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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1909
Page
4
J W Burnham files suit against Okla to recover a note and cash from a mining stock deal. Suit seeks collection of a November 18 note for 3000 shares of Southern Pacific Gold Copper Mining company stock with $450 involved, $200 paid in cash, and a remaining balance via note.
A mix of notes covers property transfers, lecture events by Wim and Miss Hunter, a Chinaware giveaway during Electric display, and musical programs at the Congregational church. Other items report a heavy Wyoming storm delaying Union Pacific trains, coastal business quietness, Portland boom, and railroad personnel changes along with a Greek consul intervention amid regional tensions.
The Clipped column notes a reception with Toph er Burton and several representatives plus ladies before traveling via No. 9 to Ogden. Local ads promote Grass Creek lump coal at Castle Gate and Clear Creek, and the Falstaff stage features McMillan and Mansfeld performing banjo and guitar with booth reservations urged. Kodak finishing and coal companies are listed in regional ads.
Marriage notices list Joseph T. Graham of Corinne and Marion C. Butts of Chicago as a couple, along with Orson Iraclson and Jennie M. Allen both of Hyrum, each issued marriage licenses.
The two month old Grace Perkins daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Perkins died of pneumonia Sunday afternoon at their Eden home. Funeral services were at the Eden meeting house at 1 pm with interment in Eden cemetery. John M Bybee funeral held at Uintah meeting house at 2 pm with interment in Uintah cemetery. Esther White wife of George W White of 108 Twenty eighth street funeral at Fifth ward meeting house at 2 pm with interment in Ogden city cemetery.
Alder Creek Irrigation Company files articles of incorporation via attorney Joseph Chez to absorb and control the Alder Creek system serving North Ogden and Pleasant View. Capital set at 180 shares of 100 each, board of directors Storey Maycock and Jensen, 16 stockholders, corporate life 100 years.
Opha Moore recalls Governor McKinley not a musician yet with a smooth voice and fondness for simple hymns. She shares how, while staff worked, he softly hummed familiar Methodist tunes from his private office, a comforting memory from his Ohio governorship.
The text describes highly sensitive plants that react instantly to sudden umbrella or shade. On warm sunny days, shadows touching their leaves can cause them to fold leaflets and drop leaf stalks, as if startled by movement.
The Huntsville Dramatic Company presented Acaped From the Law at the Grand last evening before a sizable audience. Adam L. Peterson as General Murleigh was the standout, with Elizabeth Peterson Nanette and George E. Ferrin as Michael Hatfield delivering strong turns. Lite Bela Senade, five, drew praise for her excellent performance, while Ellen Berlin’s Widow Dalroy was well received. the piece showcased amateur discipline and highlighted the differences from professional productions.
In a busy municipal court session the docket was cut short by a small pox case at the jail and quarantine. E T Withers and A B Lehman pleaded guilty to vagrancy and each drew sixty days, while Cap tain Brown received the same sentence. Others paid fines or forfeited bonds for leaving teams tied or disturbing the peace. A number of vagrant women and upscale bordellos forfeited their bonds by not appearing.
A man traveling from Salt Lake with a one year old child at Ogden Union Depot claims his wife deserted them to stay with her lover. He suspects deception, plans to return to Salt Lake, and asks depot staff to notify the wife if she arrives. He withholds his name for now and describes the wife as about 22 and attractive.
Railroad officials from Southern Pacific Oregon Short Line Union Pacific and Rio Grande begin assembling extra coaches and baggage cars at Ogden to meet a surge of homeseekers after March 1 when reduced rates for sixty days go into effect. Trains from Rio Grande will feed SP and Short Line services and Ogden will flood with east south and central west travelers as the colonist movement peaks. A Weber County products exhibit might draw attention in the Ogden depot waiting room.
The New York Zoological Park leads global parks with 4 084 mammals birds reptiles and amphibians on exhibit. Berlin follows with 3 149. The park covers 264 acres with eight miles of paths and ten percent miles of fencing. The maintenance staff totals 141. In 1907 visitors reached 1 273 046, about one third of the metropolis population, with roughly a quarter of a million coming from outside New York City.
A Washington scene shows a smiling Italian demystifying a crank turning act by noting the monk-like timing. The tale reflects on older courting rituals and comic misunderstandings from Harper's Weekly and Toledo Blade about elopements and barriers to romance.
Mrs Ida Crouch Hazlett of Montana prominent socialist speaker will lecture at the county courthouse starting February 24 2026. Sessions begin at 6 o'clock each evening Wednesday Thursday and Friday with clear exposition of socialism and its economic subjects.
The recipe describes making apple jelly with quinces grapes or peaches to add flavor and body. Use equal parts peach and apple skins cores and stones then cook with water until tender strain return to heat add sugar and boil briefly before bottling in sterilized glasses.
A bride-to-be frets about growing up and fashion as she reflects on fittings for a walking gown. The tailor asks when her school opens while she notes the frock is part of her trousseau.
A narrator laments life in the country as hard labor with little intellectual enrichment and rent anxiety. He claims escape from urban toil is possible, asserting a preference for country living, frugal food, and simple pleasures under God’s sunshine.
In a touring car a sentimental maid asks if love makes the world go round. The practical young man doubts that but adds that gasoline makes wheels move on a grade, and the sun turns to watch the scenery.
Mrs Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, at luncheon in New York, recalls the city after 20 years away. She says New York now ranks with world capitals and has the weariness and vice of Paris London and Rome. She notes critics’ view of youthfulness as foolish and parodies Lord Exe’s attempt to act young.
The piece recalls Day of Sandford and Merton debating mercy toward a spider in a tale with Sir William Jones. It parallels a hypothetical superior power commanding killing a lawyer, arguing lawyers are less deserving of slaughter than a spider.
Dr Mason, a prominent physician, falls gravely ill away from home in an Oregon town. He seeks nursing care and balks at a volunteer nurse until the widow of the town’s late physician rehearses her family nursing service and declares, I buried my husband, I nursed my father. He concedes, I want to live.
A quoted New York Press remark recalls a stylish exchange in Van Cortlandt Park where a sprightly companion explains golf while the lazy speaker quips about the sport. The dialogue highlights vanity and curiosity as they observe golfers on the links.
South Russia holds valuable minerals including rock salt coal coprolites kaolin sands for glass making manganese and iron ores. Iron ore is especially important being phosphorus free with little sulfur.
The passage laments contradictions in ethics and religion citing peace through armaments and liberty by law, artificial breeding, trust in credit, and charity that denies beggars. It cites Prof William James and Hibbert Journal, urging radical doubt and self renunciation as paths to virtue.
Reports tell of a hunter ghost and a white horned rider seen on moonlit Lisbon road near Sunny Crest farm. Villagers fearful as the apparition knocks and vanishes into old Revolutionary woods, tied to legends of Cap'n and Mainette district hauntings.
The Single Gal Standard Mining & Milling Company of Oeden City West Virginia issues a delinquency notice for stock on which assessments were levied January 13. The notice lists shareholder names and amounts due, with instruction to contact Secretary George Halverson at 402 Eccles Building for payment by March 5, along with advertising costs and sale expenses.
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