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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
6
The piece argues that newspapers deliver rapid, cost effective advertising far beyond stage coach methods. It cites a concrete case where 150000 daily readers see shop windows through articles. It contrasts English emphasis on goods and stationery with the American use of newspapers, claiming ten shops in daily ads make money while the tenth fails due to bad management.
The Louisville magnate William F Norton leaves a Kansas City filed will detailing cremation in Cincinnati with a forty piece Bellstedt band, stocked buffet, and a Pullman car journey. His ashes go to a bronze urn atop the family monument. wishes omit religious services. Executed estate plans reveal his quarrel with Louisville authorities and his fondness for dramatic ritual.
Mrs William Tryon of Fitchburg Massachusetts travels to Salisbury North Carolina housed in a glass fronted wooden case built to resemble a burial casket. She suffers from nervous troubles and bronchitis and fears fresh air, traveling wrapped in blankets despite warmth. She is accompanied by her husband and a purse, and will likely rent a cottage with a housekeeper.
Herman Gerson head keeper at East Los Angeles park zoo is attacked by a male tiger while washing its cage. His wife drives off the beast with a pitchfork after jabbing its eyes and chest, ending when she targets the tiger's eye. Gerson is hospitalized as mayor orders stronger cage bars.
In Cheyenne or Deadwood two scholars arrive under aliases Professor Thorn botanist Yale and Professor Witbeck criminologist Harvard. Their rival curiosities lead to spoof schemes until a third figure Professor Twister arrives with a mock caper. Citizens stage a bonfire and rope the pair, ending with a public epitaph for the two duped scholars.
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