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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
8
A recipe for pressed chicken stew with eggs, cooked in a pan to jelly like form, plus a note from the Boston Post about aiding country industries and a quirky Chicago News aside on a pretty girl. Also a Sulphur fumigation method for poultry houses, detailing kerosene solution and burning cobs to disinfect roosts and hen houses weekly.
A brief exchange notes fame with a quip about gaining star status and assistance from a large company. The speaker concedes not being hindered by outside help, reflecting a light editorial jab on publicity and influence.
Advertisement claims Kodol provides the digestive juices of a healthy stomach and begins digestion instantly. It promises relief from indigestion by resting the stomach and supporting full, thorough digestion with a natural, harmless liquid formula.
A drugstore guarantee offers a money back refund if Kodol Digestive Aid does not help after trying the whole bottle. The offer applies to large bottles only, with 2% times the content of a fifty cent bottle, prepared by E C DeWitt & Co Chicago and sold by W A Hayes Druggist Hillsboro NC.
Edith May Thompson Woodill, a young socialite from Maryland and California, was found murdered in Broad Creek near St. Michaels. Emmett Roberts, a reported reporter, was initially named suspect until police killed Robert Eastman, a Wall Street broker, in a Back River rowboat confrontation. Eastman carried letters and a poison vial. a letter addressed to Mrs. Robert Eastman was found on his body.
In Augusta Georgia, Allen Lyle failed to appear as guests gathered for his wedding to Emma Reynolds. The bride wept and the crowd dispersed after a search found him hours later bruised and muddy at a lumber yard three miles away. His doctor says temporary insanity caused the lapse.
Superintendent James H. Cobb of Belton Cotton Mills and Rev D. D. Richardson died when a trolley car hit their auto at Anderson Ss C. Mrs Richardson and Rev E A Mc Dowell were badly injured in the crash.
New York City accorded Mrs Howard Gould a separation and alimony of 100 per day after Justice Dowling found continual drunkenness in the Gould case and that Mr Gould deserted his wife without provocation. Counsel De Lancey Nicoll sought an arrest of judgment for 30 days, granted.
Mrs Anna Clotz was found dead in a tub of hot water on the second floor of the Ross bathing establishment in Asbury Park New Jersey. Dr William A Robinson says she fell in and being partly paralyzed could not lift herself out. Lungs were filled with water. She had stayed at Ocean Grove near Franklin Cottage three days and left no address. A brother in law Henry Clotz of Maiden Lane New York City is listed among her effects.
Pittsburg reports Wade Sorza left work to recover a body after a woman ran down by a Baltimore and Ohio train. He fainted upon recognizing the victim as his wife. He later carried her home, then hours later was found on the tracks with a gun seeking accountability.
London reports two government resignations due to ill health. Lord Fitzmaurice, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is replaced by Herbert Louis Samuel, now a Cabinet minister, as Under Secretary for Home Affairs. Thomas R. Buchanan is succeeded by Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Master of Elibank, as Parliamentary Secretary to the India Office.
Crop prospects at home and abroad improve leading to a fall in wheat prices. Analysts note stronger harvests and bumper yields abroad while domestic demand remains steady, easing market pressures.
Indianapolis report says farmers' wives in Central Indiana rebelling against large dinners for threshing crews. Thresher owners and threshing companies face new contracts as wives refuse to provide meals. Counties form threshing groups requiring each man to furnish his own dinner, signaling a widespread change in threshing day customs.
Charles Scheers, the chauffeur who ran down Patrick Mc Laughlin on the Old York road and was convicted of manslaughter, was sentenced by Judge Swartz at Norristown to one year in the county prison and a $50 fine.
Author Sarah Orne Jewett died at her residence in South Berwick Maine after months of illness including apoplexy and paralysis. She was fifty nine years old.
Charles J. F Printhall a contractor from Binghamton New York was killed when his automobile turned turtle two miles east of Owego.
Acting Captain Kuhne of the Detective Bureau in Brooklyn New York serves a thirty day sentence for contempt of court in the Raymond Street case.
Professor George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago was dropped from the Baptist Ministers Conference of Chicago after a four hour meeting marked by hisses uproar and chaotic voting. Despite arguing that he should be kept, the group voted to drop Foster though the church itself retains him.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Primary Election law unconstitutional. The decision may prompt a fall special session and a possible gubernatorial call. The old system offered no advisory vote for U.S. Senator and forced independent voters to align with a party to vote. Critics cite ward scandals from last August as evidence of manipulation.
Steubenville Ohio reports Meler Osman shot and killed Michael Demick a boarder in the Osman residence after a dispute with a neighbor about a cat. Osman then shot his wife and attempted suicide by firing at himself.
In San Francisco a jury failed to reach a verdict in the bribery case against Patrick Calhoun of United Railroads after five months. Ten jurors voted for acquittal and two for conviction over a $4000 bribe offer to a supervisor for an overhead trolley, ending the trial without a verdict.
Tom Bowen the only prisoner in the Kirbyville Jasper County Jail Texas was cremated in a fire that destroyed the building. Officials suspect the blaze was incendiary in origin.
George Deinlein was killed and seven others injured when an elevator plummeted from the seventh story of the Murdock Building in Cincinnati Ohio. The incident highlights a fatal fall and surrounding injuries as authorities investigate the cause and safety failures.
In Locke New York burglars blew open a bank safe taking 2500 dollars as State Senator Hewitt traded shots with robbers but none hit. In Fort Worth Texas a highwayman robs the Waggoner Bank and Trust Company of 8100 after closing time and escapes by automobile, cashier Walter E. King alarmed and police arrive minutes later. In Green Bay Wisconsin two armed bandits force open the United States Express night office vault and take 5000 dollars.
In Paterson New Jersey a blast at the Du Pont powder works in a Wynockie River gorge killed William Culler, 35, and James Weatherwalks, 32, and seriously hurt three others. The plant comprises small frame buildings about 15 by 20 feet, covered with corrugated iron, where the explosion occurred.
Sandwich Mass The first shovel full of earth marking the official start of the Cape Cod canal was turned by August Belmont of New York City. The seven mile canal will cost about 10 million dollars and shorten the route to New York by sixty three miles, tracing back to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry as the ancestral link on the founder’s farm.
Norman Thackarey foreman of the Arnold Print Works in North Adams was convicted in U S District Court of violating the alien contract labor law. He was fined 200 dollars for inducing English mill hands Clifford Geldard and Bernard Tugwell to come to the United States to work in his plant.
Three Milwaukee men Oswald Lippold age 35 and William Arnold age 21 were drowned in a millrace in Ann Arbor while swimming to work on the University of Michigan Chemical Laboratory construction. Foreman Lippold supervised the crew. William Colep was rescued unconscious.
James B. Gentry, who killed Mads. Yorke in Philadelphia in 15 percent, and who was pardoned by Governor Stuart, has been released from Eastern Penitentiary. Mohammed V to tour European courts in autumn as the new Sultan of Turkey plans a European tour.
The historic House of the Seven Gables in Salem Massachusetts, famed from Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, has been purchased by George R. Emmerton and converted into a residence to aid settlement work.
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