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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1911
Page
7
A Columbus column notes there are no baldheaded inmates in the state prison and describes a hair regime among convicts. It also reports Judge Kinkead ruling on railway tax status, a proposed state liability fund, county deficits, corn exposition schooling, and upcoming poultry show plans with notable entrants and prizes.
Reports from Rio Janeiro state that Joao Candido, leader of the recent naval mutiny, and forty four officers died suddenly including deaths by gangrene sunstroke and suffocation as the revolt was quelled. Censorship blocks full confirmation amid rumors of Para riots and martial law in Nictheroy. Washington notes the upheaval without surprise but fears wider trouble in Brazil.
A blast at the Minneapolis General Electrical plant on Third Avenue and Maine Street plunges the city into darkness. Eleven workers escaped through the mill race as the plant, a tangle of wires and lumber, burned and collapsed. Two injured, damage estimated at $500,000.
Washington January 6 the second fight of the American Tobacco corporations against dissolution under the Sherman antitrust law began as their attorneys filed briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States. The counsel included John G Johnson Judge William J Wallace W W Fuller Delancey Nicoll and Junius Parker of New York and William M Ivins of New York.
Hayward Wisconsin January 7 John F Dietz was freed on bail after Judge Riordan approved bonds and County Attorney Williams ordered no action on two warrants. Dietz faces trial March 6 for the murder of Oscar Harp deputy in the Cameron Dam battle.
Gov William B Glasscock appoints Davis Elkins of Morgantown to fill his father Senator Stephen B Elkins seat in Congress until the legislature acts He is 35 and runs the Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Co Also probating the late senator's will which names Davis Elkins and Stephen B Elkins Jr as co trustees with an estate valued at 12 to 15 million dollars
In Pana 13 year old Li Antone Machez died in an accident during a game labeled Indian. His friend George Satolis, 9, fired a Springfield rifle after warning him Look out I am going to shoot. Satolis is not under arrest. The youths had been playing Indian and had been on friendly terms for some time.
Oscar Solomon Straus of New York, a former cabinet minister and more than a year and a half American ambassador to Turkey, has resigned his post at Constantinople.
It has long been known that Mr. Straus plans to sever his connection with the diplomatic service. William W. Rockhill, the current American ambassador to Russia, is likely to succeed him, though several names are still under consideration.
Atlanta readers learn the Southern Commercial congress program is set for March 4 9 and 10 with President Taft leading a list of speakers who have accepted. Other invited figures include Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Secretary Wilson Secretary of War Dickinson and New York Mayor Gaynor.
Francisco I Madero leader of the revolutionary party in Mexico was located on a farm near San Carlos Coahuila after reports of his death by Diaz troops. The claim of his death was not confirmed.
Four Greek section workers living in a camp car at Westerville were bound and chloroformed by two men during a supper raid and robbed of about $1,000. the robbers escaped. The victims were Gustav Tulos Peter Giconopulas Gue Ballas and Tom Kirakos.
In Santiago Chile the central station of the city’s electric and telegraphic system burned to ashes taking ten dining, Pullman and presidential cars with it. The loss is put at $2,000,000, according to reports from the scene.
Orville Wright challenges French aviation claims in New York remarks. He cites foreign order books as proof, likening them to a Dayton boy who proudly proclaims new pants from a Christmas tree, eliciting surprise in a Sunday school.
Dramatic cue scene featuring Esmeralda and Archibald with a department store change dispute. Saleswoman taunts yet helps, while Drake Delphic fumbles for the overdue exchange. The playful dialogue hints at a petty power struggle and comic tension.
Ella and Stella speak of sorrow and aging in a brief literary exchange about friendship, resilience, and shared hardship within a nostalgic, reflective tone. The dialogue hints at clever candor from two women confronting loneliness and social expectations.
A light humorous fragment contrasts a summer boarder asking which term for a hen is correct with the farmer wife’s playful indifference about the topic. The exchange leads to a quip about hens cackling whether speaking or lying.
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