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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1913
Page
2
A stream of short, disconnected quips ranging from baseball chatter to social trends. Notes on frogs, hats, cabaret cuisine, and a German banking collapse mingle with jokes about taxes, brides, and a Boston chiropodist’s arrest for bigamy.
A short note on a spectator who thinks his presence curses the home team causing losses whenever he attends a ball game. The remark frames superstition as a humorous personal burden affecting sports morale.
A woman climbs 200 steps after breakfast and loses unnecessary weight. It is suggested the same effect could apply to a horse.
The remark highlights how some women resent being labeled too well dressed, seen as a sign of feminism advancing.
A reflective line argues that after years of practice people suffer anew when forced to relearn spelling, suggesting frustration with ongoing educational demands and the burden of revision.
Baseball evolves into a more scientific game as expert fans are summoned from work by prearranged telephone calls, reflecting growing use of organized fan engagement and data driven approaches in the sport.
A Paris report shows only one birth per thirty families last year, making the city unattractive for a baby carriage factory. A Seattle judge presiding over a divorce case drew attention for not catering to the marrying trade.
A season opening note suggests the courts are shedding a stale stretch as a headlined line says a rot was taken out of the box. The comment implies renewed momentum and a shift in playapproach for upcoming matches.
A man in a bar ber shop suffered a throat wound when a bomb exploded. He reportedly complained about not getting his shoes shined as the incident occurred.
Engineers note lifeboats for 5260 aboard the latest steamship, but officials insist 2308 could suffice for safety. The dispute centers on ship design standards and practical crew evacuation.
A five member committee presented a concrete proposal to rehabilitate the Republican party at a session of senators and leaders in Chicago. The meeting discussed reorganizing along progressive lines and whether to hold a national convention this year. Participants included Senators Borah Kenyon and Cummins and leaders from nine states. no final decision was reached on a convention or new national committee.
Secretary Lane recommends restoring over 300000 acres in South Dakota to entry from withdrawal. The tract, partly coal-bearing per geological survey, contains beds two to ten feet thick and is appraised at 10 to 20 dollars per acre.
The senate Debating open hearings on the Underwood tariff bill as Republicans seek to force public discussion. Senator Smith warns that delaying action risks reviving dark days and harming sugar and beet industries, affecting 15,000 Michigan workers and related firms.
At Jack Johnson trial Miss Belle Schrieber answers questions about love saying she never felt love for the boxer and that she joined him mainly for money to obtain fine clothes and jewelry.
The Marquis of Hertford formerly married to Alice Thaw of Pittsburgh plans a London wedding May 12. He is to wed Mrs Moss-Cockle, a much older heiress who inherits $3,250,000 from her late husband.
Saranac Lake May 10. Adirondack guides at Rainbow Lake condemned narow skirts after a boating accident where a woman nearly drowned. The convention adopted a resolution opposing the skirts and all similar styles as unsafe.
London reports a national suffrage pilgrimage organized by the Naval Union of Woman’s Suffrage Societies with 17 federations preparing processions to the capital. A Hyde Park rally is planned for July 26 followed by a service at St Paul’s Cathedral. Millicent Fawcett urges joyful dedication to a great cause.
Chicago May 10 The board of trade says an alleged grain elevator trust with control of three quarters of Chicago grain was behind the call price rule to curb monopoly. The ruling, two years old, aimed to prevent outside trading and restore competition after rail lines and warehouses were leased to key firms including Armour, Bartlett-Frazier, Shaffer, and Rosenbaum. The board claims the measure boosted arriving bids and lowered living costs by stabilizing prices.
Dun's Review of Trade reports that favorable crop conditions lift confidence in the West and South despite some order curtailment from tariff changes. Passage of the tariff bill nears certainty, and 58 cities report increased building activity.
Mrs Gideon Heeter of North Manchester dies at her Wabash home after a long illness. Her death coincides with the case against her son S I Heeter Pitts burgh school superintendent who was acquitted on prior charges and now faces new inquiries into alleged immorality.
The California legislature adjourned with a near-unbroken record of progressive gains aligned to Governor Hiram Johnson's program. Key measures include workman's compensation, mothers pension, rural credits study, minimum wage, nonpartisan primary ballots, civil service reach, water control, and a red light abatement law that could confiscate property for a year.
Reports from Beaudette Minnesota and Clarksburg West Virginia recount property losses from fires totaling seventeen thousand and eighty thousand dollars. Other items include Robert Webb’s retrial for detective Hart’s murder in Chicago, a Fort William riot fatally wounding two, severe frost damage to Maryland crops, a Servia king’s brother’s marriage to an American widow, a deadly Manila typhoon with fifty eight seafarer deaths, and Jefferson City moving picture houses facing potential prosecutions.
South Haven Michigan May 13 After examining hundreds of orchards in the southwestern Michigan fruit belt well posted fruit growers declare that one half of the promised bumper crop of everything but late fall apples was killed by the freeze of Friday and Saturday nights There will be no early strawberries or pears though the later varieties were less seriously affected Smudging was resorted to in many places but generally proved ineffectual.
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