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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
2
A collage of quirky items from a Missouri paper includes stray thoughts on milk adulteration satire about China on verge of revolution and zebra of miscellany. It mentions a bank teller’s death from Myzedema and other oddities reflecting daggling headlines and social musings.
An Ohio woman finds a live fully developed garter snake in a chicken's craw, where it fed on the chicken's swallowed meal, as the nature study department shows signs of activity returning after a lull.
An Evansville Indiana man was discharged in a wife desertion case after the court found the wife talked so incessantly that the judge deemed the desertion justifiable self defense. The source notes it did not state if the wife’s chatter came from a women’s club or natural gifts.
The passage notes that at age 50, Roosevelt had been president six years, while Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and four earlier presidents reached or approached fifty at important milestones. It contrasts prior presidents who were inaugurated before turning 50 and those who hit 50 later in their presidencies.
The article notes anniversaries will be celebrated as the Jamestown fair sets a precedent Harvard University recently marked the founder's 300th birth anniversary and anticipates a grand tercentenary in 1920 with widespread events in New England and beyond.
Surveyors report the line fixed in 1898 lies 100 feet too far west revealing the United States will gain a strip 600 feet wide and miles long. The correct boundary follows the one hundred and forty first meridian north from Mount St Elias.
In a new commercial treaty Canada and France, Dominion officials directly negotiated terms in Paris without British mediation. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier traveled to Paris to arrange the agreement. Though the British government concludes the treaty, the move marks a notable advance in Canadian governmental power.
An eagle seven feet four inches from tip to tip has been captured in New Jersey. The event raises a chance to determine if the bird depicted on the St Gaudens coin is genuine or a nature fake.
Workingmen may visit Europe in winter as railroad presidents tour in summer. They plan to return when work resumes in spring, even if it requires swimming.
Goldfield proposes a local currency by stamping bullion produced at the mills with its value. The plan aims to enable residents to pass the currency easily in any locale they travel to.
A Boston Globe line contemplates domestic bliss and control through a man’s gaze. It contrasts a mellow evening scene with a domineering wife, framing marriage as gentle paradise or restrictive cipher for a selfish man. The tone hints at gendered expectations of quiet obedience.
Three young men, including Clyde Reed son of farmer John C. Reed, were captured by a Platte County posse after looting the Bank of Camden Point and blowing the vault with dynamite. About $2,500 recovered. Reed identified. another suspect named Harry O Neel. third man still sought. Damage included shattered windows and wrecked vault. capture occurred near Edgerton Junction in Missouri. investigation led by Deputy Sheriff Al Turner.
A bold morning hold up at the Niagara hotel in Peoria occurred at 4 30 Friday hour with a lone adventurer obtaining 150 dollars before escaping.
Boonville Indiana police report a robbery at Joseph Hudspeth's saloon where a 600 pound safe with over $300 was loaded into a buggy and driven off before dawn. No witnesses or crew remain to aid inquiries.
In a running fight at 1 30 Friday morning City Marshal Emory Brown of Sorento Illinois Joseph Brown sheriff of Bond county and Mayor Harry Compton of Sorento shot two holdup men into sub mission who had robbed the depot safe of twenty dollars.
Julius H. Pease, the New Britain bank cashier fugitive, sailed Friday from San Diego aboard the Ensanada to seek recovered securities worth about 565000. Authorities suspect bank officers prefer the assets over punishing Walker and may offer leniency if he reveals the hiding place. Much of the sum was in non negotiable securities, worthless to others but valuable to the real owners if found.
Major William A Mercer resigns as six year superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle Pennsylvania. The resignation takes effect once his successor is appointed.
Baltimore Louis Schubert, a self proclaimed millionaire butcher from San Francisco, saved his sister who is also his mother in law from deportation on Friday. He recently married her 18 year old daughter. The trio were cabin passengers aboard the steamship Brandenburg from Bremen. The elder woman aged 62 faced possible public charge status by immigration officers due to her age.
John Walsh, now hospitalized in Johnstown, began his trek from San Francisco to New York. He has pneumonia and police identified him as the walker after a Friday clothing search revealed about 1,000 printed cards bearing his name and route.
An Erie postal worker uncovered a suspicious Christmas bundle that concealed an infernal machine designed to explode on opening. The package addressed to Archie Carr from Erie contained a bottle and ignition contrivances and bore a note from health officer Dr. W. J. Wright. Police and post office officials investigated, with further tests expected.
In Henrietta Oklahoma a black man named James Garden killed white liveryman Albert Bates after Bates refused to rent a rig. Garden was lynched by a mob of about a hundred in the street, his body hung from a telegraph pole and riddled with bullets. Fear spread as other Black residents were terrorized and a man was jailed in Muskogee.
Prairie fires burn on Boulder outskirts and country spreading rapidly before strong winds. Twelve buildings in Boulder already burned and the blaze threatens University Hill and the state university campus. Volunteers fight the flames hampered by water shortages.
Five men identified as T C Ryan Mike Glynn Harvey Wilson John Kelly and Thomas Pearson were arrested in Cairo on Monday night and jailed. They carried a sizable amount of money when apprehended.
Passengers aboard eastbound AT&SF train No 4 were shaken when the derailed near Caddoa overturned two cars. No serious injuries reported though the cause remains unknown.
In Rome on Christmas Eve Americans joined local celebrations. Midnight mass was held with notable attendees including Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and her daughter, alongside the American ambassador Lloyd C Griscom.
Warsaw general Flold Skallen or dered all Jewish clubs in Poland to close as part of wartime measures.
The Boston area enjoyed a green Christmas with clear ground outside Northern Maine and New Hampshire woods. Salvation Army and others provided good dinners to thousands of destitute people and brought Christmas joy and small presents to many children who had not known it before.
Seventeen Italians arrested Tuesday as alleged Black Hand members faced Magistrate Brady in Pittsburg. They were sentenced to the workhouse for 30 to 90 days or fined 10 to 150 dollars each. Police found a hidden tunnel from the Italian club room to Webster Avenue and kept it guarded.
Stricken patient pleads for mercy as Dr. Joseph Peasden leads the bid for death. The report notes the dire condition and the physician’s controversial stance amid discussions of medical ethics.
Dr Joseph Peasden of Nelson Morris & Co in Chicago at Christmas time faced fatal tetanus after a Christmas tree incident at his Lincoln Street home. He urged doctors to end his life, but consent could not be given. He prepared a will leaving his estate to his wife's five children and awaited medical judgment.
Captain Hobson proposes a pension bill for Confederate soldiers Gen Stephen D Lee, commander of the United Confederate Veterans, writes Captain Hobson protesting the measure as unwanted by surviving Confederates and potentially harmful.
After the Tuesday lynching of James Garden for killing liveryman Albert Bates the town of Henryetta Oklahoma faces armed whites and expelled Black residents. Reports say whites fear retaliation and have incited nearby Black communities to rebellion with open threats against white residents.
In Leechburg Pennsylvania a crowd formed after the shooting death of Presly Klingensmith by a foreigner's bullet during a holiday carousal. State constabulary arrived from Greensburg to guard the borough lockup and control the tense scene as foreigners were present in the area.
James Temple and J C Campbell were waylaid on a road near Hoxie Mississippi Tuesday night. Campbell was killed and Temple wounded in the arm. Campbell, out on bond after killing Grover in May, was Temple's key East witness in a feud that has grown since Grover’s death.
St Petersburg reports Father John of Cronstadt is seriously ill with the recurrence of an old malady. He cannot eat and his recovery is uncertain due to great frailty. He is regarded as a saint by some religious followers.
John L Sullivan, a switchman for the Erie at Susquehannah Pennsylvania, was killed at noon Thursday by an unknown strike-breaker. The victim and incident are described in a terse local report with few details.
Russian novelist Maxim Gorky lies critically ill in Florence amid rapid consumption. Doctors say the disease is advancing and may prevent his return to Russia, where he long championed emancipation and freedom.
An emphatic denial was issued Thursday by Louisiana Railway and Navigation Co officials that a strike is probable in Shreveport Louisiana.
A session on the New York Stock Exchange floor unfolds as Rob Brownley proposes a 30 minute suspension so he can announce a plan to buy stocks with his fortune to halt a market collapse. He vows to restore confidence and reveal a system he says robs the public, urging the room to back a halt to trading.
A Pittsburg bachelor preps for marriage by revealing a redesigned den filled with long pipes, actress photos, beer steins, and a mix of gloves and handkerchiefs. He explains it came from buying out a college fellow and jokes about his fiancée discovering the decor.
At an entertainment a young girl could not recall her spoken piece and quipped that she forgot the tune of her speech, drawing laughter from the audience. The moment captures a lighthearted backstage mishap during a community program.
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