22 May 1909
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
1
A collection of quips and observations spanning suffrage, currency designs, policing, and wartime rhetoric. It comments on the pace of social change, London and American concerns, and a claim by Fort Washington Maryland on mortar accuracy. It closes with a nod to future naval caution as ships sharpen gunnery.
An American firm is to be formed to finance an oceanic Kidd treasure hunt. The note laments widespread ignorance of early U S history after exams claimed Grant and Farragut led British forces in the revolution. The piece hints at a push to assign teachers and officials to improve students’ historical knowledge.
New York taxicabs are expanding, and proprietors seek higher charges that traffic will bear. The public appears surprised yet curious as fares are tested to maximize revenue, signaling a shift in urban transport economics and rider expectations.
The article notes a presidential visit alongside senior officials to sites of brutal Civil War clashes. Dignitaries tour battlefields, assess scars of conflict, and discuss commemorative actions and reconciliation efforts amid ongoing national tension.
President Taft and a high level delegation including Gov. Stuart Ambassador Jusserand and officials visit Fort Steadman and Fort Mahon in Petersburg to dedicate a $50,000 Civil War monument to the Ninth Army Corps. The trip emphasizes reconciliation as Taft plans to attend Mecklenburg declaration festivities in Charlotte that night.
Jesse Scott, 22, farmer near Cleveland Mississippi, confessed to killing W L Embrey after his lover Mrs Embrey urged him to act. He led the elder man to a cypress swamp near the Parker plantation and shot him four times in the back, stole money and a watch, and handed them to Mrs Embrey. Both suspects were jailed in Indianola as gossip swirled about an illicit romance.
Nairobi reports Col Theodore Roosevelt killed the biggest female rhinoceros in years after a dramatic pursuit on McMillan's ranch. Mounted hunting, six missed shots, seventh shot felled the animal weighing heavy hide and head around 400 pounds. locals nicknamed Kermit Roosevelt “Bwana Mtoto” and family terms.
Jacksonville Mississippi reports that two companies of troops and a 200 strong posse hunt for Tom Atkinson an escaped convict in Winston county. Atkinson defies authorities warning of shooting any intruders prompting military dispatch and a tearful farewell as dangerous mission begins.
In Linton Indiana sixteen year old Guy Ellison was killed and his father Daniel Ellison was seriously burned in a powder blast at the Little Giant mine. Miner Frank Guiester was fatally wounded perhaps as sparks from Guiester’s torch ignited a keg of powder and triggered another keg in the workroom.
In Constantinople eighty women from Abdul Hamid’s harem, richly dressed and veiled, were moved from the Yildiz to the ancient seraglio palace, escorted by four eunuchs and cavalry. Curious bystanders were kept away as the Yildiz is prepared for public admission. Most of the former sultan’s slaves have been freed.
Viscount Sone leads farewell from Seoul as Korea’s cabinet assumes control without direct Japanese supervision for the first time in two years after a sudden summons sends him to Tokyo. No public display accompanied the departure due to lack of prior notice.
Reverend W C Barber, superintendent of the Iowa Anti-saloon League, announced in Council Bluffs that the league will abandon efforts to reinstate constitutional prohibition in Iowa. He added a campaign to repeal the Mulet law at the next legislature, keeping the current prohibitory statute in force.
Liverpool chamber of commerce urges the board of agriculture to remove immediately the embargo on live cattle from the Argentine Republic due to shortages of American and Canadian cattle landing at Birkenhead and allegations the United States withholds supplies to raise prices.
St. Petersburg dispatch says Japan will send a warship to the Bering Sea due to repeated seizures of Japanese vessels, the move reported by a Tokio publisher.
Muskogee Oklahoma. The Muskogee and Bartlesville teams of the Western Baseball association were arrested during the game here for playing on Sunday. They posted bond and resumed the game. They will be tried today.
Paris officials announce the postal strike is largely over with about 400 workers still out and expected to return soon. The move signals a rapid settlement and restoration of normal mail service in the French capital.
Washington lawmakers clash over a privilege resolution to place Jefferson Davis portrait on the Mississippi battleship silver service. Editorials read provoke laughter as the matter halts with a quorum shortfall on the Philippine tariff bill. Burleson’s resolution seeks AG information on the U S Steel Tennessee Coal deal to protect public interests.
Deputy U S Marshal Bacon seized five million feet of lumber six saw mills and other property of the Pine Hill Walker Hopkins Lumber outfits and smaller concerns under writs from the United States district court. J M Mueller a department of interior agent led the probe into the timber reservation abuses with a final Mueller report due next week.
Austin Texas H Clay Pierce of Waters-Pierce Oil company remains under indictment for false swearing and perjury tied to the companys readmission to do business in Texas. The trial was continued until the September term by agreement of counsel.
Judge Riner in federal court dismissed fraud charges brought by government agents against Diamond Coal and Coke company. The suits sought to compel restoration of several hundred acres of coal land in Uinta county alleged to have been obtained by fraud.
Venezuelan decree orders the disinterment of General Antonio Paredes, the revolutionary leader executed in 1907 allegedly on Castro's orders. The body will be transported to Caracas to be greeted with military honors.
Paris reporters say the Postal employes leaders admitted at a mass meeting they had bluffing all along and that no outside unions were ready or willing to strike, leaving the local effort uncertain and unresolved.
Announcement from Pittsburg cites 35000 iron and steel workers with HQs here and nearby will see wage raises averaging ten percent. The increase applies to wages starting June first or July first.
The British steamer Carn Marth of 1059 tons ran on Auderville rocks near Cherbourg and sank. All crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was of 1059 tons burden.
A blunt bookstore quip imagines a hurried shopper seeking a fitting gift for her husband. The clerk, steering away from sports or trashy or heavy genres, suggests a novelty title about operating a talking machine, highlighting the clash between taste and brisk shopping in a light moral vignette.
A wandering agent asks Remus about fads in Dixie while Remus sits on a porch mending fishing lines. The agent asks about collecting fads and Remus replies with a grim, racist joke about collecting “pickaninnies en dogs,” revealing a dated discriminatory stereotype.
At a small country boarding-house the girls proposed a mutual benefit town hall event this past summer. They would cover half the hall, music, and refreshments costs while the men paid the other half. The refreshment chair urged accuracy, promising the girls would supply the sugar and the men would bring the lemons.
Dr Maurice Fishberg states that deaths from tuberculosis among Jews are one third those of non Jewish neighbors in the same urban environment. He attributes this resilience and general sickness immunity to two thousand years of urban dwelling which has hardened them to withstand more than their neighbors.
Oliver Wendell Holmes warns that basing ethics on negative virtues alone leads to a hollow character. He stresses abstaining from sin without also embracing active benevolence and sympathy as essential nourishment for virtue.
A minister's wife describes coffee addiction during nurse training and early marriage. She details sleepless night rounds, bilious attacks, reliance on coffee, then switches to Postum. Within a year she reports clearer thoughts, steadier nerves, and no bilious episodes, endorsing Postum as a breakfast beverage.
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