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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
6
A garbled column mix discusses manners and morals, noting quotes about women’s character from hats, romantic letters, and courtship. touches on U S Army readiness, England’s finances, and the travel life. Mentions Topeka, New York, ministers, and Chicago, with scattered ironic observations on manners and public life.
A garbled report describes a dramatic incident involving Danish and American parties at sea. It mentions a December departure, a safe lock, a Petedite, a boat voyage, and a plan to seize a valuable possession aboard a steamer. The text references Mr Latisdale and the Explorer with vague details of pursuit and motives.
Reports detail the City of Para’s passengers avoiding shore after Zelaya faced death penalty for supporting insurgent news. Salvadoran and Nicaraguan concerns surface as officials deny widespread trouble while Central American factions discuss potential invasions and executions.
The readable words depict a damaged page segment with references to a public notice or legal matter. Names, dates, places and actions are unclear, but multiple garbled phrases imply an official notice involving property or proceedings. No coherent outcome or parties can be determined from the legible fragments.
The circuit court again restrained local stone mill workers and their leaders from certain activities. The order bars specific individuals from sending messages or actions tied to labor activities connected to the mills. Names of dozen workers appear in the filing.
The Lowell Observatory plans a flinch telescope installation on San Francisco Peak at 13 000 feet to study Mars atmosphere variation from a mountain site. Florence I shop, age 60, a former actress, was burned to death behind a smokehouse at her employer W A Haviland’s home near Lockport. It is suspected a self inflicted death. Deputy Hotel Inspector Named in Missouri. Joe Albus of St Joseph named deputy hotel inspector for northwest Missouri by State Hotel Inspector Johnson in Jefferson City.
Ulrich Sorensen of Berwyn married the farmer's daughter on June 11 after a stunt in a balloon reaching 3700 feet. His homemade aircraft performed a series of somersaults and wrecked upon descent though he escaped serious injury. He now says he abandons aviation ambitions at his bride's request.
Ex secretary of the treasury Lyman Judson Gage and Frances Ada Ballow were married Thursday night at the Ballow parents home in Coronado San Diego. The license lists the bride as 30 and the groom as 73. The private ceremony was performed by Reverend Walford B Thorpe with only immediate family and two witnesses present. The couple departed for Denver aboard the Owl train after a wedding supper.
In Mansfield Louisiana the Baptists urged the legislature to ban Sunday sports including baseball fishing hunting theaters and picnics and to limit store openings to drugstores with prescription fulfillment for physicians. A 12 year old white pupil Herbert Erfurde was accidently shot and killed by 13 year old Henry Gibson while hunting.
After ten days entombed in the Cherry Mine Illinois 189 miners are deemed dead. Rescue attempts found no life signs as portions of tunnels collapsed and pockets of gas threaten a possible explosion endangering rescuers.
Washington officials anticipate President Zelaya's reply to a peremptory $199 900 indemnity demand tied to the execution of two Americans, with Secretary Knox's justification submitted for Taft's approval. The dispatch to Nicaragua may be released with the Nicaraguan leader's response. A separate note from Union City reports 150 jurors selected for the Garrett Johnson and Arthur Lear murder trial amid a night riders attack a year ago. In Illinois, William J Moxley wins the Sixth Congressional district seat with 14 594 votes, Barnes 3 317, Ryan 6 414.
Cook county marriage license records show over 1900 couples wed on Thanksgiving day. In a novelty partnership Virgil Nash of Triplett and Alice Beckner of South Bend were married in a chair car of a passenger train at a railroad station. Also reported is the death of former Missouri preacher John E Wlough in Vancouver Washington from sawmill injuries.
Adam Weingart 35 of Dunmore slipped at the Leggett Creek shaft mouth and plunged about 500 feet to his death. He suffered multiple fatal injuries as rescuers arrived at the scene.
The Mississippi River resumes destroying the Bird's Point river bank in Missouri. The Iron Mountain railroad had to tear up its main line into Bird's Point to prevent it from collapsing into the river.
Kansas City Terminal Co directors accepted plans for a new union depot in Kansas City Missouri with a cost of 5 700 000 dollars. Building operations will begin at once.
A nurse from Ansdarko Oklahoma credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid improvement in a run-down condition. Mrs Minnie Turner says backache side pains and bloated limbs improved after using five boxes. She urges others to remember the name Dean's and notes it is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The piece extols joy from well done labor and urges dedication over complaint. It notes husbands value wives but praise work, and advises putting effort into any job to gain satisfaction, ease, and eventual happiness. It ends with a wry line on alimony and marriage.
A vintage ad extols self treatment for colds with Perry Davis Painkiller praising safety and cost. It warns against imitations and urges buyers to request Lewis’ Single Binder cigar, framing a philosophical note on human troubles.
A Minnesota reader from Minneapolis writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her female troubles and restored her health in three months. The letter urges publishing to show the product’s benefits and notes Pinkham offers confidential advice and free health hints.
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