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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
2
A column of light verse and quips notes summer signs from stepless cars to umbrellas, jokes about diamonds and dogs, oddities in crime and aviation, and social foibles. It cites a German ship launch, a 101 year old gypsy queen, new penny pieces, and a New York court classifying baseball bats as weapons, all with playful irony.
Taft and Sherman win the GOP ticket for 1912 after five days of fierce struggle at the national convention in Chicago. Taft nominated on first ballot amid Roosevelt opposition, with Hadley and Root playing pivotal roles in the day’s tumult and platform debates.
A cautionary voice warns women against sending maids or laundresses to friends. It stresses that lending help can spark mistakes, overcharges, or gossip, ruining relationships and costing trusted workers. Advice urges limits on advising about housing or decor to avoid straining friendships.
A concise platform endorses independent judiciary and decries unnecessary recalls while urging streamlined removal of unfit judges. It calls for public health laws, workers compensation, and easier court procedures, denounces privilege and monopoly, and supports anti trust reforms and FTC. It backs protective tariffs, caps campaign contributions by corporations, favors conservation parcels post navy river and harbor improvements and Mississippi river aid, and promotes life at sea safety and merchant marine revival under McKinley Roosevelt Taft.
A young Englishman arrived in Washington and dedicated his days and nights to honoring an earnest ancestor by drinking alcohol.
An Englishman seeks medical advice to curb drinking after a bout with Scotch whisky. The physician suggests eating apples whenever thirsty. He later quips to a friend that he’s eating forty one apples daily, sparking a humorous reaction in this Saturday Evening Post style joke.
President Taft lauds the Chicago convention as a pivotal prelude to the presidential campaign. He warns of dangers to Republican constitutional principles, touts a two term tradition, and declares the party a powerful ally for real progress within constitutional bounds. The statement stresses unity after the convention and foresees a great Republican victory.
An agreement between the government and those guilty of underweighing and under valuing sugar has been reached. The department of justice will in a few days issue a statement detailing the settlement conditions.
On July 1 Uncle Sam will be broke. The executive and judicial machinery of the government will not be able to operate without going into debt. This condition has resulted from an agreement of the house to adjourn.
Washington report states the house judiciary committee, by a unanimous vote, recommends to the full House that Federal Judge Robert W Archbald be impeached for misconduct in office.
A selected group of New York police officers will hereafter be known as the fly squad and assigned to work with the health department to wage war on houseflies.
A powerful quake and subsequent volcanic eruption in Costa Rica's interior have left 85 dead and between 400 and 500 injured. Port Limon reports the disaster with high casualties and widespread damage.
Edward A Judd of Chicago was selected president of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges at the national convention. The number of vice presidents was increased from six to ten.
Henry Turner, a 19 year old from Brooklyn, was badly injured on his first flight at Mineola. He had worked around aeroplanes for over a year and hoped to become a birdman, but his condition worsened after the crash.
Robert Stewart, attorney for widow Alice G. Rycroft, denounces New York oil magnate Henry Clay Pierce in the supreme court. Rycroft recently won a judgment against Pierce for 171100 dollars.
A rear end collision between two Nickel Plate freight trains in heavy fog at Crayton Pennsylvania killed two train workers and mortally wounded two others. Two additional crew members sustained less serious injuries.
Ottumwa writer Harriet WamMpPeer reports relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad asserts decades of effectiveness and invites letters for confidential advice from the Medicine Co. in Massachusetts.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a landlord who resolves rent collection by listing alleged house faults to pressure the tenant. The tenant agrees to pay after the landlord promises to paint porches, avoiding a lengthy dispute. The exchange ends with mutual relief as the bluff saves effort.
A department store floorwalker replies with a bow that arnica and witch hazel are kept. The man asks about motor access to items. The clerk directs him to the drug department, second aisle to the left for his purchases.
A prediction questions whether Eiffels will live to a green old age. The reply believes he will, if he lives long enough and does not gain more knowledge than he has now.
A witty piece mocks parental hope as fathers spend hundreds to hear their daughters sing, while noting practical sensibilities with a proverb about bread and bakers.
A physician reports changing to Grape-Nuts for breakfast last fall, ending indigestion and increasing weight by providing easily absorbed nutrition from processed wheat and barley. He prescribes the food to patients with digestive issues and recovery needs, noting his results and inviting readers to read The Road to Wellville.
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