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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
7
A historical note recounts early clocks in Milan and Padua from 1309 to 1344, describing sun and planet dials, and calendar features. It notes the 1380 first watch, a 1450s alarm clock by Milanese councillor Andrea Alciato, and the long premodern leap to the second hand by 1740, per London Globe.
A lord chief justice remarks on Browning work’s obscurity while Browning humorously claims readers grasp only a fraction. In a separate comic snippet a warden jokes a six month sentence for a hair cut mishap and a teething syrup ad promotes soothing relief for children.
A nurse recalls a year and a half of painful sores on her son, treated by physicians, then cured in two months after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She credits the remedies with saving the child's life and endorses them. Also notes potato cooking tips and a Belfast lifeboat sign about women and children first.
An explosion tore through the American Sheet and Tin Plate plant in Canton, killing many and severely injuring at least thirteen with dozens more hurt. The blast overturned boilers, blasted heads and limbs across blocks, and left the building a near total loss. Firefighters quenched the flames as families searched nearby areas for missing loved ones. One body was found miles from the plant in a house, and another was located in a garden five hundred feet away.
Mrs J A Sunderland accused of murdering her husband was found Tuesday about a mile and a half north of Chippewa Falls after wandering in the woods since Sunday morning. She told her sister she shot him during a quarrel after a second attempt to whip her, and she has not yet spoken to officers.
John A. Ryerson, a prominent Chicago business man and former western tennis champion 1890 1892, leaped from the thirteenth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building Monday night and was killed. Relatives say financial difficulties may have driven the act. His wife Violet Stone, daughter of Rev. Jas Stone, is prostrate and family fears for her life.
Charles I the famous educated chimpanzee valued at 65 000 dollars died from heat in a car en route from Seattle to Denver. The animal was found dead when the car was opened in the morning after a steam radiator overheated.
Former Hawaiian queen Liluokalani again fails to secure 450000 dollars for crown land rentals as the Court of Claims rules she has no personal claim to the funds.
Wallace A Russell of Seattle age 23 enters the Monte Carlo saloon and gambling house and fatally shoots proprietor Joseph Bonner.
U S gunboat Helena reports from Hankow that Changsha conditions are serious with an uprising feared in Hunan province. Foreigners are seeking refuge on ships as war vessels on the river are deemed strong enough to control the situation. The unrest targets the Manchu government amid hopes to hasten a Hankow to south Hankow railway project.
The Gopher gang on the West Side is blamed for shooting George J. Gallagher known as Newburgh George. Gallagher was wounded twice in the stomach and taken to a New York hospital in a dying condition, refusing to identify his assailants though police link the incident to ongoing gang feuds. Earlier violence within the Gophers includes a four shot attack on Gallagher around a month ago on Tenth Avenue.
Rev. W B Lambuth of Tennessee Rev E D Monton and Rev B G Waterhouse of Virginia were elected bishops on the fourth ballot at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Asheville North Carolina. On the sixth ballot Rev J H McCoy of Birmingham Alabama was elected as the seventh bishop filling the college of bishops.
Riot in Valencia between republicans and gendarmes during a demonstration for the arrival of Republican deputy Senor Serariano. Gendarmes charged as republicans hurled knives and stones. An officer was stabbed and killed, many wounded, fifty arrests made, order restored after protesters sought refuge at the Republican club.
Japanese fugitive Gsukeyo Mitsunaga, linked to the murder of Mrs. Catherine Wilson in Denver, Colo., eluded a pursuing posse near Lyons by leaping to a hillside cliff and sliding down crags until reaching ground level.
Antonio Misiani, after a week’s conviction for extortion threats against Caruso, receives a minimum three year term at hard labor in Sing Sing in Brooklyn New York. J J Keon, jailed socialist in Grafton Illinois, to serve six months per year for three years delinquent on a $6 poll tax.
The United States public health and marine hospital service grants Dr William Colby Rucker a one year leave of absence to accept the health commissioner post in Milwaukee. A different note reports Miss Rachel Hardwick of Quincy Massachusetts claiming a world women’s high jump record in competition clearing four feet six inches.
Evansville Indiana ranch search for George F. Kimberly or George H. Brown who vanished from Auburn Nebraska twenty years ago. A relative’s death yields Brown a bequest of 259000 dollars, prompting renewed inquiries into his whereabouts.
A first death from typhoid fever occurred at the Indiana Boys Reform School in Plainfield. The victim was Fred Ilgenfrite, who died on Tuesday amid an outbreak at the facility.
Engineer Lee Douty of St Paul Minnesota died of heart failure Sunday after his train struck and killed a tramp near Duluth. The accident caused shock leading to his death. Douty was an experienced railroad worker.
The Railway Storekeepers association opens a three day convention in St Louis Missouri with more than 200 delegates in attendance.
A teaporter asks who pays to place the country on full war footing and sustain it. Senator Lotsman replies that the burden falls between our posterity and that of some European or Asian power. He then offers a lighter note with an imported perfecto.
A short dialogue captures a boy and his father debating value and fines. Tommy asks how much the assessor would charge for having assets, prompting Mr. Tucker to mention about four thousand dollars, prompting further reflection from Tommy about costs.
Charles Easter of East Locust Street Waisoka Illinois suffered six months of back pain inability to sit loss of 40 pounds and inability to wash his face. He says Doan's Kidney Pills cured him permanently after trying various remedies. For sale by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A reflective verse urges perseverance despite failed schemes. Fortune is portrayed as elusive, yet a resilient spirit keeps moving forward with a smile that masks inner hurt. The poem blends optimism with quiet resilience.
An 19th century advertisement asserts deafness comes from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local remedies, offering a reward for catarrh related cures with Hall's Catarrh Cure and urging readers to send for circulars. It is followed by a brief Tid-Bits anecdote about an Irish murder trial and a judge’s quip about acquittal to avoid accident.
A Black Duck Minnesota woman reports recovery from Retroflexion after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the remedy as a tonic for female health and advises sick women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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