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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1906
Page
3
A rural Irish American tale unfolds with Maggie defending her suitor against her father, Policeman Flynn. He banishes the young man in a dramatic home confrontation, but Maggie and the suitor reconcile, with the youth urging restraint and asserting genuine affection.
Taft formally assumes provisional governorship of Cuba with a diplomatic tone. President Palma expresses relief at shifting guiding burden to American mediators, while Cubans display indifference toward the change. Business and trade pressures resume as the island ends a six week revolution standstill.
Washington reports President Roosevelt dispatched a wireless message authorizing the first American expedition to Cuba. War department rapid mobilization follows Taft's urging. Secretary of War and Quartermaster bustle to hire transports and order supplies at Newport News for 5 600 men for thirty days as the expedition is assembled.
A hurricane in the Mississippi sound caused six drownings, eight large sailing ships wrecked, about thirty smaller vessels sunk or ashore, and property losses over one million dollars. The full scope emerged as Ship, Cat and Horn Islands were reported submerged, with rescue and assessment teams dispatched from the mainland.
In Retalto Illinois the death of Miss Annie Cutkin uncovers a hidden sum of $18,000 amassed over ten years. Her father left $10,000 to be divided, while Annie revealed to her brother that she hid the money in an old trunk in the garret and added $6,000 more during the decade. The trunk yielded $16,000 in gold coins.
Tragic rear end collision on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Eddington Pa. The Lag Trench express bound for Philadelphia struck a slower train after leaving New York. Two killed and twenty five plus injured as the wreck sent passengers scrambling.
A lengthy tribute notes the Colorado and Southern line reaching Gray's Peak on Mount McClellan as the second highest railway ascent, praising vast vistas, future skyward lines, and the dramatic feat as part of a widening global bread of rail reaches. The piece casts the achievement as a milestone in world engineering and a promise of more to come.
Charles C. Aspinwall, oldest active machinist in Concord NH, began work in 1853 at the old Northern shops. Now with Boston and Maine lineage through Boston and Lowell and Malone railroads, he remains vital at age 75 and walks a mile plus daily. Native of Lebanon New Hampshire, his family and long service mark a storied railroad career.
A fragmented report details a major train robbery ring in Mali and its Rome Napier connection. It highlights the persistence of banditry, the emergence of a mastermind called Slettian, and mentions travels across China, Calabria, and Mddrens, with lines about "La bing" and rewards tied to disrupting railway thefts.
The Railway Age notes little progress in railway recoveries. In the last months of the year only five short conside and four with 154 miles of une were placed under guardianship. Five rode with 170 miles were returned to owners, and one more, four alkoas, was completed and restored. No receiverships formed this year due to financial difficulties and ongoing insolvencies.
A wide range of brief world and U. S. notices include fires in Baratew and a barber shop, freight train collisions near Callao, a gas explosion near Cherryvale that killed two workers, Cuba annexation views by Senator Etkins, a football injury in Lawrenceville, the death of Col Ike Hill in Washington, Warsaw executions and Poland unrest, Columbus chosen for a locomotive firemen convention, Camden Iron Works guilty in a rebates case, a Roevelt Longworth bear hunt rumor, a wreck victim recovered at Fort Worth, Bucketeering expulsion in Chicago, U. S. foreign trade surpassing three billion, typhoon losses in Hong Kong, Stensland in Joliet, a Scranton windstorm, Pascagoula destruction, Cuban treaty talks, Costa Rica dispute, indictments for assaults on patients in Norfolk, and a murder case verdict in Albia.
The article reports a mining surge in Little Bincky Idaho with new operations, dividends, and developments. It cites the Halfree Gold Ore plant, a new refinery, a $155,000 dividend, and a total $800,000 paid to date. Also noted are assays showing rich ore, rail and road projects, and organizational moves to reduce shipping costs.
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