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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
4
The notice lists editorial rooms on two Bell telephones with two rings numbering 56 and 66 and a business office line at No 60 Bell with one ring and No 56 again, indicating office extensions or lines for publishing staff.
Random local notices list the 25th B R T annual ball on Jan 22 1909. Crime items report warrants for Bramlett Metinire Garrett Robbery of Frank Goff valued at 340 dollars cash and a 50 dollar watch. Additional brief items cover relief fund planning Italian deportation case and Union Pacific track expansion near Greeley and Pierce.
Officials of the Southern Pacific report a landslide a few miles east of Apple Gate in the Sierras delaying all eastbound trains indefinitely. A repair crew has been dispatched. Rain and snow are affecting the mountains with Reno seeing rain for 24 hours and a change to snow with bitter wind later.
Advice for treating cut or angle worms in houseplants suggests adding a drop or two of ammonia to the watering water or placing a few pieces of tobacco leaves in the soil to deter pests.
A reflective note on social harmony urging focus on others rather than self. It counsels turning to literature when relationships stumble and emphasizes empathy as a path to better interactions.
Utah Light & Railway Co crews work day and night to restore the major water pipeline after a rock slide damaged Telluride and Grace circuits. 18 men labored three days straight, removing iron bands from staves to replace defective sections and resume full power supply, with Ogden and Provo still down.
New York date James J Hill returns from extensive inspection tour of the Great Northern system and declares there is wealth in the country. He notes uneven recovery but expects a healthy revival this spring and highlights rising business and especially westward building activity.
A farmer’s rhyme lists various animals and what they allegedly gain from eating corn. The goose grows feathers, horse hair, cow milk, hog fat, sheep wool, and a man grows tired of eating corn, doing nothing else.
A wedding held Thursday evening at Mr. and Mrs. A Topones home joined Katherine Topones and Albert F. Trask of Evanston Wyoming. Rev G W McCreery officiated the ceremony. After a banquet, relatives sent the couple to Evanston where Trask will start a home. Trask, formerly from Ogden, is a passenger fireman on the Union Pacific.
Rome Jan 21 Stormy weather in the earthquake zone worsens afflictions of refugees. Work on Yur erection delayed as mud floods the Messina area. Earth shocks keep panic alive. In Pamli a column of aspharie gas drains surrounding woods. Americans Charles King Wood and Harry Bowdoin say wood for shelters is scarce and praise Red Cross aid amid Italian relief efforts. Bowdoin notes shelters are needed for thousands.
Missoula Mont Jan 21 120 feet of Northern Pacific track washed out at Edy 1 miles west of town halting through train service for about 12 hours. East of Missoula the river rises with yards at Garrison flooded and two pile bridges washed out on the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound line between Garrison and Bonner.
Winnipeg report says Canadian Pacific will start spring construction toward a Weyburn to Lethbridge route, a 400 mile segment toward a transcontinental line. Montreal note: $1,000,000 approved for westward extensions from Fort William, including an 80 mile Lethbridge to Calgary leg, to be spent this year. A state visit gala in Ottawa honored the secretary of state with Japanese ambassador Bar oness Takahara in attendance.
In fervid terms he professed love she demanded a man of deeds not words. The next day he delivered deeds for examination by her father's lawyer to prove worth and prospects.
Peru's chief agricultural region lies in a chain of fertile parallel valleys along the coast extending about 1 800 miles from the Andes, with widths varying from 26 to 75 miles across the territory.
Died this morning at his residence in South Weber Utah Wyo J Jones oldest resident of the place born March 25 1895 to South Wales he came to South Weber forty seven years ago death caused by general debility survived by three daughters thirteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren funeral services at 2 pm Sunday from the residence with interment in Uintah cemetery
Horn reports the wife of Roy Decker gave birth to a ten pound girl at six o'clock last evening. Mother and baby are doing well.
Miss Bronisiowa Tsponder tells how she escaped from Hoya Lubiesz a former priest who lured her with a music teaching promise and kept her confined for two months. Lubiesz, linked to an orphan asylum and alleged church role, faces criminal charges after being sent to Chicago for trial. Tsponder’s father had sent money that never reached her.
Denver Jan 22 The State Railroad Commission at a rehearing in the case G Gerber versus Union Pacific reiterates its right to regulate the state terminal facilities. The commission directs Union Pacific to receive freight promptly from connecting lines and deliver it.
The silkworm native to China produced silk threads. For thousands of years China kept silkworm eggs from leaving the country. About 600 years ago two monks reportedly brought a few eggs to Europe hidden in canes. It is now domesticated with females nearly wingless and males barely lifting off the ground.
An Ogden drug firm touts Rexall Muco Tone as a catarrh remedy that reaches the stomach and blood, claims 98 percent cure record, and offers the medicine free if not effective after a reasonable trial. It stresses health benefits, appetite and digestion support, and invites all residents to try it at The T. A. Carr Drug Co. at 25th and Grant.
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