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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
2
An American millionaire seeks citizenship in England while planning to return to New York to draw dividends. The piece notes a New York World polemic about civilization and prosperity. It also mentions Koch’s theory on race extinction and contrasts with public sentiment.
Dr Jare ther H Gulick, president of the Play-Sround Association of America, urges a safe sane Fourth of July with organized parades, exercises, and sports. President Tate agrees, endorsing Bigger and better celebrations in cooperation with city officials. The excerpt also contrasts burglary with armed robbery and notes a Washington post on crime and public welfare.
Richmond special lists fair sites across Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia with dates from August to November. Cities include Qalax Radford Tazewell Roanoke Lynchburg Winston Salem Greensboro Raleigh Charlotte Columbia Augusta Eatonton. Entry books closed June 1 and total purses exceed twenty thousand dollars for horse races.
The Hamburg public prosecutor closed an official investigation into Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company led by American manager B. Lo Quarles. No evidence warranted indictment and costs will be borne by the State. The ruling marks a notable American victory amid German attempts to disparage American business methods.
Special Judge W B Sheppard of the Federal Court denied the Southern Express Company a permanent injunction to stop the State Railroad Commission from enforcing a rate reduction of about 17 percent. He said federal courts intervene only in extreme cases when state officers enforce laws by the legislature.
Captain Samuel K. Lyon of the 25th infantry was tried at Fort Myer Virginia for irregularities stemming from the Brownsville Texas matter. The court found him not guilty and acquitted him, but Acting Reviewing Authority General Walter Howes disapproved the finding.
Special reports from Henderson Kentucky indicate a devastating fire Friday night damaged about 2,000,400 in tobacco losses across Henderson Union and Webster counties. Approximately 50,000 acres of pooled tobacco in Henderson county were destroyed along with a 200 acre plantation, marking a major Caldwell County tobacco loss event.
A monumental procession valued at five million dollars stretched twenty five miles through Detroit on Friday afternoon. About 2,500 ears of spectators watched as Gasolene was hailed as king at the Elks reunion. Overhead, the Wright aircraft performed daring maneuvers at the State Fair Grounds while river speed meets showcased express train speeds along the riverfront.
Fragmentary report notes a wedding or ceremony involving A. Momaig Stile P. Deanivan and Mrs. Parkers at the Masonic Hall in New Orleans. Details are unclear with garbled phrases but indicate a Friday event amid contentious or tarnished settings and business intersections.
In Kansas City speakers Jos. G. Cannon and Gifford Pinchot spar over who truly fathered the nation’s conservation. Cannon credits J. W. Powell while Pinchot asserts Theodore Roosevelt founded the movement. They discuss party, policy, and the future balance of private interests versus public welfare in conservation.
Five people die when the dirigible Erbe Joch bursts during a flight at several hundred feet near St Louis. The non rigid airship measured 176 feet by 33 feet, with 125 horsepower motors driving a 28 mph cruise. Investigators cite gas expansion from sunlight as a probable cause.
In Tennessee the serious political situation stirs intense feeling across towns counties. Regular Democrats insurgent Democrats and Republicans line up forces for the August struggle as judiciary and county elections approach. No candidate opposes Governor M. R. Patterson yet.
A petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission requests adjusting rates and designating Louisville Kentucky as a reconsignment point for hardwood lumber. The proposal covers shipments from the Southern States to the North and West, seeking favorable rate changes.
Fragmented report describes a Saturday incident on the Atleve railroad between a special train and a new sight train. One man killed, another shot, and multiple passengers injured as conductors intervened. Details are uncertain due to damaged OCR.
In Oyster Bay Roosevelt states he has taken no stand for either insurgents or regulars and seeks harmony within New York State party ranks. He says his main focus is the state, not national issues, and he wishes to see both sides, including Democrats, if Republicans act rightly. He emphasizes neutrality while urging balance among party factions.
In Atlantic City Glenn H Custis tossed oranges and mimic bombs near a mock battleship used for a coast defense exercise. Bombs were dropped from about 300 feet while arrangers sought to stress aircraft risk and safety during the sham battle.
One of the foremost suitors, a millionaire from Dover, recently traveled to France and returned in a Wright biplane. He was killed Tuesday by a fall from his aeroplane at the Bournemouth aviation meeting.
Clarence Desforges a five year old boy lay on a cot in a charity hospital as death approached and called for his mother for comfort. He became unconscious and died in the late afternoon two days after his father fatally shot his mother in a jealous rage and then killed himself. The boy did not know his parents were both dead.
A garbled Savannah item reports a conscience fund donation of 1500 dollars attributed to an unnamed man. The money was handed to Mayor Tisdemas on a Main Street doorway by a prominent local figure and purportedly processed after some formal exchange.
A collage of brief items on postal money orders to Canada shifting to U S dollars, emigration trends, King Edward funeral cost estimates, a long journey to buy a Colorado farm, a Morganton child’s accidental death, legal help in beef trust cases, labor movement politics, naval asset sales and contracts, UK liquor taxation trends, rotting peaches in Georgia, Taft coal land withdrawals, postal savings deposits interest, Florida governor gift to a Pensacola family, a large twin family in Pensacola, a new counterfeit certificate notice, a Meadville child death by poison, Cleveland and Harrison letter postage rights, census enumerator pay, and a census statistics contract summary.
The item lists remaining Confederate veterans in Congress, naming Senators Bankhead Johnson, Bacon, Money, Taferro, and others, noting defeats and service. It cites a congressional cost of living critique by McCabe of the Agriculture Department, arguing omitting factors inflates prices, with examples like raspberry jam showing price pressures and misbranding issues.
Government sleeres install electric protection around the executive mansion. Lightning rods will be fixed on the twelve chimneys and a cable with points to arrest strikes runs around the parapet. No rods will be placed over nearby offices adjoining the mansion.
Bids for two new battleships to be ready by October 1 were authorized by Congress with one built by contract and the other at the New York navy yard. Six destroyers bids are to be in by September 6. No postal bank will operate before January 7, 19M, per Postmaster Hitchcagle after Chicago inquiry. July crop report shows corn area at 200 acres with a 4.9 percent increase. average yields up to 85.4. New engraving plans for a building cost 1,750,000 and will be supervised by a Fine Arts advisory. Caterpillars destroying shade trees in Washington noted as August 1 approaches.
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