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Newspaper
Tooele Times
Location
Tooele, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
2
A jumble of brief items covers aviation costs in the era, fashion quirks, a London cure for colds, and a Hoosier dentist proposing tooth insurance. Other notes include a doomed Chulatongkorn successor named Chowis Maha Va Ihayaudh, radical fashion talk, labor pickets, and comic bits about marriage, beauty, and oddities from New York to Bangor and beyond.
Mrs Salita Starter who worked as a section hand near Pueblo Colorado for three years was arrested for vagabondage after dressing in women’s clothes for the first time in three years. The item bundles other brief world and domestic notes from the week.
A Port Limon dispatch reports a small inland island off the coast of San Salvador disappeared on Thursday December 15 after a series of earthquakes. About ninety people from seventeen families are feared dead. Signals of distress were seen from Mopango as tremors continued until Friday morning.
Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell pastor of the Methodist People's tabernacle in Denver died late Saturday night after a lingering illness. Known as a pioneer Colorado clergyman he organized religious services in Fairplay and Leadville during the mining boom. He once held services in saloons and gambling halls amid the era's rough reputation.
Senor Dona Anibal Cruz envoy from Chile to the United States died of heart failure at 3 46 Sunday morning after attending the banquet of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. Physicians were summoned but arrived too late. Call for Caucus. Washington Democrats to meet Thursday night January 19 to plan for tariff revision and faster action in the sixty second congress.
President Taft urged wise military preparation while denying a war scare. He defended a standing army at a peace gathering and backed militia improvement volunteer law and a corps to drill state forces. He also called for more officers and ammunition to equip the nation in an emergency.
Forty Jewish families will be expelled from Moscow on January 14, under a new imperial order. The law allows only first guild Jewish merchants and their families to reside in Moscow, and requires younger children to reside with parents. Fifty young men also face expulsion as the provision limits residence to families with children under age.
The government coalition holds a strong majority with Liberals 286 and Labor 43, Nationalists 72, and Independent Nationalists 10, totaling 393. Opposition Unionists total 271, with only minor personal changes expected in the new chamber.
James Donaldson is released after a ten year prison term set January 9, 1909, for his role in a 1906 theft of $10,000 from Cront Alexander and William McWhirter. The case involved a card game with former Police Chief George Sheets, and Donaldson will pursue mining.
Agents for the Northwestern Railroad seek engineers and trainmen in El Paso Texas to operate trains. Workers refuse to work due to the threatening attitude of the insurrectos.
Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission reports that sixty nine railroads serving Chicago and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have agreed to mediation under the Erdman act. Pekin Winter exacerbates famine in Yangtze regions as authorities combat a widespread gate of children, estimated at over a million.
Governor Eberhardt of Minnesota links unrestricted waste in natural resources, especially farm fertility, to high cost of living. He estimates annual losses at 500 million dollars. The item frames this as a major economic concern beyond local issues.
A man identified as G. C. Boyer of Sheridan Wyoming was found unconscious in a hotel room in Springflee and died without regaining consciousness. Police have opened an inquiry. In Lexington, Kentucky, a funeral hero story notes Dyren McClelland, widow of a famous turf figure and one of the wealthiest women in the South.
The central body of the Butte district, the Silver Low Trades and Labor assembly, on Sunday night went on record opposing the creation of the office of state sheriff by the legislature. Aviator Claude Graham- White narrowly escaped serious injury in Dover England after a crash that badly cut his face following a wrecked aircraft.
Bedouin forces estimated at 12,000 seized Maan in the Korak district amid ongoing unrest. Reports identify Bedouin rebels advancing toward Constantinople as authorities monitor the flare up.
Announcement from Chicago reports the second International Conference on child welfare to be held in Washington D C from April 25 to May 7 1921 under the National League of Mothers. Also notes the body of Balloon Pilot Lieutenant Lange found in the North Sea after the Stay and eight other balloons started from Rhineland Russia in November.
Kansas City officials charge John Eagle with killing Mrs Emeline Bernhardt in a quadruple murder near the city. Eagle has been released. In Dallas Texas John Lobianco, target of a Black Hand plot, died from wounds suffered October 3. His four year old daughter was also killed in the same attack. Lobianca is the third Black Hand victim in the area.
Livery one Interested in hunting should write for copy of 1010 Game Laws which contains 120 pages detailing where game abounds when seasons open and what laws govern hunting. Free by writing to M. Ti. Tartley Co. 259 Broadway New York by mentioning this paper.
A brief scene on the Market Street viaduct features two young men exchanging a quip about spotting a white automobile after admiring two auburn-haired damsels. The exchange mirrors an old saying in a modern setup.
Potter Drug and Chemical Company of Bowt on Mass will mail free on request their 32 page Cutura Book on the skin and hair. The booklet promotes Cure Heura remedies for skin and scalp affections, toilets, baths, and nursery use, with antiseptic cleaning of mucous surfaces.
The article notes romance and poetry around the mint julep and Kentucky fame but reveals Missouri as the mint home. It cites Missouri mint production of 7,053 pounds last year, enough for 1,224,320 juleps, excluding contraband moonshine. The piece contrasts Kentucky drinkers with Missouri's legal mint output and jokes about tax-free moonshine.
The dialogue claims Milwaukee derives from mille meaning thousand and Waukee as Chinaman, forming Milwau kee. It asserts a meaning of a thousand Chinamen, presented as a humorous linguistic origin rather than scholarly fact.
A patient describes long suffering from pale weak health blamed on daily coffee. After giving up coffee and switching to Postum, health improved. five months later headaches vanished and weight rose to 148 pounds. The note ends urging readers to try Postum and read The Head to Wellville.
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