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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
5
Livestock agent George A. Hawkes meets officials to confirm ad submissions for the next day's Evening Standard publication.
Hyome declares nature’s remedy using vaporized air from eucalyptus in inland Australia. Users inhale through a rubber inhaler sold with the kit. Badeon's Pharmacy guarantees cure or money back. Price set at $1.00 with extra bottles at 10 cents. claims target catarrh asthma sore throat bronchitis croup.
The priest Anston was killed in Ogden amid factional debt disputes within the church. Police say opposition to Father Ansion grew after his assignment by Bishop O Connor and reports claim he was collecting funds for a new church, triggering threats and a fatal attack.
A medical endorsement promotes DeMiracle as the best solution for unwanted hair growth. Dr Rhodes praises its effectiveness across many cases and assures a money back guarantee if claims are not met. The company offers a free booklet and mails the product for $1.00, with distributors listed in New York and local sale through W. H. Wright & Sons.
The State of Utah summons defendants Hannah Metzler Joseph Metzler Milton Metzler Irving S Metzler and Metzler Investment Company to appear within twenty days after service if in county or thirty days otherwise to defend the quit title action brought by S Farnsworth. The complaint filed with the Clerk of the Ogden City court.
An ordinance authorizes the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company to construct and maintain a spur railroad track on Twentieth Street in Ogden Utah spanning about 180 feet from the Becker Brewing spur east to Riverside Avenue. The right of way extends until June 27 1933 or until the prior franchise expires, with Exhibit A map detailing the line.
A local advertisement promotes buying and selling pure bred chickens along with incubators brooders and eggs for hatching. It lists two phone numbers for contact.
The ad warns of incurable dyspepsia seen in a famous offer and promotes Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets as a guaranteed cure. It promises relief from indigestion by restoring digestive power and invites both in-store and mail orders from The T. H. Carr Drug Co. at 25th and Grant for 25 cents.
Captain Thomas and a companion explored a newly discovered cavern on W mountain near Standish New York. They entered about 1000 feet but did not determine the cave's full extent. The mouth is fifty feet wide and the first chamber measures about fifty by twenty by thirty feet with abundant bats and sulphur.
Short excerpt reports vegetation and a base of a ravine near a stream. The text notes no opening at the base and mentions streams in the area, with several unfinished words indicating an incomplete field report.
Woodmen of the World prepares initiation Thursday evening March in Kaysville and Loran camp participation. Members and visiting members are invited. Sam Kline of Company E is named.
A bedraggled man named Jake Draper asked for thirty days in jail to “get straightened out.” Magistrate Joseph P. Fitch, moved by the plea and memories, instead doubled the term to two months, hoping better weather and employment aid his recovery. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised at the end.
Washington March 10 through James H McKenney the clerk of the U S supreme court Taft kissed the open Bible after swearing to bear true and loyal duties McKenney held the book for the oath and Taft bowed in reverent contact with the sacred text at the moment the Third chapter of First Kings was opened.
The passage opens with Solomon asking for an understanding heart to judge his people, discerning good from bad. It notes the prayer’s unselfish nature and the claim that it was answered because of that selfless character.
Preparations for pole setting begin as arrivals from Idaho reach Ogden. A large crew paints poles with turbolaum, then crews will install them under the consulting engineer’s specifications this week. Steel poles will line Ogden streets. wooden poles used elsewhere. new 42 seat electric cars 65 mph similar to California interurbans. Simon Bamberger, company president, will depart for Chicago later this week to place orders.
The article discusses contracts for cars and supplies to convert the road to an electric system. It mentions decisions with the consulting engineer on a power plant plan. A large steam shovel widens the adjacent ditch and file trenches as two trains move material, with continued filling and work along the valley. Foremen oversee all branches and progress is described as satisfactory.
Gifford Pinchot chief of the U S forest service plans a visit to Ogden around March to inspect the western section and Met to discuss plans for the Intermountain area He will be banqueted by the Weber club and meet local leaders and grange members He may also give a public speech outlining department plans in the West.
Readers learn of forestry questions across the state and the anticipated gains from the opera Nona presented by the forestry department. The piece notes Ogden as a hopeful site, calling the venture pleasant and profitable with eager expectation.
Chicago March 10 Sidney Kahn Weller a Democratic candidate for Alderman will have a woman's auxiliary to aid his campaign. The movement started after primary day and now has more than two hundred members. Women sympathizers will meet Sunday to devise ways to further this candidacy with Mrs. A C Loeb presiding.
In Santa Monica California Electa Hewkins 21 and Varnum Wescott 83 wed yesterday at Santa Monica Wescott an inmate of Sawtelle Soldiers Home and Mrs Wescott's father The veteran groom courted the bride for some time and remains active and healthy despite the age gap
Edward Plerca, a pitcher recently signed by the Decatur team of the Three league, was electrocuted at Gary steel mills yesterday. Twenty two thousand volts of electricity passed through him, killing him instantly. From Worcester Ohio, he had worked at the mills since last fall and played for the Dubuque team of the same league last season.
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