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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
8
Owosso Michigan reports threats received by Lewis Greenman and Nancy Meyer of Carland aimed at preventing their marriage. Letters warned of killing the couple and included a duel invite. Greenman filed the letters with an attorney amid doubt about authenticity.
President Roosevelt will approve the Oklahoma constitution after reviewing it with the attorney general to ensure it meets the terms of the enabling act. He said his personal opinion of the document is not to be published and the formal approval will follow at a later date. Vere St. Greer Goold confessed to a Marseille crime plot involving his wife Violet and Emma Levin in a Swedish case linked to the Woolas baggage incident.
In Kalamazoo on September 27 a charity train day funds Mamazoo hospital. Doctors and lawyers played a morning ball game at River View Park. In the evening the Mu Delta fraternity hosted a grand benefit at Oakwood Pavilion with society women acting as organizers and conductors.
An Atlantic fragment discusses a Shakespearean idea that man is built from four elements, applied to sonnets forty four and forty five about absence from a friend. It notes earth and water immobile distance and air and fire moving back to the friend, with death near life.
Household guidance extols using ordinary tallow dips as economical candles for dinner tables. Keep in cold storage between meals to extend burn time to three nights, use porcelain holders to disguise quality, and precondition candies for twenty four hours to improve burning brightness and duration.
Sig Dor Tittoni Italian foreign minister visits Berne to discuss a planned tunnel linking German and Italian railroad lines at Splager pass in Canton Grison. Fourteen people drowned in separate incident. In Mobile, a Tombigbee river ferry capsized near McGrew Shoals killing one white boy and thirteen others.
Recounts of American league games including Boston and Pittsburg results with scores and locations. Also notes heavy rain storms causing floods in the Herault valley, France with major damage and loss.
In a fierce Arctic storm the brig Tigress battles towering seas as the crew fights to save the vessel and forty lives. Commander Greer, Lt Commander Henry White, and Engineer George Melville lead a desperate mission to search for Polaris survivors and the wreck. A loose foretopgallant sail endangers the mast while a torn anchor chain hinders escape. The storm rages with blinding spray and fog as the ship struggles to hold position and weather the gale. The seaman Willis steadies the deck as the crew braces for a perilous, uncertain night at sea.
In Teddy Bear Land the Tigress battles ice and storm while 44 men on board search for castaways. A gale drives the ship toward Cumberland Gulf as Willis braves a frozen rigging ascent to save the vessel and its crew.
Willis risked life aboard the Tigress during a brutal storm to furl a flapping sail for hours. He reached the mast and, despite freezing canvas and raging wind, secured the sail and reported to the lieutenant. His bravery earned him boat swain status and the Medal of Honor from the secretary of the navy.
A pirate style exchange ends with a boast about carrying nitroglycerin in a pocket as tension rises among unnamed speakers.
London dispatch reports the Sept 11 Roman Catholic wedding of opera singer Zeli de Lussan to Angelo Fronani son of Emmanuel Fronani in diplomatic service. They travel aboard the Adriatic to New York. Fronani is an Italian pianist who previously performed with Mile de Lussin in 1904. The bride’s Paris and London-based parents call it a love match.
Paris reports Nicholas Martin of White Star says Miss I K Haskell stepdaughter of Perry W Barne was the only severely injured person when the rear coach of the Paris Cherbourg steamer train telescoped near the Brevatun nel at Mantes She is aboard the Adriatic under the ship's surgeon guidance.
Carmi Sept 27. C M Andrews, a mussel digger, shows a pearl he found. The pearl weighs seven grains and is valued at 105 dollars based on fifteen dollars per grain.
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