16 May 1907
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
1
The piece portrays Tolstoi wrestling with altruistic ideals and daily life. A recurring inner voice rebukes him for cowardice and vanity, urging him to remember wife and children and reject sneaking away to be consistent. The confrontation ends with renewed commitment to his civic burden.
A report notes that about fifty varieties of aimapies are said to grow across North America. The item mentions regional spread and references horticultural sources without detailing specific locations or cultivars.
A new million dollar passenger and freight steamer City of Cleveland being completed at Detroit Shipbuilding Company burned to the water line. The item notes other shocks from 1900-era markets and law cases across the country including indictments and divorces.
Reported shift in Chinese court politics shows Chun Hauan reversing recent pro reform appointments and placing loyalists in key posts. The move follows tensions within Peking governance and impacts ongoing power balance in imperial leadership.
Chicago traders sparked a sensational opening at the Board of Trade with wheat racing past one dollar. July, September, and December options all posted gains as heavy buying from across the United States and Canada flooded in, shorts covered, and prices leaped from the day’s first bell.
Kansas City report details a five story fire at Locust and Ninth destroying the University Building. George De Mare was killed and 15 injured. six missing feared buried. Montgom ery Ward & Co. occupied offices with 200 women artists musicians among victims.
Neil McDonald a telegraph operator at Clark's Mills near Utica climbed a tower carrying 60,000 volt lines for the West Shore electric cars. He sought a snow scene with his camera but a blown hat led him to touch a live wire and he was killed.
In South McAlester I T special report the grand jury returned indictments charging J S Newman and John Williams of Durant Thomas Sterrett and Seymour 9 with murder allegedly linked to a lynching leading figures accused of leading a mob and hanging a Black man.
The Supreme Court refused to review the condemnation proceedings for the Southern Illinois Bridge Company over the Mississippi near St. Louis. It also denied Cramp Shipbuilding recovery for Navy delay in building the battleship Indiana and granted an injunction against Ducktown smelters in Georgia Copper Company cases. President approves commutation of J. W. January sentence with pardon set for July 9.
A Roanoke Circuit jury indicts 12 Roanoke and Salem merchants for handling obscene postcards. Mourning losses reported as Albert Bishop dies from train injuries in Keyser. W D Spiker of Maurertown dies, leaving a widow and children. Southern Railway seeks 2 cent passenger rate. court actions in North and South Carolina. Bond sales fund beltline expansion around Richmond with new cars. Seaboard Air Line to accept the rate order. Contempt fines levied in a local Junior Order dispute.
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