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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
2
Potosi Journal notes wheat maturity in Canada at 90 to 100 days and remarks on Yate wood of Australia with ironlike strength. It mentions Burns library in Parliament, a Vanderbilt marriage, and various short curiosities including fashion, autos in Belgium, railroads, Peary, and gas-meter figures.
A New Jersey minister urges wives not to dominate their husbands, arguing that even in modern times men still resist feminine influence and cling to primitive instincts, demonstrating lingering gender tensions.
The text compares miner fatality rates per thousand workers in various countries. It cites 1906 Belgium at 0.94, Great Britain at 1.29, France at 0.84 in 1905, Prussia at 1.5 in 1904, and the overall rate in the country as 3.4 per thousand.
A pedestrian is struck and killed by a speeding driver, underscoring danger on local streets. The report emphasizes the pain for the victim and condemns reckless behavior behind the wheel.
George Meredith asserts that contemporary minor works surpass mid-Victorian output while The Boston Globe questions whether masterpieces from that era remain superior. The exchange frames a debate on quality across periods and genres.
In Sunderland families survive on boiled potato parings while public health statistics reveal 28,723 of London's 72,127 deaths last year occurred in workhouses, hospitals, or public lunatic asylums.
The Baltimore American notes a Massachusetts expedition plans a long, arduous trek to the Antarctic Circle to seek fossils, arguing many fossils lie closer to home and questioning the effort's worth.
A Chicago physician lectures about the absurdity of the feminine costume. The topic amuses men and causes neither inconvenience nor discontent among women in general, so no one objects to what is considered a harmless pleasure.
A new men’s church in Atlantic City aims to attract members with positive features like pipes cigars and moving pictures woven into sermons while shunning feminine fashion such as Merry Widow hats. The Baltimore American speculates the concept suggests it’s better men smoke here than in the hereafter.
The Kansas bank receiver who dissolved the bank in three months paid all depositors in full, returned most of the stockholders’ capital, and charged only 250 for his services and expenses, a result seen by many as evidence of poor business sense.
Three women allege marriage to a late Boston millionaire, a case raising questions about how some wealthy Americans reportedly produce widows centered on a large estate.
At Chicago's Coliseum the Republican national convention capped its long session with James S. Sherman of New York nominated for vice president amid feverish demonstrations for Taft. Theodore Roosevelt and La Follette momentum surged then waned as the roll call produced Taft's decisive victory for president and Sherman as running mate was formally approved.
The Chinese board of education will establish a Shih fan Hsueh tang a civil normal college in Peking to train teachers for civil schools and colleges. It will offer Chinese classics plus languages including English French German Russian and Japanese taught by experienced instructors and start this year.
English appeals court holds tips form part of wages for workmen’s compensation claims when tips are openly given and received. Case involved a waiter killed in a dining car. dependents argued wages plus tips, lower court disagreed, appellate ruling favors including tips as wages under open and notorious tipping.
A concise Republican platform outlines Roosevelt era themes: anti injunction rules refined by statute, support for court authority with notice, labor relief, turf revision proposed by Congress, price controls with maximum and minimum rates, expanding commerce and agriculture, stricter trust supervision, inland waterways plan, ready military defense, good road programs, and opposition to negro disenfranchisement. It contrasts Democracy with Republicanism as strength and purpose versus vacillation.
A French journal reports a new egg preservation method by covering eggs with a thin layer of lard. The coating seals pores prevents evaporation and blocks air ingress, extending freshness.
Enes B Hoops of Milltown Pa a successful asparagus grower has just received 25 for a big bunch of fine quality it measured 20 inches in length and weighed 54 pounds.
Missouri society aims to promote marriage through the Fraternal Purity association led by S. A. Haseltine with pro forma incorporation in circuit court. Anyone white over 14 may join. In Kansas City, two Washington oak saplings to be planted in Swope Park trace ancestry to pre Civil War trees. In St Joseph a gas shortage after a main rupture disrupts lighting.
Joseph W. McIntyre and T. Corum for Haines Medical College filed a mandamus petition in the supreme court in banc to force the board of health to grant examinations to 29 graduates so they may receive medical and surgical certificates in Missouri. State Superintendent Howard A. Gass led state certificate exams in Carthage Clinton Jefferson City Moberly St. Joseph and St. Louis. 115 contestants took 445 papers. 12 life certificates and eight limited certificates were issued.
The Saline County Fair association elects officers and directors including Charles D B Bacon Dr William E Harrison Fred G Larkin Thomas H Bag nell Aubrey Conway Harry Gilpin and James W Sparks with E W Hawkins as president and Thomas H Bag nell as secretary.
A lightning strike set the roof of the chapel at the state hospital for the insane No 2 east of St Joseph on fire. Hospital officers and staff battled the blaze with internal equipment and prevented it from reaching the main building before the city fire department arrived. In a separate case 11 year old Willie Barkest confessed to wrecking a Burlington freight train to steal coal and is held awaiting trial.
J. T. McBride of Springfield was elected president and H. H. Sullivan of Kansas City recording secretary by the Missouri State Dental association at its annual convention in St. Louis. Kansas City was chosen as next year’s meeting place.
M. M. Stewart was severely burned at his Chillicothe home when a coal oil can exploded as he fired a lit incubator lamp. His wife rushed to help and also suffered serious burns in the blast.
G H Houghton a Syracuse Salt company representative entered the Knights of Pythias lodge room at St Joseph as a stranger to all, gave a short talk and dropped dead. He appeared about 50 years old.
The supreme court denied the motion for a rehearing in the mandamus case by the Knights of Pythias seeking to compel State Superintendent Vandiver to license the order to do business in the state.
Green City mayor proclaims cows may no longer be staked in the streets for foraging. The Sullivan County town grows more metropolitan and can now afford occasional street mowing.
After a highly bitter campaign, Sedalia voters rejected local option by 2,328 to 1,480 in a decisive referendum.
Over 12 weeks 18 carloads of eggs were shipped from Craig to Chicago New York and Boston with 12 cars bound for Chicago. Total production reached 2 592 900 eggs from 29 923 hens.
Higginsville forms a new bank organized by local capitalists. The Farmers Bank will operate with a capital stock of 50 600.
James Moore and Miss Margaret Jones of Hale were wed recently. The wedding reduces the Jones family count by one as a Moore joins the clan.
In the prohibition election the liquor element carried the vote by a majority of 35, the largest total polled in El Dorado Springs to date.
The eight hour limit for telegraph operators set by the last session of the general assembly was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court in an opinion by Judge Lamm.
A fire at the Henry McElhaney sample store in Neosho caused $2,900 in stock damage and $500 to the building, with the blaze recently discovered.
At close of the third day of the state normal summer school, attendance reached 738, 165 more than the same point last year. Officials predict total enrollment will reach 900 by the end of the first week.
Rev. C. I. Vandeventer aged 83 years served four years as a Methodist minister in Missouri is dead in St. Joseph.
Local option fails in Moberly with 2,443 votes for and 1,608 against, totaling 3,? No, 2,443 for local option and 1,608 against. The result leaves the local option defeated by 745 votes.
Maryville state normal opened its summer term on Tuesday with the largest first day enrollment in the school’s history. Officials expect total enrollment to reach about 300 students at Maryville.
Within three feet of the city marshal, Charles B. Butler stood in a crowd of about 40 when R. F. P. Duncan, a leading attorney, fired four shots. All four struck Butler, with three entering the arm and one hitting the abdomen.
In Cameron the dry faction won the most exciting municipal election, defeating the wets by 56 votes out of 740 total cast. The result marks a clear local win for prohibition supporters in a closely watched contest.
Fay Bergin a 19 year old girl from Kansas City knocked a burglar to the floor with a punch and detained him until police arrived in the incident in which she restrained a man described as a negro burglar for authorities.
Judge Burgess of the supreme court reverses the Webster county circuit court ruling and orders Abram Rosenberger, a wholesale liquor dealer, discharged after a $290 local option violation fine. No law is violated by shipping liquor into dry areas, the opinion states.
William Smith King a pioneer Pony Express rider between St Joseph and the Pacific coast and Indian fighter dies at his Amazonia home aged 78. He served with the Burlington for 48 years in pioneer days.
The Missouri railroad commission orders a public hearing in Kansas City on July 2 on switching rates following a complaint by the Kansas City Transportation bureau. The action centers on rail freight charges and potential rate changes affecting local shippers and carriers.
A Liberty man describes his chicken coops as his egg plant creating a rustic nickname for his farm enclosure. The quirky label highlights local humor tied to daily agriculture and household chores.
Webb City residents claim the local method outshines La Porte in a sensational case. A man reported murdered reappears alive in another city, leaving investigators to reassess the claim and locate the missing links in the mystery.
The text contrasts Pine Knot in Montgomery county with the Pine Knot Roosevelt loves, noting the president’s unfamiliarity with Missouri Pine Knot and implying a misidentification or lack of knowledge about a similarly named place.
Matthias Campbell, Civil War and two Indian wars veteran and Blair Nebraska resident, recalls long back pains and urine stoppage. He and his wife credited Dean's Kidney Pills for advanced kidney trouble cures. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Shiloh Ohio mother recalls her son Clyde covered in eczema for a year despite medical treatment. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept the first night and improved within six weeks, with a local physician recommending Cuticura. June 11 1907.
A reader asks about an expression about getting over the bay and is told the answer involves taking a schooner. The exchange, described as dialogue between a child and father, hints at nautical imagery used in the book being read.
Silas Ryetop teases about Judson taking his wife to the congressional library in Washington where she spoke not a word for four hours and faces fines for talking in the building. Hiram Hardapple asks why. The banter highlights quirks of congressional etiquette.
A punning exchange features a peddler questioning a boy about his family as the boy explains he is “raising bedlam.” The Detroit Free Press caption hints the agent gave it up as a bad job, framing a rustic humor vignette from an old paper.
In Atlanta Constitution style an Georgia farmer posts a sign saying candidates will pass without talk. His boy calls out a candidate at the gate who vows to enter. The farmer replies he knows him, as he has been running since the war and cannot help it.
A promotional letter from Postum Co. praises Grape-Nuts for balanced nutrition across life stages. The writer, over sixty, reports improved nerve and brain power, steady appetite, and relies on the cereal with milk or cream for breakfast and nourished meals at noon. A traveling son and an elderly aunt are noted as benefiting as well.
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