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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
3
Advertises two exhibitions at Oxford tomorrow with a street parade and formal shows. Highlights include palace car trains, lavish harness and costumes, and patrons wearing formal attire as part of the high quality spectacle. Doors open early with performances starting later in the afternoon.
An enviable family record from South Weber shows Jr. Watts visiting his brother DB Watts in Kanoeh Buillard county. Patriarch DB Watts just celebrated his eighty first birthday and remains hale. He has fourteen children and 61 direct descendants totaling 101 offspring. J N Watts, South Weber representative, is father of thirteen children aged 66. Elder sister Elizabeth Ife, 77, of Providence, Cache county, is mother of eighteen.
The record names Mrs Lacy Miles aged 72 Sra Phoeba Jones aged 74 and Eliza Ann Heloap as part of a line describing large families. The Watts family traveled from Iowa with the Aaron Johnson company in 1850 and first settled in Ogden.
Claude A. Dee sued The San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad alleging negligence in transporting a shipment of horses to Los Angeles. Judge awarded verdict for the plaintiff Des, who charged the railroad with causing the loss of two horses and injuries to many others by failing to provide food or water during the shipment from Salt Lake to Los Angeles.
Koldeseyn purchases the sporting goods department of the L Mi Decraftators at Twenty fourth street and Grant avenue and will continue the business at that location. Beeraft retains the automobile and bicycle repair shop and will devote time to agricultural intervals. Koldewyn, the new sporting goods dealer, is associated with William A Koldewyn and has worked with Becraft for nine years. He plans a full interior remodel and to expand sporting goods and accessories stock.
London dispatch reports a violent earthquake at Caltanissetta Sicily causing about 300 deaths. The shock occurred at a sulfur mine in the Sicilian capital of the Steitan province, a city with over 30 000 inhabitants.
Joseph A. Mesa, formerly a defense sner of Ogden Rapid Transit and Ogden Logan Idaho Railway, leaves for Oregon to resume duties as chief engineer of the Bumpter Valley railroad. He severed ties with the Northern Utah Electric Road due to health but will rejoin as right of way agent and directed surveys for extensions into the timber country.
With war rumblings fading, local politics heat up as candidates prepare. Deputy Sheriff George W. Leatham announces his run for the Republican nomination for Weber County Sheriff, citing extensive law enforcement experience.
Elva Woodcock petitions for an order compelling Lloyd Woodcock to show cause for nonpayment of alimony. The contempt charge is scheduled Friday at 10 o'clock before the district judge, with Margaret Moyes Richardson versus Leatie Richardson case also on the docket to determine alimony owed.
Senator William Craig and J. G. Barnes with Utah Cannery Association members met Governor Spry and State Food Inspector Heber Smith to request six cannery inspectors. They would examine fruit and vegetables at delivery to factories and compel factories to comply with pure food and sanitation laws. The committee will submit the request to the State Board of Health soon.
Chicago July 6 The formal program for the Prohibition national convention at St Paul Minn July 19 21 was issued from the national committee. A preconvention conference will assemble July 18 to unite reform forces under a new banner. National Chairman Wheell Hinshaw will open the convention on Wednesday July 19 and feature speeches by leaders from Kentucky Boston and California with a welcome by St Paul Mayor Irvin.
In this assortment fabrics cost 29c a yard for many silks and cottons and mixes. Some pieces are 32 inches wide and worth 48c a yard, including silk bordered voile flouncing and silk marquisettes. Many patterns are sport stripes dots and checks. Be here early for first choice.
Delegates gather in the Masonic temple for a public mass meeting led by James K. Woerten dyke with a 700-voice chorus. Former Governor Sulzer and other notable figures will address the audience. The program includes reports, platform discussions, and a college oratorical contest. Morning sessions in the YWCA auditorium prepare the permanent structure of the federation and campaign planning.
An advertisement touts instant bunion relief with a rolloff product claiming to reduce inflammation and swelling after use. It cites customer praise and recommends purchase from A. Mefntrro Drug Co at Erectes Building, noting notable improvements for several users.
London dispatches report that the former German cruiser Bren Jan, renamed Midulla, joined the Turkish naval service on the Black Sea. It approached Sotehy and sank a trailing vessel after hoisting the Turkish flag. Off Vardar it destroyed a transport torpedoed the day before by a Turkish submarine. In a separate scene a grieving mother prays as a child’s fate unfolds, contrasting grim war news with a personal moment.
Nogales Arizona July 6 Two regiments of California Infantry the Fifth and Seventh under Col Hunt and Col Schrether arrive during the night to bolster forces plus Connecticut Cavalry DB troop under Capt Davis and a small aide corps. Brigadier General Robert Wankow jaye is expected today with brigade headquarters field ambulance and signal corps.
A crowded cathedral interior shows contrast between the harsh urban glare outside and the hushed sacred space inside. A poor couple kneels near the back, the woman crying as the man hesitates to give salvational aid, fearing the baby’s death without help.
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