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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
3
Yesterday’s results show Chicago and Boston posting wins while New York and Cleveland suffered defeats. Strong batteries and standout lineups appear across major league matchups with details scattered in the garbled box scores.
Sports rounds notes the Tri-State League standings and recent game results across Harrisburg Johnstown Reading Altoona and Lincolnville with scores and batters listed. A separate item reports a tiger attack at Los Angeles Zoo where keeper Herman Gerson wrestled free from a tiger as his wife aided with a pitchfork and hose.
J Messett a longtime money order clerk in the Scranton post office is remanded on 3000 bail to face embezzlement charges. He is accused of embezzling a money order for 142 dollars from Postmaster Matthew McPherson of Dickson City, with a broader alleged shortage of at least 5000 over about a year.
A Stuttgart Fauilienblatt excerpt argues that memory training is simple and effective. It suggests teaching children to memorize a few lines daily as the easiest discipline, claiming no faculty is trained as readily as memory.
The excerpt presents Mrmy Darley Youdly asking a woman what she would do if he were to die, and her hesitant reply reveals a contemplation of burial versus a different fate. The dialogue suggests a personal selection shaped by emotion and circumstance within a domestic setting.
Five Italian workmen for Burke brothers were instantly killed in a dynamite explosion in a rock cut along the Lackawanna railroad at Lehigh. A dozen others narrowly escaped with fatal injuries as they prepared to fit dynamite charges. The blast hurled bodies and debris high into the air. exact cause unknown, as tellers were all dead. Bodies brought to the city and placed in the morgue.
Three miners are dead and five seriously injured after an explosion at the Elleworth mine of the Pittsburg Coal company near Monongahela. Two injured men named Peter Hazen are hospitalized, with several others retrieved hours after the blast. Inspector Henry Loutit reports most men were out of the mine when the explosion occurred in west entry No. 9. little internal damage noted.
Wealthy contractor Charles Hendley reports three highway robberies in a week near his stone quarry east of the city. State constabulary plan a manhunt after Hendley was held up, robbed of small sums, and beaten on each occasion.
In Watertown New York on June 20 Mary Farmer was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of neighbor and friend Sarah Brennan. Justice Rogere ordered Farmer to be electrocuted at Auburn prison the week of August 2. The motive was possession of the Brennan home and forged deeds. Also reported Coke ovens to resume firing 1000 units in Connellsville Pennsylvania as announced by J T Mitchell. The Globe in London notes sixteen new cardinals, including two Americans and one Englishman, to be appointed at September consistory.
A Tamaqua Manufacturing Company plant was destroyed by a blaze on June 20 in Tamaqua Ps. Loss is estimated at about $200,000. Fire officials investigated the cause as the fire wiped out the facility.
Prominent society figure Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish denounces wealth as sole value and predicts a social shift toward intellect and breeding. She laments Newport’s snobbery, notes hospitality should matter, and says future exclusivity must hinge on birth and manners, not money. She prefers life at Garrison-on-the-Hudson and urges change before a social revolution.
The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association forms a 17 member committee to study wood preservation. They aim to extend timber life for ties bridges piles and poles by treating wood and using better methods. Four subcommittees will study economics preservatives wood preparation and treating processes.
Washington dispatch reports government order to repaint letter boxes red for visibility. Previous colors gray and green failed as blends, some boxes already red for testing. Assistant Postmaster General remarks difficulty locating boxes and supports a uniform red coat nationwide.
Cannibal hens in Watertown Connecticut attack newly hatched chicks, a farmers’ season challenge as poultry losses rise. A Kansas free employment agency calls for 21,500 workers and 1,200 teams to harvest wheat, urging laborers to move toward work and better living conditions while addressing harsh tenements and health concerns.
The article notes a street in a city placarded with Taft pictures in honor of the Republican nominee for president and claims residents are pledged to vote for Taft. It also mentions a local park shooting in New Philadelphia and state betting rulings affecting Overland Park horse racing.
Boston reports the death of an elderly landlord described as a Harvard graduate tied to Roosevelt’s era, with details of gifts from students who later became presidents. Washington notes President Taft approving a $260,000 land purchase in Cuba for church lands, via Monsignore Averarda, apostolic delegate to Cuba.
Twenty passengers injured with one fatality after a bridge collision near Meadville and Cam Springs Street car line. Mrs Julia Whitaker, wife of Biahoy Whitaker of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania, dies in Philadelphia after long illness at age seventy three. Explosion of a Denver Rio Grande freight car near Sargent, Crow River area blows train apart, two tramps killed, several trainmen injured, a forty foot crater formed.
Dr. Herman F. Hormann twenty four of Philadelphia living on Pat Street was drowned when a canoe overturned in the Behaylil river at Phoenixville Pennsylvania on June 20.
A large fire in Reading Pennsylvania destroyed the Stichter Hardware Company store and damaged nearby buildings. The loss is estimated at 75,000 dollars. The blaze also affected adjacent properties as fire crews battled the flames through the night.
Robert Lowe once watched a deaf friend listening to a most tremendous bore with his ear trumpet and wondered aloud why contend against natural advantages. He reflects on the irony of human perception and the limits of trying to overcome inherent traits.
An unclear OCR fragment references a medical topic and names like Mogens Pont. It mentions a family medicine context and possible discussions of treatments or remedies with cautions about weakness and gender. Specific facts or actions are not discernible from the readable text.
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