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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1912
Page
2
A rambling column of satirical snippets touches on finance, flora, politics, crime, and daily life. It references Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Vanderbilt, governors, Boston markets, Minnesota and Maryland curiosities, Martian canals, a chicken swallowing a diamond, and a playful jab at marriage rings. The tone is wry and miscellany with no single news hook.
Pu Yi the child emperor of the Manchu dynasty abdicates after three centuries on the throne. The republic pledges to respect the emperor, grant 4 million taels annually until currency reform, later 4 million Mexican dollars, and retain noble ranks and rights for ethnic groups. Sun Yat Sen not yet mentioned. legations to deal unofficially until cabinet forms.
Aviator George W Beatty struggles with Mrs. William A Dunlap high above Aln-Lands as engine freezes, forcing a perilous 1000 foot descent. After landing safely, Mrs Dunlap declares no treasure would tempt her to again ride in a tying machine.
In Cleveland Frank Rockefeller testified before Judge Levin that he had not spoken to his brother John D Rockefeller for twelve years. He also urged the family name be pronounced Rockefeller with emphasis on the second syllable to differentiate from John D. Rockefeller. Frank faced a civil suit filed by his chauffeur Samuel Fried for 438 dollars.
Mme Lillun Nordica, famed soprano, is reported seriously ill in her Boston hotel with acute neuritis. Doctors will not admit her finding. The sudden attack forced soprano Gadski to substitute as Isolde in New York, despite a sprained ankle from a recent Metropolitan Opera performance.
Washington report states the Ways and Means Committee released the Democratic chemical and drug tariff bill. It lowers ad valorem duties about 21 percent but expects a revenue increase of 3.63 million dollars over the current fiscal year. The measure raises duties on perfumes soaps and other luxuries while cutting duties on drugs and commonly used materials. It moves many items from the free list to the tariff schedule and predicts a first year import increase of about 96.7 million dollars for chemicals, with total duties estimated at 16.1 million compared with 12.67 million under the 1911 Payne Act.
London announces a worldwide coal boycott as a key part of the British miners strike program. American miners will be urged to join the effort to pressure British dealers.
In Viterbo Italy Judge Dianch ordered the release of twenty two Camorristi who had served five years the maximum sentence for association with criminals. The decision frees men previously jailed on charges tied to criminal association.
Senator Heyburn, chairman of the subcommittee that probed fraud in the Wisconsin senator’s election, announced the Stephenson case will be taken up in the Senate on March 20. Senator Lea of Tennessee objected to the advance date before the minority report is filed, but Heyburn did not yield. Several supporters of the minority report are away from the city.
London reports the death of Joseph Lister a renowned surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Born April 26 1827 at Upton Essex he served as professor at Glasgow Edinburgh and King's College London and became famed for his antiseptic treatment system.
Washington report says the Lorimer investigating committee will begin its report on March 23 and Judge Hanecy, Lorimer’s chief counsel, has until March 1 to file a plea arguing the senate as judge cannot reopen its past ruling. The committee dropped contempt charges against Milton Blumenberg who apologized for the Sheridan shorthand notes matter.
In Butte Montana the filing of a suit by the Butte Mill and Smelter men’s union to stop revoking its charter sets a state record with seven hundred members named as plaintiffs. The action targets the Western Federation of Miners Charles H Moyer the federation’s president and the Butte Miners’ union.
William J. Boener former organizer of Chicago Typographical union No. 16 stands trial before Judge Michael L. McKinley for the murder of Rush W. Denon a non union printer in Chicago proceedings detail the case and charges.
Washington Senator introduces a resolution to amend the constitution fixing the president and vice president terms at six years and barring reelection. The proposal seeks to redefine term limits and eligibility for the nation’s top offices.
The United States government arrests 41 of 54 indicted in the dynamite conspiracy case. Officials from the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, including president Frank M. Ryan and VPs John T. Butler and Herbert S. Hockin, are among those seized in multiple cities. Each defendant posts a $10,000 bond for arraignment on March 12. Additional arrests hit locals in Chicago Detroit Milwaukee and other cities, with many named officers and agents charged in the nationwide crackdown.
In Brownsville Pennsylvania four degrees below zero temperatures did not deter believers at Mount Zion AME Church. During a revival they immersed seventy seven converts in the Monongahela River after a large ice cut opened a thirty by forty foot square.
Washington reports the Senate pensions committee rejected the Sherwood dollar a day bill and adopted Smoot’s $24 million annual substitute. Smoot and Sherwood proposals clash over cost with 12 to 2 and 10 to 4 votes after Kinyon of Iowa protests on the Senate floor. Smoot’s scale grants monthly pensions rising with age and service, up to 30 dollars for a veteran with three or more years after age 75.
President Taft withdrew Cornelius P. Swain's nomination to be United States marshal for Delaware after hearings into a 1904 vote-buying scandal. Attorney General Wickersham recommended the action as witnesses testified Swain funded bribery with $3,000 from Du Pont Powder Works in Wilmington, used in Bridgeville to pay voters 10 dollars to whites and 5 dollars to Black citizens, with an extra $1,000 on election day.
The wreck of the Maine, sunk February 16, 1898, is afloat within a cofferdam in Havana harbor. Water filled the old hull, now sealed by the dam walls and about fourteen feet below low tide. Visitors thronged the dam to watch refloating. none boarded the ship for safety. Major Ferguson oversees the work and awaits Washington orders to move the vessel.
Attorney General George W. Wickersham spoke at a People's forum on The Administration of Federal Justice. He outlined fundamental government principles and the justice department’s role in enforcing laws, noting that a speedy certain punishment would deter crime, and criticizing the technical federal procedure as freer from escape than many states.
Herbert Dh ble, conductor of an excursion train, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the July 28 collision with a Bangor & Aroo stock train at Grindstone, killing nine. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500. London reports Anglo-German pact progress as Asquith notes a German hint at a British minister visit. Viscount Haldane was sent to Berlin as a result.
By a decision of Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor, Mrs. Schule Lipschitz and her deaf and dumb daughter of Rus'ala will be allowed to visit their family in Chicago for six months under a $1,000 bond.
A large blaze in Humble Texas leveled four business blocks and several residences. The incident caused extensive damage to structures and prompted emergency response crews to work overnight. The report notes a high property loss with a loan value cited at around 160,000 dollars.
A careful canvass of farmers shows that even with high harvest costs due to bad weather and threshing, wheat can be produced and sold for under 66 cents a bushel. Freight adds about 18 cents, totaling 68 cents to farmers, yielding modest margins on low and high grade wheat. The report outlines a detailed cost table for an 820 acre operation, including interest, equipment, seed, and harvesting, projecting eight year economics and a net balance of 2,663 dollars per year.
Dan Anthony of Kansas once gave a boy a broken typewriter to learn reporting. The boy wrote the same line repeatedly, filling page after page, practicing with the sentence Who the invented school.
Booth Tarkington jokes about his simple life in Indianapolis dining with the English playwright Bennett. He proposes a ten mile six o'clock walk. Bennett replies he does not walk in his sleep.
A witty Puck caption contrasts a question about the Sphinx’s meaning with American tourists and a remark that many congressmen return home in a similar puzzled fashion. The item captures the magazine's humor and political sting.
A fragment notes a late night exchange about the lights going out and a warning to not let it repeat itself in a terse, atmospheric line. The dialogue hints at danger or tension in a moody setting.
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