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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
2
Greenville paper notes Prof Palmer on Alle Freeman Palmer's sustained, strenuous labor and its impact. It highlights her belief in continuous work as constructive for both mind and body, praising her strength, resilience, and devotion to family and community, despite illness.
A historical analysis argues the United States trails Europe in lace making, noting high domestic lace sales of about 60 million dollars last year and minimal local production of finer varieties. It calls for developing lace industries, citing profits abroad and the need to expand seed materials and domestic production of lace and related goods.
The article contrasts lawyers' prominence with politicians in England, noting most lawyers seek Parliament mid career. It discusses public service as a duty for the educated, comments on Irish Labour and general electability, and cites an appeals court ruling that tips count as wages when openly received in a Workmen's Compensation case.
Park commissioners decide to reinstate Andrew Jackson’s toast “Our Federal union: It must be preserved” on the monument. The line, once removed after the Civil War amid shifting views, signals a gesture toward renewed national unity and reconciliation in Memphis.
Gov Hughes urged for vice presidency nomination while Governor Johnson of Minnesota declines a third term. Reports span trials, crimes, political shifts, and notable accidents across the United States with mentions of New York, Chicago, Minnesota, and Missouri. Several legal actions, indulgence cases, and societal events shape a broad snapshot of early 20th century news.
A sprawling, error-filled digest notes diverse events from 1908 era: a platform collapse at a Lee unveiling, Judge Landis appealing to the U S Supreme Court, murder conviction cases in Chicago, Wisconsin Prohibition ticketing, Bay City shipyard closure, wartime fleet movements, a transatlantic record, and multiple local crimes and disasters across cities like New Orleans, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Guthrie, and Ennis. The piece mixes political contests, crime reports, industrial notices, and royal visits with brief disaster notes, all reflecting a busy press cycle.
Obituary notices report the passing of John Vines Wright the elder congressman, Confederate officer and Tennessee Supreme Court judge in Washington aged 80. Other losses include Charles T. Dunwell of New York’s Third District, Capt Edward Rabey of the New York quarantine steamers, Pony Express rider Willam Stalth King in Missouri, tragedian Frank C. Bangs in Atlantic City, A J Burt of the Michigan Central railroad in Detroit, Oliver H P Belmont banker and politician in Hempstead Long Island, and “Young Steve” Brodie son of the bridge jumper who died in a New York hospital after revival efforts on the Bowery.
In Chattanooga a letter on A O Gregg's body reveals his wife foresaw the murder in a dream. She identified Lon Hatfield as the suspect after a staged match of the vision, with the murder scene matching the Hills location where Gregg's body was hidden. Authorities test her claim amid a courtroom mood.
In St Louis Missouri on Sunday a buggy crashed from a ferry at Market Street foot. Pierson fell and Mrs Nieters 225 pounds was dragged into the Mississippi as the deck hand stopped the horses. Pierson swam ashore with the unconscious woman while another crew member helped pull them from the water.
Taylor, a Seattle financier, traveling from Europe with his wife and daughter, was robbed of $10,000 at Union Station early Sunday. He was jostled by two men as he prepared to alight from a standing car. one man reached inside a coat, grabbed his wallet containing the money, and escaped after Taylor shouted.
Chan Kew Chinese interpreter testifies that hip Lung and associates must be punished or the entire Chin clan on Clark Street will be wiped out by On Leung Tong. The Chinese colony riled by perjury disclosures, yielding frenzied tension over the murder case of Coin Wat. Meanwhile naval and industrial news pace with reports of the Florida monitor’s damage at Norfolk, bids to open for three new steam colliers, residents driven from Cedar City, and the Ensley steel mills resuming with about 11,000 workers returning.
Practical Fashions describes a simple shirt-waist with two broad tucks and shoulder shaping. Suitable for various fabrics from taffeta to cotton broadcloth, with eight sizes and detailed yardage by fabric width. Pattern 2051 can be obtained by sending 10 cents with size and address.
Pattern notes describe Paris Pattern No 1600 for a girl eight to twelve years old. The apron uses Palka dotted dimity with a square neck and yoke band, embroidery frill, side pockets, and back fullness gathered by sash ends. Materials listed include yardage and edging, with instructions to mail 19 cents for the pattern. Also includes brief literary blurbs from Howells and a New Yorker anecdote about an Optimists' Club.
A well dressed man in Cedar area chats with a stranger from the Philadelphia Ledger about a plan to pose as a job seeker. The ruse, described as a "first class racket," involves visiting offices and recounting the same hard luck tale to strangers who then give money. The adviser claims strangers tip more readily than friends, recommending a test run with borrowed funds.
At a Royal Society of Canada meeting Sir James Grant reports that aging looms over brain cells like other body issues. He notes current research shows brain electricity orients Ila molecules toward a direction that yields improved memory responses, a finding tied to memory enhancement.
Discovered skeleton in the Histritsa hills is linked to Dmtr Kosztan of Bistritsa, once famed for slaying wolves and dispatching £84 worth of the animals over thirty years. Reports describe hypnotic prowess and a violent end, amid confusion and whispers from locals.
The Washington Star quotes a remark about Biliggins and his habit of paying without speaking. The piece notes a peculiar observation of his walk and payment in a gas station. The Baltimore American hints at a confidential remark about a fish market and an Armateur Fisherman’s best place to catch trout.
A compact reflection extols good nature as superior to knowledge and wealth for personal happiness. The piece cites Henry Ward Beecher on character and adds a brief note on bird migration, suggesting daylight length drives northward movement of the slummer migrants, the EME, who travel north for longer days and south again to escape darkness.
Reports from northern New Jersey boards of health advocate onions as a pneumonia remedy. Washington NJ published a Washington newspaper recipe describing chopping six to ten onions, cooking with rye meal and vinegar, making a hot poultice bag applied to the chest, reheated every ten minutes, with claims of rapid feverish recovery after several hours and multiple applications. The account cites a New England physician credited with devising the remedy long ago.
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