21 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
1
A sweeping U S telegraph strike draws in veteran operators like David Duey and Frank Crittenden, with long service, past wages, and family stakes shaping the stand. Women operators and families fuel the disruption, while a Los Angeles Oakland quarrel and union tensions ripple through Chicago and Kansas City.
Garments including coats are richly adorned with buttons and will likely see more elaborate trimming as the season progresses. Fashion observers note a rising trend toward decorative closures and bold buttonwork across outerwear and accessories.
Poem fragment imagines a motor boat car hybrid racing sea life. It riffs on waves skyward, sharks, corals, and a sardine escaping a box as a playful pastiche of nautical fantasy and mechanical speed. The speaker recalls a past war day and longs to repeat the thrill at sea.
Professor Archibald Henderson travels from England to write a life of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw aims to chart a history of art literature politics drama and sociology for a quarter century, with Shaw guiding the narrative and Henderson noting his friend’s frank self-critique and public persona.
The American Fisheries Society at Erie urges federal control over rivers and lakes to restore dwindling food fish stocks. A Delaware River fisherman notes declining shad as do other waters. A Shiras bill may face state-right opposition, but supporters argue national action is needed for future supply. A New York New Jersey joint commission studies such laws, with Pennsylvania prepared to cooperate.
London society embraces a new craze called the photo tea. Guests bring a photograph of themselves before age five, numbered and logged by the hostess. Pictures are circulated to guess identities, with results recorded on sheets. Prizes go to the best identifiers as this game spreads.
A new device for delivering orders to train crews on the Pennsylvania railroad becomes operative at noon. Orders are attached to hoops on poles outside telegraph towers. engineers will grab them at speed and carry them along, hoops to be returned at the roundhouse. Also reports on a lively widow contest between Humboldt Kansas and Moran Kansas with disparate widow counts. A fountain inscription in Melton Massachusetts will honor Adams Ale for Beast and Man, funded by William B Weston, with a granite base and bronze lion head spout.
William Wilson, a farmer from Plean Antville NF, reports a freak tomato growing atop a dahlia bush. The tomato weighs about a pound and sits about 150 feet from its vine. Wilson offers 825 to anyone who can explain the anomaly, via an Atlantic City special to the New York Times.
An armed mob attacked the Postal Telegraph office at Ashfork Arizona breaking every window with bullets. Four employees were endangered but none injured. Authorities prepared to deploy deputies to quell the riot while federal and state leaders urged action.
Harry Behmekin a 25 year old Western Union news department operator in New York collapsed after days of 20 hour shifts during the telegraphers strike. He toppled desks, shouted about paying telegraph men $1060 daily, and threw objects before police subdued him. He was hospitalized in Bellevue in a straight jacket as doctors attributed insanity to overwork. Union leaders and labor officials planned conferences with Sam Gompers and John Mitchell to seek possible settlement and potential congressional inquiry.
A vintage advertisement warns that neglect of feminine organs endangers happiness and life. It urges women to study wifehood and use a tonic with specific powers if energy flags or anxiety and aches appear, promising health restoration through a branded remedy.
Berlin reports a 1580 Bible edition reveal shows Eve’s master word altered from Herr to Narr by a printer’s angry wife. The woman altered type, the printer was jailed for blasphemy and died in prison, copies destroyed except the Wolfenbuttel Library edition.
Stockholm Aug 21 The Stockholms Tidningen reports on good authority that Rudyard Kipling is expected to receive the 1907 Nobel Prize in literature. The same source says Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain was suggested for consideration.
MLB scores recap with American and National League results plus Tri State and Atlantic league games. Notable items include John J. Mitchell’s death in Wellsboro, a large ship order to Fairfield Glasgow, a Chicago fire loss of 200000, and Governor Stuart fixing October 3 1407 for executions in Lancaster.
A Kiss Districts Public School report from Columbus dated August 6 notes teacher EB H Denig was accused of kissing a female pupil at Steubenville High School before vacation. He was exonerated after investigation. Superintendent E M Fan Creve withheld recommendation to retain Denig and did not confirm teachers. As the new school year opens, only two weeks of teaching remain unsolved as no replacement teacher has been elected.
Articles cited by the New Jersey secretary of state merge the New Jersey Street Railway Company Jersey City Hoboken and Paterson Railway Company and United Street Railway Companies of Central Jersey into Public Service Pathway Company with authorized capital of 38 006,000. The merger was agreed at a Newark stockholders meeting. Lajtan Island note says island not swallowed, reported by schooner Olsen captain. island visited Aug 15 by tug Iroquais from Guam. Fire in Stroudsburg Monroe Democrat building caused about 50 600 loss Aug 9. water scarcity threatened town's business district.
Quotations dated August 21 1907 list prices for grains hay and feeds from the Frederick County Farmers Exchange. Includes red oats yellow corn oats rye flour and bran per unit with ranges for bushels tons and barrels and notes on dairy feeds cottonseed meal and other farm commodities. Prices vary by item with several crops priced per bushel per ton or per hundred pounds.
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