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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
2
President Taft summons cabinet members and leading senators to the White House for a conference to devise a plan for taxing corporations. The senate votes to raise the print paper duty from two to four dollars per ton as William Lorimer is sworn in and casts his first tariff vote.
Henry George Jr visits Yasnai Poliana as guest of Count Leo Tolstoi who welcomes him warmly praising his father’s economic ideas. Rev A G Pierce is named chaplain by senate resolution for All Souls church. Roosevelt compares corporations to mob in Outlook. Thaw hearing delayed to July 6. Morse freed on 125000 bond. Shull faces five days in work house for speeding. Fairbanks hosted by Kyoto governor and rides in governor's carriage.
Reports cover a wide range of events including the Wright brothers careful aeroplane preparations for government tests at Fort Myer. Other items note Harriman's illness rumors in Vienna denied by associates, a black tramp attacking two women at Green Ridge Illinois, and various crimes including killings and ship speed records.
Details of the plan set a 2 percent tax on net earnings for profit corporations with $5,000 exemption. Returns to internal revenue agents cover gross receipts capital stock indebtedness and net earnings after deductions. The measure includes broad loss deductions and applies to all corporations including insurance firms, effective upon passage with July 1 1910 as the start of the fiscal year.
A genteel appearing highwayman robbed the Wagoner Bank and Trust Co. in downtown Fort Worth after closing, taking $8100 in currency from cashier Walter E. King who was alone in the bank. The daring robbery ends with the suspect escaping.
The W. P. Thew a 132 foot steamer owned by Hugh R. Havey of Detroit was sunk after a collision with the Livingstone off Thunder Bay Island. Captain E W Duncan and 11 crew members escaped in yawls and were rescued by the Mary C Elphicke. The Thew was en route to Alpena with no cargo when rammed in the early morning hours.
Andrew Carnegie has funded 1800 public libraries statewide with charitable donations totaling 51,596,963 over recent years. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board imposes a 100 day quarantine on Blairsville dogs amid hydrophobia concerns. Harrisburg Pipe Works raises wages 10 percent for 609 workers starting July. Nicetown fire destroys a George W. Blahon Co. plant, estimated loss 100,000 dollars.
Gov. Stuart signs a new fee bill improving compensation for justices of the peace with some rates doubled. The state pardons board recommends releasing James R. Gentry, serving life since 1895 for the murder of Madge Yorke, a fellow actor in the same company.
Notice posted announcing a ten percent wage advance for Warwick Iron and Steel Co employees. Puddlers at Glasgow Iron Co and workers at Lessig Iron Works also receive raises, affecting both skilled and unskilled labor.
Hilbert Streiber, 85, who previously lost a leg and used an artificial limb, celebrated his birthday by crafting a new limb himself. The device is described as a fine mechanism rather than a crude replica.
Harrisburg reports the Dairy and Food Division Bulletin instructs retail grocers and food dealers statewide to secure guarantees from wholesalers manufacturers and jobbers under the new pure food law to avoid prosecution for selling adulterated or misbranded goods.
Two cans containing 1200 trout ranging from 2 to 214 inches were stocked in Licking creek, a mountain stream crossing Huntingdon and Juniata counties. This brings the year’s total to 32 cans or about 180000 trout. The stream is largely state land and will be free of saw mills, potentially making it a premier trout stream in Pennsylvania.
A historic Waynesboro church, the first erected in the town, celebrates 150 years in remarkable preservation. Six denominations once worshiped there including Methodist Presbyterian Reformed Lutheran Covenant and Associate Reformed. The strap hinges were forged in the blacksmith shop that produced the first Revolutionary War cannon.
Mrs. George Bumbaugh cut a bread loaf in her Gettysburg home and found blood on the knife after slicing a house snake that had somehow entered the bread. The snake was found in the loaf kept in the cellar bread closet and was cut in two during midday meal prep.
A Pennsylvania railroad test achieved a record movement of a heavy freight train from Altoona to Enola. Five steel gondola cars carried 4451 tons of coal attached to locomotive 1113, weighing 6151 tons total. The 124 mile trip took 7 hours 15 minutes at an average 17 mph.
Henry Weaver of Knauer's in Berks County discovered a large turtle at his farm marked with H. W. 1777. The initials match those of his great grandfather, Henry Weaver.
Slimkins asks if Podger minds a five dollar matter going to the bill collector. Podger admits he borrowed a dollar from the collector, noting no hard feelings over the handling.
A Louisville Courier Journal quote extols a country lawyer turned judge famed for dignified bearing and solemn manner. It notes his courtly decorum and sagacity, with an acquaintance praising him as presiding with more dignity and less ability than any other judge known.
The patient recounts a doctor advising gradual withdrawal from whisky and soda. Months later the patient reports compliance, noting he has already given up soda entirely, much to the doctor's stern impression.
Souders Vanilla Extract promises a rich pure flavor from fine Mexican vanilla beans. Sold in grocers in 10 15 and 283 cent bottles. A writer notes that every woman loves the wrong man once and every man loves the wrong woman several times.
An advertisement notes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething relief and gum soothing. It claims to reduce inflammation and pain and to cure wind colic, priced at 25 cents per bottle, with a $5 bill broken and its pieces lost.
Chicago woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with avoiding a third surgery after two prior operations. Testimonial mentions relief from inflammation and a small tumor and urges women to build up their systems to remove distressing symptoms.
Philadelphia police arrest 14 year old Michael Mazzicota and his 22 year old aunt Fannie Mazzicota on parental warrants after they eloped from New York with intent to marry. Both are residents of New York City.
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