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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1909
Page
2
Kentucky advances forestry studies and public policy to protect woodlands. The state, a leading yellow poplar producer, partners with the U.S. Forest Service on regional inventories and considers a state forester to coordinate conservation with private owners.
Joseph Janette runs a small duck brigade on the Alton bluffs earning $15 daily from 15 ducks trained to feed only on potato bugs. He started on his own several acre patch, then kept the flock in a bug pen to maintain their diet. Farmers nearby hire the ducks at $1.50 per hour for pest control.
A visiting woman recuperating in a department store silence room is left alone by her hostess. The dim quiet unsettles her until she questions the attendant who admits the quiet is wearing on her nerves and she longs for another job.
The piece declares corn as the leading American crop with 1908 value reported at 1.616 billion dollars, highlighting its dominance and economic importance.
Galveston Tex July 22 wind up to 70 miles per hour giant sea wall held against gulf storm flooding but ten people drowned at Tarpon pier proprietors and several others perished in a wrecked bathing pavilion while ships and warehouses largely escaped damage telegraph and telephone lines were briefly down as a fishing boat struck the bay bridge but crews repaired the line in under two hours the storm traced across the gulf coast from Matagorda bay leaving uncertain total losses and questions about lives and property.
George B. Orr, attorney for Santa Fe Railroad, drowned at La Jolla beach while watching breakers. His bride, recently married, laughed at first then collapsed in grief as rescuers failed. Orr and others were unable to retrieve his body and his widow is under medical care from shock. In Yonkers, two motorists fled after fatally striking James Sinn on Jerome Avenue. the car later crashed into a tree and burned, with occupants unseen as police pursue them. Sinn died from severe head and chest injuries.
Mrs. Arthur Ww. Teele of 422 West End avenue plunged about 30 feet from her apartment window into an arcaway. Wearing high-heeled slippers one slipper caught in a rug, she was thrown forward and fell. She sustained internal injuries that may prove fatal.
W. L. Tull president of the Muskogee baseball club was shot in the hip with a blank cartridge during an initiation of the Order of Owls in Muskogee Oklahoma on July 22. He was treated at the city hospital and doctors feared possible blood poisoning.
The State Bank of Tulare in Redfield North Dakota was robbed early Wednesday. The safe was blown and $1000 secured by the thieves. No suspects are named and no injuries reported.
William Arnold of Middletown cut his wife's throat in a local hotel early Wednesday. He then shot himself in the back of the head and died. The wife is in critical condition.
Fire swept the American Vulcanized Fiber Co works in Newark Delaware on a Wednesday night causing extensive damage. The plant, claimed to be the largest of its kind, suffered major destruction but details on injuries or cause were not immediately disclosed.
Kenosha Wisconsin July 23 state troops held in readiness to proceed to the scene of trouble after rioting at the N R Allen Song Co tannery. Dozens of strikers mostly Lithuanian Polish and Hungarian faced deputies and police as clashes left injuries and several arrests amid a pay dispute and foreman removal demand.
In Chicago on July 23 a wealthy widow, Mrs Gertrude A Hinkley, was wounded by her daughter Mrs Marie Mayfield who claims the shooting was accidental. Police plan to prosecute Mayfield who is married to a miner said to be in Mexico after a dispute over a $5500 Mexican mining investment. The bullet struck the neck and may be fatal. Mayfield was arrested Thursday night on an attempted murder charge.
A Mobile and Ohio freight train backed into a carriage crossing the yard road in Columbus Mississippi killing Mrs J M Holloway, her sister Mrs George My era and two of Holloway’s daughters.
Joseph T. Weisman a tailor and politician in St. Louis Missouri was found guilty of fraudulent registration on a Thursday in July. His sentence was fixed at two years in the state penitentiary.
Three men drowned when a pleasure launch owned by Bern Macy overturned after hitting a submerged log in the Raccoon river about four miles above Des Moines. A capital owner’s son operated the boat. search efforts followed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hacker aged 82 died after being run down on a Chicago street during her daily walk, an activity she credited with sustaining her long life. Authorities cautioned pedestrians to stay alert near traffic.
Madrid reports that Spanish forces near Melilla suffered heavy losses after a Moorish general attack at Sidi Musa and Cape Moreno. A Spanish sortie briefly pushed back the enemy, but by 4:30 pm the Moors resumed fighting and the Spanish retreated to safer lines. General Marina says 40,000 troops are needed for a decisive defeat.
A Denver picnic party of 12 was flooded by a mountain cloudburst in Two Mile canyon three miles from Boulder. Arthur Dicker of Greeley and Vivian Carlyle of Robinson, Texas, died. Vera Carlyle and Mrs. Virgie Abbott were fatally injured. eight others escaped.
A Minneapolis wife, Mrs Joan G Moldan, reports dramatic relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges public sharing of the testimonial to show benefits to women and notes free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A young American named Roger Whinfield, a Fond du Lac Wisconsin businessman, died of cholera shortly after arriving July 21 from Russia with his wife. The widow and railroad workers are isolated and held as a precaution to prevent spread.
About 5,000 people witnessed the Friday hanging of Will Mack a Negro at Brandon Mississippi for the November 17 1908 assault of Miss Mamie Meyers daughter of a local farmer near Peighatchie. Mack maintained his innocence to the end.
Seven year old Michael G. Fleterdick of Fort near Wilkesbarre was killed when a cow wandered onto the D L & W tracks and was struck by an express train. The cow was hurled onto the boy as he tried to drive it away, killing him instantly.
An all night session of the commonwealth parliament ended with the death of Sir Frederick Holder, the first speaker of the house of representatives, after he was seized by a fit at 1 am Friday in Melbourne. The Portable report states he died soon afterward.
Heavy flames struck the New Bedford Cordage Co plant in New Bedford Massachusetts on Friday causing partial destruction. Officials estimate losses between 200000 and 300000 dollars with damage likely to loom large for the facility.
The United States government will allow nine claimants pay for Cayuse Indian War service in 1847 and 1848 in Oregon at a rate of 1.50 dollars per day. In Rome Qa a feud ends in killing as Micajah Landrum shoots John Davis, a Floyd County road overseer, after years of conflict.
An At lantan author recalls Joel Chandler Harris writing comic editorials that lampooned rivals. Simon Simpson of Mobile angrily replies that Harris has cheap wit at their expense. Harris then swiftly writes a retort for the next day's issue calling Simpson's stance cheap.
A Scotsman and wife travel from Leith to London by boat. A fierce storm off the Yorkshire coast threatens the vessel. The wife fears death at sea but the husband jokes that burial costs would be higher elsewhere, quipping it saves money.
A wife tells Marylebone police court her husband used abusive language. Magistrate Mr Plowden says it is a husband's privilege and she must endure it. He adds better an abusive husband than no husband and offers no redress.
A Kansas doctor reports his four year old patient recovering from pneumonia after starting Grape-Nuts. The mother fed the cereal daily and the child gained weight rapidly, prompting the doctor to cite the product as nourishing and nerve building. An elderly patient with stomach trouble also recovered after using Grape-Nuts with milk and a touch of sugar.
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