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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
1
A collage of trivia and opinions touches on Count Zeppelin and a toy aeroplane, Nansen on doomsday, wages for Argentine servants, Boni de Castellano, trees and forest fires, a cigarette saving a life, Cato’s Greek learning, Taft’s middle name, baptismal names among presidents, counterfeit five dollar bills, prudent money habits, and untouched Cuban mountain land.
A Chicago judge rules that baby carriages pushed on public ways after dark must have lighted lamps. The decision aims to reduce mortality from overspeeding carriages and improve safety for pedestrians.
The article notes Professor Zueblin endorsing inter marriage of the races and remarks on a trend of new ideas from the scholar. It also comments that he introduces another concept on a day when ideas are plentiful and temperatures have been high in fall.
The new two cent postage stamp features a profile portrait of Washington from the Houdon statue. Higher denomination stamps will follow in the series.
Zinc mining in Mexico has become important mainly in the last three years. The leading zinc deposits lie near Monterey with large mixed sulfide ore at Calera. Additional mining occurs at Tiro General in San Luis Potosi, contributing to the country's output.
Following a Danish model the National Red Cross Association of America plans special holiday stamps this year. The stamps will not be valid postage but will carry Christmas greetings and the proceeds will fund tuberculosis fighting efforts.
Stefanson reports he almost had to winter at Point Barrow for lack of matches as natives refused deeper trek with only flints and steels. He finally obtained matches from whaling vessels and continued his journey. The episode oddly underscores the era’s reliance on modern inventions even among uncivilized peoples.
The cruisers gunboats and battleships continue target practice and the official reports from the commander of naval forces in Philippine waters show excellent results. Records have been broken though figures are not yet released in Washington. The Yankee tar remains a sharpshooter aboard any craft.
The fragment cites Rufus of Ephesus advising sterilized water and claims all river and pond water is bad except Nile water. It mentions rivers through unhealthy soil and stagnant waters tied to bathing places as harmful, and asserts the best water is bolded fir baked.
The Dutch fleet off the coast of Venezuela has been granted full discretion to open fire on Venezuela. Officials deny exact plans but acknowledge a bombardment could occur if Venezuela fires on the fleet from Fortress San Carlos. The Dutch ministry of marine says they can silence shore batteries quickly.
Caracas Venezuela braces for conflict as Dutch warships position along the coast. The minister of war travels to La Guayra with 30 carloads of ammunition to ready government forces for an immediate response to any unfriendly act. Tensions rise as bombardment looms and preparations intensify nationwide.
New York reports an English writer’s attack on James E. Sullivan and Gustav Kirby could trigger an international athletic war. Sullivan and Kirby are allegedly preparing a bomb to disrupt the British camp as the English Amateur Athletic Association reacts to Sullivan’s harsh annual report to the A A U delegates.
An arrest order for P. H. Keiran head of Fidelity Funding of New York was issued Tuesday but he vanished from the New Willard hotel after packing his trunk. Catholics react with confusion as investigators probe muddled finances and creditors’ losses while Kelran withholds facts.
Wakefield Mass. Hirman L Badger suddenly went insane Tuesday and killed his two daughters Florence 15 and Catherine 7 with a revolver. He then fired on about a dozen people, wounding grocer’s clerk Fred Wheeley in the leg before fleeing. he is in jail.
President elect Taft and Speaker Cannon met for an hour and a half in Washington. At the close Taft said they had agreed to disclose details at a later time.
Paris reports a clash between doctors over autopsy spleens of M Adolphe Steinheil and Mme Japy. Dr Acheray claims surgeons swapped viscera after reopening the body, leaving the public doubtful any new findings will emerge as Mme Japy’s spleen appeared intact.
A blazing bomb was hurled at Dr Britt O Hoover a district physician enforcing quarantine on the Northwest Side. His daughter Miss Viola Hoover 18 seconds a witness helped save him as the fuse sparked and the device burned in the auto. The doctor extinguished the flame with his hand and escaped harm.
Paris reports James Gordon Bennett bought for the French Aero club an international invitation cup valued at 2500 dollars and three prizes of 5000 dollars for the first three annual competitions. Victor de Beauclair won the M Santos Dumont prize of 800 dollars for staying aloft forty eight hours, after departing Butterfield Saxony and landing at Casale Pisa, Italy, after fifty six hours.
In Omaha Nebraska the trial of Charles B. Davis proceeds with the state ready to rebut testimony from the defense. Defense closed Monday afternoon and key witness Emily Allen contradicted earlier testimony by Abbie Rice, shaping the case as it moves forward.
Norfolk reports Captain James Walter Mullers of the British steamer Horn of Newcastle says the Sargasso Sea has completely disappeared. The seaweed and drift have van ished leaving clear water. The finding has been sent to the hydrographic office in Washington.
A woman confederate guarded a prisoner who resisted joining their plan. She held a knife to his throat while three men restrained the prisoner, then all four escaped, leaving him bound and gagged. The daring jail delivery is cited as the boldest in years. posses hunt the fugitives with no trace found.
Pat Crowe the Cudahy kidnapper will lecture under the Women's Christian Temperance Union. His first address is set for Thursday night at St Mary Hall Evanston.
Treasury estimates sent to Congress list total appropriations of 824 million for next fiscal year across all departments. Major items include navy expansion 23.84 million, pensions 161.02 million, isthmian canal 35.89 million, rivers and harbors 41.94 million, and fortifications 17.26 million, with others across state, interior, post office, agriculture, commerce and labor, justice, and more.
William B. King, Golden Gate drainage district commissioner, narrowly escaped assassination when five revolver shots were fired through his bedroom window as he and wife slept. Prowlers were seen but not identified, no arrests made. King, a leader in the anti-saloon movement, is son of the late Rev. P. R. King.
A two hour old baby boy wrapped in a silk skirt was found at the door of Capt. Combs at a Salvation Army house. The temperature was ten degrees above zero. A note in the basket says the finder is a young unmarried lady who did all she could and asks care for the baby. Police seek the good family mother in Sparta.
H. P. Ingalls, longtime showman and partner of P. T. Barnum, died Sunday morning at 82. A native of Merrimee New Hampshire, he helped popularize Siamese twins, introduced Captain and Mrs Bates, and knew Tony Pastor and Dan Rice. Survived by a widow and four children.
In a large loft at 330 South Clark Street Chicago the Chicago Brotherhood of the Unemployed was formally organized. Hull House will host the next meeting Tuesday evening to outline the group's work. Robert M. Wilson known as the uncrowned king of the hoboes presided with James Eads How of St Louis assisting.
Dr. Charles E. Brown Jr., a prominent Springfield physician, was awakened by basement noises. He went to investigate with a revolver, dropped the weapon, and it discharged, shooting him in the lower body. He died Sunday.
State's Attorney W. E. Redman nolled five indictments against Felix B. Tait for forgery after a creditor petition and backing from Decatur business leaders. Tait, in hiding since June 1907, plans to emerge and open a law and real estate office, likely in Oklahoma.
Mrs Charles Myers four year marriage and mother of two shot farm hand Albert McElvers on a cemetery road. She claims honor at stake and says she shot to save herself and children from disgrace after alleging life threats from the man in secluded meetings.
Chemical expert testimony is the last resort in the Mulkeytown mystery. All sides concede that unless poison in deadly quantities is found in the body of Reuben F. Parrigh, an Illinois Central station agent who died March 11, there is no case against Dr. Benjamin F. Brayfield, indicted for his murder.
Joshua Robbins, 17, died from a gunshot wound sustained while hunting on Thanksgiving Day near Fairfield. He never regained consciousness. He was the son of the late E. K. Robbins and grandson of Rev. T. W. Dickey of Arrington Prairie.
Chicago reports Peoria county leads Illinois in divorces with one filing per four and two thirds marriages from Nov 1 1907 to Nov 1 1908. The U S census places Illinois highest nationwide with one divorce per 12 marriages.
Springfield Ill after a brief hearing Acting Gov Sherman granted Herman Billik a further reprieve until Jan 29 1909 the sixth date set for his execution Billik has been jailed over two years awaiting the fate in the murder case judgment and dates reflect a lengthy legal process
Native anarchists are believed to have blown up a magazine of ammunition at Dundum six miles from Calcutta. Eleven native soldiers were killed and twenty six injured. Detectives have been deployed to investigate.
The home of Henry H. Atwood, about 70, a pioneer of Dix Township and Fort county, burned from an unknown cause. Atwood perished in the blaze. He was a retired farmer living with a son and daughter.
The last timber removed from the old mill dam on the Little Wabash in Carmi marks the demolition of the state’s oldest dam. Built by an itinerant miller in 1812, it powered operations for over seven decades.
Mrs Maneryva Hooker aged 88 and her son Norman Hooker 68 died within minutes of each other in Vandalia while visiting the sick mother. The abrupt joint death followed her visit as both succumbed to illness and blood poisoning.
David Price of Corydon Indiana describes severe kidney trouble and weakness. One week after starting Dean's Kidney Pills he began walking without a cane and gradually recovered, remaining well for seven years. Sold by all dealers 50c a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In June a Miss Baxter classroom moment ended with a student quipping that an obelisk is something that goes in one ear and out the other. The line followed the teacher's frustrated remark about inattentive listening.
A local Atchison couple, famed for their affection, quarrel in a heat sparked by persistent sniffing during warm weather. On a porch night she hurled a stool at her husband, declaring she is not insane but exhausted by his habit of ending sentences with sniffles.
A speaker criticizes the frequent misuse of the word anxious, arguing people often say they are anxious to see a play or buy a hat when they are only eager or desirous, and asserts anxious is proper only in its correct sense.
The text asserts that rewards for a great life are found in growing power and worth, through duties nobly met and work thoroughly done. Joy and peace accompany this inner realization, not an external late achievement.
A beach town land seller urged quick purchase with warnings that most of the area could vanish within a week. The buyer notes the claim sounded like an old dodge but acknowledges the seller spoke truth as the ocean would erode the coast in chunks.
Quoted exchange from Tit Bits shows a racehorse owner pressing for weight reduction and a jockey replying he is wearing his lightest suit and has not eaten, prompting the owner to tell him to get shaved.
A New York woman relates indigestion from overly rich meals and credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her digestion. She notes the product built her strength and now allows her to eat freely, urging readers to follow the food principle and try Grape-Nuts, “There’s a Reason.”
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