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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1900
Page
3
National scene centers on Dolliver Allison and Elkins Fairbanks as factions maneuver for presidential nomination. Delegates and allied clubs gather in Philadelphia with parade plans and 15 ambulance stations along Broad Street route.
The Allied Clubs of Philadelphia and vicinity plan a large turnout for the parade on June 18. Local clubs will cooperate with outside organizations, including the Invincible Club of Washington and the Unconditional Club of Albany, N Y and Marquette among others.
Arrangements are made for the seventy third anniversary of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church in West Philadelphia. The event includes a mortgage liquidation sermon by Bishop C. C. McCabe and notes the church’s 1827 founding and its historic building.
State chemist Hummell reports strawberries sold to flavor ice cream and sodas were colored with coal tar or aniline dye. A local firm sent the samples after consumers complained of illness from strawberry flavored products. A broken can exposed workers to the dye, causing illness.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic to improve appetite and digestion. It claims the medicine gently tones the stomach, cures dyspepsia, and builds up the whole system, delivering strength, vigor, and endurance.
The De Maranville family, long secluded near Ashtabula Ohio, trace to French roots in the Western Reserve era. Mias Sally De Maranville died aged eighty nine, leaving only a spinster sister, about seventy, and a fragile tale of hardship and hidden money from their past.
William Newton, wealthy banker in Portland Indiana, and his brother John who lived as his servant, died in a recent house fire. The blaze destroyed property including a quilt with $50,000 in notes. William managed the bank and his Sundays drew many visitors paying interest and renewing debts.
Mrs. Sarah Gowan 73 was found dead in her home at 520 Montrose Street with marks on her throat and a rope tied to a door jamb. Her son James, intoxicated, was questioned as detectives investigated whether it was murder or suicide. Autopsy awaited to decide.
In Baldwinsville near Syracuse Mrs. James Small shot and killed Mrs. Lou Ostrander over jealousy about Small's son. Police report the act was premeditated with weeks of revolver practice and a statement that Ostrander would learn soon enough. Mrs. Small and her son James were arrested.
Two boys fishing at Somer's Cove near Crisfield Maryland found the body of George Whealton a sailor on the Samuel Hudgin schooner. A temple wound indicated foul play. Coroner's jury ruled Turnerfi Turner a colored man struck Whealton with an oar or heavy tool after a quarrel and Turner was arrested despite claiming innocence.
Richfield Utah clockmaker Joseph Jenson has built a clock that shows hours halves quarters and moon phases and also indicates the current time in every city via a revolving globe inside a transparent sphere. A noon line marks the world map and shifts to reflect the local time.
At the University of Pennsylvania Law School the General Alumni Society hosts a Tuesday Alumni Day luncheon with speakers including United States Senator Cushman K. Davis and Surgeon General George M. Sternberg. Henry Galbraith Ward presides as two portraits and a bust are presented to the university.
Trinity Sunday is observed in Roman Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran churches with special sermons and music. Corpus Christi will be celebrated Thursday as a major festival, while St. Swithin's Day Friday brings superstition of rain foretelling six weeks of wet weather. Methodist churches mark Children's Day with services and floral offerings. Former Governor Pattison to teach at Church of the Covenant.
Special telegram reports the battleships Indiana and Massachusetts arriving to coal here this morning and expected to be ready for sea tonight. Navy officials in Washington praise the rapid progress and anticipate Newport by Monday as the North Atlantic squadron arms for early week operations.
Captain Hawley of the training ship Hartford, now at League Island, went to Washington yesterday. The Hartford is ordered to Boston to be docked and repaired, with most of her crew transferred to the Indiana and Massachusetts. Green detached from local naval recruiting and assigned to the cruiser New Orleans on the Asiatic station.
Genealogical notes from Mrs. Caroline Hanks Hitchcock reveal details about Nancy Hanks mother of Abraham Lincoln. The narrative follows Benjamin Hanks' 1609 voyage from London to Plymouth and traces the Virginia and Kentucky migrations ending with Nancy Hanks’ birth in 17%. The tale links land grants, marriages, and wills across Pembroke, Virginia, Nelson County, and kin such as Mary Shipley and Nancy Perdy.
Thomas Lincoln learned carpentry from cousin Joseph Hanks in Elizabethtown and Beechland Kentucky. He married Nancy Hanks on June 14, 1806 and their son Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in Buffalo Indiana before moving to Knob Creek and later Indiana. Nancy Hanks Lincoln died October 5, 1818 near Lincoln Station Indiana with memories of her appearance preserved by locals.
An Arctic expedition tale unfolds as the cook warns this is the last bootleg breakfast and the explorer reacts in surprise. The narrative hints at an autumn lecture season and a rescue party assembling to reach a stranded party.
A magistrate questions a witness about overhearing a quarrel between the defendant and his wife. The dialogue captures the witness confirming details and the court seeking clarification on indications of domestic discord.
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