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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
3
A sanitized tongue in cheek survey: a Paris area film factory stages a faux arena with live lions and a papier mache maiden as dramatic prop. The piece lampoons sensational cinema while noting farcical quotes about sultans, suffrage, and college pranks. It mocks legal, fashion, and social musings across a mosaic of curiosities and headlines.
In St Michaels Maryland on June 25 John T Roberts a newspaper man was accused of murdering Edith Woodill wife of automobile dealer Gilbert Woodhill Los Angeles California. The body was found weighted with an iron pot and bricks in Back Creek. Roberts was captured after a pursuit by a posse and shot dead by authorities near Coxmen seven miles from St Michaels.
June 28 Fort Sill Ohls reports Major Frank J. Cheatham signed a government port expansion contract for two new buildings. The total cost of the addition is $700,000 with a plan to spend $2,000,000 in the next ten years per the War Department.
A reported burglary case links a Burlington juvenile suspect to multiple Burling ton robberies. The individual is said to have stolen watches and other property. items found in possession match local thefts. Authorities expect transport to Keokuk for further proceedings.
Ann Arbor June 26 801 graduates receive masters and doctor degrees at the University of Michigan class of 1900 marks a final commencement under President James B Angell. The message notes the large postgraduate turnout and the closing chapter of Angell's presidency.
Retroit Michigan hosts the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges annual convention with 400 delegates from every state attending a three day session in June.
New York report June 26 states a deadly heat wave claimed ten more lives, raising the death toll to over forty in the ongoing hot spell. Public officials warn dangerously high temperatures persist.
The article describes a festive program at Clinton featuring a Mardi Gras parade with bands from St Louis and Champny, minstrel show, decorated floats, and a flag feature with a dress quad. It notes a three day program including baseball, concerts, vaudeville, grind ball, and auto races among events.
Marshalltown Iowa June 25 The County Attorneys Association of Iowa elected Seneca Cornell Ottumwa as president Bradford Knapp Clauson ville as president W C Edson Storm Lake as secretary treasurer The convention rejected the nominating committee report naming Pepper Muscatine as president and L J Dickinson Algon as vice president A resolution urged legislature to furnish counsel to attorneys on all new laws within thirty days after the general assembly adjourns The state bar association was welcomed by Judge Z M Parker of the Seventh district bench Hazel I Sawyer of Keokuk spoke in response
An item from London reports radium pricing with a British deal to Lord Ivyeagh and Sir Felix Cassell. The note states a purchase worth 160000 dollars and a claimed price per pound near eight million dollars, amid distorted OCR.
Council Bluffs officials approve saloon licenses after reviewing a petition yielding about 438 to 460 signatures. The county board found the petition valid and the council grants saloon licenses for the city.
The Slama Chi fraternity holds its twenty-ninth grind chapter convention in Chicago starting June 20 and running through Friday evening. Several venerable founders attend the gathering.
A major legal action titled against the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad by the Arkansas Valley Town and Lind Company claims damages totaling about 1 000 000 dollars with a claim described as one of the largest suits since statehood. The case involves over eighty towns and is dated June 24.
The House of Seven Gables, famous from Nathaniel Hawthorne, was purchased by George R. Emmerton. It will be turned into a home for settlement work and benefit a local project.
June 28 event plans a flight by Orville Wright over the Potomac at Wort Myer Virginia. The aviator selected and price set for erecting a glittering derrick. the motor received final testing.
Jacks D. Qoxk odfeller Jr and Jamey A. Moffett were elected vice presidents of the Standard QO Company to succeed WW. H. Tiford and H. H. Rogers. WW. C. Tea gle and W. M. Tilfoya were elected directors.
Police report from Philadelphia on June 24 records three sudden deaths eight prostrations and two cases of death by own action along with one suicide attempt amid hot weather. Temperatures reached 87 degrees.
Mount Carmel UK June 28 J Phelps superintendent of the Cumberland Telephone company committed death by his own action by stumping on the vast road bridge into river.
Des Moines reports note hot July and delayed blossom for apples reducing yields below average while potato crops appear strong. In southeast Iowa heavy rains slow corn cultivation with weeds advancing, but overall harvests expected near average as cropping fields are prepared for planting.
Several hundred retail coal dealers from the Winos and Wisconsin association gathered at the Sherman House in Chicago for the fourteenth annual convention chaired by H. A. Robinson of Peoria. Walter B. Bogle welcomed the group and delivered the annual address.
In Kaneasity Missouri on June 28 a group of institutional church and north end children will depart for a California road farm near Tawrence. Howard Vrooman of Kansas City bought the property months ago and will cover grocery expenses while the farm houses, gardens, orchards, horses and livestock are allocated to the children for summer use.
Officials of the Pittsburg Railways Company and the executive committee of the Royal Union of Street and Electric Railway Warployes foresee a citywide strike in Pittsburg Pennsylvania affecting thousands. Rioting and looting are feared as the strike begins and may last for days, disrupting streets and transit.
A New York report claims 45 bereaved families revived by a controversial life restoration theory. The text notes 17 cases allegedly treated successfully while one patient died shortly after, with references to a movement called the Maetical Record and a manipulated heart method.
A Lowell girl known as the so called sleeping slokngge died after lying on her bed for thirty two days. During the long period she received only nourishment through a tube fed by milk through her teeth.
Fragmentary OCR notes name Walter G. Murphy of Berre Haute Indiana as supreme counselor of a travelers organization. H. M. Spith of Dew Moines Iowa is listed with a likely title in the Imperial order amid garbled text about bags and emperors.
Governor Hoke Smith suspends a railroad commissioner amid a union driven decision to force rate cuts on railroads. G. Rehendon of the giste railroad commission faces actions tied to the dispute and alleged irregularities. Atlanta remains the center of the controversy.
New York showcases Harriman donation of a hospital boat renamed in honor of Mrs Harriman. The vessel at Columbia Street anchorage will carry patients free or paid aboard by the Brooklyn Red Cross Society. It offers meals and prayer with an air school for local children and care by attendants and nurses.
The Inland Waterways Commission under congressional auspices met in Buffalo and began a two month inspection tour. They will travel by boat from Duluth to St Paul and then down the Mississippi to the Ohio mouth. St Paul business leaders will discuss the deeper channel, arbor plans, Minnesota River improvements, and the dam question. Further, the body plans to visit Europe later this month to inspect German and Dutch waterways.
May merge corn show with exhibits of the State Dairymen and Horticulturists. The executive boards met to form a joint committee, with plans for a November 29 to December 11 event and May joint sessions.
June 28 in Washington D C saw the ordination ceremony at Catholic University of America led by Right Rev H Hartley head of Calumibus Ohio as delegates were ordained for priesthood The report notes a fire incident in La Salle Illinois June 20 where beer was used to fight flames and three stores were damaged with estimated losses of $16000
Two young men, William God Walter Winalade, were struck and killed by lightning while seeking shelter from a storm. The incident occurred near Shipman on June 28, with details reported in local dispatches.
A garbled OCR fragment hints at a narrative of pursuit and memory. Names and places are unclear, but the text evokes a chase and an unsettled reunion in a foreign setting.
The text fragment references a doctor and a box in a setting that mentions a Ny Foster-Miburn and a place name Gizay urinary must pot overlooked. It hints at a medical context with unclear details and scattered terms from a page OCR.
Parent describes severe facial eczema in infant lasting months with ineffective doctors and pricey treatments. After trying Cuticura Remedies, the eruption vanished by morning, offering relief and a cure anecdote for troubled families.
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