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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
2
The piece surveys a collage of wry observations on world affairs and daily life. It jokes about China’s civility, installment buying, advertising misreadings, politicians, New York quirks, meat prices, and literary notoriety, weaving satirical takes on public behavior and culture.
A Montana inventor claims 30 000 bushels per acre potatoes could enrich him if potato consuming population grows. New York Sun correspondents debate US Navy father, but Admiral Dewey stands as its most distinguished son.
A Porto Rican woman known for probing questions seeks a way to avoid defining nationality. The text implies handling by holding a man underwater to drown as a means to silence him, suggesting dangerous intent and violent solution. The suggestion ends with a remark about resorting to the state department.
Town topics editor claims to have enough scandals to overturn New York piety and urges restraint to avoid proving what he says by airing the scandals himself.
In Iroquois county near Momence a log house from 1861 yields three skeletons. A trapper named Steele and his wife and daughter reportedly sheltered the Barrington party with $10,000 for U S Army beef funds, and Barrington vanished after staying there. Vigilantes threatened Steele, but he fled after denying involvement as locals recount old memories of the case.
National League Chicago and Boston tied 9?2, Brooklyn won 6-0, St Louis 6-1, Philadelphia 5-2. American Association Todo 2-6 Milwaukee 7-6 in 10 innings. Louisville 5 Minneapolis at Columbus, Kansas City Indianapolis 7 St Paul. Three-Eye Springfield 4-3 Rock Island 9, Cedarvalds Bloomington 8, ANMIPOrE 3. Peoria 2, Decatur 11-0, Dubuque 4-2. Central League Wheeling Canton 4, Dayton 23 Springfield 3, Terre Haute South Bend Evansville 8, Rapids 1.
Erie Section Foreman Hurd found a pocketbook with 8000 dollars in cash and papers at Tallmadge, Kent. It was left at the Kent bank for the owner, believed to be a Chicago man.
In New York on August 7 two Chinese men were killed and several others wounded, three fatally, during a pistol battle between rival Chinese societies inside the Chinese theater on Dover Street.
Eugene Pikeman of Hopedale identified as the man who killed Marion Warner of Secor Jr aboard a Chicago and Alton excursion train. Pikeman says he recently returned from the Philippines where he served in the army.
Paul Morton president of Equitable Life, Charles Keep assistant secretary of the treasury, Mrs Keep and chauffeur John Sheehan narrowly escaped serious injury in a Sunday crash on Eighth Avenue and Twenty Fourth Street. The party’s forty horse power auto struck a street car, wrecking the auto front and throwing occupants from their seats. Conductor William Woodson was bruised but continued the trip. Morton blamed the street car’s lack of warning while denying assigning fault. Witnesses said the jolt may have caused Morton to lose balance.
The United States government plans a large breeding farm in southern Livingston county at Indian Creek. The lease is in place and initial construction will begin immediately. The project aims to be the nation’s most extensive horse breeding operation and to supply a substantial portion of the government’s horse needs.
An early morning disturbance near a Smyrna camp meeting on the Delaware and Chesapeake railroad left George Jackson of Middletown dead from a heart shot and John Pierce of Mount Pleasant wounded in the back while William Guy was seriously injured. The fighting arose after women were said to be gambling and revolvers were used in the confrontation near the camp grounds.
Miss Mary Carden, a Sheldon Sun typesetter in Sioux City, was injured when her hair became entangled in a basement pulley while filling the pressfeeder’s shift. Her hair was completely torn out and she walked to Dr Crain’s office a block away. Doctors held little hope for recovery.
Eight miners were injured, one seriously, by an explosion in the Kelster works mines at Redstone township Uniontown PA. A powder charge meant to blast coal was not secured tightly and when fired rocks and fire scattered among the workers. They were brought to the surface promptly for treatment.
Washington August 7 Dr W C Th den once chief chemist at the army medical museum in the surgeon general's office is dead He discovered the poison in the bouquet sent to Guiteau before his execution
Aug 7 in Scranton Jacob Yak sontack hotelkeeper was shot dead by William Nelger in charge of the Archbald First Aid hospital. Nelger fired five shots, each finding its mark.
In New Orleans Archbishop Chapelle fights yellow fever with doctors Dr. Larroue and Dr. Guiteras monitoring his serious but improving condition. Citizens pledge funds to finance a sixty day city cleanup under Dr. Whites plan, sending telegrams to Surgeon General Wyman and President Roosevelt, praising prompt support from Mayor Behrman and local committee. Two new infection foci appeared, one uptown and one downtown, but overall fever conditions eased.
Wabash Indiana August 7 Ellis Bussard reports a new mown hay incubator found on his North Manchester area farm. Two weeks after haying a hen disappeared from the nest and heat in the hay warmed twelve eggs, producing ten hatched chicks while two eggs remained unhatched.
Hazleton Pa August 7 Former legislator Harry Haworth who represented the Fourth district in the state assembly during 1891 was found dying of gas asphyxiation in a hotel room. The coroner ruled death by own action.
Washington August 7 Rear Admiral Charles E Clark famed for the battleship Oregon and closely linked with the destruction of Cervera s fleet at Santiago will be placed on the retired list August 10.
The Kokomo Steel and Wire Nail Company plant suffered about 50,000 dollars in damage when a storm blew down the galvanized and wire drawing rooms. The incident occurred in Kokomo Indiana on August 7.
In Dennison Iowa on August 7 Joseph De May struck his wife with a hatchet during a family quarrel. The wounds are expected to prove fatal.
Hartford August 7 In the opinion of prominent growers the Connecticut peach crop this year will be the largest ever harvested and of unrepealing quality.
President Roosevelt gave a lay sermon to Oyster Bay's Christian Brotherhood at the Methodist Episcopal Church. He urged charity and sound character, citing biblical texts from Matthew, First Corinthians and Matthew about judging by fruits, feeding the hungry, and the primacy of charity in daily life. He urged tolerance and brotherly action among all striving to live decently.
Navy officials hunt vandals who mutilated a silk battle flag sent aboard the Brooklyn to drop the casket of John Paul Jones in France. A strip a foot long and two inches wide was removed from the flag, a Daughters of the American Revolution property linked to Revolutionary battles.
Seward Alaska is connected with the outside world by telegraph. The Seward Valdez cable now expands government cable capacity in Alaskan waters to about 2300 miles, boosting communication links and demonstrating improved regional telegraph reach.
In Catskill the Englishman John Etheridge alias Teighmouthshore, claimed as priest or rector, is confronted by Rev Edgar Eugene Brooks of St John’s Dover after a chase across Scranton Long Branch Asbury Park and Dover. Etheridge admits he is not a priest and had no Rome ordination. Brooks lists his past as embezzler and forger. The exchange ends with Etheridge giving the Bowery pawnbroker’s address for his watch.
A dense listing of produce and dairy prices including extra and firsts for cheeses like Swiss and Limburger, fish, live poultry, berries, melons, beans, green vegetables, and other seasonal items with per unit and per case prices. The record notes packed for city trade, high grade whitewood packing, and stock updates with new cases and price adjustments.
Grain quotations from Chicago New York Minneapolis St Louis Milwaukee and other centers show No 2 red No 1 northern and mixed wheat prices ranging roughly from 82 to 109 cents per bushel with several markets listing 1.08 and 1.09. Livestock prices across Chicago Omaha Kansas City St Joseph show cattle at about 4.75 to 5.90 and hogs around 5.15 to 6.20 per hundredweight with regional variations.
In a long awaited event Tad Aug Haya and Braboy finally meet after many years. The reunion involves Koksumo and J A Braboy as key figures in a community gathering welcoming back old friends and colleagues.
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