Vindicator and Republican Co Names
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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
2
The Vindicator and Republican Company lists historical notices and advertisements from the regional newspaper, detailing print trades, business lines, and local announcements typical of the publisher’s catalog.
President Taft presented gold medals from the Aero Club of America to Wilbur and Orville Wright at a White House ceremony. Distinguished statesmen, foreign diplomats, cabinet members, scientists, and aeronauts attended as Katherine Wright and Rep. Herbert Parsons were noted participants. A Cosmos Club luncheon preceded the event and the day concluded with the Wrights departing for Dayton.
The Spanish liner Antonio Lopez with 526 passengers and 135 crew grounded on Fire Island near New York City Wednesday night and lay on the beach through the night as heavy seas battered it. Lifesavers at Point o’ Woods attempted rescue, but daylight brought only partial aid. Wrecking tugs reached the stricken ship Thursday and began transferring women and children to tugs, though landing remained impossible due to high surf. Most passengers hailed from Italian and Spanish ports such as Naples Genoa Cadiz and were bound for Vera Cruz via New York.
A discarded registered mail pouch was found Thursday by officers and federal agents after thieves stole it Wednesday night from an Illinois Central train near Champaign. The pouch, destined from Chicago to St Louis, contained jewelry and currency valued at over $6,000 and was not discovered until after the train had left.
The Breakers, among the largest hotels at Spring Lake, N J, was nearly destroyed by an early Thursday fire. Sixty guests escaped in their night attire. one person named Noon? was injured.
Thursday quotations show toy beeves priced at 6.50 and top hogs at 7.80. Also notes quiet life for Casivo Ex-President Casio of Venezuela and his wife living quietly in a villa near Sallander Spain with no evidence of plans for any further ventures.
Felon D. Ryan was elected president on Thursday to succeed the late Henry B. Rogers at the Adilas Amated Copper Company. The change follows Rogers' death, placing Ryan at the helm of the company.
President Gomez presents a Venezuela narrative to congress claiming a shift from oppression to creditable finances. He cites a fall in foreign and internal debts, a budget balance in Bank of Venezuela and treasury, and the end of coercive export taxes on coffee and hides, while urging laws to end forced recruitment.
French aeronaut Herbert Latham flies at Mourmelon le Grand near Paris in a monoplane. After a 1 hour 7 minute 47 second flight, he then demonstrates stability in a 15 mile breeze. He shows control and altitude changes with a height range of fifteen to thirty yards. The craft resembles a bird with two wing-like fins and flexible central sections designed for stability.
Indianapolis attorney Henures Or der attempts to stop a motor car in a chase led by Samuel Yowden. Dowden was shot in the knee after a police car signaled and shouted to stop. Dowden’s halted car was moved by officers to a physician. Chic Metzgar admits firing. Dowden allegedly traveled at thirty five miles per hour.
Henry Ide, newly appointed American minister to Spain, presents credentials to King Alfonso Wednesday. He rode in state to the palace and was greeted by the King and ministers. The ceremony was varied. William M. Collier, the relief minister, has left Madrid for an automobile tour of France and Germany.
The Wlinwis Central Railroad company paid into the state treasury $64,000, seven percent of gross earnings and receipts on 708 miles of chartered road in Illinois for the six months ending April 30, 1909. The report notes $1,000,000 derived by the state from this road in the last year.
Chicago banker Lagarus Silverman a pioneer banker and Avancier of Chicago who originated the plan for resumption of specie payments in 1873 known as the Sherman bill died Wednesday aged 79.
Corineh, a town 436 miles southeast of Padang in Sumatra, was destroyed by an earthquake on the night of June B-4. No further details on casualties or official response are provided.
Federal inspectors and Cincinnati detectives dismantle a Marion operatic branch of the Black Hand. Arrested Tuesday were Samuel Lima, Joe Rizzo in Marion and Antonio Vicaro, A. Marfis in Dennison. Inspector Holmes said two more arrests from Bellefontaine were pending and that the Marion gang targeted fellow Italians, sending money orders to Italy totaling about $1900.
Louis W Foster John M Gorman Walter Campbell A C Baldwin Edwin Heil J M Scott received six months in jail and $200 fine plus costs for using the mails to defraud via the bucketshop Oden Brokerage in Cincinnati federal court. Jury found them guilty. former judge Outealt protested. stay motion filed. bonds set at $5000.
Charles Froman was shot to death while returning from a picnic at Oakland park near Uniontown Pennsylvania in the company of Mrs Manny Rogers who was arrested as an accessory. Five shots were fired four taking effect and an hour earlier a man involved in a clash with the gunman is being sought by authorities.
Ed Callahan, named feud leader, remained alive Wednesday while paralyzed from the waist down after a Tuesday shooting in Breathitt County Kentucky. Doctors warned he could die at any moment as investigators pursued motives and potential targets.
Two children 6 years old Charles Brown son of Mrs Josie Brown of Joplin Missouri and Edward Poe a farmer near Ande Missouri were killed by a lightning and severe electric storm that passed over the area early Wednesday. Property damage was small.
Frederik H. W. Brigham head bookkeeper at Merchants National Bank New Haven Conn was arrested Tuesday on a charge of taking funds. The amount named is 5000 dollars but authorities say the shortage may reach 40000 dollars.
The minister of the colonies reports from Noroccy that on June 5 a French detachment repulsed an assault by adherents of rebel chief Maelalnin near Moudzerid. The enemy lost ten men while French casualties numbered three.
Chicago tailor Morris Gold traveled to New Orleans and, intending a headache remedy, took 120 grains of quinine by mistake. He was saved from death by the quick actions of Charity Hospital students who attended him.
Through a deed on Tuesday the Essex park race track property in Hot Springs Arkansas was transferred to Simon Cooper a liveryman. The purchase price totaled 14064 dollars.
A disastrous fire at Saunders Brower’s livery stable and storage in Olathe Kansas killed forty five horses. The blaze destroyed the barn and adjoining storage rooms with damage mounting as firefighters battled the flames. Local authorities investigated the cause and assessed the loss to Brower’s operation and surrounding property.
At Marshalltown closing meeting of the revival a free will offering of 6022 dollars was presented by Bitty Snoudauy along with 300 dollars pledged but unpaid. The Marshalltown effort drew 225 converts bringing totals to 1947 and 199,300 attendees for the revival. An additional 6.78 dollars was raised for current expenses, with overall revival receipts totaling 312,544 dollars including charity and Sunday party donations.
A man in his mid twenties, about 140 pounds, was found on a sandbar four to five miles north of Onawa. The body, clothed in gray coat, brown shirt, blue overalls and tan shoes, showed advanced decomposition and lacked identifiers. A crack er, pocket comb, and a book with stamps were found. The coroner ordered burial in Onawa cemetery after examination.
Gov. Carroll announced the Iowa State Drainage and Conservation Commission members under the Thirty-third General Assembly act. Appointees include A. C. Miller Des Moines Dr. T. D. Mebiride Iowa City B. E. Burgess Sioux City Senator A. P. Prudden Dubuque Prof. W. H. Stevenson Ames J. W. Kreel Magon City and I. Anderson Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. Clara Thorson, wife of Oscar Thorson and manager of Jess Relmer the heavyweight wrestler, tried to end her life Monday night in Des Moines. She slashed her throat twice, sent her three children from the room, and used a butcher knife before a boy of ten found her and raised the alarm. The woman may die.
Peculiar accident at Oskaloosa meat market leaves Cudahy Packing Co. salesman FW Higginson of Iowa with severed ligaments after a sudden wrist swing near a meat block. Shop helper Dan Trimpy ties the arm and saves his life. Elsewhere, Des Moines officials to be cited for contempt over reinstatement dispute involving Mrs. K L Babcock. Clinton honors Luke Roberts, oldest living member, at over 80 years.
The fourteenth biennial reunion of the Twenty-First Town Veteran Association will be held at Hesner's Opera House in Edgewood on June 16 and 17. An engaging program will be carved out during the two days of the season.
Assistant State Veterinarian Talbot alleges that stock farms hold diseased cattle and urges drastic action. Fifty-one cattle at Independence and twenty-five at Mt. Pleasant will be killed as officials dispute board errors and a disquieting spread of disease. John Cownie defends past testing, blaming faulty procedures for current alarm.
Mrs. Chartes Adams wife of prominent hardware dealer at Manson and Popular was fatally burned when gasoline in her home ignited while she tried to fill a stove reservoir at 12 26 o clock Saturday Her mother Mrs Ada Milton suffered severe burns as she attempted to drag her daughter from the flames with a rug The victim was burned head to foot with clothes burned away and recovery odds slim
Tom Brennan of Sioux City aged 33 accidentally set fire to the Weatfield jail, burning badly and suffocating. William Chrestingeon discovered the blaze and extinguished it before the jail suffered structural damage. The coroner ordered Brennan's body sent to Akron and his Sioux City relatives were notified.
Edna Fritz sustained a crushing injury to her right hand at the Cox Printing plant in Est Herville Miss. Her hand was caught between the roller and plate of a small press. Two doctors treated her for about two hours. Doctors report amputation will not be necessary.
The badly decomposed body of Ralph Crusen, a prosperous Mahaska county farmer, was recovered from the Skunk river by Dick Atchison. Crusen had escaped a private sanitarium in Des Moines a week earlier, journeyed toward his Oska loosa home, and reportedly jumped from the river bridge. The body showed signs of a week in water.
Rev. R. Moulton says Dr. A. A. Rice of Des Moines charged a Second Christian Church member $6 for a pill and another $17.50 for three professional visits, leading to his name being dropped from the church roster and the Sabbath school superintendent post left vacant.
James Dermidy and Otto Seiding, noted Muscatine citizens, were found guilty of contempt of court for selling liquor in violation of an injunction. They were fined 500 dollars and sentenced to three months in jail. A large quantity of liquor was seized as part of the raid and ordered confiscated. Old Soldier Instantly Killed
Dredge has begun throwing dirt for the Hoyer ditch just east of Missouri Valley. The project expects reclaiming thousands of acres of land and transform the local drainage. Government inspectors and engineers supervise the operation, promising substantial agricultural gains.
In Washington Ambassador Takahira informs the United States of Japan’s intent to terminate the 1894 treaty of friendship navigation and commerce and to negotiate a new accord. Tokyo insists on revising provisions including the U S right to regulate Japanese laborers, with 1911 timing under discussion.
Ten of eleven men and youths sent from Honolulu to Molokai for leprosy reexamination were found disease free after years of isolation. Ages ranged from 6 to 72 with two boys aged 6 and 7. Some older patients may seek return to the settlement, having been cut off from world and friends. Some cases may reflect natural cure or earlier misdiagnosis before bacteriological tests existed.
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