27 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1910
Page
1
The Troy Weekly Call reprints a piece arguing rural families tend to be large due to agricultural life and labor needs. It contrasts urban living with flat dwellings, cites science on family size, eugenics, and the idea that many offspring often produce less fit adults.
A Rhode Island traveling agent notes weak demand for fireless cookers while farmers adopt incubators for summer cooking and raising poultry. A mishap with pork and beans led a husband to improvise, saving meals but costing a few chicks in a heated egg and bean incident. This dual use unsettles fireless cooker manufacturers.
President Taft signs orders withdrawing coal lands from entry and for mining, boosting total withdrawals to more than 71,500,000 acres. The Troy Times says the vast area will be preserved for future disposition and kept from monopolists, with surface entry possible for agriculture while subsurface riches remain public property under general arrangements.
The Castine gunboat ran aground at Provincetown Mass full of water after a mimic warfare miscalculation. The Pluviose sank due to a fool trick by her commander who miscalculated while attempting to dive under a passenger steamer for spectacle.
In Vincennes France the first sham battle in the air saw balloons carry guns to 325 feet and discharge them One balloon retreated while both balloons survived the engagement described as remarkable mainly for that outcome.
Congress will add another prince from Hawaii as a delegate named Jonah. The note warns that his entry into national deliberations should not be assumed to bring misfortune or a wail, despite superstition surrounding such a move.
A doctor argues that stage performances are an individual remedy for blues, while critics urge protest against prescribing such cures at public expense, noting the potential impact on society.
Developments in Montana fire situation show improvement with sun and rain reducing intensity. Missing workers are being found, towns deemed out of danger, and authentic deaths limited to nine in Montana. In Idaho, over two hundred presumed dead, largely firefighters, with concern for Ranger Joseph B. Halm and 74 others surrounded on the Coeur d Alene forest fire line.
Former Senator Wilkinson Call died in Washington D C at age 76. Born in Russellville Kentucky he moved to Florida in boyhood. He served as adjutant general in the Confederate army and was a presidential elector and delegate to national conventions. He first went to the Senate from Florida in 1865 but was not seated.
Beverly Mass reports that President Taft will host and consult with his entire cabinet in Washington in late September. With Secretary Wickersham and Nagel back from Alaska the cabinet will assemble at the White House September 26 for the first of three meetings on successive days.
Governor Has Kell announced the site for Oklahoma's state capitol in Oklahoma City. Capitol Development Co offered 1,600 acres and guaranteed 1,700,000 from lot sales to fund the capitol. The building will be six and a half miles northwest of downtown Oklahoma City.
A man nicknamed McLaughlin fought off four New York police on the roof of a seven story West Fortieth street warehouse. With superhuman strength he tried to throw himself and officers over the edge. After a half hour of wrestling he was led to the street with ropes binding his arms and legs.
President Taft releases a letter through Lloyd Griscom denying any cabal to defeat Roosevelt for temporary New York state chairman. He rebukes factional leaders, urges full Roosevelt consultations, and condemns unfounded newspaper claims. Roosevelt welcomes Taft's clarifying note.
President Tom L. Lewis says delegates at the special miners' convention repudiating the union's principles will not shake home members. He notes that without the convention's indorsement in the special committee report, international officers may try to push the strikes to success.
A tornado in Ludington severely damages property with an estimated million dollars in losses. The steamer Golden Age presumed lost on Lake Michigan with Mrs J Boyd and a man from Grand Rapids. Fruit trees and homes destroyed, Epworth Heights cottages blown off foundations. Farmer Charles Carlson seriously hurt by lightning. Two launch parties missing at Pine Lake near Boyne City.
Philadelphia doctors at the Women's Homeopathic hospital report Mrs. Margaret Clark has recovered from a broken neck after three weeks of treatment. She showed marked improvement and is believed to recover fully.
Atlanta results show Hoke Smith reclaiming the governorship from Joseph Brown. Early returns indicate Lon Livingston defeated in the Eighth district by W. S. Howard. Renominations include William Howard, Gordon Lee, Charles D. Edwards, F. M. Bell, and Bartlett. Several incumbents—Roddenderry, Hughes, Adamson, and Brantley—renominated with no opposition.
In Beverly Massachusetts President Taft outlines a selective tariff revision plan for Congress. He still regards the Payne Aldrich Act as the best so far but calls for separate examination of individual schedules. The revision would rely on cost of production findings and aim for fair profits for American producers.
Pat Joseph C. Sibley, who withdrew as a Republican candidate in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district, was arrested on a conspiracy to defraud charge. The arrest followed his withdrawal announcement and his expense figures show $17,000 spent in Warren County and $42,500 districtwide, averaging $4 per vote.
The six week long forest fire crisis in western and northwestern Montana reaches a peak with widespread destruction. Officials report millions in property losses and deaths possibly numbering from twenty to hundreds. Wallace Idaho survives with heavy damage and ten deaths. Sylvanite Lincoln county is destroyed. Libby and Whitefish face danger as Neidhart Saltese Stregis Adair report rumors.
Cairo, Illinois. Frank W. Wilson, a bookkeeper and stenographer who had lived in Cairo and more recently in St. Louis, died in a local hospital after an appendectomy. Surgeons made three incisions and removed 13 articles including a thermometer, a shoe buttonhook, a hat pin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a tin toy pistol, nails, a 10-penny nail, and a needle. Wilson had suffered long-term poor mental and physical health.
The Sherman exoneration statement from a House select committee says there was no warrant for using the names of Vice President Sherman and Senator Charles Curtis in connection with any improper relation to Indian contracts. The panel also probes Murray contracts and Gore bribery charges but finds no grounds to implicate the named officials.
United States Senator William Warner of Missouri will not seek re election in the forthcoming primaries. The announcement, official and surprising, cites ill health as the sole reason. Warner's decision reverses a firm stance he had formed only 24 hours earlier, conveyed through his secretary W B C Brown.
Dixon hosts 450 veterans as Governor Deneen and Maj. Connolly address the gathering. Sterling hosts officers after election of Capt. Niles as president and Capt. Hershey as VP. Decatur hosts 600 Redmen visitors and 1,200 attendees at Fairview park with a large parade and athletic contests. Pana honors hero Matthew Robinson with a Carnegie Medal and a $1,000 business grant. Springfield features sheriff Peters critiquing prisoner punishment. Chicago opens Republican campaign HQs under Henry Casson. Democratic HQs pending. Granite City reports John Gale survived a plant fire. Aurora conducts industrial census. Jerseyville seeks $30,000 for new shoe plant.
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