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Newspaper
Philip Weekly Review
Location
Philip, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
6
A dialogue mocks a doctor touting concentrated pine compound as a cure all. The “doctor” claims care for coughs and imaginary illnesses, while the skeptic notes the bottle requires shaking and administering a tablespoon every four hours, exposing the absurdity of using imaginary pills to treat imaginary patients.
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century notice touts Dean's Kidney Pills through a testimonial by Mrs Judson Eilis of Jackson Michigan known formerly as Nurse Baker. The text claims the medicine alleviated back ache weakness and helped her resume work and daily tasks. It also references a family named Gradwell and a personal detail about a son.
The text describes an itchy eruption spreading across the body, with intense itching that interrupted daily duties. Relief came after using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills, and within a few days symptoms lessened and nearly cleared.
John Harvard, a negro preacher, shot and fatally injured W. D. Booth near Cochran Georgia. A mob captured Harvard two miles from Cochran, chained him to a stake, and burned him as flames engulfed the body. Booth, a Hawkinsville businessman, was wounded in two places and fled to a barn before the mob seized Harvard.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Cabell reports lower beer output but higher tobacco and snuff production. Distilled spirits volume reached 139,801,631 gallons, up from last year, with total 1911 expenses projected at 96,802,400 including 100,000 for the corporation tax.
A Topeka social club voted to bar Gov Brubbe from being entertained at a banquet honoring Chief Justice Johnston. Former member Gov Stubba had planned to speak, but the locker-system policy on liquor led to the exclusion. Other items mention passport actions and wartime figures.
Governor Haskell advises a boycott of the railroads in a letter to the state board, proposing tax shifts to roads that paid taxes last year. The note names Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and St Louis San Francisco as examples. An 11 year old Davenport girl is arrested after stealing cash and goods amid a spree of finery. Charles Stewart Smith, famed merchant prince, dies in New York at 77. A Marion Illinois mine explosion leaves one dead and many trapped.
In a historic shift the English House of Lords refused formal assent to the budget and sent it to the country for judgment, amid a six day debate. The chamber, crowded with peers and spectators, saw a 360 to 75 vote on Lord Lanadowne's amendment declaring the bill not justified without a public referendum.
Voters across Alabama favored the prohibition amendment by estimates ranging from 18 000 to 20 000. Jefferson County Birmingham Mobile Montgomery and Cullman counties show sizable anti amendment majorities, while Tolleaose Macon and Sumter lean toward the pro side. The result reflects a statewide expression on prohibition, the first time all voters faced the issue directly.
Public Printer Donnelly is summoned to appear before the Civil Service Commission on December 25 to justify a charge of insubordination filed against John W. Rodgers of the Government Printing Office. Rodgers, told he could not be spared, took paid leave to vote, then was discharged. Rodgers was reinstated after an appeal to Representative Bingham, but the insubordination charge remained.
Miss Juanita C. Howard of Chicago married Irving Herriott beside her father James Howard’s open casket after he was fatally injured in an automobile crash. Howard, longtime secretary of the Washington Park club and famed horseman known as the Father of the American Derby, died before license could be obtained.
The battleship Rhode Island, docked in Brooklyn since the Hudson Fult on celebration, sailed Monday to join the battleship fleet at Hampton Roads.
Charles Johnson a Kansas City contractor with 25 years in the trade died from injuries after a fall from a third floor to a basement at a building under construction. Also noted are figures on gold exports, Morocan tribal chiefs submitting to Gen. Marina, heavy snowfall in New Mexico, and a robber sentenced to four years in a state reformatory.
A Washington dispatch reports postal statistics showing a 6.31 percent rise in total Post Office revenues for the year ending June 30, 1909, to 203,562,383.07 with stamps and rents up while money orders fell. Deficits grew as expenditures outpaced receipts, and the piece notes foreign remittances and office counts declining since 1901. It also mentions a Navajo-related murder near Ship Rock and political and mining incidents abroad.
President Taft announced three new appointments to federal posts. James J. Davenport, from New Hampshire and a twelve year deputy, was named Pension Commissioner succeeding Warner. Benjamin Cable of Chicago becomes Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and W. J. Mills of the New Mexico Supreme Court was named Governor of the Territory. Davenport is 64 and a Republican veteran of the Civil War.
Five people drown when the pleasure launch Olga capsized on Muskegon Lake amid a panic after a Baseline explosion. The nine aboard included four Carlson family members and Ann Saunders. They were en route to a wedding on the lake’s north side when the accident occurred within 150 feet of the landing.
In early morning fog Sheriff Hazen Deputy Johnson and Patrolman Bener halted at a bridge two bank robbers fleeing on a railroad speeder from Puposky after blowing a bank at midnight. In the ensuing fight Johnson was critically injured one robber believed Jim Smith was killed and the second bandit driven into the wilderness chased by a growing posse. Word from Puposky to Bemidji via telephone said the safe in a bank there was opened and $900 stolen. The bandits stole a speeder.
Stage star Miss Ethel Barrymore and her husband Augustus Hellmont welcomed a son late Sunday night at their New York home on East Thirty-fourth Street. Both mother and child are reported well. Barrymore wed Mr Colt, son of Colonel Samuel P Colt of Providence, in March.
The United States and Chilean governments through the foreign office in London requested King Edward to mediate the Alsop claim dispute between the two nations. The idea had been informally discussed earlier but yielded only a noncommittal reply.
Report from the steamer City of Para cites forty Corinto citizens shot to death by order of President Zelaya after they cheered an insurgent victory. Corinto was ringed by guards as the boat docked and its crew were kept from ashore. Telegraphic briefs mention a Kentucky oil mill fire, an Auburn murder acquittal, and personnel changes in pensions administration.
A fragment recounts Das ton asking for delay while Pythias gasps that he would have been executed had a new house numbering system gone into effect without notification. The Chicago Tribune quote frames an error in alerting a party to the change.
A speculative medical pitch claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube lining can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It promises a $100 reward for any catarrh deafness case proven uncureable and invites readers to send for free circulars from F J Creed Co Toledo. A stray humor snippet ends with a domestic quip from the Baltimore American.
A Nova Scotia girl relates trials aboard a voyage as she learns life preserver use. She explains seasickness was not the issue but sleeplessness from misreading the card and struggling to don the life preserver.
A Memphis wife recounts her husband’s illness linked to coffee. A physician recommended stopping coffee and using Postum instead. Within a year the husband gained thirty five pounds and regained strength, with the wife praising the remedy’s wisdom.
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