13 Jun 1907
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
1
A collection of humorous notes on inventions and stunts, from flounders as flatirons to a sparrow phonograph London accent. Chuckles about a ferry captain planning in fog, a steeplejack surviving a fall with a loud echo, and other quirky anecdotes.
A digest of varied events: Haywood’s trial in Boise with miners support. Mrs Eddy case at Concord hearings. Virginia Beach hotel fire with three missing. canal survey at Cape May and Bay Head. steel car contracts and oil receivership. New England crop setbacks. West Point criticisms. Cripple Creek murder and undercover roles. Beals family tragedy in Los Angeles. Dorchester town meeting anniversary. Manila news through Hong Kong. Philadelphia rail collision injuries. Panama living conditions inquiry. Vanderbilt vanity box recovered. Standard Oil case overruled. Gould estate dispute airs in court. utilities bill signed. Knox endorsed. embezzlement sentence. a Lafayette death. San Francisco quake report. police kidnapping indictments. Camden to New ae social tie.
Reported arrival in Budapest as Francis Joseph enters ceremonies for his coronation as King of Hungary. Citizens protest universal suffrage with noisy demonstrations. Mentions Jos Ptterichs of Freeport Illinois and a widow and others in a foreign-language fragment.
President Theodore Roosevelt headlines Jamestown Exposition events in Norfolk Georgia Day ceremonies opening the Georgia Building. He delivers speeches to the National Editorial Association and tours grounds amid a heavy guards and naval display, praising Southern development and calling for tax laws and public land safeguards.
In the financial world the week saw 1.9 million dollars of American gold exported, bringing total to 6.8 million. Iron ore shipments from Lake Superior ranged at 5.6 million tons, setting a new record. Rumors place Reading for higher value as Philadelphia traders note Wall Street activity.
A mutiny by a squadron of guards Hussars at Tsarskoe-Selo was quickly surrounded and disarmed. The Imperial family had recently moved from the palace and order was restored without bloodshed.
A Southern passenger train No. 2 departing Nashville at 10 30 A M plunged down a 15 foot embankment at Black Branch near Lebanon about eleven A M injuring fifty seven of sixty aboard clear in Nashville Tenn. special report says the crash occurred at near Lebanon thirty three miles east of Nashville with speed between twenty and thirty miles an hour.
George C Fairfax 38 held for the Isaac Wood yard murder at Farr Post Office Fairfax County commits suicide with a concealed large dose of atrych oine in his jail cell. The jailer found him early morning and two physicians failed to save him. Fairfax had been despondent and rumored mentally impaired following the dispute over the polls.
A garbled compilation of quotations from Maclaren Galen Thore Thomas Eliot Oliver Hesyckel Hugh Black Robert Louis Stevenson and others. The text weaves themes of beauty goodness employment peace faith and moral character with erratic spelling and broken lines.
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