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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
7
The Cleveland Leader quotes a critic questioning why the orchestra plays music in sad moments. The manager replies that the practice prevents actors from hearing audience coughing and making foolish remarks, preserving performance focus.
Mrs Forsle of 33 Firat St Milwaukee Wisconsin credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her long standing female trouble and backache after doctors recommended an operation She says the remedy helped her become a well woman and urges other women to seek her advice and try the product before surgery
Henry H. Rogers, longtime Standard Oil financier and Amalgamated Copper president, died at his home in New York City at 7 a.m. after a stroke. He had recently reduced market activity but remained vice president of Standard Oil and directed holdings in railroads including Atchison Topeka Santa Fae Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Union Pacific. The death surprises Wall Street as Rogers had appeared well at the Standard Oil office the day before.
Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson cut his Havana visit short due to illness. The Mayflower yacht, carrying Dickinson and his party, sailed at 10 p.m. Wednesday for direct passage to Washington. Maj. Gen. Franklin Bell and others visited President Gomez and Camp Columbia before departure.
James Sharp also known as Adam God and his wife face trial in Kansas City Missouri for the murder of a policeman during the winter religious riot. Sharp criticizes lawyers and judges as blind to God while asserting his faith guides his actions as jury selection proceeds slowly.
Personal apologies from President Miguel Davilla of Honduras and a monetary settlement ended a diplomatic clash with Mexico. The dispute arose after Honduran police forces entered the Mexican legation in Tegucigalpa and subjected Mexican minister Gutierrez Zamora to abuse.
Jackson Michigan dispatch reports ex-Warden A N Armstrong swore that Milton A Daly of Chicago paid 1500 for aiding acceptance of second hand machinery for the state binder twine plant. Salvation Army officers meet in Chicago for the five day national congress. About 400 Salvation Army officers attended.
The logio a Philadelphia bound coal steamer carrying 6000 tons of bituminous coal ran aground forty miles below Philadelphia on the Delaware river after striking an obstruction. In Ohio the town of Alger, twelve miles west, reports significant losses as another event unfolds.
Seven western railroads including Chicago Burlington and Quincy Chicago and Northwestern Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Missouri Pacific and Wabash filed in Chicago federal court to block ICC from enforcing new merchant rate cuts from Chile and St Louis to Denver set to take effect June 1. They claim the changes favor Chicago and St Louis shippers, threaten Missouri River basing points, and could cost about 1 million dollars yearly, upsetting middle west commerce.
Lieut General Anatole Stoessel and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff freed from confinement in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul by order of Emperor Nicholas of Russia. Both men were gravely sick from confinement. Stoessel had received a ten year sentence for surrendering Port Arthur and Nebogatoff an identical term for the Sea of Japan battle.
Shunned by civilization, Marvin Whitehead, known as the wild man, was captured near Prentiss Mississippi by Sherri John Laird. He lived in isolated communities with an unkempt appearance, five inch nails, long hair and beard, and refused cooked food. Relatives had long searched for him.
Four fires in Chicago on Tuesday, likely incendiary, destroyed property valued at 106000 and claimed one life. The blazes heightened the hunt for Andrew Hanson, a pyromaniac who recently escaped from Elgin asylum.
The Missouri supreme court affirmed the death penalty for Claude Brooks of Kansas City for the murder of Sydney Verndon. Brooks is to be hanged on June 30 in Kansas City as ordered by the court.
English novelist George Meredith, age eighty, is seriously ill. He was taken ill in May and has gradually worsened, prompting concern over his condition and possible hospitalization.
King Alfonso inaugurated the regal exposition at Valencia on Tuesday, followed by a flower fete showcasing regional displays and ceremonies.
19 year old bride to be Elizabeth Constable waits for church wedding in Lees Bottom unit Missouri. Groom Benjamin Irving 24 allegedly drank acid and targeted the future spouse amid a planned Tuesday ceremony.
Forty years ago mothers used paregoric and other narcotics to quiet infants. Drugs like paregoric landanum and morphine can cause coma or death in children. Druggists must not sell narcotics to children or without poison labels. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears Chas H. Fletcher’s signature.
A Chicago Tribune item notes a customer testing maple sirup in a dispute with a grocer who defends it as genuine despite the accusation it tastes unfamiliar. The exchange features a witty back and forth reflecting small town or city life and local character.
A home cure claim offers a new absorption treatment for bleeding itching and protruding piles. Readers are invited to mail address for instructions and free trial samples with local references on request. Immediate relief and permanent care promised.
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