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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
2
A collage of quips and cultural notes from the Potosi Journal lampooning topics from smokeless tobacco to Tokyo 1912, with jests about age in cold storage eggs, London’s growing population, bees in cold storage dream, and Zola’s England impressions.
The Philadelphia area is famed for hosting the annual Army versus Navy football battle, a high profile event that underscores the city’s pride in showcasing this historic rivalry.
The grand station impresses locals who can not afford trips, likening the experience to a Niagara Falls visit.
Football under revised open formation rules shows fewer fatalities and greater excitement. Public sentiment grows against unfair play and brutality, signaling a shift toward safer, more spirited games this year.
Italy leads all European nations in foreign postal orders drawn in the United States. Italians in this country sent home more than $600,000 during November, a figure that suggests a brighter outlook for Italy.
An English postman retires after four decades of duty. He has traveled 239,686 miles on the job in the course of his service. No statistics are available on the tailors' bills or love letters he may have carried during his career.
After a financial crisis bankers call for establishing a central bank to manage the currency. They condemn the current system as antiquated and urge thoughtful examination of any improvement.
Elinor Glynn argues the American man is a hunter of dollars and her method of study reveals a sharp view of masculine traits. She suggests the discovery may be preliminary to something more startling.
New volumes of Queen Victoria's letters reveal a keen, vigorous thinker who shaped English thought and literature. Her correspondence with Tennyson, long available, dispels the view she was only a symbol. The volumes show her talent for statesmanship and a rare artistry in letter writing.
French and South American delegates to The Hague conference recently presented a copy of Rodin's The Awakening of Humanity to Mons Bourgeois, the French diplomat. In his acceptance speech he said delegates heard the whispering of the universal conscience and the first heartbeat of humanity, deeming the conference worthwhile for this message.
Rioting over a streetcar strike in Muncie Indiana resumed at noon Thursday. About two thousand people drove crews from three cars, smashed windows, and took control. Deputies with shotguns failed to stop the mob which threatened to burn barns. officials warned no more cars would run. Militia may be sent as tension rose with two cars wrecked by strike breakers. no injuries reported.
A. J. Ballard shot at Yale with brothers Allie and Boone Henry. Boone Henry and Mallard were fatally wounded. Ballard, once pardoned after a prior deadly fight, faced claims of unjust conviction as new revelations surface regarding who killed Peter Spencer. Further trouble feared after the incident.
Washington DC attorney general Bonaparte weighs a suit to dissolve the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger. Decision on venue and form pending. Plan aligns with the Northern Securities prosecution approach, with Assistant Attorney General Purity expected to lead the case against Harriman.
A noon Saturday blast wrecked the basement of the First National Bank in Kansas City Missouri. Ten clerks and workers were injured none seriously. Investigators and fire officials concluded dynamite caused the explosion. no arrests made. Witnesses described a heavy smoke and powdery odor as officials inspected the damage to steel and stone walls.
Employers state 1808 building outlook poor but wage reductions will not occur for at least 600 men on this class of work as contracts are closed for another year of the 1908 scale. Negotiations between employers and 25,500 men remain pending.
On the eve of Thaw’s second trial for the Stanford White murder rumors of a quarrel with his counsel spill into public view. The dispute looms as a potential obstacle to proceedings and stirs legal circles as the case nears revival.
A dynamite bomb, likely set by the Black Mafia, wrecked the lower floor of a five story tenement on Eleventh Street and spurred a panic among residents Wednesday night. One man was injured by the blast.
Washington announces Capt J E Pillsbury will become chief of the Bureau of Navigation replacing Rear Admiral Brownson who has resigned. The appointment was disclosed at the White House on Thursday.
James Gardner Stowe, consul general to South Africa from 1887 to 1900, renowned U.S. manufacturer, died at his Kansas City home Thursday at age 65.
Dispatch reports twenty people killed in a collision of two passenger trains near Libbiana in Northwest India. Four victims are Europeans and the rest natives. Both trains were moving at zero miles per hour.
Sedalia Missouri officials will ride free on the local street railway this year. Previously annual passes were numerous and funded by the city government.
Officials in Washington warn the Interstate Commerce Commission and others that the railroad system could dissolve following administration actions against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific for alleged Shenanigans under antitrust law. Critics question policy choices shaping parallel line acquisitions and network control.
Georgetown Ky. The fourth trial of Catch Powers for the murder of Guy Goebel ends without a verdict as jurors are discharged after the foreman expresses regret and declares previous days had shown no chance of agreement.
Authorities extended a search in Burlington and nearby areas for Jones Ewer and Wer Este, believed missing since an incident near Keoottak. Relatives and Christieesville officials coordinate efforts, with hopeful leads about the whereabouts and condition of the two individuals.
Evansville Tad A passenger car collided with a freight train on the line between Howe and Vernon. The crash at Vernon killed Del Niederoi and fatally injured several others, with two miles of derailment reported and many injured passengers.
A heated exchange emerges between Roestveilt and land office officials over a designation dispute. The contentious moment follows prior statements from Washington and ties to regional governance, prompting calls for accountability and resignations.
Senaion of Honor for American Paris Raphael Weil of San Francisco has been made a member of the Legion of Honor, and MO Thin haul who formerly served as first secretary of the French embassy at Washington, has been supported an officer of the Legion.
Tena Mary Connick 78, daughter of J A Brown a Revolutionary War soldier, died at her home near Knoxville. She was remembered as a link to the early American struggle.
Harry I Kershaw of the West End had his gold fish Jim ceremonially buried in a small casket in the yard behind the West End residence. His wife assisted in the interment marking a quiet, humorous memorial to a household pet.
Henry Ashley, 40, a local farmer living near Paducah Kentucky, drowned in an unspecified water incident. Authorities report the death as accidental with investigation ongoing.
About a hundred masked night riders raided Russellville Kentucky at 1230 am overpowering police and guarding the alarms. They dynamited and burned the Wake warehouse and the American Snuff Co plant, damaging the planing mill and lumber sheds before riding toward Hopkinsville and Clarksville on the eastern edge of town.
In a dramatic excerpt from a chapter, a trader named Brownley explains a self altering scheme to dominate Wall Street profits by panics and reversals. He claims the system’s manipulation harms producers and consumers, and asserts his invention will destroy stock gambling despite opposition from exchange members.
In eight days at sea a small boat crew of seven from the Germanic were rescued near Weymouth after the wreck of their bark Germanic. They report their captain went down with the ship as a wave tore away the boats and the vessel flooded, eight crewmen remain missing.
Maximilian Harden of Die Zukunft was convicted Friday of libeling General Count Cuna von Moltke and sentenced to four months in prison. Harden is ill, but public sentiment has shifted against him as the Moltke case is viewed as a political victory. It is believed the Emperor may restore Moltke to high rank and favor.
In St. Louis Missouri investigators report an ongoing inquiry into the death of David B. Ellis. The case, led by Mt. Vernon Coroner J. T. Whitlock, is described as a murder mystery awaiting further findings.
Louisville executives of the Model License League with brewers distillers and dealers from across the country called a national convention to meet in Louisville January 21 and 22. The aim is to offer a model license law and to invite prominent non trade figures to speak.
Lincoln Neb. Logan Suddith a 67 year old Civil War veteran who served with Company C 134th Indiana Infantry died in Lincoln after swallowing a live frog during a visit to Indiana last summer. He suffered agony for months and died after expelling the frog by vomiting and going into shock.
A San Franciscan tells of a bore who pauses a long recital with a tale about oysters. When an oyster opens its shell to spill juice, a tub of water is ready to dunk it so the mollusk learns to keep its mouth shut.
A compact saying contrasts inner virtue with outward gaze, warning that tempting glare betrays moral steadiness. It speaks in moral tone about integrity, temptation, and inner resolve in a pithy, aphoristic voice.
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