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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
3
A compact report centers on a Spanish girl facing legal or social trials amid filibuster activity in Venezuela. The piece traces tensions, power struggles, and regional dynamics involving travel, governance, and armed groups affecting civilian lives.
The narrative follows Don Juan Garza and Ferdinand Gomez orchestrating a royalist expedition to restore Philip of Aragon in Venezuela. The Agostura ships arms to Bolivar while the Turtle secretly carries weaponry toward the Orinoco, outmaneuvering Salvarez and Medworth as conspirators aim to seize Venezuela for a monarchy.
A Buffalo Commercial reprint describes a physician known for blunt philosophy who advises a young man to be industrious and economical. The plan urges saving, frugal spending, and accumulating net interest, predicting great wealth by the elder’s age if followed.
An Engilahiterary writer declares the time ripe for a sailor poet and marine engineer poet. He suggests a virgin field awaits them, a noble inheritance maturing over ages, if they come to utter truths and challenge prevailing notions.
July 5 report details Taft taking the oath of office in Manila with Generals MacArthur and Chaffee at his side. Taft outlines planned civil government, native appointments, and provincial organization, with emphasis on education, postal and revenue aid, and continued military authority in unrest areas. He cites insular treasury figures totaling a $2,700,000 balance and $10,000,000 annual income.
A sudden windstorm at Grand Island Nebraska during Geoty’s dog and pony show toppled the tent. One person died from a main tent pole strike while five were seriously injured and many others suffered injuries from the crowd rush. Names given include Mrs F W Miles and others, with multiple severe contusions and broken bones reported.
London dispatch says vast stores head to the Cape for a vigorous summer push with ten thousand mules from the United States Australia New Zealand and Austria. It notes more Boer prisoners to St Helena and a contingent of twenty thousand mounted infantry may be sent to South Africa. In Ohio three drownings reported at Toledo riverfront near Walbridge Park. Red Forks oil wells contracts in Vinita progress noted with wells set for testing.
Beeton Massachusetts July 5. Professor John Fiske celebrated lecturer and historian died suddenly at his East Gloucester summer home from heat exhaustion and heart failure. He was born Hartford Connecticut March 30 1842, known for works on Spencer Darwin and American history. He leaves a family and a legacy of popular philosophy and history writings.
In St Louis on July 5 attorneys for Parker and Wells agreed to drop the Parker-Wells mayoralty contest. They cite a Supreme Court frame in the Funkhouser case that would block a lawful inquiry by comparing poll books, rendering ballot box counts useless without such comparison. John D. Johnson confirms Parker and the contest committee are in agreement to discontinue proceedings.
Col George E F Leighton long a provost marshal in St. Louis during the Civil War and later a leading lawyer and university president died at his summer home in New Hampshire. Born Cambridge Massachusetts March 7 1835 he moved to St Louis as a young man and retired to Monadnock. He served as attorney for major corporations and was director of Boatmen’s Bank and vice president of the McKinley era Monetary Commission. Funeral will be held in New Hampshire with remains not returning to St Louis until fall.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat summary notes that despite many studies and devices from Lillenthal to Langley, the mystery of bird flight remains unsolved. Researchers, including Maxim and Chanute, have pursued gliding machines and aerial theories with little conclusive progress, while floating or pulsing flight keeps eluding explanation.
A Portland Oregonian note on padmed bank clearings in Seattle and Portland shows daily swelling of totals by checks carried to next day and large silent interclearings with internal credit transfers. Also a book cleaning tip uses magnesia powder and heat to remove grease from pages.
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