12 Jun 1913
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Newspaper
The Daily Banner
Location
Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
1
An old newspaper fragment notes that paint cost equals a painter’s day’s work with gallons affecting price. Devoe is highlighted as a leading paint brand sold by Herbert Hearn, Phillips Hardware Co., and others. Additional line mentions fine electrically equipped coal mines in Nova Scotia.
For sale one pair of gentle work mules and a 3 year old colt easy to harness and drive, plus a two horse wagon. Contact Richard Smith care Stevens, Smith & Co.
A man and wife seek a good sized room in a central location with or without board. Address V, Banner office. June 31.
Cambridge resident Mrs. Louisa Dunn credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing a severe kidney trouble after other medicines failed. She reports relief from backache and lumbago and says the remedy fixed her up completely. Sold by Bradshaw's Pharmacy with price ten cents. Foster Milburn Co. is sole U.S. agent. Remember the name Dean's.
The United States files a Sherman Act antitrust suit against the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago claiming it controls 94 percent of oats products and by products. It seeks court orders to dissolve or bar the corporation from interstate commerce until competition is restored.
U S troops under General Pershing face Moro forces at dawn near Manila in a tense clash. American forces prepared for a fierce morning fight with the sultan’s followers in the foreground of ongoing tensions.
Weather bureau records show Jacksonville on Wednesday June 12 marked the coldest June day in forty years with a thermometer reading 5? degrees.
Yesterday observations from Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Chicago New Orleans New York Philadelphia and Washington at 8 p m show clear and cloudy conditions with fair weather today and tomorrow, rising temperatures and variable winds across the states.
The Imperator of the Hamburg American line began its first trip to New York from Hamburg. The giant steamer left anchored in the roadstead with passengers boarding from tenders. It carries 350 in first class, 250 in second, and 2270 in third class and steerage.
West Virginia war time rules in coal strike zones were described before the Senate committee. Military officers testified that the strike district was treated as a state of insurrection and civilians were tried by military commissions without civil court process, with sentences exceeding statutory limits.
The American yacht Columbia was seized by Japanese authorities when she entered Wakayama, not an open port, for repairs on a voyage from Nagasaki to Yokohama. Detention likely due to lack of a customs house and mirrors actions typical of countries in similar cases.
Mrs Emma Bothwell of Columbus Ohio pleaded guilty in the U S district court to using the mails to extort large sums from E H Fredrickson a wealthy man of Scott Bend Indiana She was sentenced to twenty seven months in the Moundsville West Virginia penitentiary.
Mr. Albert Walker of Precious West Virginia suffered long term stomach and side pain despite multiple doctors diagnosing liver trouble. He was cured by Chamberlain's Tablets and the ad claims the tablets will help others with stomach or liver issues but provides no medical guidance. Available from all dealers.
A male suffrage supporter hurled flour bombs and pamphlets from the spectators’ gallery during Prime Minister Asquith’s address. The blast struck a parliamentary clerk. Asquith was unharmed. Police overpowered the attacker and barred him from Parliament.
U S Treasurer Burke reports at the West Virginia Bankers Association that thousands hide savings in ovens and in ground as banks fail. He notes burned money fragments recovered after fires, about 200 cases yearly, traced by frost line from Canada to the Gulf.
Harry N. Atwood flew from Ecorse Michigan to Sandusky Ohio crossing Lake Erie mostly on the water due to engine trouble. He landed on Hickory Island to wait out chop, then resumed and reached Sandusky under his own power. The night in the open left him unharmed.
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha, grand vizier, and aide-de-camp Ibrahim Bey were killed by two civilian gunmen as they rode in a motor car toward the Sublime Porte. The attack is linked to a Young Turks plot and revenge for Nazim Pasha's murder last winter.
Washington June 12 The Attorney General declares he has no intention of signing. Report notes his firm denial and flat stance on changing position.
Postmasters receive instructions effective July 1 for C O D parcel post. Charges collected from the address if value under 100 dollars, 10 cents parcel post stamps to be affixed by sender. Package insured to value up to 50 dollars, sender gets a receipt, addressee signs for the package and the tag doubles as a money order application.
In Paterson New Jersey a bomb exploded in front of the home of three brothers who refused to join the silk strike. The house was damaged but occupants uninjured, and police escorted them to work. It is the second dynamite attempt on their home since the strike began.
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