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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
4
Weather notes report late snowfalls and mention astronomical events with moon and Uranus. The historical miscellany lists births and deaths of Charles and other figures, plus political references to Taft Fairbanks Foraker Hughes and Bryan, with snippets on fertilizer analysis and a sewer of political clubs. The tone mimics a late 19th century newspaper brief.
In Cleveland a mound dig unearthed a metal slug like a telephone coin-operated device. Forest City archaeologists say it proves a prehistoric people knew telephones, while others mock the notion. The piece collapses faith in heroic myths as trumpeted by Puritan idols. A series of odd notes follow, including a tramp punished for burglary, a Pittsburg pastor blocking a navy body, and various political gibes about arch and state, all conveying a satirical, overheated tone.
The Viennese operetta A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus is noted as Europe’s sole rival to The Merry Widow. It has opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York after a strong run abroad, with the Sunday World promising piano sheet music in the colored magazine section on February 24.
Senators battled over how Secretary of the Treasury’s reply to a senate resolution was prepared and printed. Aldrich Culberson Carter Beveridge Tillman argued about timing, form, and access, noting expediency and past practices while criticizing delays and the method of presenting facts to the senate.
Mr Carter asked if Tilman read the report and Tilman said no. Carter said the secretary for the treasury had sent information to the senate and he would consider it before deciding. Tillman claimed Montana’s senator defended the secretary and Carter joked that candidates would likely acquit him.
In Chicago January 1936 a dramatic trial features Mire Dora McDonald accused of murder in the death of artist Webster Guerin. Witnesses describe a frantic scene as Guerin falls with a billet wound. The courtroom drama includes blood stained garments and sobbing brides. A witness notes bribery hints from defense attorneys. In Upper Sandusky an elderly Wyandot resident John Lewis collapses dead at a Pennsylvania depot, heart trouble cited.
A brickbat shattered a window and struck a woman on an outgoing Interurban car in Anderaun Indiana. A motorman was hit by a boulder in the city car vestibule as vandals, possibly strike sympathizers, remain elusive to police. The four week strike and boycott by Amalgamated Association members fuels the unrest.
Martina Ferry reports that workmen unearthed a skeleton in an old Baltimore building once home to a prominent businessman named Thomas Geraton who disappeared about 90 years ago. The structure dates from the 1800s, and authorities are examining the remains for identification.
Columbus Ohio January 30 The Rose county local option bill was unfavorably reported by the City Auditors association now in session at the Southern for lacking revenue provisions to match mayoral interests The Payne bill before the legislature was recommended with an amendment for elected officers or boards rather than mayor appointment The association also opposed city control of school funds noting boards of education oppose the plan and auditors fear extra work and pay The meeting closed with officers reelected President Ilmore Musser Portmouth Vice President Stephen J Mt Vernon Sylvester a tumbus Treasurer Frank S Riward Durand
A damaged OCR fragment describes a Newark river incident with an unidentified female magnet in hand and a man about 46 years old as a victim. The text is garbled and incomplete, hindering precise details.
Nellie Bachot, accusing her husband Thomas Bachot of infidelity with a hotel manager's wife, fatally wounds him in a struggle over a pistol with nephew Milchael Croak. Nellie is held awaiting outcome of the shooting.
Mrs. Mary Lawson colored dies at 102 in Lebanon after heart failure. Born in Romond Virginia she was stolen as a child and sold into slavery in Mississippi. She remained with one master until emancipation, later moving to Olio. Her husband died at 75, 25 years ago. She had 11 children and was a great great grandmother.
Rear Admiral Leavitt C. Logan, commandant of the Pensacola Navy Yard, was confirmed by the Senate as rear admiral for two days. He will retire and has been given permission to go abroad following the brief hold on the rank.
New York rumors say Count Lazaro Mwecheny and Countess Oladys will sail for Paris February 11 after postponements for earlier departures. The party, including William Vaoterbitt Jr and Mr W Hoyt, plans to travel via Cherbourg to Paris then Rome to meet the Pope before visiting Hungary. They expect to spend a week at the Whitney estate before a Newport layover at The Breakers.
A cousin Count Antop Sigray, Goupt Paul Esterhusy, Isa Count Stephen Progadatecke, and their families sail today aboard the Amelia. Mr and Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt with daughter Kathleen and Alfred Vanderbilt join, heading to Hamburg then Bu, Nesmaid and Alfred joining later, then Pars and the Mediterranean on the Vanderbilt yacht.
An old newspaper ad proclaims rapid cure for rheumatism neuralgia and gout with a remedy named Dr Dotchon’s Relief. It claims immediate systemic action and dramatic early benefit from a single dose. Available at Dumble Pharmacy opposite Kerr House Polo.
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