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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1907
Page
3
Washington officials protest sightseeing tours that spotlight prominent figures and even family members. Lecturers point out figures like Taft and Cortelyou, causing embarrassment to dignitaries and prompting calls to curb the practice as post offices discuss expanding money order services.
Postmaster General Meyer advocates postal notes for small sums up to 2.50 or 5.00 to expand remittance options. Congress may be asked to authorize notes issued without written applications, usable at money order offices and smaller post offices.
Government experts study the powder post beetle that damages seasoned woods including hickory oak and ash. The pest ruins furniture and coffins while treatment centers on destroying affected wood by fire or extreme heat. Gifford Pinchot leads forestry efforts, praised for devotion over public praise and wealth.
The article profiles Gifford Pinchot who eschews high society life in Washington after his fiancée died, concentrating on his forestry career. It notes his modest salary, a $200,000 home financed by inheritance from his maternal grandfather Eno, founder of the Mitty.
The article reviews a belief in sun spot theory linking solar activity to financial panics and crop failures. It cites Jevons predictions and 19th century crises, notes mixed correlations across 1837 1857 1866 1871 1872 1873 1882 1884 1893 and other harvest outcomes, and argues correlation is inconsistent amid droughts floods and good crops.
The piece describes how illicit dives use clever anti police tricks from hidden buzzers to ground-floor prongs and copper footplates. It explains a lookout outside the door and how suspects repeatedly escape before police can enter while patrons remain seemingly normal inside.
A Philadelphia Ledger note quotes a mock exchange in court where a prisoner jokes about chicken stealing being a hanging offense. The judge interrupts, but the humorous remark highlights a historical legal mood.
A humorous quip shows a client teasing a lawyer over choosing law over the army and the high fees he charges. The exchange hints at career choice and financial expectations without violent details.
A city traffic officer at Fourth Avenue and Twenty Third Street aggressively enforces cleanliness by ordering offenders to pick up fallen banana peels and dispose of them properly, described as a pillar of city ordinances in the New York Herald.
Report notes a railway collision where no injuries occurred yet the scene was described as painful. Passengers from first to fourth class mingled together, an unprecedented sight for railway travel and crowd behavior.
President Kingsley of New York Life Insurance urges that life insurance trustees are public servants, responsible for public service and the trust of policyholders. He notes his twenty years with the company and vows to meet high standards of efficiency, integrity, and action rather than words.
A New York family tale recounts a well connected sister who is married and a little girl adored by many aunts. After three aunts offer parental advice the child sighs and responds with humor, declaring she has always been thankful that her father married the sister he did.
A London writer credits the Mafia with surpassing the Naples Camorra Paris Apaches and Black Hand as the globe’s most powerful secret society. He notes its Sicilian origin three centuries ago to shield locals from foreign rule and praises its swift silent efficiency.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a fully cooked, instantly served cereal. It claims pre digested grape sugar aids digestion, notes optional serving with cream or hot milk, and mentions the product is produced by Postum Company in Battle Creek Michigan with a health classic recommended in packaging.
Charles Myers and his wife were attacked by a heavy-set black man in McCabe's park near the Soldiers' home. Myers was shot in the groin, and Mrs Myers was dragged away and assaulted before the assailant fled.
Cassie Chadwick, held in the Ohio penitentiary, briefly stepped outside in the female yard to greet her son Emil Hoover of Cleveland. She preferred to stay in the women’s department but was required to meet relatives outside on the Fourth of July, where they shared a moment before she turned away from the crowd.
Warren Ohio jurors found Senator Thomas Kinsman not guilty of cruelty to an animal after a bitter trial. The case, brought by the humane society, centered on a cow left in a barn for three days without attention, and involved a lengthy jury selection.
Columbus judge overruled a motion for a new trial in the William B. Moore case. Moore, local agent of the Western Lumber and Polo Co. of Denver, faced arrest of judgment. He was indicted with William Wilcox, former municipal light plant superintendent, who was convicted of selling fictitious poles and taking payment for undelivered poles. Moore received a four year penitentiary sentence.
Arthur Wagner of Barbert on Hawker Street pulled Harvey Weyrich from the Ohio canal in Akron and used a self styled revival method by kicking him in the stomach. Weyrich pressed assault and battery charges and Wagner was fined five dollars plus costs in mayor's court.
Henry L Bates a noted pickpocket from New York died in Toledo hospital from a bullet wound suffered in a quarrel at Billy Herberts saloon on St Clair street. Police intensify search for gambler Heironemous suspected shooter.
Charles Adderhold, 40, an oil-well pumper from Cadiz Ohio, was killed by a nitroglycerin blast in the Adams oil field near his shanty. Bits of flesh were found among trees and bushes. He had enough for a lease with several wells.
Cleveland authorities charge Gyorgy Ladanyi with libel for calling a man a "dude" in a Hungarian paper printed in the city. The case centers on the alleged use of the term and the impact on the unnamed individual.
In Kenilworth West Virginia threealian laborers were found dead along the New Cumberland branch tracks of the Pan Handle railroad authorities suppose they were struck by a train while walking on the line.
A ten year old boy named James Dedee and several companions were playing on the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad track when a passenger train struck them. Dedee was killed instantly and others were injured.
A four story building occupied by Levy and White at S28 Main Street in Cincinnati collapsed into a large excavation at Ninth and Main during demolition for the Second National Bank project. Fifteen injured, no deaths reported, property losses estimated at $30,000. Blasting to remove concrete under a bank safe is blamed for the disaster.
Mrs. Mary E. Bundy 81 widow of former congressman of the Tenth district died suddenly at home in Wellston Ohio. The death, not yet explained, surprised the community as she had shown no illness and was about the house. She was stepmother of Senator Joseph B. Foraker's wife, with ties to Cincinnati and Washington through her husband’s political life.
Margaret Walsh, described as the prettiest woman prisoner in Ohio, dies of nephritis at the Columbus penitentiary where she began a three year sentence for larceny after arriving March 16 from Cleveland. Father Kelley, Catholic chaplain, will likely bury her. her mother had abandoned her. At trial she chose the penitentiary over a convent of detention.
The Methodist Sunday school group used a traction engine hitched to six hay wagons to travel three miles into the country for their picnic. The novel transport attracted a big crowd and proved a success.
In St Marys C, Darrel Wooley eight son of G Wooley of Sidney suffered severe injuries when a large skyrocket toppled and exploded near him. One eye was blown from its socket and flesh torn from one hip. He survived the incident with grave injuries.
In Marietta Ohio riot erupted at Lower Salem on July 4 injuring several men women and children. Attacks by men and boys from Elba interrupted a local picnic prompting many arrests.
The $30,000 road bonds were bid here with Security Savings and Trust Co of Toledo as the highest bidder at 32. The bonds mature around 12 years at an unspecified rate.
Wm. Ringle of Tiffin, a longtime farmer, died after inhaling fumes from paris green he mixed to kill potato bugs. He used hot water to pour into the poison and breathed the fumes.
Columbus reports Governor Harris grants a pardon to William Dempsey a Cuyahoga County prisoner serving a life sentence for murder since 1897 Dempsey now 28 and was a minor when committed the crime ten years ago Independence Day clemency granted after long confinement
Edward Rich, a tailor’s cutter, was struck while crossing tracks near the Chittenden hotel in Columbus and died within an hour from injuries sustained after stopping in front of a moving car.
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