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Newspaper
Tooele Times
Location
Tooele, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1910
Page
2
The Tooele Times reflects a jumble of whimsical observations on language, aviation, trains, fashion, and technology. It notes Esperanto curiosity, the spread of wireless excitement, missteps in headlines, and light satire about poets, guns, and universal peace.
A nascent national union of postcart peddlers forms amid talk of regulating the trade. A man found semiconscious on a Philadelphia street, pockets turned inside out, is held as a witness. The case raises questions about jury duty and the obligation to testify in a potential hit and run incident.
A naval torpedo repair and trial station was ordered to be located at Keyport Washington on Puget Sound near the Tremerton navy yard. Other notes report deaths, elections, legal actions, fires, disasters, and political developments from across the country and abroad.
Sixth Vanderbilt Cup at Long Island Motor Parkway ends in tragedy with four dead and nineteen seriously injured. Harry Grant wins in a 120 horsepower Alco, beating John Dawson and John Altkin. victims include driver Mathew R. Bacon and Charles Miller and spectators Ferdinand Dubin and Edward Lynch.
A battleship near New Hampshire reported twenty nine sailors died when a barge towed to the vessel in the Hudson River swamped amid heavy swells. Eleven more are listed as absent but not confirmed as in the boat. The likely cause was the barge being tossed by a passing steamer and sinking after a crest and trough separated waves.
In London and the World an extended interview with Dr Frederick A. Gook asserts he will prove his North Pole discovery and plans to return to New York. He recalls sitting near Commander Peary at a Royal Geographical Society lecture last spring in Albert Hall, noting he was unrecognized.
A letter from Captain Reald Amundsen aboard the Fram at Madeira states Ete will proceed on an Antarctic expedition and will send details from Punta Arenas. The plan change surprises as the original aim was a drifting voyage starting next year. The Fram was to go to San Francisco for fitting, with a seven year drift through the polar regions anticipated.
The territory of New Mexico reports a population of 327 398 in the thirteenth census, an increase of 132 086 or 67 6 percent, per Census Director Durand's announcement. A Lake Steamer Founders near Detroit reports the New York Steamship Company packet freight er foundered in Thunder Bay. The Mataafa rescued the crew.
Fire destroyed the business portion of Jet in Cherokee Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon. A help wind fanned the flames causing about 66,000 dollars in damage.
A windstorm at Whid Uproots Grove near Sanbornville N H. on Saturday unrooted houses and barns and uprooted whole groves of trees. Property damage is estimated above 100000 dollars. A separate note reports Dr Rubert Gudger a young physician from Asheville NC committed suicide Sunday afternoon by severing his throat as his mother tried to restrain him.
A posse led by Sawyer county Sheriff Mike E. Madden clashed with two sons of John F. Deitz near Winter, injuring the Deltza siblings and their sister Myra. A chase followed as the Deitz kin drove from Cameron Dam, with gunfire reported during the interrogation. In a separate note, Wu Ting-fang urged an imperial edict to abolish the queue for Chinese residents in the Americas amid taunts from foreigners.
Larue Vredenburgh, 26, of Springfield, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Peter Vredenburgh, was instantly killed when his Stoddard-Dayton careened through a fence during a 20 mile race at the state fair grounds. His bride of a few months fainted in the grand amphitheater and was taken away by ambulance.
The total estimates for the naval service next fiscal year are $128,200,000, compared with $137,913,000 for the year ended July and $132,984,000 for the current year. In addition to two battleships and two collier ships already announced, several other minor vessels are planned.
A 45 year old seamstress Mrs Elizabeth Burke attacked Judge Frank Baker of the Cook County appellate court on a street Saturday. She carried a five inch blade knife and was arrested after a struggle on the way to the station. The motive could not be learned.
In the Las Esperanzas mining district near Palau Mexico and Eagle Pass Texas a pair of explosions in a National Railway of Mexico operated site entombed about 150 miners, many native and Japanese workers with several Americans reported among the dead or missing.
John A. Dix was nominated by the New York Democratic state convention to run on a progressive platform. Dix, chairman of the state committee and a wealthy Washington county businessman, led the gathering to a historic closing Friday night.
In Madison Wisconsin Senator Robert M La Follette is discussed as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2012 Plans were even made at the Madison convention to launch his campaign in other states within the same event sessions The report notes this as freely talked matter during the convention proceedings
Tragic sequel follows the death of French aviator Edmund Poillot. His fiancée, overcome with grief, killed herself Sunday by shooting. Poillot died September 25 in a crash during a flight when the plane stalled at ninety feet, causing the machine to fall and break.
Portland reporter notes Winslow Homer, famed American artist, died at his Scarborough home on Friday after four weeks of illness. He had lived as a hermit in the Scarborough studio for years, his long life work securing his status as an original American artist.
An 8-year-old girl, Bessie Shepler of Hradner Ohio, died after ingesting poison detected in her stomach. Authorities suspect strychnine poisoning linked to tainted ice cream cores. In a separate incident, two people died in a Burlington Iowa residence fire following an oil stove explosion at Gladstone.
A Galena reader describes a ruptured lump near the hip that disappeared after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter touts the women's tonic as effective for displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, backache, and nervous prostration, inviting others to write for free advice.
Atchison Globe reports a gathering of the Ancient Order of Sping where members discussed loneliness among wives and mothers. A visiting Spin warned of a future when individuals are left alone, prompting the group to pledge six weeks of missionary outreach to visit lonesome families.
A church party rides to service with anxiety about lateness. The old pastor consoles them recalling a prisoner who faced execution saying the crowd can wait and there will be nothing doling till I get there.
A lighthearted yet pointed quip on how some people respond to others seeking help. The saying suggests a social dynamic where those in need are avoided rather than assisted.
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