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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1905
Page
2
A satirical column in The Herald of Eldora Iowa mocks wealth, fashion, and public figures. It jokes about get rich schemes, divorce and marriage, tax gripes, and social trends from New York to Ireland, noting fashion hats, chorus girls, and folly in the postwar era with wry humor.
A New York girl faints when her village band plays. The writer questions a press agent’s hype about “the most extreme limit.” The moon was claimed by Mr. Morgan before Earth’s title. experimenters sent a kite over two and a half miles high. A Chicago restaurant cashier repelled two holdup men by throwing boxes. The cigar brand remains unnamed but described as fierce.
Charles TR Flint returns from Russia praising the czar as intelligent and strong in character and declaring the grand dukes all right. The remark suggests Flint secured a contract from the entourage or related interests.
The telescope shows Mars landscapes change suddenly and extensively. Map making becomes the most profitable work on the planet.
Captain Sir Ernest Cochrane of Dublin and Belfast promptly denies any design on the America cup. He suggests he has been reading papers since Sir Thomas Janson began efforts to lift it.
Jr. Rockefeller said to the humor fete guest that he is now one of them and wears proudly a badge. He should not compete by sending jokes to comic papers even at space rates.
A Brooklyn justice imposes a peculiar sentence requiring a man to speak with his wife for two hours every Sunday while the wife remains silent for the same duration. Critics call it cruel and unusual punishment potentially violating constitutional protections. The public weighs in on this controversial ruling.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports coal operators from Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Kentucky plan a November Chicago meeting to agree on tactics to curb the United Mineworkers. They aim to shut mines April 1 1906 to force a wage cut while anthracite operators seek higher prices and storage to constrain supply.
Former Illinois governor John Marshall Hamilton, credited with shaping the state’s late appellate system and founding the state board of health, died at his home on Madison Avenue after a month long illness from pulmonary congestion and complications.
In St Paul Minnesota on September 26 Alfred Anderson 18 and John Anderson 38 are missing after fleeing their dying mother to avoid separation. They were last seen in the woods near Lake Amelia close to Minneapolis. The case involves a family emergency and search efforts are continuing.
Duluth Minn Sept 26 Edward Duthey an ore loader shot his wife and a saloon keeper named Charles Blynerberger. His wife is dead and Blynerberger is in critical condition in a hospital.
New York reports homeopaths in the region push for laws requiring thorough physical exams for all marriage license applicants. Nebraska, Colorado, and Michigan peers back the idea to curb genetic decline and combat tuberculosis by excluding unhealthy individuals from wedlock. A New York committee led by Dr. Holden studies the issue, while Dr. B G Carlton notes broad support among traditional physicians for safeguarding public health.
The body of Frank Callahan of Peoria, missing since Tuesday night, was found in the Des Moines river eight miles south of Des Moines. His temple bore a heavy blunt-force injury, pockets cut, watch and money gone, and papers identified him. The case follows the recent Griswold river death, stirring local intrigue.
The body of Charles Howard 40, son of ex-judge Timothy Howard, was found floating on St Marys Lake near Notre Dame University. He had been missing from South Bend since last Monday and was described as an invalid possibly mentally deranged. Circumstances indicate accidental drowning.
In Kankakee Illinois on Sent. 25 a 17 year old Mrs. Mary Wright of Marshalltown gave birth to triplets weighing a combined twenty five pounds. She weighs 105 pounds herself. Medical annals say such a birth is without precedent.
L. J. Fenshawe of New York died of blood poisoning at Santa Barbara California after a playful blow during a scuffle with a friend on board the steamship Dorie on its last trip from the Orient.
Twelve thousand spectators in Nimes France rioted after matadors refused to kill another bull following five fatalities and toppled chairs and boxes then set fire to arena barriers.
Spain's cruisers Cardinal Cisneros Extrema dura and Rio Janeiro are coaling at Vigo and准备 to move to Morocco's coast to seek redress for recent attacks on Spanish vessels.
In St Paul Minnesota dated September 25 the trustees report the will of W H Elsinger valuing the estate at 820000. Of this 31000 is given to local charity societies with the Salvation Army receiving 25000.
Dredge No. 4 owned by Lake Erie Dredging company of Buffalo foundered in a gale off Dunkirk New York on September 25. Captain George Miller and six crewmen were rescued by the tug Cascade of Buffalo after the wreck.
Three Mexican men fought in Colony Oklahoma leading to two deaths. Jesus Villacalut was responsible for stabbing the trio after they had been drinking. Names of the victims were not learned. The incident occurred in Tawton Oklahoma on September 25.
Butte Montana faced its worst fire in history with losses exceeding 1.2 million dollars as flames consumed the business district between Shodair block and Renshaw alley and half the public library. Firemen were hurt by falling walls while water supply failed, then a desert rainstorm quenched the blaze. Estimated losses include Symonds store Maule and York blocks 600000 library 70000 Walkover Shoe Co 16000 Ogden block total loss Atlantic saloon 11000.
In St Paul two linemen, Jesse Donahue of Minneapolis and Harry Bipson of Cuba Missouri, were electrocuted while constructing a St Paul to Sillwater line. Bipson stood atop a pole holding one end of a linen tape with two slender wires running through it when the tape touched a heavily charged power cable. Donahue, on the ground, held the opposite end. Both men were killed instantly.
In Negaunee Michigan on Sunday morning vandals attacked the Catholic cemetery causing about 3000 dollars in damage. Guards had been posted along the Chicago and Northwestern line to protect graveyards but they left at daylight before the raid occurred between dawn and eight o clock.
During naval maneuvers two torpedo boats collided and became interlocked until towed to port where tugs separated them. Both vessels suffered serious damage and were stranded for investigation.
Washington reports Germany, under its emperor, is expanding exports and colonization plans in South and Central America, damping U S trade gains and stirring unfriendliness among republics. President Roosevelt sent Judge Penfield to study the situation and foster friendly ties, with his report due on return.
A dense listing of butter, cheese, fish, poultry, fruits, and vegetables with varied units and prices. Includes prints, firsts, seconds, and stock notes for butter, creamery products, cheese types, fresh fish, live poultry, apples, grapes, pears, greens, and other market goods.
Grain quotations from Chicago New York and other hubs show varied bids with No 2 red and mixed futures at several grain carriers. Live stock prices list cattle and lamb values for Chicago Omaha Kansas City St Louis and St Joseph, with New York and St Louis figures alongside.
Fire devastates the New Madrid courthouse following riots with arson. Indictments against six murderers and the Henderson Mound rioters burned, along with tax and drainage papers. Deed records in vaults likely damaged.
Private Lee of Company E, Eleventh Infantry, shot and killed Private King of the same regiment in a Cheyenne saloon after threats of a thrashing. Lee then escaped.
President Roosevelt plans to return to Washington late this week after spending time at Oyster Bay. He is drafting his annual message to Congress with cabinet input, focusing on life insurance regulation, U S Venezuela relations, and Santo Domingo finances, while postponing less urgent matters.
Wu Ying Fang former Chinese minister to the United States and Prince Tsai Tehd high commissioner of education suffered slight injuries when a bomb exploded in their private car at Pekin railway station. Four niners were killed and many more wounded as a man dressed as a coolie carried the device. The blast occurred just before the special train for the commissioners was to depart.
Chicago defeats New York 10 to 6 as Cincinnati sits at 8-8 and Brooklyn 3-7 while St. Louis holds 5 and Boston shows a blank.
Dr James R Chadwick a Harvard lecturer was found dead outside his summer residence at Chocorua New Hampshire seven miles from West Ossipee. Police say he fell from the cottage piazza roof during the night. Bruising on head and hips indicated a fall. Coroner W Hodsdon held an inquest and attributed death to accident.
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