Air lines sued in Florida for 6 million dollars.
In a historic telegraphy feat a 16 minute wireless transmission linked San Francisco and Otchishi Japan 4800 miles apart. A United Wireless operator in San Francisco spoke with a Japanese counterpart, marking a rare long distance exchange between two nations.
A St Louis child, Joseph Bim age unclear, escaped serious injury when a tub hanging by a cord outside his porch fell from a balcony, breaking the cord. He crawled into the tub and fell to the ground. his mother took him to a doctor who found no injuries.
Washington reports Secretary Wilson will not resign unless Taft asks. Wiley controls the board of food and drug inspection amid the pure food inquiry. Idaho Governor Brady pledges western support to Taft to resolve public domain disposition. A Black woman kills her husband at the home of Stella Ramecy. Taft visit in Milwaukee draws at least 2000 attendees for a large luncheon. Army and Navy to become fully Americanized with naturalization rules in new orders.
French soldiers hoisted a French flag atop a fort at Agadir Morocco provoking a Franco German crisis. France proclaims a protectorate while German warships move toward Agadir. The dispute remains unsettled though Germany reportedly accepts France terms.
Denver's Chamber of Commerce endorses President Taft's call for cooperation and endorses peace efforts by printing 100,000 copies of the speech to be distributed to domestic and international business groups. Accused of Husband's Murder in Mason City. Alethea Rueb indicted for allegedly murdering her husband, railroad telegraph operator William Rush of Sheffield, Iowa, last June.
Capt. John Brodie, cited for exhibitions at the South Georgia fair, was killed when he fell from his balloon plunging about 700 feet to earth. Aldrich Coming Home. New York Senator Nelson Aldrich, after working on the national monetary commission report at Aix Les Bains, heads home aboard the liner Baltic for January congressional presentation.
A heavy earthquake struck Port au Prince with a west to east movement lasting about 20 seconds. Subterranean rumbling accompanied the tremor. No damage was reported.
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