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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
4
Card of thanks priced at 25 cents. Obituary poetry not published. Lodge resolutions on a member’s death priced at 1 dollar. Entertainments with admission charged priced at 5 cents per line.
Roosevelt rough riders face potential crowds as Colonel Harry S. New and Fred W. Upham organize extensive medical aid. Nearly twenty doctors, nurses, ambulances, bandages, litters and hospital apparatus prepare for injuries. Ministers will open sessions with prayers. chaplains include Rabbi Joseph Stolz and Rev James Callaghan amid a precautionary, orderly convention plan.
Omaha reports the death of Hansen Wiseman, long known as a foe to Ponca Indians, who killed many in pursuit of vengeance for his family losses. He lived in a rough board house by the Missouri river border area and avoided prosecution. After his children were slain by Poncas, he vowed vengeance and held his ground until death. The area holds his burials and remnants of his weapons pass to relatives.
Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever in Dayton Ohio. The obituary notes his pivotal role in aviation and his worldwide influence as a builder of the first successful flying machine. The piece also surveys other world events and political topics, from coffee trusts to global conflicts.
A sixteen year old apprentice Philip Pleveke fell from his roof onto a fire escape and into a paved archway, bleeding but alive. Neighbors, a tourniquet, and Bellevue doctors saved him as he remained conscious and warned his mother of the tumble.
Readable fragments describe a pair of peers and a close finish. The text is garbled with missing words but implies a paired set secured in an overtime scenario described as neat. No clear names, places, dates, or organizations are identifiable.
Sacramento, California. The Third District Court of Appeal reverses a superior court ruling granting an interlocutory divorce to Anna May Nelson on grounds of alleged abuse by her husband James J. Nelson. Justice Burnett writes that grievous injury or mental suffering must be wrongful to justify a divorce, not merely infliction in possibly justified conduct.
In Newport, Mrs. Vanderbilt orders a massive sea wall near The Breakers. The $60,000 project will start immediately to shield the cliffside estate from rising tides and storm damage.
Sixteen of Miss Eva Honderich’s mother’s friends hosted a miscellaneous shower at her country home on Tuesday afternoon. Gifts included silver and china, with ice cream straw berries and cake served. Out of town attendees included Miss Leona Carell of Palestine and Mrs. Adam Honderich and son of Indianapolis. Tickets for commencement exercises were on sale at Keifer’s drug store tonight. Mrs. C O Chestnut of Danville is visiting relatives in the city.
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