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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
10
New York aldermen offer reception and freedom of the city. Interviewers report Whitney will tell the first story of the conversation. The discussion covers Peary rivalries, Arctic exploration, and questions on whether statements were corrected regarding observations by the Pole Star.
Peary meets seven brides aboard a train from Stellarton to New Glasgow amid a bustling scene at Nova Scotia stations. The crowd cheered as he moved along the cars, with rumors of a public ovation planned in Bangor and a forthcoming statement on "Has Cook Been at the Pole" to follow his Sydney departure.
President Taft continued his western tour with Colorado Springs stops and a Denver breakfast, praising conservation and urging continued reclamation under law. He defended Ballinger and Pinchot amid an ongoing debate, and noted plans to consider issuing debentures to fund reclamation projects.
The American waterway commission in Paris will not accept all Roosevelt inland waterway plans. It favors a much modified channel depth, likely nine feet, and plans to study French canals and catalyzed rivers. The panel will inspect Europe, spend two weeks in France, a fortnight in Britain, then sail the Philadelphia on October 16.
Pueblo Colo Sept 2 The President and party left Denver by autmobile for Walhurst estate of Thomas F Walsh as snow covered foothills framed a bracing morning. Gov Shafroth Senators Hughes and Warren and many Denver residents joined a breakfast at the Walsh home with two brass bands, breaking down in the drive, and the President’s party touring the grounds. The estate, named Clonmel in honor of Walsh’s Irish birthplace, was unveiled with a tablet.
Ex Gov Pardes of California returned from San Clemente Island with Gifford Pinchot and issued a state merit on the Taft letter exonerating Ballinger. He cites documentary evidence the Reclamation Service argued against Ballinger restoration orders and says Pinchot refuses comment on the president’s vindication and plans to travel to Washington.
The U S armada sent to the Fulton celebration steamed up New York harbor and anchored in the Hudson River above Grants Tomb. Four British battle ships slowed near the coast while German ships delayed. Italian cruiser Remy entered the harbor ahead of the American line and found anchorage in the North River. The German Etruria joined later from Bridgeport as dusk fell.
Storm toll climbs as Terrebonne Parish reports dozens dead and many missing after a tropical hurricane that struck Sunday and lingered into Monday. Homes, crops, and railways suffer extensive damage while communications collapse and relief efforts mobilize across Louisiana parishes and surrounding areas.
Fragmentary note expresses honor in representing the empire at the Hudson Fulton celebration. Mentions September and Ohio and a ceremonial connection, with unclear full details due to garbled OCR text.
Refugees flood Jackson as the city receives news of a tidal wave disaster. Eight bodies including the station agent, his wife, and children are recovered at Manchac while others, believed drowned, are missing along the Lake Mauncha marshes. Telegraph lines to McComb remain down.
Rear Admiral Charles Clark, commander of the Oregon in the Spanish American War, is seriously ill at Col Webby Hayes’s Grove home. He came to deliver an address at the gateway dedication for the French and Indian Trail of 1775 and the Harrison Military Trail commemoration, and planned to attend the Twenty Third Regiment Volunteer League reunion linked to Presidents Hayes and McKinley.
A bomb was found tonight in the rear of the Juarez customs house near the platform for the Taft Diaz meeting on October 36. More than 30 arrests were made in Juarez across the border.
A family of six including an elderly woman Aunt Betty Justa and her relatives was murdered in a Hurley Virginia home. Robbery appears motive as a large sum of money was reportedly hidden. Footprints traced by investigators point to three men, and a vigilante pursuit has started amid reports of armed citizens ready to lynch suspects.
A controversial prophecy from the Latter Reign of the Apatol sect warns that the earth’s crust will peel away tomorrow. Adherents gather at a wooden chapel between Houston and Flymeth in Line town, Maine, awaiting a cataclysmic transformation. Members, about 300, are reportedly abandoning worldly goods and occupations as they pray and sing. The scene centers on a small church as believers anticipate the event with fervent exhortations and occasional baptisms.
In Atlanta on Sept 2 Mrs Branyom paid money to induce her husband to return to her home in South Carolina to sober up. The husband, previously sober in South Carolina, had begun to relapse in Atlanta. He was under a drunkenness charge in Judge Broyles court when the money and railroad ticket were provided to send him back home for reform.
Post office inspectors probe a Washington based firm named the National Trust Company. Broker firms are said to have earned commissions on guaranteed business as investigators review records and statements from Henry Lewis and other officers. The company allegedly paid no dividends and operated with minimal paid capital, drawing scrutiny from officials over alleged schemes and misused funds.
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