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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
2
A collection of commentary and social curiosities from the Potosi Journal including remarks on Berlin housing, a Vanderbilt heir, a Virginia diamond story, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s wealth, Gladys Vanderbilt, and anxious New York doctors. It also mentions a Pittsburgh millionaire trend toward extravagance and a Wall Street swindle arrest.
In Aurora Illinois a man pursuing a 60 day exclusive peanut diet faces two rivals who eat only sauerkraut and beans respectively. Another man who started on green onions quits his job after his breath becomes overpowering. Washington church circles debate a bride forced to wear a too small ring on the fourth finger due to early church oversights. A New York judge cites a wife’s weekly 34 dollar support from a 25 dollar salary as proof against suspicions of a double life, noting the husband cannot lead more than a fraction of a life.
An explorer declares coal lies around the north pole. Past expeditions were scientific but now that the search becomes practical the coal trust may fund a dedicated expedition. Meanwhile China contemplates policy and Russia seeks to regulate constitutional government. King Menelik of Abyssinia forms a cabinet and reorganizes administration on European lines, potentially teaching Russia.
New York University opens a night college offering regular courses and degrees. Though it seems novel, night schools have long existed in American cities with evening instruction in law medicine and engineering and study by midnight oil.
A Boydton girl discovers a diamond in a seed cell of an apple and offers a theory that someone climbed the tree during bloom and dropped the ring setting into the blossom, remaining until harvest. Virginians’ ingenuity is praised as even Vitel Eaton would regard the tale.
A New York man was convicted under a new statute and sentenced to not more than his natural life in prison. He may consider himself fortunate not to receive a sentence exceeding a century, as another inmate reportedly faced a harsher fate.
Kentucky tobacco growers think they will not raise any tobacco in 19880 to keep prices from rising. They warn against allowing the public to get a taste for brown and tanbark shavings, noting some varieties are hard to quit.
The sovereign of Sweden King Oscar II dies at 9 10 Sunday morning ending a lengthy reign. The news notes a peaceful passing and confirms the loss of the monarch. Strong entity names include King Oscar II and Sweden with implications for the nation.
King Oscar II died at 9 10 am in Stockholm palace after a long illness. Crowds gathered outside the palace, mourning the beloved monarch who was seen as a friend to his people. His son Oscar Gustave Adolphe became Gustave V and pledged allegiance to the state with the motto With the people for the fatherland.
Louise M Taft mother of Secretary of War William H Taft died at 12:20 Sunday after long illness. She had been unconscious for a week and had spent her girlhood in the Torrey homestead. Cablegrams were sent to Bologna informing Taft, who had sailed for America, and he and his wife hurry home on the President Grant.
New York City faced an unprecedented blue Sunday when churches and parks offered competing entertainments. The metropolis, famed for sensational news, witnessed residents and visitors choosing between religious services and public amusement as the day unfolded.
All theaters and picture shows in Rochester were closed Sunday per the mayor's closing order. Managers, anticipating a test case, chose to comply with the directive.
An explosion at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co foundries in Pueblo, Colorado killed one worker instantly and fatally injured four others. Four more were seriously hurt while eight total suffered. The blast occurred in the gas produced at the open-hearth furnaces.
Brakeman C J Held was fatally struck when a misstep on a moving train caused him to be dragged beneath the wheels in the yards at Columbia Tennessee. Almost the entire train passed over his body.
The will of Geo. M. Porter, who died recently in Minneapolis, names his stenographer Miss Stella M. Blethen as the beneficiary of $100,000 in stocks and bonds.
Four hundred fifty university students including thirteen women arrested on sedition charge and interned at a military school under a Cossack guard in Kiev.
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal for Mrs Bradley at the morning court session opening on Tuesday. The decision followed presentation of evidence and closing arguments.
In Washington D C Mrs Annie M Bradley is found not guilty of murder in the killing of former Utah Senator Arthur Brown. At 10 o clock Tuesday Justice Stafford announced the verdict. emotions ran high as the clasped crowd sobbed and Bradley's friend Emma Pischel pressed forward to kiss tears from her cheeks despite the court order.
Frank P. Glazier, creator of Utopia in Chelsea and former Michigan state treasurer, is in receivership with liabilities around 1 million dollars. Insider hints push debts higher. assets are undetermined. Reports say Chelsea Savings Bank may hold about 680 thousand of state funds. Glazier lies ill at his Chelsea home, broken by the collapse.
An American engineering party locating the canal center line uncovered a French village buried under jungle near the Panama corridor. The preservation is strong with nine married men’s quarters, twenty two barracks and mess halls, and a small machine shop. Machinery remains usable for current canal construction crews.
New York paper polls Republican members of Congress finding a majority oppose Roosevelt's renomination. Most respondents favor a high conservative platform, and twenty cite financial trouble hurting the party's chances.
James Hazen Hyde offers to repay the Equitable Life Assurance Society about 1 million dollars if all suits against him are withdrawn. The offer, made after he was forced to sell control to Thomas F. Ryan in June 1905, has not been accepted to date.
The hearing before Judge Franklin Ferriss in St. Louis to take evidence in the government's suit to dissolve Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the $100,000,000 holding company was continued until January 6.
Oklahoma City report says D. R. Rankin cashier of the defunct Merchants' and Planters' bank was found in Cache Creek near Lawton after disappearing a month ago. The body’s discovery closes a puzzling disappearance linked to Lawton and Cache Creek.
Spokane report says the steamer Defender, believed lost, was found on a reef in Mica Bay Lake Coeur d'Alene. No passengers or crew were injured.
Berlin traffic commission approves an underground railroad route running northwest to southeast through central Berlin from Charlottenburg to Rixdorf, outlining construction in the heart of the city.
Circuit Judge Arthur L. Frazer died following an operation for appendicitis. He was 47 and renowned for his efforts with the juvenile court in Portland Oregon.
A massive explosion at Consolidated Coal Company mines Nos 6 and 8 in Monongah West Virginia claims about 400 lives. Five rescue teams work amid gas buildup while officials rush aid and investigate a possible methane and coal dust ignition.
Notice to quit work served on Robert H. Iwloch, first cousin of President Roosevelt, a draftsman in the Atlantic Coast Railroad chief engineer office. He had been employed twenty years.
William Deaver discovered a human skeleton in the cliffs of a Kentucky creek. Alongside the bones were flint arrow heads and other Indian relics indicating Native artifacts at the site.
Carlos Carriere, about to sail for Italy to join the army, was shot by his father-in-law and gravely wounded on the eve of departure. He had married Amelia Carrelo five months earlier, a 16-year-old girl.
The Oklahoma senate approved the Jim Crow bill Friday afternoon by 36 ayes 3 wayes 4 absentees and one excused. The measure becomes effective sixty days after governor signs.
Bob Brownley seizes control of Union Pacific stock spurring a volatile market surge and amassing over a million shares. He proclaims wealth brings no happiness, battles inner torment, and vows to press his audacious schemes despite mounting risks. Jim Randolph watches a man transformed by greed as the Street fears a final crash.
The article extols open air living as healthful for gypsies and consumptives alike. Gypsies avoid drafts while staying warm beneath, and patients seek tents for fresh air therapy, with cures possible if treatment starts early and strength allows.
A grass widow shares a blunt rule of thumb for marriage. She says the first impression should guide choices because past husbands proved initial dislike often deepened, forcing separation. She pledges never to marry again unless she instantly falls irresistibly in love.
Nell asks Belle if she told a friend about having chickenpox. Belle confirms and notes the friend was surprised by the news. Catholic Stancard and Times
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