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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
6
Minnesota commercial clubs and allied groups formed a federation to push for a six foot river depth from St Paul to St Louis with immediate annual funding of at least two million dollars. The drive aims to boost Northwest commerce, grain movement, and inland waterway freight to tidewater while opposing mail order competition hurting local merchants.
National politics in New York feature Governor Hughes and Dr. Booker T. Washington appearing together. Washington, leader of American Negroes, could sway southern votes for the Republican convention while likely avoiding explicit support for Taft. Foraker backers may gain rival appeal.
In Stamford, Jeremiah O'Meara aged 70 and Helen Naughton aged 65 wed after forty years apart. The couple were sweethearts when the Civil War began. O'Meara served as an Irish patriot and believed his love was dead until a forty year search led to their marriage.
An old New York feature promotes the Evelyn Thaw nerve remedy claiming it helps nervous women endure ordeals. Advice includes retiring early sleeping eight or nine hours exercising in the open air sleeping with windows open cold baths at the base of the brain and drinking two quarts of water daily with no worry.
The 72 year old coal operator George TB. Sterry will marry 30 year old Rebecca Blaikie a school teacher of East Orange New Jersey. Sterry is active in Presbyterian circles and serves on boards with the American Tract Society the American Bible Society and chairs at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Milas Noble, a leader in Baltimore society and one of eleven survivors from the Mohegan wreck of October 15 1898, announced her engagement to Ernesto Trevi-Simondetti, a wealthy Mexican. She endured five hours clinging to a plank before rescue.
Curzon of Oxford University is nominated to fill the Tretland peer vacancy after Lord Kilmaine’s death. Votes due Monday. he would join the Lords when Parliament reconvenes January 29. Unionists praise him though concerns about health linger.
Mike Schreck the Cincinnati heavyweight travels to New Orleans to open the ball next Monday night with a fifteen round bout against Tony Ross of New Castle Pennsylvania. He aims to earn a return match with Al Kaufmann of California.
Senator Hansbrough objects to the Aldrich bill provision that grants treasury and comptroller authorities to decide money stringency and emergency currency. He will propose a next committee amendment for a presidentially appointed life office general board with Senate confirmation to decide those questions, with salaries tied to duties.
A Paris journal reports a consensus from leading French artists and writers that alcohol does not inspire their best work. They say Bacchus and Muse are incompatible, while many claim tobacco tea and black coffee fuel creativity instead.
Lakota North Dakota January 17 Coroner Lohrbauer and jury returned from Tolna after an inquest into Martin Burke who died last Saturday from severe injuries received on November 7 while returning home from Tolna. Some believe murder others accidental. no evidence links anyone to the incident. Burke had lived in Nelson county 25 years and was a well known farmer.
The man was well to do and leaves four wives and five children. The region around his residence is filled with deep feeling since the injuries were sustained. If solid proof can be found against those who attacked him, his friends would not hesitate to seek vengeance.
The Burnett divorce saga returns for a rehearing amid sensational testimony. Mrs Burnett faced juror flirting accusations at the first trial while jurors split six to five for or against her. Witnesses John Carpenter Julia McArdle and follow-on perjury claims add to the intrigue as changes in legal counsel surface prior to today’s proceedings.
Dr. Mary Merritt Crawford, 23, of Nyack, becomes New York city’s first female ambulance surgeon intern at Williamsburg Hospital Brooklyn. She defeated male rivals in a formal exam and will serve as interne until June 1 before taking ambulance duty. Her achievement sparks debate on women’s fitness for active medical duties.
Prominent members of the radical wing of the Democracy arrive in New York to attend a speech feast hosted by the New York Progressive Democratic league at Cooper Union. Augustus Thomas, league president, will preside as addresses are delivered by Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkansas and Raymond Robbina.
Archbishop Farley of New York has definitively refused to officiate the marriage of Count Szecheny and Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. He cites his well known antipathy toward the marriage plans and will not consent to the ceremony, despite rumors linking him to a future cardinalate.
The engagement between Srechenyi and Miss Vanderbilt, long opposed by church authorities due to Catholic Protestant ties, is reported to culminate in a Catholic ceremony on January 27 at St. Patrick's Cathedral with Mgr Michael J. Lavelle officiating. No civil or Protestant rites will be held.
Wisconsin members of the American Society of Equity meet in Eau Claire on January 14 to push eliminating middlemen and raise farm prices. The union claims about 20,000 Wisconsin members after a 7,000 gain in a year, plans an official state-owned paper, and sets tobacco price floors. The tobacco pool may trigger a protracted fight with buyers, while farm organizations expect rapid membership growth and compare the movement to the old Granger era, but with economic goals rather than politics.
Miscredit claims in Mexican papers allege General Lee Christmas, once linked with Hondures and refuge in Guatemala, planned a revolution to topple President Cabrera and Guatemala's government. Observers note Christmas would not oppose Cabrera, a patron who could influence factions to oppose him.
Two Williston police clans figure prominently in party affairs this year. John Bruegger’s name surfaced for Congress after a Grand Forks boom, and he appears likely to secure the nomination if he desires it. Charles Baldwin is urged as a delegate to the national convention and is described as a strong Johnson supporter.
Grand Forks Jan. 17 From St Paul to Seattle by electric railroad will be possible soon as plans by the St Paul Minneapolis and Seattle Electric railroad company advance to contract. The 1650 mile standard gauge line would run nearly straight between Minneapolis and Seattle, paralleling the Great Northern and Northern Pacific in busy sections. A Minnesota Red River valley funding offer may divert to include the valley area around Grand Forks. The Minnesota railroad board calls the line a necessity as current roads cannot handle rising traffic and the project is contracted to Co operative Construction of St Paul with early preparations underway.
In Helena Montana the forty fourth annual National Wool Growers Association convention opens with hundreds of sheepmen from coast to coast. A sheep show accompanies the meeting as western delegates focus on range issues scab eradication forest reserves and the twenty eight hour law. Tariff revision and wool auction sales in the United States are discussed with commission men and buyers present. Secretary Wilson Chief Forester Finchot and Senators Warren and Carter are on the program and the association reports about 11000 members.
The province of Manitoba assumes ownership and control of the Manitoba Hello system from Bell Telephone. A commission will operate it, most current officials retained. Price reported at 3.3 million dollars plus 100 thousand for equipment, financed by 40 year bonds.
Mine owners from Butte and Helena, joined by other Montana elites, met to organize opposition to new smelter rates set by the smelter trust. Rates at Hast Helens and Great Falls have risen over 50 percent, threatening small mines and companies with closure. Public entities include Butte and Helena owners. A collective push to challenge prohibitory and exorbitant charges was outlined.
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