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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
3
Italian residents in New Orleans form a local organization to combat Black Hand extortion. Leaders pledge united action, detailing steps to protect families and report threats to police authorities. Community members urge vigilance and cooperation with law enforcement.
The Progress Union, a major New Orleans business group, reports a dangerous Black Hand presence. President Godchaux called a mass meeting of Italian leaders and loyalists to condemn violence after the Svearoid Lamana kidnapping and ransom demand. A committee will coordinate with police to prevent a revival of past outrages.
President Figueroa informed Minister Mejia that revolutionists ransacked Sansonata before government troops drove them out. Soldiers looted customs, offices, banks, and homes, then fled to Acajutia where more offices and a bank were ransacked and a Nicara gun steamer boarded. Mejia believed many revolutionists died at Sansonata.
Lynda B. Conley, a Wyandotte descendant and lawyer from Leavenworth Kansas, filed suit in a U S court to stop Secretary Garfield from disturbing graves at Huron cemetery in Kansas City Kansas. The case seeks to block property sales by commission appointed after a recent act of Congress, asserting treaty rights will be respected.
Kansas City dispatch reports the Hannibal and St. Joseph division of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad halted three hours as a new law reducing telegraphers to an eight hour day took effect at midnight. All Burlington offices with more than one telegraph operator closed at 3 pm, trains blocked, and night shift had to be called in at 6 pm after operators refused overtime amid fines and contempt worries.
Chicago representative M Sydney Van Wyck Jr, for 1400 policyholders of the German Insurance Company of Freeport, IL, secured stipulations removing objections to hundreds of claims. With the company in receivership after the San Francisco earthquake losses, objections by Adolph Lee & Sons will be waived and settlements offered at about 50 cents on the dollar.
Details of a potential mutiny in the Black Sea fleet are scarce. Soldiers aboard Sinope and Tria Sviatitaliia failed to seize weapons due to secured arm racks. Thirty mutiny leaders have landed at Sebastopol as tensions rise and security tightens.
Wm H Walter of Chatsworth Illinois describes years of kidney disease with side and back pain and dark sediment in urine. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with quick relief and eventual cure, noting weight loss then gain and improved health after treatment. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A visitor from Mexico praises double ended matches noting locals favor wax lucifers with a head on each end. He jokes that keeping one match and lighting the other from the opposite end reflects a risky habit and claims revived old time matches could boost market demand.
A Selma Alabama woman reports four years of painful skin eczema resisted by two physicians. After using a single set of Cuticura Remedies for six months, the splotches disappeared and no symptoms returned for three years. Also notes French naval rat extermination plan and laundry starch marketing.
A Quaker riding with a fashionably adorned companion complains of cold as she shivers in lace and asks for warmth. The Quaker replies with a dry joke about adding another breastpin. An unrelated note touts Defiance Starch as a cheaper, extra-large option and a jab about bosses.
The court delivered judgment in the cases of Senor Ferrer director of the Modern School of Barcelona Jose Nakens editor of El Motin Mato Haria and others charged with complicity in the attempt to assassinate King Alfonso and Queen Victoria on their wedding day May 31 1906. Nakens and Mato Ilaria were sentenced to nine years imprisonment Ferrer and the others were acquitted.
Washington the president designated Assistant Attorney General Woodruff to act as secretary in the absence of Garfield and Ryan. Garfield left on an extensive western tour and Ryan is ill. The secretary will briefly stop at his Ohio home before proceeding to Denver.
In Hanover Prussia a leaked speech by Emperor William harshly condemns over fifty officers at the military riding institute for gambling. He vows to suppress gambling in the army and warns that further disobedience will lead to dismissal, sending all officers back to their regiments.
The comptroller of the treasury declares tobacco a necessity not a luxury. The ruling addresses laborers building the Yanuma canal held in quarantine who demanded tobacco during confinement.
Governor Folk commuted the sentence of David Lone from execution in Pemiscot county to life imprisonment. The case followed a June date. Lone was to be hanged at Caruthersville before the commutation. The story notes the impact of clemency in a penny dreadful era.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for swollen sweating hot and aching feet. It claims relief after use and urges readers to buy at druggists for 25 cents with no substitutes. It provides a trial packet offer and the address of A S Olmsted in Le Roy New York. It ends with a sentimental line about love.
The Olympic theater, a major vaudeville venue in the west, was consumed by a blaze after closing hours. No one was inside during the fire, which started an hour after performances ended. The loss is estimated at 100000 dollars.
Police raided 17 alleged poolrooms across New York City confiscating many telephone and telegraphic instruments. No arrests were made.
General Horace Porter and General J W Foster of the American delegation left Paris for The Hague on the same train that carried Ambassador Nelldorf head of the Russian delegation, led by ex Premier Bougeois.
Carrie Nation was arrested in Washington after haranguing a crowd in front of a downtown saloon on a disorderly conduct charge. She was released on 20 collateral.
In Catania Sicily a return of Stromboli activity unsettled the countryside but caused no damage. The eruption prompted local authorities to monitor the volcanic behavior as residents reported fear and disruption.
An unnamed man arrived at police headquarters claiming he shot and killed Jack Shoten in Yatesville, Pennsylvania. He said he had brooded over the crime until he went insane and was kept for investigation.
Montgomery county reports Mrs. T. J. Porter died at her Wellsville home after weeks of terrible suffering from injuries after a hen pecking incident. Her hand had been amputated.
Francis Murphy, veteran temperance apostle, lies seriously ill at his Los Angeles home with a complication of ailments as doctors doubt the probable outcome. In Tokio, Japan, newspapermen were summoned by the home department and urged to refrain from publishing inflammatory material on the American question.
The article explains how life weaves through daily habits and common laundry care. It emphasizes home laundering benefits, highlighting Defiance Starch as a key product to improve fabric stiffness and appearance without thickening the goods.
The piece explains sun, air, and flue curing for tobacco with emphasis on flue curing in the Piedmont region producing a stimulating taste. It compares tobacco and coffee roasting, notes soil impact on quality, and asserts Schnapps chewing tobacco chewers spread the habit more than in states without Schnapps.
The notice announces shipment of SCHNAPPS from factory to retail dealers in lots of 10 pounds and over at 40 cents per pound, prepaid to the nearest through rate point. It also offers a sample Be cut of SCHNAPPS and a cambric tobacco pouch by mail upon receipt of postage stamps.
A collage of quotes and product mentions including George Eliot Disraeli and Maltby Babcock lines, plus references to Mrs Winelow's soothing syrup and Defiance Starch. An old timey collection of sayings, ad jingles, and literary snippets with brand names and moral maxims.
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