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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1909
Page
4
In a political wake, Amelia helps Mrs Hodge Lathrop lobby against the Ames amendment as Vernon hurries to a Illinois state capitol vote. The amendment fails. Hodge-Lathrop declares Vernon saved from himself while Amelia and Vernon confront a painful delay and unknown consequences.
Vernon introduces Miss Greene to Mrs. Overman Hodge-Lathrop at a Springfield gathering. The Chicago guest disrupts the room with icy remarks while reactions run high among Miss Greene, Mrs. Barbourton, and others. The scene hints at opposition to a woman rights resolution.
Clark County Ohio voters chose prohibition by 11 votes after a record turnout of 17,831. The result shifted as city wet precincts weighed against dry county majorities, with 93 saloons and three breweries to close and a celebratory mood among saloon men until final counts arrived.
Louisville official Colonel M J Winn says the state racing commission will meet in Lexington to consider dates for Churchill Downs spring meeting and rules. He denies plans for an all summer meet and notes Latonia’s meeting will last no more than 20 days. Ada woman Mary Wilson, 83, is dying after stepping on a cat’s tail and fracturing her hip.
Archdeacon Emery has resigned his post in the diocese of California. His formal resignation and a letter explaining his reasons were placed in Bishop Nichols’s hands. The resignation follows heavy publicity from his daughter Helen Gladys Emery’s marriage to Gunjiro Aoki and growing criticism. Cleveland reports wireless service between Cleveland and Toledo will begin within two weeks with plans to connect 29 cities and 300 lake vessels by June 1 through the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Company.
A mass meeting at Mt Sterling courthouse to organize a Montgomery County Fair Association adopted a resolution to form a company with shares of 25 dollars each. Directors and a committee were named to prepare incorporation papers for a planned 15000 dollar venture with an April 3 meeting set to report findings.
A young man at a corner drug store telephone tells a caller the baby weighs eleven pounds and looks like him. He speaks proudly, reassures the caller, and exits past smiling customers at the soda fountain, seemingly unbothered by their curiosity.
Sapulpa Oklahoma March 30 Tom Rivers a noted Kentuckian was fatally shot and Officer Clarence Rupert seriously wounded in a fight at a gambling resort. The room was crowded and Rupert fired five shots into the crowd.
Piqua Ohio March 30 Jack Wrenn known as Lone Jack and Jack Without a Handle was found dead aboard the houseboat Miami Queen He had been burned to death in the blaze authorities reported the fire burned through the vessel and left Wrenn dead in his cabin The incident is under investigation with no further details available at this time
George B. Cortelyou, former secretary of the treasury, formally assumes the office of president of the Consolidated Gas Company in New York on March 30.
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