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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1910
Page
1
Reno and Goldfield vie to host the Jeffries Johnson fight with Tex Rickard offering 124000 and promising action on July 4. William McCarney arrives in Reno to present proposals while sites are inspected and promoters push for Nevada venues.
In New York on June 18 the press agent hails a vast athletic schedule for the five boroughs under Mayor Gaynor to celebrate a safe and sane fourth of July. The games, described as the greatest ever outlined, are organized to promote public safety and unity.
The city will hold its first municipal athletic venture in 18 parks. Gold silver and bronze medals will be awarded from a municipal appropriation. Mayor Gaynor hopes the carnival will restore a joyful Fourth of July despite fireworks being tabooed.
Webb City Missouri June 18 Mrs Sophronia Austin 100 died at her Carthage home. Born near Howling Green by February 15 1810 she spent eighty eight years in Missouri joined the Methodist church at 100 and quit smoking after eighty years of tobacco use. Roosevelt runs second to Eliot Harvard overseers nominees by graduates. Cambridge June 18 President Eliot leads candidates with Col Roosevelt in second place as six vacancies are filled by postal ballot.
Students on a state writeup trip abandon their itinerary to aid a search for Gordon Fisher of King City Missouri who drowned in White River near Hollister. Walter Williams dean of the School of Journalism was notified from Cape Girardeau. Fifteen men used drag hooks and nets without success.
An unidentified man jumped from Green Island bridge into the upper rapids and drowned watched by English tourist Arthur Wells. Earlier he spoke with Reservation Officer Ellis and showed no sign of suicide. In Rock Island, Woodmen directors urged a state insurance commission investigation of the Modern Woodmen from 1906 to 1910.
Vienna reports the Austrian government intensifies pressure on Standard Oil to settle with refiners. Government warns three month expiration of the state locomotive transport agreement for oil shipments, threatening an 80 percent reduction in unloading facilities once the accord ends.
Boston June 18 reports say Milian Ward Howe sustained a fall at her daughter's home. Initially feared a broken arm, her physician indicated injuries are not grave. The elderly author is 81 years old.
Chicago reports detail Representative Link repudiating a confession bribery claim in the Browne Lorimer case. He asserts intimidation produced the confession and that he offered Browne prior support. testimony from Mollie Vandeveer and Katherine Wood is expected to offset other witnesses.
More tremors ripple across Spain with additional shocks reported in Torosa and Almeria. People remain in a state of alarm though damage is not yet reported.
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