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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
2
The Gazette surveys a patchwork of quirky lines on farming aid fashions and social trends. It jokes about rain improving alligator farming prospects. lampoons umpire recalls and ball team injuries. notes coinage and printing quirks. and mocks fashion cycles while predicting playful social ironies.
A poetess asks where beauty lingers and dealers in hair goods and cosmetics answer in a breezy jab. The piece hints at young men spending a bad half hour explaining their whereabouts in the late morning to early afternoon.
Overwrought German women use knitting as a nerve cure while Boston plans a hospital for blues victims. The piece questions the cost of care versus simply buying tickets to move them away from Boston.
Humorous snippets describe a Kansas City dentist and his office girl incident, telephone operators complaining of ear corn from headgear, fewer New York lawyers, a Denver woman hoarding savings in an icebox hoping for a cool million.
The note claims women’s dresses this year will have countless buttons and jokes that matrimony rates will slump as a result.
A scientist delays swatting a biting mosquito to determine if it transmits germs, illustrating cautious method before action.
California travelers plan to avoid venues that ban tipping noting a mercenary day. They expect many places to steer clear of on this controversial trip with emphasis on tipping practices across establishments.
A note in Boston proclaims plans to establish a hospital aimed at curing the blies, highlighting a community’s steadfast devotion to poet Robert Browning as motivation and inspiration.
An expert urges simple gardening language to ease the mind when lettuce turns out to be weeds, emphasizing plain, direct instructions over complex phrasing.
German authorities argue bathing multiplies bacteria yet reduces melts, claiming one effect offsets the other in a debated health claim.
A New York lawyer argues that in America the crook runs less risk than the honest workingman and that the crook also receives full value for legal services.
The claim that a dollar bill hosts a million and a half microbes alarmed some readers but many dismiss it as exaggerated. Experts urge proper hygiene and finite risk, noting bills circulate widely and bacteria vary by condition.
The Stanley committee prepares to file a report accusing J Pierpont Morgan of opposing the Sherman anti trust law and undermining the independent steel business. It details $636 million profits from United States Steel and urges federal incorporation and regulation with penalties for interlocking boards. Delays stem from Morgan's absence but the panel hopes to summon him.
In Tacoma and Seward reports reveal three or more mountains erupting violently in southwestern Alaska. Explosions and subterranean noise roil the earth as lava, ash, and smoke fill the skies. Ash clouds reach Sitka, Katmai, and beyond, with glowing skies and tremors visible for hundreds of miles.
Continuation of bread riots at San Quentin ends with H. L. Linwood killed by a guard's rifle fire. Prisoner Frank Taylor is shot in the hand and H. A. George wounded in the leg by the same bullet. Linwood is identified as a federal prisoner.
A rapid air transfer saved a man injured by a fall five miles from Hammondsport. Dr. Alden, after a hurry call, flew with Hugh Robinson from Glenn Curtiss field to Hammondsport and back in under an hour. The emergency trip, made after the automobilic route failed, demonstrated swift aviation aid.
A vast Washington procession of nearly 100000 people including 15000 soldiers sailors and marines and large symbolic floats marched from the White House to Stanton square for the Columbus memorial unveiling. Italian ambassador released the flag while 21 guns boomed. President Taft spoke on civilization and Columbus.
Death bed instructions of John La Bree guided his daughter Edna to wed Harold A. Smith in Philadelphia. The blade, linked to John Hewston a friend of Gen Washington, symbolically promised luck and fortune in the marriage.
Representative Victor Berger demands impeachment of Federal Judge Cornelius H Ford of Seattle for annulling Leonard Olsson’s naturalization papers and alleged habitual drunkenness and corrupt rulings. Berger cites affidavits and asks Judiciary Committee to report impeachment if charges are proven. President Taft and Atty General Wickersham had urged reopening Olsson case.
A federal court decree in Pittsburgh ends the Sherman Act case against the Aluminum Co. of America. The trust, once alleged to control 90 percent of aluminum output through restrictive contracts, must void these agreements and halt efforts to control markets via stock ownership, shipments, price manipulation, or withholding materials.
In Tréapau near Spartanburg William N. Mason a 58 year old black smith surprised locals by marrying his daughter in law Mrs Cora Lee Mason 34 seven years after her husband died Mrs Mason and her four children have lived with Mason for years and he fears a strange stepmother may not care for the grandchildren.
After an 18 hour fight the Harmon forces pushed through the unit rule by 597 to 3565, giving the Ohio delegation 48 votes at the national convention for Harmon. Cox was nominated for governor amid a Dayton and Springfield publisher’s acclamation. Baker would fight the rule on the Baltimore floor.
In Villisca Iowa Joseph Moore a local business leader his wife and their four children aged 11 9 7 and 6 were found murdered in their beds. Two visiting Spillinger sisters 20 and 18 identified later were among the victims. No robbery occurred and authorities pursue a single suspect amid a brutal motive.
Agnes E Day aged 21 dies at her home in Atlantic City after collapsing during practice of the turkey trot with her husband. Doctors report she burst a blood vessel in her side and died before aid arrived while she watched experts perform the trot at a pier.
Mrs. Leonore Kehlenback at 2475 Eighth Avenue alerted Patrolman Boylan when one man fled to an ice cream parlor. After drinking two sodas the suspect was arrested. He blamed ice cream sodas for his trouble and noted his friends warned him.
In New York City hundreds gathered near 26 East Seventy-eighth Street to witness Sol Pyser the city marshal eject the widow Mary Finn 86 formerly married to inventor of the roll top desk.Thotfias Finn once enjoyed wealth and is now gone.
The Senate adopted the conference report on the army appropriation bill by 27 to 24. The Wood question split factions with Lodge and Root opposing Warren, who prevailed. The debate touched on appointing a commission to review abandoning certain army posts.
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