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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
6
A collection of brisk, fragmentary observations on manners, travel, politics, and industry. Includes playful asides on graft and health fads, remarks on a Boston arrest for laughing at a hat, and notes on cigars, Dutch royalty, English motor taxes, American influence in China, and European rail investment.
A wild coffee plant found in the Congo resists lava and supports other coffee varieties as it matures. The United States War Department seeks young men with some engineering knowledge to assist coastal waterway survey work from Boston to Florida, offering training for military engineers. Progress on waterway improvements continues.
Reports from England describe a perfected flying vessel claimed to surpass existing machines and intended to counter the Zeppelins. The craft, said to depart from Paris for London, is linked to an English company and a French-built design as a potential answer to aerial threats.
A newspaper appeal argues that tuberculosis battles require stronger agency funding and larger gifts to save human life. It stresses this as a divine mission and calls for real philanthropy to support disease prevention and care.
The House votes Saturday on the Payne Aldrich tariff report to send to the Senate Monday for two weeks of consideration. The package includes new duties, with notable changes to hosiery, hides, boots and shoes, and various leather goods, while the president urged reductions and free-list actions on several items. Senate action on the compromise begins Monday, amid White House pressure and party negotiations as conferees finalize details on lumber, gloves, and other key rates.
Fragmented report details multiple alarming events in Arkadelphia and Centralia area towns. It notes a family tragedy in Hannibal involving a barber shot and other violence, a drowning in the Ouachita River near Arkadelphia, and a disappearance linked to the Dykstra family in Centralia. Further names and shorthand references to local figures appear with unclear chronology.
Mrs. Parker Winfield Kerr, described as deaf, and Harvey Hefer were injured when a car overturned near Libertyville Mills. The vehicle skidded after accelerating, struck a berm, and the momentum carried it into the road, causing a fatal outcome for a woman passenger.
In Munster Indiana a collision between a railroad train and a car fatally wounds two youths, Richard Flagg 15 from Hillsdale Michigan and Harris Everhart 17 of Mishawaka. E. G. Eberhart 47 and Arthur Carl Gon 26 both from Mishawaka are seriously injured. Eberhart dies at St Margaret's Hospital. The car’s rear passengers were unable to escape due to a sun cover as the train struck. The elder Everhart is reported critical.
About sixty gamblers arrived from St Louis Chicago and New Orleans. Rev Wn T Amis pastor of the Baptist church and more than 100 church goers and Reform League members petition Gov Donna ghey to send troops to Hot Springs to suppress gambling. Former Slave Dies at 110 Kokomo Ind Aunt Milly Mar Andale a former signal of the reputed age died at the county farm. Aunt Milly was a famous cook and was twice sold upon the block.
In Geneva Switzerland the ice ax of Dr Spitz of Baltimore who perished in an avalanche in 1670 was recovered from the bottom of the los sons glacier at Champaix. The artifact bears the physician's name and confirms the historical find. Slayer 96 Years Old Acquitted in Raleigh North Carolina. Lemon Shaw, 96, was cleared in Wake County Superior Court of murdering David Hill who had lured the old man's granddaughter to a neighborhood party against her will.
In Washington Indiana Mrs Samuel Taylor 68 died from a puzzling disease described as blood drying up. Several physicians noted the strange symptom and the case drew local interest as the cause remained unclear.
Rioting flared at the Pressed Steel Car Company in McKee Rocks as deputies fired on striking workers. No injuries reported. Authorities surround the plant with armed guards for the first time in over a week. Meanwhile the Standard Steel Car Company strike at Butler ends amicably with both sides claiming victory. Eviction of strikers from company houses planned after the first of the month.
Mrs C F Smith of Hongkong argues against true conversion of Chinese, saying a Jesuit priest in Singapore could not claim he had converted a Chinese man. She visits Lafayette to see her mother and asserts missionaries do much good by educating the Chinese.
John Nolan surrendered after confessing embezzling a large sum from Dahling & Co. in Chicago to save his brother from prison. He had fled for two years and learned his brother died by suicide.
The body of a man found in the Missouri river thirty miles east of Kansas City was identified as J. C. Gray of Clinton New Jersey. He had been in the water for weeks and was found near the Wa bash wreck site from Saturday night.
Des Moines reports J. C. Maybray, jailed on charges tied to alleged fake wrestling matches, asserts influence over races nationwide and claims to have gained 125 pounds. Text is garbled but centers on his prison confinement and asserted activities.
Report from Madrid says Catalonia’s revolt escalated with bloodshed as artillery fired in Barcelona and martial law was ordered across Spain. King Alfonso declared guarantees suspended and governors were told to crush the uprising without hesitation.
William Nilsson walked into police headquarters in Kansas City to confess forgery in Wisconsin two years earlier. He said his baby died and his wife was dying after a California street car crash, and he fled to avoid scandal. He claimed he hid the truth to spare his family once learned.
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