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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
3
A collage of bushel figures and playful quips. Notes on fashion pockets in women's dresses. Washington to have a women’s hotel with an electric hair curler. Jokes about bossism, a scorch ing chauffeur, and banana peels on life’s highway. A Detroit monument to Satan. Caruso dislikes hotels. a riddle on temperature.
The article urges France to celebrate reduced crises when parliament opposes the ministry and criticizes European gimcrackeries taxed as works of art. It also notes motoring may relieve indigestion and for those obstructing progress may eliminate other maladies.
Account of Labrador exploring parties shows adventure seekers risk fatal outcomes without venturing to the Arctic. Strong individuals and reckless pursuit mix as explorers face deadly perils outside polar extremes.
A recurring event sees a Russian mob forcefully enter a vodka shop and, through their actions, illustrate the consequences of excess drinking. The pattern highlights ongoing public disorder linked to alcohol abuse and unrest.
Eighteen soldiers at a Kentucky fort deserted when ordered to march to another state. The report comments that Kentucky girls are handsome, reflecting a contemporary newspaper aside.
Emperor William and King Alfon 80 hunted boars with William killing twenty three and Alfon twenty nine. The day yielded few victims for both sides and noted as not a good day for boars.
The government plans a new foreign loan totaling 250 million dollars at 4 percent. The note recalls General Sherman’s remark that war is the cost borne by those who pay.
One third of the Dominican navy is at Norfolk navy yard for repairs. The group includes the 600 ton gunboat Presidente which has not undergone an overhaul in seven years.
In New York operas are now presented as sacred concerts on Sundays. The town, clinging to tradition, treats breaks of laws as necessary when performed covertly.
A new Broadway play will feature John D. Rockefeller and Ida M. Tarbell as major roles. The note urges propriety and hopes there will be no wig pulling during performances.
A New Jersey resident, age 72, cannot read or write and has seen only one locomotive from half a mile away. The boast seems odd and raises questions about valuing literacy and experience.
The source notes King Alfonso killed forty one wild pigs while hunting with the Kaiser. It comments that this does not imply willingness to aid Yankee farmers with pig killing if he visits. It also cites New York letter volume, noting 235000 letters collected daily between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., not all love letters.
The saying suggests that when women achieve great genius they tend to marry wealthy men. It reflects a provocative social pattern linking female brilliance with marriages to affluent partners.
Joseph R. Burton United States senator from Kansas received a six month jail term in Iron County Missouri and a 2500 fine for acting as a paid attorney for Rialto Grain and Securities before the Post Office department. He was released on 5000 bond with R C Kereng as surety pending appeal to the Supreme Court. Execution stayed during appeal.
United States Senator Thomas McDougal Patterson, publisher of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Times, was fined $1000 for alleged contempt of court and ordered jailed until paid. An appeal to the Supreme Court halted the fine, amid his accusatory remark toward Chief Justice Gabbert. The Denver political scene reacted as the Bush bill and county control shifted with a Supreme Court ruling.
The Lake Superior gale leaves multiple wrecks including Mataafa Crescent City Edenborn and Lafayette. Elwood and Manila both stranded near Duluth harbor with two barges missing Madeira and Constitution. Bransford reached Duluth after a forward puncture. A fireman from Lafayette drowned and the Edentorn’s second assistant engineer is missing. President Coulby arrives with wrecking gear to aid salvage.
Heavy flood and rain damage noted along Ohio River points. A cloudburst at Carrollton Kentucky caused about 30000 dollars in damage. Murphysville residents fled to high ground while Lewis and Fleming counties in Kentucky also suffered heavy losses.
Reporters say John D. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil executives are avoiding process servers. A guard surrounds the Pocantico Hill mansion in Westchester as Rockefeller rides daily with his horses, strangers barred, and word circulates that watchers may camp out to serve papers from Governor Folk's Missouri inquest.
In Bridgeport Leo McNally two years old suffered a fractured spine and is not expected to live. In Sullivan Indiana Williams right halfback of Owensville Athletic Club has a fractured skull and is in serious condition. In Peoria George Pryor a Lombard College opponent is to undergo groin surgery after a serious injury. Lombard lost 11 to 6 amid a protested touchdown.
Arthur S. Whitney right halfback of the Clyde team sustained a concussion of the brain and other internal injuries during a game when an opponent tried to make an end. He is in dangerous condition but not believed to be fatal.
New York report states president Richard A. McCurdy of the Mutual Life Insurance Company has resigned and the board named Frederick Cromwell, the treasurer, to act as interim president. Justice Rufus W. Peckham also resigned as a Mutual Life trustee, and the board accepted the notice.
In Philadelphia a rainstorm did not deter several thousand Jewish residents from a parade of mourning for massacre victims. The procession was led by the Defense and Aid Society and the Russian Arbiterbund local branch. A large mass meeting preceding the parade raised several hundred dollars for Jewish surfers.
Marshall Field Jr, son of the Chicago merchant, died at Mercy hospital after being wounded by pistol fire. An inquest is scheduled for Friday afternoon with his wife and father at the bedside. the body was moved to the Field home for the funeral.
Charles Mader of Chicago pleaded guilty in municipal court to giving a $1,200 bribe for a county hospital roof contract in 1901. He was indicted two years ago and fined $1,000. at the time he acted as an agent for a Chicago roofing company.
St Petersburg correspondent reports the Manchurian army is beyond control and a fierce mutiny has broken out. The claim notes widespread unrest affecting command and stability across the forces.
St Petersburg reports an acute empire crisis with Kronstadt forts possibly firing on the capital. The government fears rising revolutionary pressure as troops loyalty wanes and Cossacks are mobilized, about 450000 strong, as its last hope.
Berlin report from St Petersburg cites Vossische Zeitung source claiming a grand duke attempted to assassinate the czar to block constitutional government. The czar is said to have been wounded in the hand, with the reactionary court party preferring murder to reform.
In London a Social Democratic rally around Strands tents drew boos for Princess Louise Duchess of Fife as she opened the charity tents funded by Queen Alexandra. Police were summoned to quell disorder while the crowd jeered religious sweaters and cursed the charity.
A Census Bureau bulletin shows about 106 illiterates per 1 000 persons over ten, equal to one in ten. Among native whites 46 per 1 000 are illiterate, foreign born 128, and negroes 445. Women are more illiterate than men, 112 versus 101 per 1 000, with improvement since 1890 when rates were higher.
A Tetuan to Tangier courier says Moroccan soldiers severely assaulted an American tobacco monopoly holder as he disposed of stock. The successor sought intervention and troops ejected the owner after he raised the U S flag, which soldiers hauled down.
In Huntington West Virginia Misa Martha Blackburn reportedly threw herself under a Camden Interstate railroad car near her home and died from the injuries.
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