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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
2
An officer reports insurgents have established an effective blockade of Grey Town in Nicaragua, signaling growing control amid the conflict and prompting concerns over supply routes and security conditions for residents and troops alike.
U S dispatches report the revolutionary army led by Estrada advancing toward Managua with Roma and Greytown under insurgent control or threat. Blockade of Greytown remains effective as the Des Moines reports protection of American interests and growing insurgent strength ahead of further fighting. Salvador Castrillo travels to Washington with credentials as a minister in a bid to bolster insurgent legitimacy.
The tenth annual international live stock exposition opened at the Union stock yards with the largest entry list yet. The event fills the international amphitheater and adjoining buildings, drawing spectators nationwide. Contests include judging by 19 agricultural colleges and military riding competitions featuring Maj. J. G. Beresford and Lieut. T. Gerard Hetherington of British forces, plus five riders from Fort Riley, Kansas.
The American steam yacht Nourmahal remains in San Juan harbor. Col John Jacob Astor of New York, his son Vincent, and their guests are accounted for and in good health.
A Great Northern passenger train wreck on the Northern Pacific line near Lind Washington leaves three trainmen dead and five cars burned. Two other crew members are reported badly injured while the rest of the train passengers are accounted for as safe.
Washington outlines plans to reshape the U S Navy from dreadnoughts to armored cruisers and auxiliaries. The Swift board favors civilian removal from control, placing fighter insight in charge, with a broad reconstruction of naval bureaus and yard administration.
Washington reports President Taft enjoyed a simple family Thanksgiving with a mountainous Rhode Island turkey and no guest list. Only Taft family members attended the dinner while high officials attended morning services at St Patrick's Church with a special choir and diplomatic attendees.
The University of Illinois dedicated its new physics laboratory in Champaign on November 26 in a ceremony attended by prominent educators and officials. Gov. Deneen presented the building, W L Abbott accepted for the board of trustees, and Dr James delivered the departmental charge with Prof A P Carman replying. President Pritchet of the Carnegie Foundation gave the dedicatory address.
Washington November 23. Completing the Panama canal will cost nearly 400 million dollars, far above the 150 million estimated by Congress in 1902 when the project was authorized. The War Department released latest estimates by the canal commission for congressional approval.
President Taft has not written his annual message to Congress despite a week remaining. The cabinet met for more than two hours debating features he intends to propose, while no text has yet been drafted.
In Cherry Illinois on November 26 the St Paul mine fire trapped 204 in tunnels. Twenty one miners were rescued. heroes Eddy and Waite led a wall build to seal a safe passage and eight men escaped through a final shaft as others waited above.
Harold Perking aged 16 hanged himself from a bedroom door after being refused permission to attend the Drake Ames game. The boy reportedly expected his aunt to find him and cut him down, but his neck fractured in the fall.
Washington reports Secretary Ballinger urges continued vigor in prosecuting public land violations and recommends issuing up to 30 million dollars in reclamation fund bonds. He favors private use under federal supervision, classifies lands, and advances Indian bureau reform with park policy improvements.
A Scottish clergyman in a railroad carriage jokes about years as a coupler. He claims over 30 years, while a working man counters with decades of uncoupling, humorously upstaging the minister. The exchange ends with the punchline that the man truly can uncouple.
A jeweler asks a young customer to confirm the inscription Inside a ring reading From Guy to Gwenyth The customer voices a wish to avoid deep engraving so the name could be altered later to Gladys or Irene The exchange highlights concern over future edits and personalization.
The text quotes the Philosopher of Folly questioning how one judges a man by what his enemies say about him. It notes that his friends are ready to provide a full list of his facts, suggesting bias in what is revealed by associates and opponents.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its unique combination of plant extracts with Syrup of California Figs. It warns against imitations and urges buyers to ensure the front label bears the full company name for genuine product and benefits.
The San Francisco Wasp reports a precocious ten year old girl who writes poetry in her spare time and was inspired by attending her first church wedding. She read her poem to entertaining friends, including a stanza describing bridesmaids with pug noses and Roman noses, each wearing a blue ribbon about the abdomen.
Lieut. Shackleton recalls a humorous anecdote at a British Authors' club banquet. A man brings four or five guests home for a final drink, insisting his wife will tolerate it, declaring, I am Julius Caesar in my house. The hostess greets them with, Oh, walk-in, gentlemen, there is plenty of drink in the dining room. As for Julius Caesar, he is going to bed.
A six year old drops a penny into a weighing machine at a railway station and asks how much he would weigh with a dollar. Dr. S. F. Spohn, head of Spohn Medical Co., is elected mayor of Goshen Indiana by a large majority, after years as county superintendent of schools.
Mrs. Hendricks the landlady praises Featherly for not taking the last piece of bread while Dumley quips Featherly is not quick enough in a brief quoted exchange from the Bazar.
Eve confronts Adam about jealousy in a whispered confrontation revealing strain in their relationship and a shock about what another woman might mean to him. The dialogue hints at tension and potential trouble in their union.
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