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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1909
Page
3
A dense collection of kitchen guidance on preserving jam making soap for fabrics removing jar lids and cleaning methods, plus notes on bouillon biscuits pies and flavorful tweaks. Reads like practical tips from a vintage household guide with multiple recipes and cautions.
New York and New Jersey celebrate the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad opening as the first train runs through the bore at 10 am. Crowds cheer with whistles and bombs signaling the milestone. W. A. McAdoo leads the event with governors and officials in attendance. Harriett McAdoo lights the Jersey City tunnel fire and presses the power button.
Thirteen crewmen died when the British submarine C 11 sank after a collision with the cargo steamer Eddystone about four and a half miles northwest of the Harbors lightship. Only three survived. The cruiser Bonaventure and eight submarines were in the area. C 17 collided with C 11 during evasive maneuvers but caused no fatalities. The sunken vessel rests in fifteen fathoms of water.
Mohamed Ali of Persia was dethroned on Friday and crown prince Sultan Ahmed Mirza proclaimed shah by the national assembly in Tehran's parliament square. Mohamed Ali sought refuge at the Russian legation in Zerzende, protected by Cossacks and sepoys. Azad ul Mulk was named regent as Sipahdar became minister of war and Tehran governor.
Sequel to a Minnesota theft reports $20,000 stolen from Mrs. A. J. Shea of Eveleth and found in Seattle six weeks later. Her husband, Mr. Shea, faced contempt for failing to pay $6,000 on a $20,000 judgment to attorney J. L. Washburn. Police doubted the tale until $15,000 was said to be returned and Shea was jailed after not meeting supplemental court orders.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Pierce approves a right of way for Prairie Oil and Gas Company to lay an eight inch pipeline from Tulsa County through Glennpool to the Oklahoma Arkansas state line. The decision follows Bailinger amendments to air and gas regulations removing certain contractual clauses.
President Taft issued a formal statement after a White House meeting with lawmakers from both parties arguing for a low tariff. He emphasized obedience to Republican pledges, stressed evidence over district interest, and endorsed a general downward revision while allowing limited increases where needed.
The notice reports 490 000 applications expected for lands in the Coeur d'Alene Spokane and Flathead Indian reservations. Spokane alone may see 7 000 applications with Coeur d Alene Idaho possibly higher. An estimated 100 000 men and women will file for lands, with many applying to all three reservations, totaling about 400 000 by August 6. About 15 000 to 20 000 applications come from veteran soldiers and sailors. One applicant in fifteen is expected to receive a bonus or benefit.
State's Attorney John Pallissard announced he would seek the death penalty for four defendants in the murder of banker John Byron Sayler. The case centers on Dr. W R Miller, Mrs. Lucy Sayler, John Grunden, and Ira Grunden, with separate trials possible for Miller. Witness accounts emerge from Sayler’s vault as Golda Sayler questions the circumstances, while Mrs. Miller’s defense hints at insanity.
Safe-crackers blew open Huntley Illinois post office safe on the Northwestern railroad during the night and escaped with about 600 dollars in cash and stamps. Postmaster H. Cook discovered the theft in the morning after the attackers wrecked part of the store interior and looted the premises. They also stole a horse from John Kelly’s barn and rode a few miles east before tying the animal and vanishing.
Baron Oskar Rothschild the 21 year old son of Albert Rothschild died in Vienna amid reports he killed himself over a love affair. The Rothschilds deny suicide and claim death was due to apoplexy after eight months travel including a visit to the United States.
The article notes the christening of a royal infant with dignitaries present, the American steamer New York arriving at Plymouth, and a nine mile race with nine participants. It mentions an assassination in Stockholm linked to anarchist protests during the czar’s European tour, Tehran’s siege by nationalist forces, and a joint Russian-British ultimatum. Lord Beresford proposes a naval buildup to twenty six dreadnoughts by 1914, costing about 300 million, and urges traction for a global fleet.
In Clinton Illinois the will of Col Thomas Snell valued at about two million dollars is set aside after a jury verdict finding him insane at the time he made the will. The verdict disqualifies several thousand dollars left to Mabelle Snell McNamara and upends plans for annuities to Richard Snell and other heirs.
Tony Baffa an 18 year old Italian youth in Chicago jail admits killing Giuseppe Filipelli a grocer at 7737 Greenwood Avenue. He exposes the Loguisto or The Society of Justice a Black Hand group with members Antonio Nudo Rafaslo Nudo and Pasquale Nudo Giuseppe Caro and Ernesto as conspirators all laborers bound to extortion through Black Hand letters and willing to commit any crime.
A federal grand jury in New York returned an indictment against Mrs. Fremont B. Chesbrough of Detroit, owner of the Chesbrough line of steamers from Boston, charged with smuggling after a double bottom was found in a trunk brought to the U.S. on the Kaiser Wilhelm II last May. Her attorney turned over a $23,000 necklace to customs officials, and Mrs Chesbrough is confined in a sanitarium.
Umpire Truby retires from the National League umpires. Mrs. Ramsey and companions plan a cross continental motor trip to San Francisco. Jay Bye Lee, famed 2:10 trotter, dies near Racine Wisconsin aged thirty-one, born Kentucky. Newton Colyer of Spokane cites Beatta climate as boosting running records. After the Paducah exhibit, a race meet will close the Kentucky fair. Over 300 horses expected at the Paducah Fair Association event.
A massive multi-state strike involves 25 000 to 30 000 workers across western Pennsylvania eastern Ohio and West Virginia including opal miners tin and sheet plate workers and steel crafts. Rioting at McKee s Rocks left thirty injured as police barred further violence while most strikes remain orderly amid a return to production.
The note from Lemberg reports new anti Hebrew aggressions in Bessarabia with about 100 Jews and landlords said to be elalned. It mentions the christening of an infant Span The American liner New York race with nine liners, the Amerika second, and a Stockholm coast artillery assassination as the czar begins a European tour. Diplomatic reps of Russia and Great Britain still seek agreement as Persia’s capital reportedly remains in turmoil. A Commerce estimate argues for twenty six Dreadnaughts costing about 390000000 to boost shipbuilding and stores.
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