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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
3
Official publication listing city paper status for Moline with officers Thomas I. Stanley Warren L. Hastman J Maurice Farnham and pricing by mail year six months carrier weekly Sunday edition and twice weekly journal rates for subscription and delivery.
A speech extols the long progress of Yale and American education. It lauds Yale as the infant school of 1701 grown to a renowned, world class institution influencing national and global education and athletics on the occasion of its bi centennial.
Census data chart longer life in 341 cities with 29 million people, 35 years average at death in 1900 up from 31 in 1890, death rate 18.6 per 1000 vs 21. Infancy deaths drop sharply due to prevention, while heart and kidney diseases, pneumonia and influenza rise. Consumption and diphtheria deaths fall. diarrhoeal diseases remain high. Buffalo reports lowest rate. Charleston mob incident noted. New York politics and mail circulation mention.
Frederic Harrison warns that Cape Town martial rule tramples English law and civilian rights. He cites trials by court martial of civilians, bans punishment without civil courts, and urges surrender to civil authority. Other items note Boer prisoner escapes, Kipling and Canadian irate, and the Duke of York facing frost on frontier prairies.
In Columbia Mississippi on October 25 a mob tied Bill Morris to a pine stake, chained him, and burned him alive after he assaulted Mrs. Ball at Halltown Louisiana. He looted the store, fled, was wounded by a posse shot while trying to escape, and his fate followed a brutal confrontation.
A Chicago to Kansas City passenger train wreck occurred after a derailment on a torn-up track. The crash left several seriously injured, with estimates listing three fatally injured and five others badly hurt. Passengers from multiple states suffered internal injuries, broken bones, and head or chest trauma as responders rushed to the scene.
The country’s youngest life convict, a 13 year old named Smith Jones, began imprisonment at Michigan City state prison. He was convicted of first degree murder in the Worrahk counts ecirenit court. The judge ordered prison instead of reform school.
Reports from Constantinople say missionaries operating from Samakos Bulgaria have reached contact with the brigands who abducted Miss Ellen Stone and Mme Kustika. It is unclear if ransom talks have begun. officials in Washington pressed for immediate communication to secure a release.
Boston hardware men learn a proposed national combine aims to unite hardware interests with a New York headquarters. Mr Shirtwaist asks about paternal news while Miss Sereleaf blushes, adding a note of town gossip.
An advertisement from Kidd Drug Co and John Harding & Co druggists sells Virtuam claiming it cures impotence and restores vigor for old and middle aged, with promises of success and happiness in business and social life. Packages priced at $20 or $1 for 50. Located in Dubuque.
In Wisconsin near Monroe a carriage crash caused by a felled tree claimed the lives of Daniel France and his wife from Fairview Kansas. Four other riders escaped unharmed. Separately in Havana a garrote execution of Andres Rodriguez and Anicete O Farrill occurred with a fellow prisoner acting as executioner earning gold and time off his sentence.
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