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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
2
A collage of remarks on fishing, fruit, aviation, New York lighting ambitions, fashion trends, labor, tourism, and social norms. It cites the AFL, jokes about hats and shoes, a flotilla with the president on the Mississippi, and European fashion importation. Includes mentions of Chicago population estimates and a king’s grandson at a naval college.
The czar visits his relatives on shore only briefly, taking tea while surrounded by ships named Invincibles and Dreadnoughts to ensure no bombs or anarchists are present.
A Connecticut man has filed suit against a neighbor alleging harm from a neighbor's bees. The unusual case raises questions about liability for damages from insect stings and the neighbor's responsibility for apiary conduct. The outcome may set a precedent for bee-related nuisance claims.
A New York man files a lawsuit against a judge two police chiefs three detectives and a coroner claiming false arrest. He asserts his reputation was damaged by the actions of multiple officials.
Sing Sing inmates publicize need for more tenor voices to aid church services. dearth of singers prompts disposal of the next grand opera star who murders his notes, reflecting a humorous but somber note on the prison choir.
Experiments yield a petroleum based butter claimed to be "something just as good" as the real article but critics doubt such "near butter" will win favor with connoisseurs sensitive to quality.
The text notes a shift in reaction to worms that affect jack pine. Previously, timber owners would work harder with axes when pine was dull and plentiful. Now jack pine holds value, altering how owners respond to infestations and damage.
The British and colonial governments agreed to reduce cable press rates to ninepence per word between Britain and India Australia and South Africa, replacing the previous shilling rate. This follows the recent colonial conference in London.
Some advisers tell King Alfonso that the Morocco war risks following the Cuba fiasco. They face the hard truth that the Bourbons never learn from past mistakes.
Three aviators are contemplating a crossing of the English Channel by airship. If successful, such a voyage would mark a notable departure from England's insularity and herald a new era of air travel.
The tuberculosis exhibit with demonstrations of the tuberculin test has been set by the Wisconsin state board of agriculture as a feature of the state fair. It will present the scientific safeguard to farmers under authoritative circumstances and help mollify opposition. Wisconsin aims to lead in the fight against bovine tuberculosis.
A major blaze at Moorhouse & Wells Hardware on East Main Street sparked the city’s worst fire in memory. A hotel engine room fire caused panic among guests while fire crews from Springfield aided Decatur, and water supply was cut as reservoirs fell to seven feet. Losses are estimated around $1,000,000 with Moorhouse & Wells alone at $300,000, plus numerous buildings destroyed or damaged in the heart of the district.
A riot at the Pressed Steel Car plant in Schoenville near Pittsburg left five dead including a state trooper and a deputy sheriff plus three foreigners. At least twenty were seriously wounded. The violence erupted after a day of calm as rioters used clubs and stones. foreign women were noted as inciting the crowd.
Fitzgerald, Georgia, Henry Taylor, a Black man, was charged with assaulting Mrs. John M. Vickers on Tuesday and then murdering her and her infant. He was taken from the sheriff between Lumpkin and McRea, amid a mob scene.
In Wilmington Delaware Angela Facheli 21 took Paris green to end her life after her mother opposed her relationship with her sweetheart and destroyed a love letter from him. The case cites parental interference as a motive in her suicide.
Juarez city authorities approve 20000 to entertain Diaz and Taft for the October 16th meeting. The city will be profusely decorated and a bullfight is planned as part of the visit.
During a violent electrical storm Friday a street car was struck by lightning causing a panic that killed a woman. A house roof was ripped off while residents lay in bed in Pittsburg during the same weather event.
Miss Annie Bess Leville aged 16 daughter of James Leville a prominent farmer near Cave City committed suicide by taking strychnine after being refused permission to visit a summer resort in Glasgow Kentucky.
A $30,000 blaze at the Cropper Stable Company barn in Louisville, Kentucky, destroyed the buildings and cremated seventy five work horses.
At West Point seven cadets were dismissed by Taft's direction for hazing Rolando Sutton. Sutton, brother of a Naval Academy officer, was beaten on a guard duty post and sent to a hospital. Dismissed: John J. Booker Jr., Richard W. Hocker, Farle W. Dunmore, Chauncey C. Devore, Gordon Lefevre, Albert E. Crane, Jacob R. Fortner. An inquiry by Lt. Col. Sibley and Capt. Charles and Capt. Smith followed a law limiting hazing.
Mrs. Mary Salzner of Cairo Illinois died six days after being attacked with an axe. In an ante mortem statement she accused her husband Henry Salzner a photographer of the crime. Salzner in jail charged with murder claims burglars attacked her. Her head was nearly severed and surgeons were astonished she survived a week.
The Grand Army of the Republic standard reported missing was located stored in the Commercial building where the encampment's executive committee had its headquarters.
Cincinnati Ohio Reverend J L Hill has resigned as pastor amid a uproar over his recently published book that exposes church and family affairs causing a public stir in the community.
Carlisle Pa descendants of Hugh Brady and Captain Samuel Brady, pioneer Cumberland County settlers, held a reunion marking the 200th anniversary of their birth.
Gustavy Oblazer was held to the circuit court for trial on a murder charge. Mrs Martha Galahna’s body was found in a Hamstruck bushes area two weeks earlier.
Five men on the barge Shawmont, traveling from Philadelphia to Newburyport, fight for their lives off the coast near Saunderstown, N Y, and may have perished if no rescue arrives.
Augusta resident Gay Pickens Wells, renowned barbecue cook, collapsed and died during a barbecue event attended by President Taft. Wells had recently cooked for Taft at a noted public feast, marking a high point in Southern barbecue history.
City Marshal Jesse Skaggs routed three robbers from the Sumner post office at 2 am. A wounded suspect was found later. two fugitives fled south with posses and bloodhounds pursuing. One man, 59, was found dead with two bullet wounds, including a chest shot likely from the marshal.
Secretary Nagel considers appointing deaf mutes to operate puncturing and tabulating machines for the forthcoming census. He notes the job requires great care as there is no way to cross check results, and sees no reason deaf individuals should not be especially efficient. A large number of machines will be used when census statistics arrive.
Twin Oklahoma Palmer Webling, a cashier at the Kiefer bank, died from wounds inflicted when robbers attacked the bank at Kiefer. The incident ended with the cashier's death, highlighting the fatal consequences of the attempted robbery.
Norwood, Qni.-Thomas Willoughby, a farmer, shot his 12-year-old daughter dead. After washing and dressing the body, he killed himself with poison. He had been despondent for some time.
Atlanta reports Governor Brown signed a Georgia law prohibiting negro secret societies from using insignia rituals grips and other elements of white orders, barring them from white lodge practices. The act targets cross racial use of fraternal insignia and ritualistic work.
Tony Tino, accused of killing Frank F. Fortino, a wealthy Italian merchant, is reported surrounded by a sheriff's posse in a cemetery at Osceola, six miles west of Elkhart, Ind. Fortino was shot and killed amid a chase.
San Francisco returns show Charles Pickett leading Francis J. Heney for the Republican district attorney nomination with Pickett far ahead. The result highlights the party race in the municipal primary.
Two thousand naval reserves from Michigan Ohio Illinois and Minnesota arrived off Ludington aboard six ships and spent the day drilling, representing nearly all of the lake region’s naval strength.
Washington D. C. Announcement by Postmaster General Hitchcock names Elmer E. Adams as postmaster at Winnetka Tl. Adams appointment reflects the ongoing federal staffing action and local community impact in Winnetka.
The inter-island steamer Niihau, a 600 ton vessel, ran ashore on Molokai's coast and has been abandoned by officers and crew. The ship is expected to be a total loss.
The steamer Seattle carrying 25 passengers capsized 300 feet from its dock at Coeur d Alene, Spokane. No lives are known to have been lost.
Havana Ill mystery surrounds the death of George Edwin Tigar a young farmer found in the bottom of his wagon after a driverless team reached his home. Coroner’s jury rules carbolic acid poisoning but relatives suspect murder due to recent engagement and planned farm control. He bought a two ounce bottle of carbolic acid that morning at a local drug store. The odor was detected on discovery though the body was cold. Autopsy may follow as the bottle remains missing.
Basil Hayden, who never left his yard’s picket fence since 1863 after his sweetheart died and Lincoln’s emancipation, died at Green Brier in Nelson county Louisville. An overseer, Borders, was the only person he saw. Hayden left an estate nearly $100,000 hidden in pillowslips and cast off clothing.
Boston defense units repelled an assault by army transports acting as battleships during harbor fort maneuvers. The mock landing at Nan Tasket beach was thwarted by the eighty first corps coast artillery in these southeastern state war games.
Mrs A R Holt who joined the Worcester board of trade excursion left Worcester August 4 and disappeared after the party reached Seattle. The group is now in Portland Oregon and she has not been located.
In Prior Colorado a second cousin of President Taft, Charles Taft, was killed by lightning while in Trinidad 20 miles away. He died at Prior, a rural incident witnessed as the storm struck. The event underscores the danger of severe weather in the region.
The Canare Line steamer Lucania, damaged by a dockside fire Saturday night, was sunk to extinguish the flames and has been refloated. It is now ready for removal to a dry dock for examination and repairs.
St Paul Minn Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company lost its suit against Wagner Electric and Manufacturing Company for infringement of patent.
Freight handlers in St Paul and Minneapolis threaten to strike unless railroads grant about six percent wage increases. The railroads offered five percent, which the workers rejected.
Benson Smith, fourteen, died after a baseball struck his ear in Chicago. He collapsed before a physician could arrive, and the cause was recorded as death from the injury.
Two bathers Archie Peterson aged 17 and George Robertson aged 20 drowned in the Vermillion river while bathing with companions. They went beyond their depth and could not be reached.
Severe electrical storm over Trion in Chattahoochee county, near Rome Georgia, killed two men and injured five others, one seriously, from lightning.
Jacob J. H Hill reappears after 24 years in Texas and declares ownership of a Pulaski county quarter section. His wife, who proved title and mortgaged part of the tract, now faces mortgage disputes as mortgage holders seek to collect on Mrs. Hill’s patent and the old land dispute is revisited at the government land office.
Col. T. P. Rixey, state labor commissioner, reports Webster county farmers held 2400 acres of tomatoes last year with a crop value of 367000 dollars. Ninety canneries operated. Marshfield shipped 57 carloads of canned tomatoes. The crop’s profitability helped farmers lift mortgages.
A historical note estimates cattle and other livestock placed on Missouri markets in 1908 at 1,424,689 head requiring 56,988 freight cars for cattle, 56,331 for hogs, 6,048 for horses and mules, 6,681 for sheep, 119 for goats, and 2 cars for stallions and jacks. The combined total of 126,249 cars would stretch about 1,005 miles end to end from St. Louis to west of Philadelphia.
The rear end of the Hoffman Merrill Mercantile Co store in Trenton collapsed after a defective retaining wall gave way during an addition under construction. The incident caused about 50000 dollars in loss and slight injuries to H F Hoffman who was caught in an overhead cash carriage wire. no other injuries reported. The building occupied about 5000 square feet and was known as the Farmers' Store.
In a Holden special election voters approved 317 to 27 bonds totaling 30000 for municipal waterworks. Eighty thousand dollars covers purchase of the Holden Water Company plant and 12000 funds modernization including extending mains and building a water tank.
The Yeomen conclave completed two days of ceremonies in Rolla selecting Salem as the next meeting place for their gathering.
St Louis and Chicago capitalists have optioned 65000 acres of timber land 25 miles southwest of Bismark and plan development soon. Sawmills hubs factories will clear the land for horticultural agricultural and grazing use. Paul Brown of St Louis and other tobacco experts say the land is ideal for tobacco and much will be used by Tennessee and Kentucky farmers.
Henry Jackson Waters, president elect of Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan, will bring Missouri men as faculty. Two have been elected: F. G. King as assistant professor of animal husbandry and Turner H. R. Wright as assistant in nutrition. Both are University of Missouri graduates.
Preparation is underway as drys and wets rally for a bitter local option election set for September 4 in Scott County. The contest attracts wide attention as both sides muster forces and plan campaigns.
Carl Deitz a foundry worker killed his wife at their Joplin home in front of her mother who was unable to intervene. He then shot himself, ending the deadly incident.
At a regents meeting, the Maryville State Normal school board entered a contract with D. E. Marshall of Kansas City to complete the school building. Marshall built the first wing of the structure and will continue work on the project.
In the Thirty Years Ago column, T Holt of Holt Summit harvested 150 bushels of wheat from 5 acres, a record breaking crop noted in the Fulton Sun. The landmark yield underscores exceptional farming results from that era.
A rustic New Jersey J P advertised he would marry couples at any time for 5 dollars, allowing 1 dollar down and the rest in weekly installments of 1 dollar. That very night a couple arrived by car and the JP honored the installment offer.
A humorous exchange from a New York Sun tale. Edward quarrels over a baked potato and lunch versus dinner with a visitor correcting him. The next day the aunt asks for the difference and Edward answers that lunch is the meal where you don't get enough to eat.
In Puerto Rico the first Spanish exhibition by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis drew success across twenty two cities and over 100000 viewers. Poor island transit forced the exhibit to move by ox carts as a traveling country circus.
Farmer Corntessel complains about summer guests while recalling a lecture by a young woman with glasses who accused him of spoiling the garden color scheme by using paris green on the vegetables.
During Napoleon's Egyptian campaign Mamelukes were spotted and the order to form square with artillery to the angles provoked laughter. Soldiers nicknamed the horses demi savans, finding humor in the技 mispronounced term amid action.
A Boston mother curates a lighthearted essay on feeding boys Rot Jack and Dick aged 6 4 and 2 years using Grape Nuts. She relates how the cereal aided a neighbor’s 3 year old, notes daily use by herself and husband, and suggests Grape Nuts as a healthy answer to children’s pleas for sweets.
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