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Newspaper
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
Location
Tonopah, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1909
Page
1
Colorado faces a battle to protect its fruit crop worth millions as frost threatens orchards statewide. Farmers combat frost with numerous fires lighting valleys and mobilizing households to defend the harvest.
Storms swept the heartland and the south causing extensive damage and many deaths. Chicago reports unroofed houses and at least twenty dead while Missouri Indiana and Tennessee towns suffer heavy losses. Mississippi River and Great Lakes areas see wrecked property and stranded lines.
Detroit April 30 586 saloons and ten breweries in nineteen counties that voted dry at the last election closed their doors. Thirty of eighty three counties in Michigan are now dry.
Fresno marked Raisin Day with several picnics and menus featuring raisin dishes. A Native Sons ball served as a concluding feature while no major local celebration occurred, signaling a subdued observance.
Four Potts Powder Co. workers died in a glycerine packing house blast at Reynolds Pennsylvania. Four more were injured. The cause remains unknown.
Two former United States mint officials testified for the prosecution on Calhoun’s alleged payments. Frank A. Lynch and Thomas P. Burns linked Calhoun to a $200,000 disbursement via mint orders to Ford. Other witnesses disputed the appropriation and disbursement details. A separate Chicago debate featured Milwaukee Mayor Rose arguing against prohibition and Albion College President Dickie arguing for it.
Robert Vincent and John B. Anderson, owners of the Quo Vadis claims near Railroad Pass, have leased and bonded the property to H. H. Farrell for 50 000 dollars. Development work will continue during the lease life and ore shipments may begin as ore is proven. Western Ore Purchasing will aid sampling works to develop the mine.
Chicago activity surges as Springfield reports Walsh boxing bill favorably. Six round bouts allowed with no decisions and liquor restrictions at venues. A clause may restrict boxing to established clubs, shaping plans for boxers like McFarland and Nelson to fight locally.
A fragment from New York dated April 20 references several figures, including 53 and 12.06, with scattered words like Sit Fat Wad and 18TH. The unreadable OCR segment lacks coherent events or named individuals.
Rev. W. W. Peet of the American Foreign Missionary board dispatches twelve tons of flour and 150000 pounds of rice to Adana for massacre victims. A letter from Rev. Christie reports about 1000 dead at Adana and over 300 in nearby towns amid fires and looting.
Nan Patterson, now Mrs. Martin, was driven to a nervous collapse after reports identifying her as the mystery woman caller in the Bernard Stevens case. Stevens, a young bank clerk, was wounded in a shooting at the Fourteenth Street branch of the United States Savings Bank. Prosecutors have yet to find witnesses linking a Negro to the incident.
The Associated Press reports favorable weather in the north west spurring an easy start to wheat trading in Chicago. May futures quoted around 1.33 and the market opened modestly amid mild conditions.
April 30 in a courtroom, Thornton Jen king Hains testified about the shooting of William E. Annis, the case centering on pleas of fraternal defense. The defendant’s brother faced censure for shouting in court as he recalled his brother’s distress over his wife’s alleged infidelity.
Nine men from Cleveland watch Fort Ticonderoga restoration hoping to find a buried fortune. They claim a map and code left by a Revolutionary War relative guide the treasure site. The project is led by Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell with expenses paid by Col. Robert M. Thompson of New York City.
A special train of twenty one carloads of horses bound for the Summer meeting of the Victoria Country club at Victoria British Columbia left Emeryville for the north yesterday. The Emeryville track is empty except for stables of Cahill Hawke Durker Terry Molera and Joseph. Cahill heads to Toronto Hawke to Salt Lake and Durker and Terry to Victoria.
Earl Bogardus of Oakland was arrested on charges of embezzling $3000 from a local bank. The amount cited is the initial figure, with investigators yet to determine the full extent of alleged peculations.
Associated Press reports in Pasadena that Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president, completed through agents a deal to sell a $26,000 residence. The transaction marks a notable real estate move connected to the former public figure.
Tevik Pasha forms a new cabinet to preside over the Turkish empire amid expectations of lenient rule. Mohemmed V passes through streets to Friday prayers showing a democratic gesture. Saloniki report of the deposed sultan’s court martial is denied.
Pearl Johnson and Nora Murray, both locals, were baptized in a small creek near Sailon Springs IIl and married immediately after in water waist deep. More than 400 spectators attended the unusual ceremony. Western Pacific stock closed at $36 bid in New York.
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