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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
3
Fragmentary text describes a maritime accident with multiple injuries among recruits aboard a vessel. It mentions Los Salina, Hyeres, a 26 millimeter breach, and wounded taken to hospital, with chaos and deaths implied but details are murky due to damaged source.
A Camden man employed by W. C. Davis was bitten on the left thumb by a dog at a customer’s home. He was taken to Pasteur Institute in New York and discharged after eighteen days with no lasting effects.
A rabid pet cat attacked Charles and Mrs. Carpel(a) in their New York home, biting Mrs. Cornelius on arms and legs and injuring Mr. Cornelius as he tried to intervene. The cat, killed, was later found to be infected with rabies at Willard Parker Hospital.
In Buffalo on August 18 three women faced police court on first degree murder charges. Annie Sutherland allegedly shot her husband Alexander. Taabella Sahlen is accused of strangling her three children. Brown asks a seventeen year old girl is charged with throwing a newborn babe from a hospital window. All three waived examination and were held for the grand jury.
The body of sixteen-year-old Bernie Price, a Germania Sunday school teacher, was found in a creek at the town’s edge. The room was locked when her mother called her to enter, and a boy who looked in saw an empty room afterward. Police consider suicide a theory though friends suspect an early morning walk turned tragic.
A robbery on a Pennsylvania highway near Altoona ends with the highwayman forcing the conductor from a party carriage and making off with valuables after a struggle. The assailant, identified as Charles Parnell, a seventeen year old resident, was described as short and slight, with motives linked to reading novels.
National League results show Philadelphia sweeping Boston in a doubleheader, Chicago losing to Pittsburgh, and New York beats Brooklyn. Standings list Woolworths, Cincinnati, Detroit, and St Louis in tight races with several clubs near .500.
Summary of multiple minor league baseball results with scores in brackets and inning counts. Details include Batterson McKinney Starnagle Brady Kocepmann for Altogna and Williamsport Reading Lancaster Lancaster Trenton standings with records and percentages.
Nathan Lee Sullivan eight is crushed when a two hundred pound weight used to secure a fire escape falls from a rotten wire rope. The accident happened while the boy was skating near his home in Scranton Pennsylvania. Mrs Sullivan rushed to the scene as the child died instantly.
James Lawless of Jersey City, a Pennsylvania railroad engineer, was seriously injured in Trenton after jumping from his locomotive under the belief another train was approaching. Doctors report he should recover though other railroad men say no other train was nearby at the time.
Over 1500 miners in Jobstown Pa. are out of work as drought halts water power. The Ber Wind White Coal company closed three mines and warns further closures if rain does not come soon.
A fragmented medical note promotes a remedy claimed to cure diarrhoea. It mentions a man and references a modern practice and a soldier’s product in an unclear promotional form.
Pittsburg New York and Chicago battle for NL supremacy amid Cubs injuries and weak pitching. McGraw and Mathewson shine for the Giants as Chicago struggles with Pfeister Overall Reulbach and Fraser uneven. Race tightens with Philadelphia and Reds looming as contenders.
The article outlines 39 young graduates from nine American institutions receiving Forest Service appointments after passing the Civil Service examination. It notes roles for Forest Assistants on National Forests, with pay around 1000 dollars yearly, and cites Gilford Pinchot on the mix of naturalist and business skill needed. It describes the ladder of entry, anticipated duties, and rewards of a career in forestry amid rugged conditions and long training.
A compiled column notes curious scenes in New York on August 18 with Captain Edward Coppers as referee watching David Benson eat fifty ears of greased corn served boiling with butter. other brief items include a Copenhagen arrival of a three-year-old boy to join his mother Mrs. Kreutzkamp, and various health and remedy notices from Montreal to Toronto.
Quotations furnished by Frederick County Farmers Exchange dated August 13 1908 list prices for corn oats barley and hay among others. Items include No 2 Red corn 70 to 78 cents per bushel mixed hay 30 to 60 cents per bushel and middlings 20 to 25 dollars per ton. Local figures cover wheat oats and feed products with regional notes and prices.
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