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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
2
An elderly man in town reflects on a saving plan urged by Marie George last fall. He trusted the advice to save wages tightly, and while the winter brought few hardships, the saved money seemed to sit idle in his hands.
Thomas C. Shotwell reports from New York under March 20 on Taft’s tariff with Canada, noting 150,000 to 250,000 American farmers may cross into the Canadian northwest in 1910. He says the shift boosts Canada’s agricultural role, raises cattle prices in Canada, lowers meat prices for Canadian households, and pressures the United States to ease tariffs on cattle and wheat to avert food shortages.
The Vindicator and Republican Co publishes a compact issue featuring local notices and community updates. Readers find brief items on civic events, public notices, and brief community announcements from area organizations.
Evanston police uncover a potential international murder mystery after Richard Gorky 28, a hotel porter, was found hanged in his room. A note written in Turkish blames others for the death of a young woman in Holland. Gorky had resided in Evanston three months and sought help from California police.
The freighter Saturce sustained a 12 foot hole in her starboard side after a fog collision with northbound Ligonier near Cape Cou. No injuries reported. Captain Molker and the remaining crew battled water ingress, sealed the after bulkhead doors, and steered the waterlogged ship to port safely. The Ligonier suffered only light damage.
Two men were killed, three other men and two women seriously injured, and eleven people received minor hurts when a southbound freight car on the Ohio Electric railway collided head on with a northbound passenger car near Urbana. The dead include Ferguson of Springfield, conductor on the passenger car, and M. M. Roark of Urbana, a passenger. The crash is believed caused by failure of the freight car's brakes, with the crew stating the down hill car became unmanageable.
A $500,000 Peet Bros Manufacturing plant in Kansas City Kansas was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday night at 10:30 p.m. Firefighters redirected efforts toward neighboring Schwierhild & Sulzberger Packing Plant as the blaze spread. By midnight the fire was under control with damage to the packing plant also reported, intensified by a high firewall between the two sites.
A special session demand seeks a law to end price gouging in California. The resolutions, presented Wednesday by the California Congregations Convenio, were sent back to the committee for revision. Susie Prices Giver sets grade adjustments, with sugar at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
At a Toledo meeting of trustees of the National Society of the Song of the American Revolution, it was decided to hold the next convention in Louisville Kentucky.
Sioux City live stock quotations show steer prices at 7.50 and top hogs at 9.16 for Wednesday trading.
Jane Oswald crafted a cruel prank at a reception for a rude man. The man, slightly deformed, inspired Oswald to summon 600 hunchbacks from Paris to the event, claiming a legacy awaited them at a specific address that evening.
Samuel J. Taylor of Goshen Indiana reports a long thirty year fight with kidney trouble and gravel. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with a complete cure and lasting relief. He urges others to learn from his experience and notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Macduff recounts his reaction to Macbeth as he beheaded the tyrant. He says he disliked Macbeth speaking to him like an old hen yet could not tolerate the stage’s profanity. Feeling he had fulfilled his duty, he took a layoff.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure claims a universal cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with a $100 reward for any failing case. The ad extols internal use, blood and mucous surface action, and stronger constitution, plus testimonials and other products.
Edward Payson Weston finishes a continent crossing by foot. He reaches Manhattan at 8:35 AM and walks down Broadway to City Hall amid cheering crowds. The original 3,480 mile plan to cover in 90 days was achieved in 77 days despite rain, heat, storms, and a sprained ankle.
The aged philosopher and athlete Weston finishes a transcontinental walk as a pure sport feat with no monetary prize. The achievement serves as a lesson to American youth on the benefits of walking and disciplined effort.
A Newport Rhode Island police report details ten year old Anna Fay admitting she is a firebug with violent nervous attacks. She set fire to the Ritchie house while employed as a maid and helped fight the blaze after alarms. The Shellabarger Mill and Elevator Co of Salina Kansas announced purchase of twenty one elevators from Peavy Grain and Elevator Co of Minneapolis and Midland Co of Kansas, expanding to thirty four elevators in Kansas.
Edmond K. Stallo of New York appointed administrator of the $20 million estate of Alexander MacDonald a Long Beach oil magnate who died March 18 and left no will found after searches. Stallo’s daughters Helen 20 and Laura 18 are named heirs as granddaughters of the deceased.
Louis W. Patterton and Mrs Imma A Allen foster mother were arrested in Arkansas City Kansas on a warrant charging them with killing Frances Kimmel Patterton wife of G W Patterton a bride of a few months who died suddenly last January by poison and were taken into custody for questioning in the death investigation
Fifteen people were hurt when a concrete and tile floor recently laid in front of an East Side moving picture theater collapsed. One man was reported in critical condition and believed near death. Emergency crews rushed to the scene as spectators and workers fled the debris. (Note: This synopsis preserves the core facts from the incident and maintains the period tone.)
A British inventor created jeweled sunbursts featuring one ray set revolving over another by clockwork. The device showcases precision craftsmanship and mechanical ingenuity attributed to an English woman.
A promotion for travel from Sarnia to Fort William by new Northern Navigation Co. steamers tied to the Grand Trunk Railway, with literature available from W. S. Cookson in Chicago. Also mentions California’s Trinity County gold mine, shoe antiseptic powder, Pettit’s Eye Salve, oyster tonnage, stamp collections, Perry Davis’ Painkiller, and Murine Eye Remedy with Chicago address.
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