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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
2
A concise collection of notable foreign items across continents. Highlights range from political developments to cultural events, presented in a terse, quick-read format.
President Roosevelt sought 2 million dollars for a dam on the Colorado River to save California's Imperial Valley. The House committee cut ten percent to pay mail transport costs. The Senate and House debated Indian schools, militia costs, and various national issues across committees and chambers.
William Oliver and Anson Bangs bid 6.75 percent for Panama Canal digging. Rome college students meet the pope. DA Jerome to amend Percy-Gray law on betting. Congo outrages appeal to Roosevelt and Edward. Pennsylvania road seeks Santa Fe control to block Harriman. Sugar trust defense in $20 million fraud suit. Chicago parochial school collapse sparks panic. Illinois Central suit for $4.5 million. employers and workers plan National Civic Federation branch. Margaret Maillard identified as Clara Boose, held for theft. Sunday drink rule violated in New York saloons. meal issue debated. Rock Island Train No. 30 wrecks. five dead, eight injured. Duquoin floods damage vast areas. trains and homes submerged. Reckon dies at Dixiana stud. Eighteen Chinese detained at El Paso. North Yakima raid on coal train for fuel cannons.
A sweeping aggregation reports arrests in Illinois and Philadelphia, a Milwaukee murder, 27 traction firms forming four insurers, tobacco trust verdicts, Honduran rebels defeated, typhoid fears in Berwick, Mauna Loa eruption, fatal metal explosion in Philadelphia, Roosevelt joins Simplified Spelling Board, Warsaw terrorism arrests, San Francisco coal shortage, Lodz gendarme slain, Smith Senate nomination, and rail and legal actions across the nation.
A Jamaican earthquake destroyed much of Kingston with fires and extensive damage. Reports indicate many casualties and hospitals overwhelmed, while direct communication with Kingston is severed and land lines reach five miles from the city.
New York prosecutors reveal an alleged scheme to buy aldermen votes for recorder of the general sessions court. Eleven aldermen were approached for 500 each, with 6000 dollars found on David Mann as go-between and Alder man Williams Clifford accused of taking 6000 for ten other votes. Detectives witnessed the exchanges and arrests followed.
A Homemaker guide praises stewing as economical and simple for lamb. It details selecting three pounds lamb, trimming fat, cubing, simmering with onions carrots turnips and potatoes, then thicken with butter flour and stock to finish with light dumplings.
Deep snow and gale winds cripple Great Northern tracks from Browning to Cut Bank Montana as thermometers drop to 550 degrees below zero. Dry drifting snow forms 20 to 30 foot drifts, with rotary plows failing to clear the obstruction between Grand Forks and Spokane.
In the senate on the 15th Senator Spooner arraigned Mr Tillman in strong language for defending lynchings. The house spent the day in consideration of the fortifications bill.
The Ohio River on Tuesday cut a channel across the Big Horseshoe Pond between Evansville and Henderson and is flowing through at a tremendous rate. Water in the harbor is quiet, but the city faces danger of becoming five miles from the main river.
In Boise the Idaho legislature elected successor to a key seat. The process saw O S Bergh elected to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate race.
Braising is shown as an easy pot roast like method for dry meats such as veal beef mutton liver heart and game. Meats are rolled in flour seasoned with salt pepper and sugar then browned in fat before simmering hours in stock gravy or water with herbs.
A measured batter mix combines flour salt sugar soda cream tartar and egg with milk and melted butter to form a thick batter. Cups are filled with batter and apple pieces then steamed or baked 30 minutes and served with milk or sauce.
Four hours of slow cooking tenderizes old beets. If wilted, soak overnight, then boil slowly until done. Peel and slice, serve hot with butter salt and pepper. Leftovers can be marinated in vinegar to garnish potato or carrot salad.
The article suggests wool wad ding quilts made from two yard by two yard and a quarter sheets costing about two dollars per yard. It recommends covering with cheese cloth tacked with soft cotton for sanitation and notes pretty dainty shade options. It adds quilts provide ventilation comparable to woolen blankets.
Hand dipped candles fashion a colonial look as band-dipped tallow candles reach 12d. The mint scented variant is noted for a minty aroma while burning. The candles are described as handmade with a greenish white hue and irregular charm.
From Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile the text argues education shapes the social self. It claims humans are born weak and foolish needing guidance to become useful citizens. It stresses duty to family society and state and the lifelong study of relations beginning in adolescence.
The editor of Hughesopolis Gazette frets over Muraik's gibbering paresis in a nannyplain case. The assistant suggests assigning him to write the answers-to-queries column to keep him on staff. The editor approves the plan.
Patriotic Gashavant G. Pandit a protege of Baroda’s gaekwar, revealed to be working as a common laborer at an acid factory in Roscoe North Dakota. Though worth millions, he labors alongside other workers, condemns India's industrial conditions, and aims to help revolutionize them at home.
An enterprising superintendent in St. Albans Vermont catechised pupils by starting at the end of the catechism. After satisfactory replies on communion and confirmation he asked what must precede baptism. A lively urchin answered, A baby, sir.
The report covers January 16 1907 prices and conditions in New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo Pittsburgh for flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle calves sheep and hogs with range figures and notes on trading activity and price levels. Notable ranges include New York No 2 red wheat 79 1/4 cents and Cleveland Minnesota spring patent flour 4.15 4.30 dollars per barrel while hogs were scarce in New York and Pittsburg quotes show Yorkers around 6.80 dollars.
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