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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1907
Page
7
Captain Hobson and his wife plan a month long Alabama tour to showcase lectures and demonstrations by experts from the agricultural and post office departments. The scheme aims to win support for Hobson's congressional bid and may pressure science departments for more manpower.
The late Fifty-ninth Congress created 18,993 new government positions while abolishing 5,674. Total appropriations reached 920.8 million with contracts for 67.93 million and major sums for post office, naval, army and pension bills. Comparisons show a 41.2 million increase from 1907.
The Carnegie Institution plans a geophysical laboratory dedicated to high pressures and temperatures to study Earth's crust. Prof Day warns of possible explosions but hopes to learn about volcanic processes and rocks. The isolated site minimizes danger and vibration, with unique insulated foundations. The facility will begin operations next month.
Early morning exercise ends with Pete the bulldog chasing a rival terrier on the White House grounds. Pete grapples but is outmatched. the other dog retreats under the hedge as a guard policeman keeps Pete from pursuing further. The owner of Pete’s rival is asked to contact privately.
A farm youth leaves the country for the city rises to head shipper, founds a large brick store, and spurs town revival. Farmers visit the new market as streets, electric light, water works, and paving transform the once quiet town. News spreads to nearby villages as a cold storage plant and commission house join the growth.
An aged financier retires to his old hometown to rest and renew health. He transforms a decayed village into a thriving small city by founding a store, guiding development, and inspiring rail and factory growth. The town doubles in size as prosperity rises and a high school, churches, and an opera house appear. Morality urges communities to cultivate local potential.
The piece notes a sawmill in Adis Ababa Abyssinia and Greek artisans quarrying and hewing stone with demand for house building machinery. European styled government construction appears in progress in the capital with three story stone houses. It also reports total submarine cables around 450000 kilometers with Britain dominant and Germany advancing to an independent system.
A playful dialogue riffs on birds aboard a ship, asking if Mother Carey's chickens hatch from shipboard batches. The snippet blends nautical whimsy with a reference to the old maritime term for fog or weather.
Ohio Attorney General Wade H. Ellis says the governor cannot initiate investigations into county infirmaries or act on graft disclosures. He assigns duty to the prosecuting attorney or state auditor to present public-policy actions, with possible state-level involvement. The report also notes Canton wife killer Cornelius faces execution by electric chair on June 7 after rejection of clemency. The Supreme Court upholds lower court tax decisions on church properties.
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton, longtime Bluffton residents, await a simultaneous death. The 8 year old husband and his wife, six years younger, have prepared a double casket and funeral plans, motivated by their belief they might die together. They are highly respected locals.
Patrick Landers, 50, married, died when a corn avalanche at Pence & McConnell livery barn crushed him as the crib held about 300 bushels of grain collapsed. He was in the path of the falling load and his skull was crushed.
O Edwin T Holgeroas state organizer for the Fraternal Society of the Deaf announces that during a Chicago directors meeting the next convention was assigned to be held in Cincinnati in July.
Toledo reports Congressman Sherwood plans to seek a congressional order to probe alleged prisoner cruelty at the Ohio penitentiary after failing to gain the governor's consent. Marietta votes local option for wets by 11 83 to 1 100 voters 5 083 ballots cast. First election of its kind here, described as orderly.
In a dry victory by fifty two votes the county held a local option election. Moomville became the first town in the state to go dry under the local option law.
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