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Newspaper
Philip Weekly Review
Location
Philip, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
2
A publisher criticizes a new editor for missing the heroine’s dress in a scene while an author humorously counters by detailing a lavish ensemble with a $600 dress a $250 hat and a $575 lace coat. The quips extend to a joke about poets and editors expecting praise after death.
A Cleveland Post item denounces a con artist running a correspondence school titled rat teaches you how to play baseball to tour easy lessons. The dealer claims you can get anything cheap at that lesson of the year, and warns the public about the slick scheme and its impact.
Twenty one miners believed dead in the St Maul mine at Cherry Illinois were found alive after seven days entombed. The rescue sparked joy but a midnight fire halted further efforts as workers lowered equipment and water streams to reach more survivors.
A blaze at Georgetown University in Washington DC destroyed the library. A fire horse died after a heroic effort while a hundred students slept in dormitories nearby. rare volumes valued at least ten thousand dollars were lost, with the fire believed to have started in the boiler room.
Jurors in Judge McBurely's court in Chicago return a verdict of life imprisonment for Clemison for the murder of his wife Nora Jane Cleminson at their home 6823 Wayne Avenue. The defense scarce spared a juror, with deliberations under three hours and four ballots. The husband claimed burglars chloro formed him and his wife and stole a gold watch. Police doubts grow as doctors report he was feigning illness.
Secretary Wilson acts after millers refuse the government warning to stop manufacturing bleached flour. An order to seize the product follows the defiant stance and aims to enforce the food safety directive amid the flour shortage.
From the dark of the mine a few rescued men spoke brief hopeful words. They recalled earlier sounds that suggested others trapped nearby might still be alive, their voices carrying a glimmer of reassurance during the long hours of imprisonment.
A gaso line launch in a savage Lake Superior storm carried Axel Oberg his wife two children and two sailors for eighty four hours without food after the craft ran into flooding gas tanks. They were cast on rocks thirteen miles from Duluth but all hands survived though exhausted and exposed.
Reports detail seizures of bleached flour totaling fourteen consignments and hundreds of carloads in the west, with estimated value around $1 million manufactured last year and much remaining in the east. Other items note an ever bearing strawberry claim after twelve years, Northwest freight-rate talk, Western Canada immigration increases, meat production trends, and anticipated rising meat prices at a Chicago convention. Plans for a Welland canal route and Montana display of mining and cattle heritage are mentioned alongside forecasts of higher prices and cattle markets.
Richard Watson Gilder, poet and editor in chief of Century Magazine, died of angina pectoris shortly before 6 o'clock Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, 9 West 10th Street, New York. He was with his wife and children, and a brief illness preceded his death after a day of apparent sound health.
Walter Schoonover an 11 year old Kansas City boy tailed by homicidal impulses stalks his parents with a hammer at night yet returns to bed peaceful when awakened. His parents sought help from Judge Van Prather as the court ordered him sent to a sanitarium for treatment.
A dynamite blast destroyed the front of Sacred Heart Church at Clinton Indiana in a coal field parish of Hungarian and Bohemian miners amid a feud over church control. The church cost 59000 and was dedicated last July. Elmira City Hall also burned down in Elmira New York, a ten year old building costing 100000.
Giuseppe A Atello a member of the Black Hand Specty operatives in Cincinnati died in the federal prison hospital at Leavenworth Kansas of an ailment brought on by acute melancholia after two weeks of violent illness. Benjamin Lamont of New York sentenced to four years in the penitentiary at Montreal hanged himself to the cell door.
An old promotional piece touts the genuine California Fig Syrup Co product and warns buyers to avoid impostors. It includes a questionable orange juice trick for masking castor oil and offers a home remedy for coughs and catarrh with syrups and tonics. It ends with a moral aside about art and conscience.
Canadian Thanksgiving arrives later than in the United States as harvests flourish across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Toronto Globe notes wealth gains from a perfect harvest weather and rising farm profits with wheat and oats yields strong. The piece highlights pride in Providence and a season of uncommon enthusiasm for a bountiful land.
An old advertisement touts Hooln's Distemper Cure for dogs with claims of curing all forms of distemper and preventing the disease. It markets bottles at 8.50 to 11.00, cites 600,000 bottles sold last year, and seeks manufacturers and agents, urging readers to request a free book.
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