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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
6
A collection of wry tidbits on public life and culture. Topics include a federal probe into combines, the vogue of a whitewash trust, Dewey’s travels, Philadelphia politics, and a Rhode Island spite fence. Also notes on Kipling, Chicago women’s club, charity conference smoking, and the aging Prince of Wales.
Governor Roosevelt led a special session to amend a public franchise tax act as real property. The New York Senate approved the Ford bill amendments 26 to 20 and the Assembly 87 to 62, despite initial party opposition.
Bertha Brooks, a 24 year old widow with two children and a million, promises to marry Gerald Montressor yet alters her will to place her estate with Montressor for the children. A later twist exposes her plan as Montressor foils the match and keeps Josepha Johnson from marrying.
Fourteen year old George Flood of 209 Huron Street lies in a dying condition at the Alexian Brothers hospital after a peanut shard about the size of a coffee bean lodged in his windpipe and settled in his lung. Doctors fear surgery may be his only chance as pneumonia set in after the incident last week.
In a Detroit Journal snippet, a speaker wonders about the fate of many new doctors while noting microbes are continually being discovered. The exchange highlights medical innovation and the unpredictable path of scientific progress.
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