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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
1
The U S Department of Agriculture gains full control over meat and meat products in interstate commerce. Executive order extends the pure food and drug act to include meat, allowing seizure and destruction of adulterated or unwholesome items. Government inspectors may seize meat in retail and wholesale markets.
The Dominion government reports 1913 crop areas with total wheat at 9,816,300 acres, up 57,900 from last year. Spring wheat covers 8,990,500 acres, oats up 391,600, barley up 10,000, rye down 9,610, with fall wheat at 0.62 and spring wheat at 1.19 in price terms. conditions are overall good.
In Norristown Pennsylvania a suspected smallpox case arose when George Transite, who had worked on an ice wagon, fled after his rash prompted coworkers Samuel Heller and Lewis Helfer to urge medical advice. He later saw Dr J N Hunsberger who confirmed smallpox. He returned to his boarding house and ran away.
In Milwaukee, four brothers Rev. Edward, Charles, John and Henry Stehling served as officiants at the funeral of their mother Mrs. Katherine Stehling 65 at St Bonifacious church. A cousin Rev Hugo Stehling also took part in the final mass.
Early wells in what would become a major oil region were drilled for salt and reached depths around 800 feet. Most yielded petroleum and some produced most oil, but the commercial value of oil as an illuminant was not tested until the late fifties.
Beef rose suddenly on Monday with cattle at 9.20 dollars per 100 pounds at Chicago stock yards, the year's high point. Over two weeks prices gained 60 cents per hundred while receipts of 17,000 cattle signaled a beef famine, as buyers noted lower quality livestock than usual.
Asheville June 19 Dr Karl von Ruck discoverer of a tuberculosis vaccine has so many patients he cannot house them all He ordered the superintendent to vacate a 12 room house moved nurses to other quarters and ordered a carload of tents The hospital staff was enlarged to handle the influx Dr George B Crow of the US Navy began lab work to produce and administer the vaccine under orders from Surgeon General Stokes He will remain six months to a year and may train other physicians if the vaccine is adopted by the navy
A deer chased by a New York Central train at Mt. St. Vincent station after entering residential Yonkers areas last week got frightened and leaped a fence, becoming impaled on pickets and killed. Charles H. McDonald and Edward W. Taylor were arrested while attempting to remove the carcass but were later released.
Mrs. Horace MacFaul 33 and daughter of Dr Edwards of 415 Fifth Street died last week after a long illness. She was the only Niagara Falls patient treated with Friedmann's turtle serum, inoculated at Brown's Mills New Jersey about six weeks ago.
Bert Brown aged 20 from Grooville Sullivan County New York was killed in a mill accident when he tripped over a board and fell into a circular saw, the blade cutting through his body from left hip to head.
Albany reports Secretary Platt seeks a joint hearing before the judiciary committees on the Sulzer direct primary bill. Democratic leaders favor killing the governor's bill while planning to adjourn by Wednesday. Blauvelt election law acts loom and Cohalan matters may trigger a future extra session.
Report from the St. Louis Times explains the United States mint system with four joint-venture mints in Philadelphia New Orleans San Francisco and Denver. It notes Philadelphia coins minor denominations one and five cent pieces and also mints gold and silver. Congress sets denominations fineness and value while the director of the mint at Washington regulates which coins are issued. Paper money is designed and printed by the bureau of engraving in Washington.
Elizabeth Watt 85 explains she bought an expensive coffin to insure her burial after distrust of her late husband Andrew's relatives. She kept the coffin in her parlor at 450 West Forty-second Street and arranged the purchase herself after visiting an undertaker.
Adolph Aschbach elder son of Mr and Mrs Gearhart C Aschbach died at Allentown hospital after a June 12 accident. The car went through a fence at a sharp turn, somersaulted. Erwin Mickley had a broken collar bone and Aschbach suffered fatal internal injuries from peritonitis despite an operation. He planned to carry on a large inherited piano business.
George Louis Weigand claimeds he shot Louisa Nelson on May 15 in Washington Avenue as she lay in bed believing she was bewitched. The special jury ruled him sane after alienist testimony from Dr Britton D Evans and others. Weigand had been confined at Morris Plains asylum in 1905 and wrote to Joseph Tumulty for a Samoa consul post.
Salina Kansas reports the wheat harvest active across central and adjoining counties with thousands of acres cut. Harvest hands are ample and workers shift between regions. western volunteers will aid when West Kansas harvest starts in two to three weeks.
Guy E. Farquhar aged 72 known as the Nestor of the Schuylkill bar collapsed and died in court while representing the prosecution in a case involving New Philadelphia school directors charged with a misdemeanor.
In 1638 the first honeybees were brought to this country, black or brown German bees. They spread nationwide over two centuries until 1859 when Italians were introduced. Since then many races entered, but most bees today are Italians or mixed with blacks, with few pure blacks.
A witty exchange from the Kansas City Journal about a trip with a husband who showed little interest in sightseeing. The sole amusement he enjoyed was the Potomac dollar-throwing feat, yet he spent hours searching for the door and ended in disappointment.
Washington reports reveal Hamlin letters and telegrams from the sugar beet industry chief showing plans to secure committee assignments and publicise sugar tariff benefits. Correspondence between Truman G. Palmer and Henry T. Oxnard discusses distribution of influence and nationwide publicity efforts to champion beet sugar interests.
Washington June 19 Representative Roberts introduces a bill to require steel passenger cars instead of wooden ones to improve rail safety. The measure faces pressure from the interstate commerce committee for action at the special session despite the currency bill priority. Chairman Adamson says railroads must heed safety or face consequences.
Hazleton Alderman Joseph Moody rules a brick incident, fining Michael Pulaski seven dollars fifty cents and costs and charging him for the damaged window of Moses Epstein after Pulaski was struck by an opponent. The ruling holds that dodging a brick is not allowed and the window damage must be paid.
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania on June 19 R J Bush a local harnessmaker tossed a 500 yard ball of yarn attached to an Irish wax string from his window a robin picked up the yarn carried it to a tree and began weaving a nest Yesterday Bush checked the yarn and found only a few yards remaining and discovered the completed nest in the tree nearby.
A team of horses encountered a large rattlesnake on the road near Ralston. The wagon was overturned, driver Jay Boise was thrown and suffered fractured ribs, and one horse fell down an embankment breaking its neck.
A household quip traced to Mrs Mason after her husband told the Flemings her humor was positive but not negative. She explained quietly that he could make a joke but could not take one, illustrating a light domestic exchange.
Mrs. Clara White Dunkle wife of P S Dunkle died June 8 at their family home Glen Craigie near Cataldo Idaho Born September 20 1852 in Columbus Pa she taught in Erie and Warren counties and married in 1878 to P S Dunkle She leaves husband and children including Gertrude Boutwell Manila P L Perry B Dunkle Geneva D Dunkle Cataldo Idaho Clarence C Dunkle Arthur V Dunkle Mullan Idaho Now residing in Coeur d Alene Idaho and later Warren Glade Pa before moving west Her devotion to Pennsylvania trees shows in her transplanting beeches maples and oaks from her old homeland
Secretary McAdoo announced that $500 million of emergency currency would be available if banks need it. He said the statement responded to bankers inquiries about crop movement timing and stressed it had no relation to the Wall Street situation.
Mrs. Belle Elizabeth Clark of Reading Pennsylvania a department store clerk died after a week of intense suffering from a neck bite. The neck grew sore and stiff a day after the bite and the entire body swelled with symptoms likened to a rattlesnake bite. Treatments proved ineffective.
The H. C. Frick Coke company of Connellsville Pennsylvania plans dairy farms near its gas king plants and coal mines to supply workers with fresh milk and dairy products at farmer prices.
Four hundred thousand bushels of potatoes are rotting on railroad tracks in Minneapolis Minnesota with a hundred thousand bushels said to spoil. Officials consider turning the salvageable crop to charitable institutions as excess supplies from new Southern shipments cause congestion and spoilage.
Experiments by the forest service of the department of agriculture in Los Angeles indicate California woods may yield a new major paper industry. The tests aim to determine the value of local timber for paper manufacture.
Water from the Atlantic Ocean will be let into the lower level of the Gatun locks in Panama during the week. Dredges will finish excavating from the ocean to the locks, totaling about 2,000,000 cubic yards.
The piece notes golf as a national pastime in mid seventeenth century Scotland with royal patronage and calls it the sport of kings. It mentions James VI employing a clubmaker to his majesty and a 1642 moment when Charles I learned of the Irish rebellion while on Leith links. It also records the first recorded international match with the Duke of York later James II and a Edinburgh shoemaker beating England’s best golfers.
A playful brain teaser asks what sits in place yet stays out of order and answers with the letters ce as the clue, highlighting how a small segment can prompt a moment of puzzling order.
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