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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
2
The measure cuts metal duties including iron ore and steel products, lowers lumber and coal tariffs, and adjusts sugar, wool, and tobacco rates. It expands customs administration, adds a Panama bonds allowance, and imposes a new corporation excise tax, with moving picture film and yacht levies detailed. It also updates import rules and reciprocal trade provisions.
An old English law defined a Hyde of land as land cultivable by one plow. After the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VI, Westminster abbots led lands reverted to the crown, marking a decline of the measuring term.
Brazil offers a wide field for American patent medicines with no prejudice from Brazilian doctors or patients toward proprietary remedies, inviting expansion beyond standard medicines.
About 600 patents are granted each year to British women for inventions spanning feminine articles to motors rail cars flying machines and wire.
The Turkish government plans to spend several million dollars on improving roads. A motor car service is likely to be established between Damascus and Baghdad, as millions of people in the empire still lack motor vehicles.
Italy shows the lowest per capita tobacco consumption in Europe at about one pound annually, far less than other countries. The figure highlights a notable contrast with nations where smoking and tobacco use are more prevalent.
Washington July 30 The conference report on the tariff bill is finished and will go to the House Friday. Conferees signed it Thursday, with the president contending a veto unless executive mandates are followed. The final lumber rate set at 1.40 per thousand feet, a move aimed at appeasing western senators while gloves duties rose above Dingley.
A nine year old white girl who speaks no English was rescued from a basement opium den in Chinatown by police. She had been confined for years with only a starved puppy for a playmate. Tun See and Mah Jay Lind denied mistreatment. The girl’s mother, who married a Chinaman, died when she was young.
In Hannibal Missouri on Thursday, Charles Beasley shot and killed his infant, likely fatally wounded his wife, then killed himself. He shot the child first, forced his wife back inside, fired as she fled, and finally turned the revolver on himself.
In Pittsburg a dog’s mournful whines led to the discovery of Mrs Annie Graham, 65, dead inside a trunk. The widow lived alone and was last seen Friday. Coroner’s deputies ruled the death an accidental fall with neck injury after her body tumbled into the trunk.
The body of Walden Bledsoe aged 91 and last survivor of Gen Fremonts first California expedition was found in Archer Lake canal in Denver. He died by his own action after years living as a hermit.
Mrs Parker Winfield Kerr of Chicago, wife of a woolen mills salesman, was killed Thursday night in an automobile accident near Libertyville. I W Mills, a tailor who drove the car, was seriously injured.
The schooner Matilde of Hamburg and the brig Hoffnung of Holland were wrecked near Damkfort. The German ship Theodora is anchored near Kolberg following the incidents.
Madrid reports a severe Catalan uprising with Barcelona amid street fighting and artillery. King Alfonso, returning from San Sebastian, issues decree suspending constitutional guarantees as troops crush rebels and rioting spreads to Alcoy and Calahorra. The Morrocan campaign sparks unrest nationwide.
Harry Clay Pulliam president of the national league of professional baseball clubs fired a 28 caliber pistol at close range on the third floor of the New York Athletic Club. The bullet injured his temple and doctors fear he may not recover sight. He has been in ill health for months and recently returned to direct league affairs after a leave of absence.
Rochester a July 29 Mrs Gordon Hoyt and her daughter Miss Clara Hoyt drowned Wednesday at Snug Harbor near Hammondport Cramp struck the girl while swimming and the mother an expert swimmer went to aid but both sank before assistance arrived The tragedy ends a mother daughter outing in New York state waters
Town of Ashville with 400 residents battles a Thursday morning blaze threatening its business district. Lacking a local fire company, volunteers struggle to slow the flames with limited effect as authorities report the fire at one o'clock.
The piece notes Mr. Jefferson as a flawed yet engaging husband whose death prompts deep mourning from his widow. Neighbors comment on Mrs. Jefferson's sorrow, with one saying she has broken up and another recalling her crying and a memory of Ebeneezer’s loss.
A Sports of the Times piece notes Kobe performances of Hamlet using novel oriental accessories. The melancholy Dane appears in a student uniform, a blue striped outfit on a bicycle, and evening dress for the duel. The king shifts from Japanese robes to a swallowtail coat. Ophelia wears a kimono while Hamlet woos in Parisian attire.
Five colleagues lured by a city clerk’s boast visit his yard seeking grand roses. They find a cramped 12 by 10 foot space, yet the clerk proudly points to the sky, insisting the garden’s height proves its size.
A Richmond Virginia woman credits quitting coffee for health revival. She reports headaches, nervousness, heart palpitations, and vision loss improved after stopping coffee and using Postum and Grape-Nuts, gaining strength and weight and renewed reading memory.
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