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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
2
World scenes show political shifts in Europe as leaders meet in Paris and London. In Asia, economic talks advance with trade deals reported between Tokyo and Seoul. The Americas note cultural events, sporting results, and notable public ceremonies shaping global life.
Dr Charles W Eliot urges urgent warning on water power and coal land monopolies. Rev Harry E Woodcock marks 93rd birthday with sermon in Kansas City. Rear Admiral John Hubbard to command Pacific fleet third squadron, succeeding Giles Harbor. War Secretary Dickinson returns to Washington. Elwood Worcester advocates Emmanuel healing movement expansion with college curriculum. Jennie McCowen presides Davenport meeting of Iowa Charities. Jose Capablanca, 21, defeats 26 of 29 in New York simultaneous chess event. Samuel Untermeyer wins horticulture prize for a 30 foot chrysanthemum with 1,000 blooms. John R Pratt elected Verona mayor as only candidate. Mrs Raymond Robins notes Western factory girls’ strength. Congressman Aiken plans DC prohibition bill. De Witt Clinton Duncan dies in Vinita at 75, Cherokee writer and poet Too-Qua-Stee.
The National Grange meeting opens in Des Moines with Nahum J. Bachelder presiding and speeches by Sir Horace Plunkett. Samuel Gompers opens the AFL meeting in Toronto with a Europe trip report. A brakeman’s death follows a Round Lake loot attempt on the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound line. An alcoholism congress report cites alcohol as a major human vice. A 17 year old Alva Coan confesses to murdering Alexander Hoenig in Cleveland during a robber attempt. Senator Shelby Cullom advocates disfranchising Black voters and white supremacy in Southern state affairs. Fifteen of thirty Baltimore and Ohio section workers strike in Massillon over proposed ten hour days after a nine hour cap.
In a March 4 1907 decision the Supreme Court denied redress for 13600 Choc taw and Chickasaw Indians excluded from citizenship rolls by Interior Secretary Hitchcock. The ruling ends their bid for recognition and rights under federal policy to date.
In Summerville, New Jersey, hypnotist Davenport and Prof Everton failed to revive Robert Simpson during a stage trance at the Summerville theatre. Physicians declare death after Simpson collapsed. Everton and Davenport face legal action as manslaughter charges loom.
Annie Pellry a Cairo dry goods clerk was found murdered in an alley after being gagged and choked. The body was discovered by children. no clues name a suspect. Pellry had recently moved from Anna Illinois and left work about 7 PM. rain and her staying with a friend delayed family concern.
Belated reports from November 8 describe the barkentine John 8 Bennett sinking after a collision with a four masted schooner off Block Island. Eleven crewmen from the Bennett are drowned and five from the Merrill C Hart are believed lost. Capt Bullock provides scant details.
Denver chemist Philip Scurch Jr claims cancer germs flee before limburger cheese fragrance. His cure involves cleansing affected parts with quicklime liquor and milk, then applying limburger cheese moistened with glycerine.
In Omaha Nebraska an infant was cremated and two young sisters likely fatally burned when the residence of Joseph Zidarich was destroyed by a blaze.
Dr Charles W Eliot president of the National Conservation association urges immediate action to stop monopolies seizing heat and mechanical power sources. He cites coal lands Alaska water power and calls for comprehensive federal legislation at the next session and asks every citizen to act now.
New York City reports Mrs Ava Willing Astor received an interlocutory divorce from Col John Jacob Astor after five minutes of court action. Papers with testimony sealed, alimony reportedly $10 million. The case, noted for lack of scandal, centers on a Nile voyage and a social background narrative.
New York City born auditor C L Warriner, treasurer at Cincinnati for the Big Four line, confessed to stealing 643000 before being suspected. He turned over over 100000 in property, bond coverage of 50000 from American Surety, and awaits grand jury action in Cincinnati. He claimed blackmail by a woman who learned of office wrongdoing.
Iron barred windows trapped eight workers at Robert Morrison & Sons' comb factory in Brooklyn. Five more men were likely fatally injured escaping the blaze. Most victims were Italians.
Doctors are puzzled by Torello Dendi of Utica New York who has subsisted on three quarts of milk daily for 18 years seeking medical explanation and possible health effects.
The engineer corps from Allegheny and Washington counties works on mapping the northern Allegheny region. Their surveys aim to publish valuable geographic data. The state railroad commission will review a Buffalo and Susquehanna employee’s claim that 2 percent relief deductions and a signed release delayed injury relief.
Attorney General M Hampton Todd told State Superintendent Schaeffer that minors must hold new certificates under the 1909 act, but certificates may be obtained any time before January 1, 1910. The opinion, in response to factory inspector inquiries, affects about 60,000 minors employed in Pennsylvania.
Health division statistics show 2,073 infant deaths from childhood intestinal diseases in August, with total deaths 9,441. Tuberculosis 714, typhoid 179, pneumonia 272, Bright's disease 382, diphtheria 102. Public crises 70, railway fatalities 98, mine/quarry deaths 72. Communicable diseases total 6,449, led by typhoid 2,029, tuberculosis 1,158, diphtheria 995.
State agriculture agents will bring prosecutions in about a dozen counties for misbranding feeding stuffs and fertilizers to show contents. Violations were found in Berks, Lebanon, Dauphin, Schuylkill, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, Lawrence, Northumberland, Luzerne, Lackawanna, and related weed seed or nonfeed substances detected in products.
Harrisburg capitol stir over quo warranto hearings set for November 19 against 60 western Pennsylvania brewing firms accused of making and selling ice. If no cause shown they may be enjoined from disposing of ice as premium bonus or sale following prior actions against the Pittsburg and Independent Brewing companies and AG office moves to halt ice giveaways.
Health Commissioner Dixon reports that from Oct 1905 to Jan 1909 fourteen thousand five hundred plus children in Pennsylvania received free antitoxin. Eighty eight hundred and four recovered, death rate 8.74 percent. Immunization also reached ten thousand two hundred plus exposed children, with only 161 infections and thirteen deaths. Henry W. Pierson led distribution in Philadelphia, aiding poor slum and mining areas. Gov. Stuart signs death warrant for Frank Latampo to hang December 9 at Lock Haven.
The health department launches a new tuberculosis dispensary in Nanticoke as the state reaches 118 operating facilities. The expansion serves thousands of patients and strengthens regional care.
State health department engineers will conduct surveys of the Carnegie tract as part of the preliminary work for a transfer. The preparations are progressing.
A historical notice describes mixing one ounce compound syrup of Sarsaparilla and one ounce Toris compound with a half pint of first class whiskey. It instructs taking a tablespoon before each meal and at bedtime with the bottle shaken before use. The remedy is claimed to be highly effective and to show restorative effects after the initial doses.
Jimmy asks his actor wife to fetch a hat from a milliner. He struggles to recall the exact description, while the shopgirls laugh at his confident yet clueless memory. The scene plays on his ignorance of millinery terms and the insistence on the orchid trimmed white beaver hat.
Sunday school lesson recalls turning the other cheek as Johnny answers that one strike should provoke no retaliation. The superintendent asks how many times to endure before hitting back and Johnny replies Just about once.
An old classified style notice offers a one hundred dollar reward for cures of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It presents endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin and F J Cheney & Co of Toledo, with claims of internal action and testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A comic strip portrays a diner with patrons reacting to rising beer wine spirits and inheritance taxes. The characters vow to stop drinking rather than pay higher levies, highlighting taxpayer frustration and a humorous clash with policy.
Mrs Simmons reports Dyola Dyes superior to any dye she has used and says it colors silk, cotton, and wool as well as other dyes on their own. The ad promotes Dyola at 10c per package with free direction book and color card from Dyola Burlington VT.
A letter asks whether the county jail has seen a great fall in patronage and whether a plus or minus sign should be placed before the item in question. The prompt frames prosperity as a great problem and invites judgment on the jail’s patronage trend.
Many children suffer summer ailments and teething troubles. Mother Gray a nurse at the Children s Home in New York offers her powder to cure feverishness headache stomach troubles and worms. Druggists sell it for 25 cents and a free sample is mailed when addressed to Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York.
The Philadelphia Record notes Wigg-Scribbler pieces tend to end sadly and are often discarded as waste.
Rough on Rats poison promises wide kill range from a single 15 cent box. Advertises it makes 50 to 100 cakes that will kill 500 or more rats and mice. Warns against imitation products and suggests avoiding in-home danger.
A compact comparison likens a proactive messenger to a live tree that sends out signals while a passive carrier acts as a telegraph pole that only bears others messages, illustrating differing roles in communication.
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