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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1910
Page
9
The piece blends literary and social observations from a 1920s style column, naming Hamlet quotes and a host of topical trivia from urban life. It touches on technology, labor, peace societies, fashion, and public concerns while weaving in literary allusions and scattered statistics.
Eleven miners' bodies were recovered from the St Paul coal mine. Inspectors say the cadavers, entombed for three months in a dry warm section of the second level about 175 feet from the main air shaft, were almost perfectly mummified due to slow drying.
Paris police found the wife of druggist Parat heavily chained behind a bed with a copper ring belt and padlock. She said she endured ten years of confinement since November while in coma as a fifth child was born. her husband Parat was arrested after he refused to call a doctor and claimed jealousy.
The New York Giants peacemaker aided by President Brush helped stop a potential clash between Vinerieas and the National Tea. After hours of deadlock, a short schedule was approved amid broad tension. Also in Carthage Missouri Governor Hadley granted a reprieve for William Wilson in a murder case. Great Race Horse Snalvidere on Long Island was shot after a training injury.
Amarillo Texas article reports Greenry Rock Island brakeman frozen while walking a right of way sixty miles north of town. He died near an unfinished stretch of track after starting to walk along the unlaid line.
Washington action advances the large waterway from Lockport through Des Plaines and Illinois to the Mississippi Gulf. Advocates hail the 67 to 37 tally as a likely path to final passage, with Bartholdt and Rodenberg praising Mississippi Valley prospects amid insurgent challenges.
Fragmented OCR notes describe stokers burned in a torpedo boat fire, a Hopkins vessel, and a prior explosion. The text then shifts to mentions of Tri State Media meeting in Chicago, Attorney General Wiehe speech, and immunity questions tied to a sugar weighing fraud case. Also noted is a proposed thirty story hotel at Clark and Madison in Chicago with height limits cited.
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday that custody of B R Tillman Jr's two children be returned to their mother and her husband, reversing a transfer to their grandfather Senator Ben R Tillman. The case hinged on an unusual statute provision linked to a separation decree from another state.
Telegraphed from Madriz to Chamorros army in Matagalpa district, Estrada urges rapid strike amid critical provisions shortages. General Mena with 1000 men positions behind Chamorro while Chamorro mobilizes beyond Santa Clara. Estrada warns the incident must be done now as supply lines dwindle.
Hog prices jumped to 920 dollars per hundred pounds the highest since 1882 as 40 000 head arrived. Packers tried to hold prices down but bidding lifted the market 6 cents above quotations with demand outpacing supply. Current rates sit 135 cents under 18 2 market and exceed last year by over 250 per hundredweight.
Agnes Elkins a 26 year old West Virginia senator’s niece and society woman, attempted suicide at the Wallard hotel in Kansas City. She was wounded above the heart and may recover. She left two letters to hotel proprietors and is linked to a blocked stage career and a $20,000 inheritance.
President Taft requests arrangements for Theodore Roosevelt’s return to New York mid June. Collector Loeb of New York will handle inquiries and keep the President informed on progress.
The Paris London Aerial Company announced plans for a regular trans channel service using dirigibles and aeroplanes. Negotiations for shed sites at Dover have begun as the English terminus.
Dispatches report a Socialist riot in Neumunster with troops using fixed bayonets charging rioters. Police clashed with Socialists as the unrest lasted over an hour and sparked broader riots in Berlin.
New York City reports that Standard Oil of New Jersey directors declared a quarterly dividend of 15 per share. John D Rockefeller will receive 4 050 000 dollars on March 15 for 27 percent ownership. Protest to the President: a delegation of interstate electric railroad officials oppose excluding such roads from the Interstate Commerce Act. Weston is at Grand Canyon. Edward Payson Weston is walking from Los Angeles to New York and spent yesterday at the Grand Canyon.
De Forest Wisconsin and New Orleans Louisiana women credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing long standing female ailments and sparing them from surgery. Thirty years of testimonials claim remarkable relief and urge readers to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Two views on election doctrine appear in a Congregational list with Beecher’s “elect whosoever will” line and a humorous quip about God and the devil voting. Cynthia M Wesson of Springfield, Massachusetts, donates 7000 dollars to Bryn Mawr college for swimming pool improvements, aiding female undergraduates required to be swimmers.
A Western city chief bookkeeper credits Postum with curing stomach trouble and easing nervousness from long hours. He stopped tea and coffee two years ago after starting Postum, praising its effects on digestion and mental strain and recommending it to others in demanding work.
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