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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1910
Page
2
Mark Twain assumed the Buffalo Express editorship and pledged a plain duty bound by truth. He warned against sensational stunts and politics, promising to rebuke crime, avoid slang, and refrain from poetry unless provoked by subscribers, while admitting limited tolerance for his own party.
Noted British jurist Horace Avery, recently appointed judge, is praised as a mordant wit. A terse exchange with a recalcitrant witness saw him ask why a retiree claims to be a gentleman. The witness answered retirement, prompting Avery to quip about achieving gentleman status before retiring.
A fragment from a 19th century era notes a delegate to the Negro Business Men's league in New York valued at 4,000,000 with a biting aside about wealth and gambling. The snippet moves through aphorisms and ad copy for Dr. Martel's Female Pills, Pettit’s Eye Salve, Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup, and other vintage health and social quips, reflecting period tone and commercial miscellany.
A reader from Iowa reports relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills for long lasting abdominal and nervous symptoms. The letter claims the remedies improved health, energy, and sleep, and urges other women to try the preparations for displacements irregularities and related complaints.
Fitzgerald, a former subtreasury teller, was arrested by deputy U S marshals on a bench warrant based on a secret February 17 1910 federal indictment charging four counts of embezzlement and larceny in the 173000 theft from the Chicago subtreasury on February 19 1907. Secret Service kept him under constant watch as justice actions moved through Judge Landis with bail set at 50000. statute of limitations reportedly had run.
A round up of major obituaries and political notes features Joseph Croke Sibley indicted for conspiracy to bribe voters in the Twenty eighth district, George F. Miller and B Ezra J. Warner both dying of health crises, and former Gov Odell retiring from politics. Other items include Miss Florence Pardee killed in an auto accident, Lt Gov Patterson’s Tennessee governor bid ends, and Illinoisan Isaac Ellwood, a prominent financier, dies after a lengthy illness.
Panama's national assembly elected Pablo Arosemena Frederico Boyd and Ronolfo Chiari as first second and third designates. Arosemena becomes acting president for the unexpired term of President Chaldia. The election ends a bitter campaign with prominence given to American intervention and follows the withdrawal of Acting President Mendoza. Samuel Lewis previously ran for foreign affairs.
Washington reports the state department advised Dr Salvador Castrillo, Nicaraguan minister, of satisfaction with President Estrada policy. The Estrada administration will send two commissions to Managua to finalize any necessary formal agreements. The note is seen by Nicaraguan authorities as an official resignation of the Estrada government.
Washington D C the board of engineers appointed to study the gulf to the lakes project met at the war department and outlined a general course of procedure for the advisability inquiry.
In Chicago Judge McCurley denied the motion for arrest or judgment in the Haldane Cleminson murder case. Cleminson was found guilty of murdering his wife last year and was formally sentenced to life imprisonment.
Sioux City live stock market quotations list Reeves at 5.25 to 6.00 and top hogs at 9.05. The brief dispatch notes Wednesday's prices with limited detail on items and ranges observed in the market ledger.
In Alabama four miles south of Springville a Black man, Isaac Glover, was struck by a posse of citizens while attempting to escape. He struck two posse members before sustaining fatal injuries.
Monarchists protested the government party's 26-member election results in Lisbon. Contests delay Parliament until disputes are resolved.
United States Senator Burrows likely defeated for renomination by Charles B Townsend in Michigan Republican primaries. Chase S Osborn nominated for governor by large majority. Hamilton club of Chicago severed ties with Sen Lorimer after Batten withdrew his invitation to a Roosevelt banquet. Salmon pack in British Columbia totals 643525 cases this season, down from last year. Several other political and transport incidents reported including a train wreck in Kentucky and a fatal shooting in Indiana.
A Boston reporter is teased for a mix up at church after asking what the sermon text was. An elderly man replies Who Art Thou and the cub is mocked for his blunder, later retold by the preacher. The tale illustrates the value of Bible training beyond ministry.
Dr. Robert L. Waggoner of Baldwin University spoke at Berea Ohio on pedagogy noting a major shift in thirty years the abolition of corporal punishment. He contrasted this with a saying attributed to past teachers that “the swish is father to the taught” and said current students are never whipped.
Senator Clapp recalled a carelessly told Minneapolis address about a St Paul resident killed in the streets every 48 hours. A heckler quipped that it was not enough. The speech contrasted petty daily life with grander living.
A Southern state school superintendent shares a letter praising Postum over coffee. He recounts his mother’s long heart and stomach troubles improving after switching to Postum, noting fewer headaches and overall better health. The family experiences similar benefits, with the mother described as a long-standing victim who finally thrives.
A compilation of past maritime and legal items. Pere Marquette No. 18 sank off Sheboygan with 29 lost and 33 saved, amid other reports from Chicago and New Jersey including a judge's court case with Fred Peck, a sultry horse story, Crippen trial notes, and various political and civic items from across the United States.
A wry remark in a historical column jokes that a palm reader predicting death would rush to inform the undertaker to earn a commission on the business. The quip highlights skepticism toward fortune telling amid mid century media tone.
Bandurin, superintendent at a Russian engineering firm, is a graduate of the Women's Technological Institute in St. Petersburg. She has built a steel warehouse for an army cooperative, served as assistant engineer on a Neva bridge, and conducted other significant work.
The narrator comments on a remarkable young lady as Janet Feon exits, noting a fiendish gleam in her odorless eyes. The piece ends with a tease that any further word on Janet will be reported.
The essay questions why the American public shifts opinions, noting that a former home player returning to visit is a telling gauge of fickleness. It argues public reaction reveals changing loyalties and scrutiny of past affiliations.
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