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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
2
A dramatic scene unfolds at Mulfera station as Stingaree masquerades as bishop and chaplain to disrupt the assembly. Hilda Bouverie proves a talent that attracts Sir Julian Crum while Stingaree plots an escape. Superintendent Cairns and stingaree clash in a charge of bravado and cunning.
In a dramatic sequence Carmichael proclaims a Sunday services revival and leads a plan to back it up as detectives escort Stingaree and a bushranger duo to a hot Mazeppa station. Superintendent Cairns taunts Stingaree while the prisoners endure harsh restraints under a harsh desert sun as the pursuit continues.
Washington reports Postmaster General Hitchcock requests 281 million dollars for next fiscal year, highlighting 10 million for parcels post, rural delivery expansion, and eight hour law costs. Other items cover new Russian stamps, Bulgarian queen’s nurse role, Philippine marriage appeal, German ship safety rules, and a giant battleship slated for 1914 completion.
A tribute to a newsboy hero sparks nationwide support for a monument. Donations from sympathetic individuals across the United States gather to honor the boy who fell in the line of duty, with timing and location yet to be announced.
The piece notes Joseph N. Dolley, father of the blue sky law, drawing attention from legislators worldwide, while suffragists plan an inauguration parade in Washington on March 4 led by Belva Lockwood. It explains the blue sky law: out of state corporations must obtain licenses before selling stock or bonds to state citizens.
Topeka Kansas reports its wheat harvest this year could feed over one-sixth of the U S population. The crop could supply 17 537 000 soldiers with daily bread for a year and would girdle the earth thirty two times with one pound loaves. Farmers would earn 85 million dollars from the crop and bakers 320 million if all wheat were made into five cent loaves.
Examinations of civil life candidates for second lieutenants in the United States marine corps will be held on or about January 7 in San Francisco and Washington. About fifteen vacancies exist for eligible successors, with Indians to marry like white people noted in the report from Winnebago Nebraska.
A $50 000 hospital for animals to be built on a $66 500 site in New York follows efforts by the New York Women’s League For Animals. Mrs James Speyer president of the league led fundraising and site transfer. The three story building will house four footed patients including horses dogs and cats with modern devices for swift treatment.
August W. P. Thorne announces a new clearing house under the Bureau of Public Charities to receive mentally deficient children from boards of education health departments dispensaries social workers state institutions and reform agencies. Each child will be tested with the Binet scale fingerprints taken and heredity investigated to decide proper action and potential danger to the community. Plans for site and buildings will be presented to the Board of Estimate for approval.
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