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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
6
A string of dated vignettes covers aviation hopes, labor talk, and legal notes. It notes Minister Wu Tingfang, Spain’s military service draft, and a Seattle divorce petition over fireworks. It casts a wary eye on ballooning mishaps, police talk, and urban legal quirks in a single panoramic item.
Waukegan pastor and Williamsburg Bas. editor Rev Wallace M Stuckey is jailed on a charge of abducting Clara Loraine Sutherland 16. He says he will return to Kansas to face family and charges claiming innocence and that he met Clara by chance in Chicago and felt duty to take care of her.
Irvin J Nelson bicycle dealer of Central Islip Long Island was found dead on a road near Central Jail Hospital for the Insane. Coroner Savage cites jealousy or revenge as possible motives. Mrs Nelson and boarder Augustus Schwartz are key witnesses. Nelson had taken Miss Gertrude Lutske from the insane hospital to a Bay Shore Casino ball.
The Grant hotel at 128 Dearborn Street Chicago caught fire in the basement early Friday. Miss Genevieve De Forent, a guest, hurried through hallways warning guests and ensuring they could dress and evacuate, preventing a serious panic as flames reached the haberdashery on the ground floor.
Washington county board closes sessions and sets bounties of two cents on crows one cent on crow ergs and five cents on ground hogs. The measure aims to curb pest damage while a $25 000 levy covers current expenses including bounty payments. Missouri Bar session in Perthe Springa features talks by Charles J Hughes and others.
Intimate friends say John W Castles president of Union Trust died by his own hand at the Grand Union hotel due to overwork and a nervous breakdown. Castles built wealth in Texas and New Orleans before leading Guaranty and Union Trust. he was 51 and a friend of B H Harriman.
In Merrimac Illinois area near St Louis Missouri two local residents Edna Crownson and Charles Evans, both of St Louis, drowned when a boat capsized while fishing. A third unidentified woman was rescued and survived. The disaster occurred Monday with scant details.
A report proposing a future law to prohibit ministers from using tobacco sparked lively discussion at the Southwest Missouri Conference of the Methodist Church, South, with clear division over the idea despite adoption of the report. Presiding elders were appointed for six districts including Kansas City W T McClure and Springfield W P Buckner.
The third attempt to blow a railroad bridge using dynamite in Buffalo New York hit a giant crane from J McCann Construction of Mercer Pennsylvania. The crane used to operate the machine was destroyed along with its engine and boffer, breaking nearby windows. No injuries were reported.
The Union Pacific announces colonist passenger fares to the West and Northwest from Sept 15 to Oct 16, 1909 inviting land buyers to the expanding frontier. The Mount Rainier road opens with a government-maintained route to Narada Falls, easing travel for autos and horse teams.
A humorous skit depicts Sprigg seeking medical counsel in a pompus patois manner. The physician notes affectations of heart and lungs and jokes about manners. The piece pivots to quips on fishing, debt nerves and grammar with stilted speech and mispronunciations.
In a tale from the Delineator a mother laments lacking a daughter and imagines girlhood. Little John, youngest of five boys, replies he would rather be any other animal than a girl.
A father urges his son to heed a new teacher described as wise and broad in knowledge. The boy retorts that the teacher knows nothing and cannot identify who is pitching in the league games, revealing a clash of confidence and doubt.
A witticism about a local airship maker prospering is tied to a family taking to the air. The scene shifts to a domestic joke as two girls order flowers for home delivery, hinting the neighbors may suspect a particular man sent them.
Ad claims EYE SALVE by Beatey cures eye diseases everywhere with a line about Beatey and druggists Howard Bros Buffalo NY. The rest of the text urges self talk for girls as a habit to hear compliments.
A chipped fragment shows children discussing why a baby cries with guesses of hunger teething or discomfort. A line about someone kicking and needing a playmate appears. An odd ad fragment reads about relief for tired feet and a medicine seller promoting a product.
The dialogue presents a comic exchange about hunting mishaps with a pun on being shot for a deer and a jokey miscue described as shap shotting. The brief vignette conveys rural humor and playful banter without broader context.
An old ad proclaims Chamberlain Co products as pure and unadulterated with only government-recognized substances. The copy notes furs and tobacco slogans and ends with a moral quip about smokers and tailors.
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