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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1909
Page
2
A collection of observations and witticisms touching topics from hats and women’s rights to politics, economics, and international affairs. It references Champ Clark, Castro, Mark Twain, China, Dashed predictions, and social trends, mingling humor with public concerns and speculative notes.
A St Louis farmer asserts his 200 hens never lay on Sunday, challenging The Boston Globe. Readers are offered examples of hens that may lay on Sunday or other days, suggesting variability in poultry activity.
A fragment notes whales in the Arctic face better odds by Teron and cites the higher value of whale products as a factor delaying San Francisco whaling plans for spring. The piece implies market prices and Arctic whaling prospects influence the fleet's movements.
New York wireless operator Jack Blons is hailed as a hero for relaying SOS and coordinating aid after the Republic collision with the Florida. Aboard Nantucket Station, A H Ginman and others traced the calls as Binns relayed passenger counts, conditions, and requests for tugs while the Republic sank, with Florida close to rescuing survivors and Coast Guard ships assisting.
Guthrie Okla The state prison board says all Oklahoma prisoners will be moved to Oklahoma facilities within a week after the Kansas contract expires.
Governor Cosgrove was inaugurated in Olympia Washington. His illness in Ventura Robles California forced a two week postponement.
The twenty second ballot shows minor shifts among lawmakers as Hopkins trails, Yates gains support, and a potential break looms. Democrats in the house split between Browne and Tippit factions amid a crowded political scene with new judicial and safety bill actions pending.
Springfield reports a busy morning as twenty bills were presented in the house before joint balloting. Measures include probation officer, road and bridge, employers liability, and libel suit bills. Senate proposals cover school testing, sleeping car rates, circuits, and insurance salary raises.
Springfield reports the house passed the senate salary bill allowing the full $2,000 legislature salary to be drawn immediately after general assembly organization, reversing the two year old rule. Also from Springfield a deep waterway bill proposes a five member gubernatorially appointed commission to study construction from Lockport to Utica with a $20,000,000 bond limit.
A quaint business letter from Cake & Son humorously chides a retail dealer for not sending soap. The dealer asks if his money is poor and ends with a feisty demand for soap, followed by a note that the wife later found the soap under the counter.
A mother reports her two and a half year old daughter suffered an irritating itchy eruption on hips and legs since October. After two doctors failed, two weeks of Cuticura Remedies cured it by February. the girl, now fourteen, has had no recurrence. Winchester Tennessee. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. sold props.
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