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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
6
The Department of Commerce announced a world export record for August totaling 510 million dollars. This surpassed the May record by 35 million and the June total by 45 million. A pacer won and a marriage license was issued on Tuesday.
Burglars chiseled into a 3000 pound safe at Steman and Norwig jewelry in Baltimore Maryland and escaped with gems valued at fifteen thousand dollars.
An explosion rocked a motion picture theater in Chicago's loop district last Monday morning. Minor damage reported to the building as labor troubles are cited as the cause.
New York public schools opened two weeks late due to infantile paralysis fears. Between 75,000 and 100,000 children were kept home while the Health Department implemented precautions. Every teacher and pupil is examined and a nurse is on duty at each school.
Burton Wilson, president of the American Club of Mexico City, is held in jail after arrest by Carranza's secret service. No charges were filed. Wilson chairs the international committee representing seventeen foreign colonies in Mexico City. Americans arriving at San Antonio report the events.
Vance C. McCormick in a Sunday statement at Washington predicted President Wilson will be re elected and said the Democratic ticket will win by a wide margin. He noted growing support among independent, progressive and Republican voters.
Four people were killed and two injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train struck a survey group riding on a grade crossing near Van Wert Ohio on Sunday.
Large quantities of basswood are being cut in the hills of Fayette County Pennsylvania and shipped to New England paper mills. The industry once employed many men twenty five years ago and provided pulp for nearby mills who later exhausted the timber. Now trees suitable for pulp have regrown, reviving production potential.
Gen Moschioulos resigns as Venizelos flees to Crete held by revolutionists. King Constantine rushes to Athens to confer with the prime minister. Venizelos plans a proclamation for the reelection of all Greek soldiers upon his Crete arrival.
James Owen of Milwaukee received an official letter from a Chattanooga law firm claiming his grandmother Mrs. P. H. Wisdom bequeathed him 800000. He plans to use the money to pursue aviation pursuits as a potential fortune.
The steamer Ottawa bound from New York to Oswego foundered in Lake Ontario five miles from Six Lot during a Tuesday storm. Six lives were lost and three were rescued.
Bruce Bliven of the University of Southern California warned the Southern California Editorial Association that many U.S. papers may suspend temporarily unless newsprint supply issues are eased. He urged cooperative measures to correct the causes.
A section of Sixty-eighth Street in Brooklyn between Fifth and Sixth avenues collapsed Tuesday afternoon due to nearby subway construction. About a dozen people were engulfed by the cave-in as ambulances from three hospitals and police reserves rushed to the scene.
Viola Haddon 25 of 4561 Faston Avenue St Louis killed herself Tuesday afternoon by swallowing carbolic acid at her residence. A note to her mother said life was not worth living and blamed John Fisk of Kansas City for the distress.
Charles Tymnas of Cheare wins a wager on a pacer horse race with Miss Martha Beckman of Palatine. Beckman promised to marry Tymnas if the pacer won and would otherwise be offered as a bride.
President Wilson voted in the State primaries at Princeton New Jersey. He was the fourteenth registered voter to cast his ballot and returned to Shadow Lawn by motor to the summer White House.
Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade voted Tuesday to raise the par value of board membership to 25000. It will still be possible to buy memberships from members at market value, which ranges from 35000 up.
Returns from New Jersey canvass show John S. Wescott leading for attorney general with 12 844 votes over Martine six 687 from 729 districts. Frelinghuysen leads for U S senator with 66 977 to 63 463 Murphy. Walter E Edge leads in Republican governor race. H Otto Wittpenn unopposed for Democratic nomination.
Pancho Villa and his band are moving north toward the expeditionary force, according to reports received Tuesday at field headquarters of the Pershing punitive expedition from a very reliable source. Villa is said to have crossed the Northwestern Railroad near Chihuahua City, with skirmishes reported between Villa's men and Carranza troops.
Spain issues a formal note to Berlin protesting German submarine torpedoing of Spanish steamers. Indignation grows nationwide as Spanish ships are lost and the Ship Owners' Association calls for protective steps to safeguard shipping and welfare.
About 200 to 250 Wabash shop employees threatened to walk out after an American flag with a photograph of President Wilson was removed from over the shop door. Master Mechanic H C Ettinger ordered the flag taken down but later restored it when workers began to walk out.
Flour prices rose 20 cents a barrel on Tuesday in Chicago marking the highest level since the Civil War. Minnesota patent values show a barrel price at 49.10, up five dollars over the prior year.
First Chief Carranza issues a decree in Mexico City tightening pulque regulation. The liquor made from maguey juice will face higher import taxes, required business records, and mandated crop diversification on magney lands. Violations carry fines up to ten times the tax or factory closure.
Conner Sitton, 24, was sentenced to seventeen years in Arkansas state prison for second degree murder in the death of Mrs May Arnold. testified he forced her to retract slanderous statements and fired when she fled, killing her at her home in the incident witnessed by others.
Military headquarters at El Paso Texas said five hundred Villa adherents have been executed since the fight. A skirmish was reported at Arena ten miles south of Juarez Sunday night. A prisoner released near the border claimed Villa was seen with a crutch after a leg wound, mounted on a saddle with the crutch.
Chicago mayor Thompson was fined $500 for failing to carry required life saving equipment on a Green Bay Wis cruise. The next yachting trip will require a tender equipped with extinguishers life preservers pilot rules whistle bell and fog horn as mandated by motor boat laws.
Reports from Boliver Missouri indicate a copper and oil strike on the Joe Brant farm three-quarters of a mile northwest of town. Copper carbonate occurred at 275 feet, pure copper at 415 feet, then oil sand at 250 feet after moving the drill.
The seventh Earl of Essex George Devereaux de Vere Capell was found dead in his bed at Newmarket after a period of illness. He owned about 15000 acres and married his second wife Adela Grant of New York in 1893.
About five hundred workers at the Dolphin jute mill in Patterson New Jersey will gain a 10 percent wage rise this Saturday. A parallel announcement from the Bavarian Flax Spinning Company adds higher wages for nearly two thousand mill workers in the city.
President Wilson traveling in a special train from Long Branch to Baltimore was held up eight minutes in northeast Philadelphia Monday when a straw car on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad caught fire. He chatted with city firemen and crew as the blaze was shifted and the train resumed.
The Over seas News Agency reports a cut in German officer salaries starting October 1. The minister of war and chief army commanders lose 1000 marks a month, lieutenants 60 marks, with married officers and those with dependents receiving special indemnities. The Reichstag had requested the reduction in December 1915.
The official statement says Capt. de Beauchamps and Lieut. Dauciurt flew from the French lines to Essen in Westphalia, dropping twelve bombs on the Krupp plant and returning safely after a 500 mile flight. Both aviators landed back at their starting point.
National Guard units from multiple states and the District of Columbia were ordered to the Mexican border on Wednesday by the War Department. General Funston was instructed to select 10,000 infantry from arriving units for border duties and return them to state mobilization camps. Battery A field artillery Maryland will be refurnished to its state mobilization camp and mustered out if federal service ends.
Authorities in San Francisco confirm the Pacific Coast Steamship Company will transfer its entire fleet valued at ten million dollars to the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company. The deal ranks among the largest shipping circules in years and reshapes coastal maritime operations.
Tests for naval officers seeking promotion will now rely on practical demonstrations of efficiency in steam engineering, navigation, gunnery, electricity, and seamanship. Rear Admiral Palmer, active secretary of the navy, authorized ship commanders to use these subjects as deciding factors, replacing the old written examinations.
W B Morton smiled and spoke with surgeons during brain tissue examination for mastoid abscess removal at St Marys of Nazareth Hospital Chicago. The operation used local anesthesia and today Morton was reported to be getting along nicely.
Britain has withdrawn import regulations on cigar tobacco that American growers warned would ruin business. Imports are authorized based on 1915 1914 and 1910 levels, signaling a return to near normal American tobacco supplies entering Britain under new rules.
The text warns that overloading nerves through constant high pace and mixing work with pleasure damages health. It urges rest and balanced pleasure to offset stress, noting chronic nervousness leads to digestion problems, worry, irritability, temper, and restlessness hindering work and enjoyment.
Quotations praise John Marshall as the greatest judge in language and in effect. Hugh v Brown cites Marshall's unique opportunity and influence across equity, commercial law, and constitutional theory. A foreign observer and British voices affirm his unparalleled stature.
The chrysarobin production from the Brazilian araroba tree yields about half Goa powder. Trees eighty to one hundred feet tall and three feet in diameter are felled to extract damp pulp lumps. Workers suffer caustic burns, hair loss, and possible blindness from the caustic liquid, with long disability in some cases. A cat reportedly killed by exposure is noted.
A western city exhibit described by John Burroughs in The Breath of Life notes a wild sunflower breaking through asphalt. The folded leaves and fist like mass pressed the concrete until it bulged and split, showing the plant’s tenacious growth and power to overcome hard barriers.
The longest fasting record known is held by Graine a French murderer who starved himself for sixty three days until his death after arrest despite temptations to eat and forcible feeding attempts. The next longest documented fast is Giovanni Succi who lived forty five days without food at the Royal Aquarium London.
Napoleon III at the Tuileries joked with a mortified officer after a ball, saying in a wry tone that he had seen the colonel fall before and the first fall occurred on the battlefield of Magenta. The remark mixed wit with a sharp memory of battles.
A traveling troupe misrouted scenery led to posters advertising As You Like It as performed before Queen Victoria. The town interpreted it as a historic London season and filled the venue, eager for Rosalind and the Wrestler's Sweetheart, despite Jaques’ somber lines.
The Milwaukee Sentinel explains whales are mammals not fish and describe how their lungs, spouts, and flat tails help them breathe. It notes baleen whales carry whalebone worth thousands of dollars per ton, oil for ointments and candles, and ambergris worth up to eighty dollars an ounce.
A vivid account describes cattle herders in the Mexican plains engaging in knife duels. Two opponents bind wrists with a rawhide thong, each receives a knife, and the fight begins. Fatal blows are common, with experts terrorizing neighborhoods by striking quickly and escaping.
The London Chronicle notes tea cost six to ten pounds per pound on its first introduction to England in the mid seventeenth century. The East India Company paid over four pounds for two pounds given to the king, yet merchants likely did not profit greatly as importation of about four thousand pounds in 1675 flooded the market for years.
A witty exchange from the Boston Tran script remarks on a wife having the last word. The male speaker stresses he is always glad when she reaches it, implying humorous support rather than conflict. The brief quip captures light marital banter and social tone of the era.
The Boston Post quotes a successful merchant advising his boy never let capital lie idle. He warns money talks but not in its sleep, urging active use of wealth and prudent investment.
A brief exchange about fluctuating fortunes. The quotes reflect a lighthearted view of personal ups and downs and feeling “hard up” in the moment.
A reflective aphorism notes that happiness remains a sought goal throughout life, symbolized by a bird forever pursued yet rarely captured. The quote by Virey frames joy as an enduring, elusive quest guiding human effort and longing.
Professor J Joly reports with Professor H H Dixon on swimming in clothes, finding maximal downward drag in seawater is only four ounces once air is expelled. Clothing reduces heat loss, as fabrics against the skin impede circulation and slow cooling, suggesting heavy garments could keep a swimmer warmer in cold water.
The mother of Ivan Turgenev feigned near death after a birthday celebration. She summoned her confessor and displayed her son’s portrait, declared farewells, then ordered the servants to say goodbye. The next morning she improved and sent orders to sweep the court, mocking wayward staff as drunk.
A bronze ancient die found in Egypt in 1904 is on display in Athens and is likely the sole extant antique coin die. It bears the owl emblem from Athenian tetradrachmas and reveals advanced metallurgy 300 to 400 years before Christ. The alloy contains about 21.14 percent tin and around 70 percent copper, with extreme hardness and limited malleability due to purity and removal of lead zinc arsenic and antimony.
In Walton's The Complete Angier, the nightingale is praised for a rich airy song that fills the night. The speaker recalls hearing the bird’s clear airs and descants at midnight, suggesting divine music given to saints on earth.
Professor F. G. Donnan of University College London defines an emulsion as a distribution of one liquid in another. A little oil shaken with much water forms an emulsion with oil droplets about a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, such as milk. A little water in much oil yields nanoscale water droplets, forming butter.
A Detroit Free Press quotation urges perspective on progress as a ladder metaphor. The speaker advises examining each rung and path to reach the top, implying growth comes methodically through steps rather than leaps.
A Pittsburgh Press quip contrasts parental support expectations with the enduring standard set by a mother in marriage. It reflects a witty, old newspaper voice highlighting social norms and generational shifts.
A Baltimore American quip notes a passenger feeling safe on a train because the engineer is reputed reckless, highlighting irony about railway safety perceptions.
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