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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1904
Page
6
A collage of whimsical notes and future-tinged quips from a bygone paper. Items include Mrs Odlrich’s ball, a Hague tribunal note, asbestos clothing invention, diamond-rich Newport Indies, Patti’s US auto tour, and a moon spot spotted by a Harvard professor. Mentions of Sir Thomas Lipton, Col Alexis Romanoff, and King Leopold pepper the column, with satire on etiquette, mosquitoes in New Jersey, and a revived daguerreotype trend.
The Savannah Morning News offers a compact editorial essay on living frugally. It reflects the paper’s practical take on budgets, habits, and modest means for readers seeking economical guidance.
A Chicago bank clerk left eight thousand dollars in an elevated car. Yet it must be admitted that despite general prosperity there are people in Chicago who would not forget even eight thousand dollars.
The London Lancet attacks England's educational system for failing to teach girls about motherhood responsibilities. It condemns the trend of delegating child care to nurses as a fashion.
The Atlanta Constitution highlights its own wit by labeling the city’s milk supply as unlabeled poiyon while praising its epigrammatic expression. The quip suggests skepticism about local kindness and uses a humorous turn of phrase to critique public sentiment.
Mt. Ayr Sept 8 Grand jury after six days charged Day Dunning with five counts of fraudulent banking for taking deposits after insolvent status. Bail set at 2000 on each indictment. Clyde Dunning and Day Dunning faced no charges for embezzlement or obtaining money by false pretenses. The Dunnings’ bank closed after cattle price slump hurt Hyestock investments, leaving depositors with losses while assets covered little of liabilities.
Kane a bartender at East St. Louis Yellow Dog saloon confesses to killing Cedar Rapids man Robert Reynolds and St. Louis colored man George Green. He says strike breakers were the motive and names no others as participants. He claims age thirty and ties his background to East St. Louis.
Sheriff delivers contempt of court notices to the Boone city council mayor treasurer and clerk to appear on September 20 at 9 am in district court. The action stems from a 1904 mandamus requiring payment of $175 damages in the Sadduth sewer outlet case plus about $500 costs.
Davenport Sept. 7 Buffalo residents were aghast at Gus Stor tenbecker's alleged arsenic poisoning attempt on his wife and daughter Mon day after a family quarrel. A surgeon saved the women with a stomach pump. Stor tenbecker was arrested for attempted homicide but was discharged when the wife and daughter refused to testify.
Ida Livingston, 17, attempted suicide at her brother in law William Hughes home near Ross by revolver. Reported motive cited as inability to live with her step parent. Recovery expected. A second item notes Cedar Rapids report of a burglary at Illinois Central freight depot with dynamite used on a safe. tenth such burglary this week, officials say.
Miss Kate Cohant of Greene county died after months of suffering from trichinosis or pork poisoning contracted from undercooked ham. Doctors reported worms permeating flesh, with little chance of recovery despite heroic treatment. Only she in the household succumbed, while others were poisoned but survived.
Addison Oliver seeks 40000 in damages, contesting the Monona Harrison county ditch project. He argues the land is a single stock farm with valuable wetlands used for grass and pasture, and that the proposed change would increase flooding, harming hunting, fishing, ice, and stock barriers alongside the tillable lands.
Albert Rosenfranz, a Clear Lake area farmer, unintentionally shot his 4-year-old son while loading a rusty gun aimed at a circling hawk. The child stood in front of the gun to watch, the shell exploded, and the boy died instantly from a chest wound. The incident occurred eight miles northwest of the city on Sept. 7.
Mason City reports a threshing steamer explosion at Geo Halvers farm on Monday afternoon killed Abe Foster Peter Daly Christ Snake James Seymour and Willard Dudlow. Five men were hurled up to a hundred feet, cremation occurred, and the cause remains undetermined. Five funerals expected the same afternoon in a record county-wide attendance.
In Monroe on September 7 Mrs. Charles Chipps was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in her husband Charles Chipps's hands as they prepared for a farm drive. The shotgun fired while he mounted a wagon tailgate, the loaded shell striking her in the back of the head and causing instant death.
Eldora September 9. County attorney records show thirty eight violent deaths in Hardin County over the last thirty six months. The Blydenburg murder case was among those noted.
Deputy U S Marshal Tracy from Sioux City arrested Henry Mauer a 17 year old Odebolt boy yesterday on charges of raising two two dollar money orders to fifteen dollars. He bought one at Wall Lake post office and one at Ida Grove passed one to James Krick an Ida Grove restaurant man and tried to dispose of the other. It is believed he had accomplices in a high crime ring.
Des Moines reports a brutal assault by three inmates on Ole Harn, while a deserter from Fort Des Moines, John Burdy, is sought. Iowa Supreme Court reviews Busse death row intoxication evidence as voters hear renewed push for biennial elections. Chaplain Jessup urges indeterminate sentencing and parole reforms. Local quips mix in asides about news and humor.
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