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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
3
New York December 2011 profile of Miss Anne Morgan J Pierpont Morgan’s unmarried daughter and noted philanthropist who enrolls in the Women’s Trade Union League to support 40000 shirtwaist workers on strike for better pay and hours.
Bits of News reports Speyer & Co purchasing 1872 Vanderbilt shares in Union Trust worth about 2 million dollars. Bryan leaves Jacksonville for Miami and South America for Cubs trip. Morgan & Co gains control of five Ohio Indiana telephone firms. Foraker denounces corporate tax as unconstitutional. Hart & Co. assigns for creditors with bankruptcy. Second Rhodius will leaves most estate to Elma Dere. Sun Chan blamed for a divorce linking Frank Paulsen. Lowell photographs Halley’s comet. Wheat yield forecast rises in Australia. Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Copper merge finalized. Fire department misfire at White House due to false alarm. Fortner guilty of forged check. two-year term. Harris elected head of independent telephone group. Dantsig officer Roggensack’s suicide. Reverend Thibodeau church relocation to opera house. Harris dies of heart disease. Drapery firm disaster in London. Muck backs direct primaries. Kiev region birthroom death reported. Brazner, Grimes sentenced in Iowa. Public building bill in Pierre. Mrs Fernandes, famed actress, dies. Koon files bankruptcy in South Dakota. Shattuck jailed for embezzlement. Kentucky bans bookmaking. train wreck in Illinois. body of Lipsy found in storms.
Former president Jose Zelaya escapes Managua under cover of darkness with 60 guard, 100 associates, and a Maxim gun. He travels by boat to Momotombo then to his Dianente plantation before proceeding to Corinto, amid gunboat movement by the U S Princeton on Fonseca Gulf.
Atlanta December 28 United States minister to Persia John B Jackson has been ordered to Cuba. Joy Jacobs a leading Atlanta drug dealer claims Jackson was enraged on a German liner when a waiter spoke English asking if he looked American. Jacobs says the minister asked why the waiter spoke English and asserted he would not be treated as American.
A Chicago piece outlines Mrs F K Bowls view that the servant problem is self driven. Rules for a model servant emphasize patience sympathy humane treatment and appreciation. Also noted is a separate ad by Mrs C W Rankin seeking a general housework and cooking girl for three days a week remembered by the family at Christmas.
Irby Cent Dec 25. Girls Lillie Wynn and Elmira Johnson, local telephone workers, chase President Taft’s train to meet him. At Au Sandria a delay brings more chasing, Taft appears in pajamas, sparking excitement and calls from Central.
Rama battle concludes after five days of fighting with insurgents led by Chamorro and Diaz routing government troops. General Mena breaks through jungle lines to spearhead final assault. about 600 government die, 1,900 captured, and heavy losses on both sides. American medical aid provided to wounded natives and foreigners.
Thousands gathered in East One Hundred Twentieth Street and Bowery for the funeral of Little Tim Sullivan with notables from public life attending. He and cousin Big Tim Sullivan were known as chief dispensers of charity in the Bowery, leaving an estimated fortune of about 1.5 million dollars between his estate and prior gifts.
Madrid reports a gravest anxiety over the royal condition with another operation deemed imperative. A planned departure to Andalusia hides the truth of the surgery at a palace in San I where the operation will take place.
Rain storms in Salamanca and Leon save the worst floods in 50 years. Largos Zamora Valladolid and Bilboa suffer extensive damage as houses are swept away. Heavy rains also reported in Portugal. Paris approves a 48,000 supplementary credit to buy army planes for reconnaissance.
Redding Conn Dec 27 Miss Jean Clemens daughter of Mark Twain was found drowned in a bathtub after a seizure authorities said she suffered epilepsy for years. Her father quoted expressing sorrow and noting she led an active life managing a farm and acting as secretary homekeeper before her death.
An explosion from a lamp in the home of Santano Cierico caused a fatal fire in Hulshille. At least nine people died including Santano Cierero his wife two daughters and a son plus boarders Frank Ambrosino Steve Renpele and Mike Caradille. Two other boarders were burned escaping.
A report from Bruges says Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the late King Leopold, arrived in the city with no reconciling meeting with her sisters and that King Albert’s efforts to win her back have failed. She will lodge at a local hotel and plans a prolonged stay to contest her father’s estate, accompanied by Count Matuchich who refused to obey King Albert’s order.
Winnipeg dispatch reports the Toronto express on the Canadian Pacific line left Winnipeg Wednesday and was wrecked yesterday afternoon east of Fort William. Forty passengers are seriously injured and reports indicate 40 killed as wires and fire hinder communications to the Wispatchers.
Mrs Avery A Singer, wife of a Singer family member known for sewing machines, is in Reno for a divorce. She cites incompatibility and cruelty after a 12 year marriage with no children, noting prior Detroit birth name Charlotte Davis and an inherited fortune. Property rights are reported as adjusted.
William Davis, former vice president of the defunct Canton state bank, found guilty by a Lisbon jury of abstracting 360 shares of bank stock valued at 350000. Davis was tried on the embezzlement charge early today in Lisbon.
Jacksonville Fra Dec 27 The condition of W J Bryan, as observed yesterday, improved this morning. He will be funeralized this afternoon in Miami.
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