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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1905
Page
2
A collage of breezy vignettes and quips from a 19th century local page. Notes on glass houses predicted by a French scientist, cheerful men, women’s marriage age, Niagara Falls satire, corset fashions, political reforms, a 460-carat diamond near Johannesburg, and various witty asides about time, revenge, and travel. Includes lines on Peary, typhoid travel, Lipton, and a mix of anecdotes from Evanston to Camden.
It took twenty five expert money counters sixty seven days to count the money in the United States treasury the largest count of any one day was two hundred twenty tons of silver. Your Uncle Sam is not eighty poor.
A San Francisco dispatch reports Mrs. Fernula Sarras, an aged Mexican woman, received 90000 from a syndicate for a mine she owns. The syndicate plans to sell the mine to the public, with potential proceeds around 1000000. In St Louis a young man sues for 20000 claiming she refused to marry him, while her friends doubt his proposal ever existed.
A Chicago Great Western stock train struck a Soo Line passenger train near St Paul at 9 30 Sunday morning. Nine passengers were seriously hurt and one woman died. Names include Clara Cross and J P Wilkinson among the injured. Dozens more were treated and many traveled on.
Che Foo Oct 2 The coasting steamer Heslesho on the Shanghai to Tien Tsin run struck a mine ninety miles south of the Shantung promontory and was totally destroyed. Fifteen persons aboard were drowned including engineers Mauchan and Muir. Foreign passengers and part of the crew were rescued by two passing steamers.
Richard Clampitt, a Bedford contractor, has been missing since Thursday after drawing 800 dollars from a Bedford bank and starting toward the Mitchell street fair. Local authorities seek information on his whereabouts.
Helsingfors Oct 1 Swedish steamers Njord and Robert collided near Hveen island in the sounds The Robert sank with twenty persons drowned and other details scarce in the report
Washington reports by Francis A. Dodge, paymaster general, show enlisted men save via a deposit system totaling 26.294 million since inception while current law and pay scales hinder permanent appointments. army pay for the year reached 81.89 million with calls to amend the act to align details with vacancies and ensure permanent grades, highlighting widespread underpayment and recruitment challenges.
Reports from Chicago claim Dr B C Powell of Sandwich linked the Streed mystery to a suspicious Cambridge death years ago. Cambridge domestic death burials are mentioned as tied to the case, but local officers doubt Streed was killed for information from Dr W D Powell and consider him potentially dangerous to those involved.
Washington reports President Roosevelt will urge Congress to create a single medal of honor for the army, navy, and marine corps. He aims for equal recognition of distinguished service and acts of valor, treating naval personnel on par with soldiers. The proposal envisions one medal shared across branches.
Bartoul Bly, the Chicago evangelist, led meetings that Sunday drawing over 425 converts and about $2,500 in offerings and subscriptions. The tabernacle for 1,350 seats was packed, with hundreds turned away as the revival created a near revolution in the district. Sunday then departed for Aledo, Illinois.
Wooster Ohio October 2 H C Frick the Pittsburg coke king and multi millionaire was not at his mother’s bedside as she died after he traveled hundreds of miles to be with her He visited many times and spent lavishly before she passed away then headed to New York to join his wife and daughter returning from Europe.
The coal laden steamship P. H. Birenhead, en route from Ashtabula to Racine, Wis., caught fire at a dock in Alpena Michigan. Twelve crew members escaped unharmed but lost all their effects.
The Markham family of nine near Andover was wiped out in a farmhouse fire. Mrs Markham killed seven children with an ax then set the house ablaze and took her own life after, later, the father Clarence Markham shot himself. Neighbors found the charred bodies. Mrs Markham said she did it to save the children.
National League standings show mixed results as clubs from Brooklyn and Cincinnati post varying marks. The brief lists several team records including New York and La Louis with noted scores, reflecting a snapshot of the league's balance.
Oct 2 report from Dublin Indiana says Bishop Halleck Floyd of the United Brethren church was seriously injured when he fell down a cellarway during a quarterly church meeting. He is hospitalized as authorities investigate the accident.
An October dedicatory ceremony was held by the Ohio Archaeological Society on the Big Bottom farm in McConnelisville Ojo. The monument and grounds were donated by Ovydjah Bro kaw, a longtime owner aged 88. The event followed a September 30 observance and honored local history.
Local Daughters of the American Revolution plan a monument for Ephraim Palmer, a Revolutionary War veteran buried unmarked near Kishwaukee south of Rockford. Palmer, born Greenwich Conn in 1759, enlisted at 17, was captured in 1779, spent nine months in New York sugar house hospital, re enlisted, and later guarded Major Andre. Descendants are expected for the dedication ceremony.
Market report lists dairy items like cheese and creamery products. Various fruits, vegetables, and live poultry values shown with prices per unit or crate. Packed in whitewood cases. fish, meats, and specialty items priced for wholesale trade.
A 17 year old Chicago girl known as Miss Verona Drew of Chicago was arraigned in Milwaukee on a charge of forging three money orders and obtaining $200 under false representations. She lived luxuriously in Milwaukee, staying in hotel rooms and attending theaters, before planning to buy a confectionery business with the loan.
Fragmentary text reports Carnegie Steel Company planning to begin mills in a large city within two years. Details are unclear due to OCR errors, but the core claim indicates expansion or new plant development tied to the Carnegie firm.
A partial OCR fragment contains scattered letters and phrases. The readable portion hints at a terse historic note but lacks coherent names, places, or dates to establish a factual event. The text remains insufficient to identify a clear article subject or outcome.
In Scranton Pa on October 2 President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers will visit President Roosevelt by invitation. It is unclear what the meeting will cover but it is believed to focus on averting a possible anthracite strike next spring in the region.
W A Moore secretary of the Balkan committee, returning from Macedonia, told sensational stories of Christian massacres by Turkish troops witnessed by him.
Fragmentary text references family conflict, marriage, and societal events in a period newspaper voice. Names and places are unclear but imply a dramatic domestic moment and mentions of a banquet and local happenings.
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