03 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
1
A prose meditation on creating a personal sanctuary beneath a roof. Rain enhances the sense of peace as memories and childhood figures surface, including images of a dismantled ship and characters like Robinson Crusoe. The vivid dream-like scene ends with the memory lingering after a night of restorative sleep.
Passenger traffic between the United States and Europe grows with big companies adding swift vessels. A French built liner, soon in service, will carry 2020 passengers at a cost around 5 million dollars, illustrating foreign efforts to tap American trade and the push for American control of such commerce.
A late 19th or early 20th century column muses on homing pigeon deaths blamed on wireless telegraph currents, questions gulls and Marconi effects, and muses on Dickens progeny claims and automobile accidents linked to drunkenness, ending with a Connecticut bankruptcy scare and speculative profit losses.
On a Frisco line train crossing the Mississippi bridge in Memphis a 35 year old black robber, Jack Thomas, entered the smoking car and then robbed passengers. Watchman A B Walton fired, striking Thomas in the heart and killing him instantly. A coroner's jury cleared Walton of blame. Thomas began his raid as the train entered the bridge.
Washington reports no general pension legislation planned for the coming session. The key measure to remove widow pension restrictions sits on the Senate calendar, but pension committee members oppose further consideration. Thousands of private pension bills await action, with 2 500 to 3 000 expected to pass if approved by the committee.
Dr Frederick A Cook concedes he may not know if he reached the North Pole. Publisher Benjamin Hampton says the first installment of Cook's story will appear in the January issue, after magazine paid Capt Peary's $50,000 for his pole tale.
The thirteenth census shows Minnesota with 2,075,780 people, up 824,314 or 18.5 percent since 1900. Tennessee stands at 2,184,789, rising 164,173 or 8.1 percent from the previous count.
A federal suit in New York seeks a perpetual injunction to restrain the American Sugar Refining company and stockholders from paying dividends or exercising stock privileges. The petition claims the so called sugar trust bought rivals by selling sugar below cost, driving competitors out and consolidating undue influence. Defendants include Franklin, Spreckles, Western and California Sugar Refining companies and figures such as Horace Havemeyer and J D Spreckles. The brief argues the company is not a monopoly, noting it produces no raw sugar and faces fierce competition with about 61 percent of the sugar trade.
In Rochester New York Thomas Mc Loughlin a contractor is dead after a fall while sleep walking. His body lay on the concrete sidewalk in front of his apartments.
Washington DC February report states the custom service secret police network spanning the United States and Europe will be reorganized. Secretary MacVeagh appoints John H Wilkie, head of the United States secret service, to lead the effort.
Hurley merchant M. S. Klauber and W. S. Watrous of Austin NL drowned while crossing ice on McDermott Lake near Emerson Wisconsin. Bodies have been recovered.
Gen Jr Franklin Bell former US Army chief of staff led the younger officers at Fort Leavenworth in a ten mile steeplechase race during a visit to friends at the post.
Dublin John reports Redmonds Cork campaign ignites fierce clashes between rival factions. Dozens are injured as protests escalate in the city. Authorities scramble to restore order amid ongoing political tension.
A Caspian storm swept 300 Persian dock workers from a landing stage, dragging it away and dashing hopes for rescue. Ships sank at moorings along several coast towns and seven towns were flooded, forcing hundreds to seek refuge in hay stacks. Cold intensified misery. steamers have been dispatched to aid the victims.
Pueblo officials report a registered mail pouch said to hold 15000 dollars vanished on November 17. Inspectors work quietly to locate the sack, which was to ride the Santa Fe train east, with the exact arrival unknown. Local officials suspect theft by a party outside the postal service before the pouch reached the train.
Governor Walter Clark of Alaska delivers an energetic annual report to the secretary of the interior on the coal land situation. Amid sharp Alaska coal land debate and Ballinger-Pinchot controversy charges by Louis R. Gravis, Clark’s opinions and recommendations are presented as timely and necessary.
Tulsa jailer Larg limits prisoner religious services citing instruction from 8. L. Redmond a black preacher sentenced to 18 months for attempting to kill his wife. Jail policy endorses two services every three weeks as sufficient.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler president of the University of California leads a California delegation to Washington to advocate for a Panama Canal exposition planned for 1915. The party aims to gain federal backing and showcase regional support for the event.
A committee hearing on ocean steamship lines charged with forming a combine found no proof of any collusion or harmful plan. The inquiry examined evidence but did not establish a concrete conspiracy among the lines involved.
President Taft told his cabinet officers after reviewing the final fiscal year 1911 estimates that further, deeper reductions are needed. Heads of departments had already pushed figures to rock bottom, with Taft pointing out numerous places to trim. The cabinet session was postponed so he could study departmental estimates and push a strong message to Congress. Representative Alexander and General Bixby joined the conference, which concluded with the river and harbor bill slated to carry about 30 million in appropriations and align with the engineers’ report.
Berlin report says the coachman who aided Count Leo Tolstoy in his flight to escape death bled to death at Yasnaya Polyana. He lay beside the grave of the great author under Poverty Oak, inconsolable and believing he bore some blame for Tolstoy’s death.
The Terra Nova under Captain Robert F. Scott sails from Port Chalmers New Zealand for the Antarctic. The ship, part of the British south polar expedition, left London on June 1 and aims to reach the pole in December 1911.
In Washington D C Postmaster General Hitchcock complained about a foot high pile of letters on his desk. The missives spread across the country from individuals who had invested in get rich quick schemes promising large dividends.
The self-made tycoon John Nichelau Brown, reputedly the world’s richest boy with an estimated bank balance over 15 million dollars, personally serves coffee to laborers building the 1,000 foot sea wall at the Lime Row waterfront. He is said to handle the task daily with his own hands.
In a country church scene during Christmas preparations, Miss Dymple enters worship with an uncovered head. The rector rebukes her, noting the rule against bare heads for women. She retrieves his derby, places it on her head, and quips with playful defiance about acceptable headwear.
J Fish and Ella M Fish of Mt. Vernon Kentucky report a three month old daughter suffered severe scalp eczema. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for about five weeks the scales vanished, hair grew back, and the child recovered fully. They state no other treatment was used.
A comic exchange shows a patient asking a doctor about a tonic promising a remarkable appetite. The patient reveals a weekly intake of one soda cracker, prompting the doctor to quip that this is indeed a remarkable appetite.
A simple home treatment for rheumatism and kidney trouble is being promoted through newspapers. The plan lists Fluid Extract Dandelion, Kargon, and Syrup of Sarsaparilla with instructions to mix and shake in a bottle. The text claims the remedy strengthens kidneys, alleviates backache and weakness, and relieves frequent urination.
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