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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1911
Page
4
Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio blasts Taft's tariff policy as misguided and paternal in a special dispatch from Boston. The piece cites Harmon accusing advisors of error and urges tariff reform.
German financial affairs faced the worst day since the Morocco crisis began as selling orders flooded the Berlin bourse. Depositors fled savings banks in Cologne, Essen, Aix-la-Chapelle, and other cities while frontier unrest and inflation fears spurred small investors to pull investments. Authorities urged calm as Franco German talks continue and a government statement on the Moroccan situation looms.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports Southwestern Texas has shifted to commercial pear growing in recent years. Early crops yielded two pairs but market access and experiments now show gratifying results. The note ends with a mention of women lawyers in France serving as magistrates for cases involving children under 13.
W H Hile arrives in New York with the largest ostrich consignment yet seen in the United States. From Calcutta the birds traveled aboard the Kansas of Burnhall Line and only fifty three survive the voyage. Some birds will form an ostrich farm in New York to supply plumes directly from the bird for admirers next year.
Arthur Dean, a 22 year old black man just released from prison, was lynched in Augusta Arkansas after attacking an elderly black woman and killing a black man and a white woman. He had fled to Bald Knob before capture.
A premature dynamite blast at Elmhurst Chicago Stone quarry in Elmhurst Illinois killed four workers and seriously injured seven others. The blast while loading a drilled rock hole was heard for miles. No cause is determined beyond a percussion cap discharge during cap placement. About one hundred men were on site at the time.
Philadelphia physician Dr. F Turner describes a self administered home method to shed about one pound daily without drugs or exercise. He claims reduce weight from 254 pounds to 150 pounds between Nov and Jan with improved health and no harmful aids. He offers a booklet by mail for fleshy individuals seeking the same method.
A quarry blast hurled debris and workers to the ground as shockwaves rattled the site. Several laborers were thrown off their feet with witnesses reporting chaotic scenes and a rush to assist the injured.
The quantity of silver found on copper ships suggests sea water carries about 200 million tons of silver. The same analysis estimates sea water contains one grain of gold per ton.
A historical note explains that the phrase honeymoon derives from a old practice where couples drank diluted honey during the lunar cycle after marriage. The custom tied the duration of sweetness to the moon’s cycle as a symbolic period of early union.
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