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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1909
Page
2
The Whighester News publishes as an independent newspaper. Office on South Main Street Winchester Kentucky operates as a second class matter under the 1879 act.
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The new automobile hose wagon has arrived and undergoing a thirty day trial. If successful the city will keep it, else the old wagon may be replaced. Support favors placing the new unit in the North end to shield major local manufacturing from fire risk.
A reader notes opposition to statewide prohibition and accuses newspapers like the Courier-Journal of intensifying sentiment against saloons. The piece argues liquor interests push against county unit laws and warns of a reckoning as the statewide question nears a vote.
A commentary argues that advertising drives modern business and should be taught as essential life education. It claims advertising skills empower individuals to achieve tasks, gain rewards, and navigate the economy, noting schools fail to teach this practical field.
The text stresses that learning advertising never ends and becomes a core reliance in business. It highlights gaining insight into human nature values promptness and shortcut strategies. Early education in advertising builds plans, feasibility, and hope turning into action over years.
A Missouri farmer outlines mule breeding as a profitable, compact industry for 100 to 200 acre farms. Mules command high prices, with six quarts of corn daily per sixty mules and rye straw at night, and careful care keeps them productive for years.
The Captain argues money benefits those who earn it and harms those who receive it without work. He contends many would avoid labor if not compelled, and a wise Providence ensures wealth comes only through the sweat of the brow.
An archival Ohio State Journal note recalls a humorous plaque about telephone misdials. It highlights the unexpected positive memory from a mistaken call and the value of not blaming the misdials in a long intimate experience with the telephone.
David Clinard of the Fox Hunt Club in Winston Salem North Carolina captured a fox alive by throwing his long overcoat over the animal after a long chase with six hounds. The fox nearly reached the hunter before the coat trapped it, just as the pack closed in.
A meditation on recognizing the healing power of beauty and resisting ugliness that mars the landscape. The text links harmony in creation to the development of human thought and spiritual design.
A compact quotation notes patience as a guiding virtue. It asserts that patience enables one to achieve anything, reflecting a timeless Raleigh of perseverance.
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt travels aboard the Hamburg and visits Ponta Delgada in the Azores. A false rumor of an assault prompted brief concern, but Roosevelt appeared ashore to a large cheering crowd and toured the area with American consular officials and his party.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner E. E. Clark leads an investigation into relations between Ohio coal carrying railroads and mine operators. Over 100 witnesses from across the state have been subpoenaed to testify.
Washington reports Rep Dawson of Illinois uncovered a tax sizing error in the Dingley law causing tobacco consumers to overpay. War tax of 6 cents per pound briefly raised prices, while package sizes were reduced, allowing a hidden 5 and 10 cent tobacco sale at the store since 1902.
Two 19 year old inmates were moved from the Girls Industrial School near Delaware to the Crittenton home after reports of improper conduct involving a staff member and a visitor. Governor Harmon orders a full investigation into the incident and related medical needs. A separate note from Cincinnati reports Mrs. Franklin Drexel funding a Catholic church and parochial school for 500 Black Catholics, site purchased, building cost about 25000 dollars.
Belgrade reports Servia formally accepts the European powers and Austria Hungary plan to settle the dispute. In a note delivered via Vienna the Servian government states it will not protest Bosnia and Herzegovina annexation, restore military forces to normal, and avoid irregular troops while maintaining peaceful relations.
In Brompton county Maryland court a dispute over ownership of a wife's dresses ended with the judge deciding the husband owns them. The husband contended he supplied the money to buy the garments though they were not paid for, and the court upheld his ownership.
Stones used by lithographers worldwide come from a fit district near Nuremberg Germany. Quarrying has continued there for more than a century.
A strange phenomenon occurs at Caudebec twice a year as the sea, signaled by loud thunder and a rising swell, pushes up the channel and pours into the Seine. The river, calm until then, is swept by a single strong, tidal wave rushing along its surface.
The Rev. R. Wallace Christian a black Methodist minister who founded a mission in Ashtabula from Sharon Pennsylvania was arrested on embezzlement charges. The complaint filed by Mrs. Oliver W. Henson alleges he did not account for funds from mission dinners. He posted a 500 dollar bond and was released.
Martins Ferry Ohio March 31 5 000 acres of land leased near the corpora tion with about 1500 acres within or near the corporation borders and plans for several test wells to be drilled soon have the town in a fever of excitement
William J. Lacey of Harvey Illinois, 70, asks South Bend police to find Anna Thode 40 years younger after she allegedly took 400 dollars and vanished. He says they traveled to St Joseph Michigan to marry and left the money with her for safekeeping at a hotel.
Senator Root at a Boston dinner urged Charles W. Eliot of Harvard be named American ambassador to Great Britain. Root said Eliot would represent the republic’s good qualities before any monarch, with President Taft attending the event.
In Dayton March 31 Prosecutor Pholman called the case of William Adams in police court but Adams was absent. A clerk then announced Adams died a few minutes before his case was called, prompting an immediate investigation.
Two Black students dismissed from Grand Rapids veterinary college after white students objected were denied a writ of mandamus by the state supreme court to compel readmission. The ruling upholds the college’s action delaying their studies in Michigan.
William O’Brien steps down from his seat amid political strain. The report also notes J W Schaub, Baltimore civil engineer, killed himself on a Michigan Central train at Lawton Michigan. Other items include the deaths of Philip Rising at 84 in Lancaster Ohio and a lynching in Waco Texas related to a note sent to a white woman. Fred Lied, former Columbus official, surrenders to serve a four year term after a bribery conviction. Elopement between Rev Charles W Dane of Waterbury and Mrs. G N Proctor is cited. Russian fugitive Jan Pouren released by US Commissioner Hitchcock after six months in Tombs.
Indianapolis on March 31 reports Bartholomew Vermilion and Jennings counties voting dry under the county option law making the total number of dry counties 41 as saloons were ousted from the option.
Jackson Kentucky March 31 The shooting death of Albert McIntosh by John Little raises fears of a renewed feud between the McIntosh and Tittle factions. McIntosh was fatally shot five times.
The new Queensboro Bridge, costing 15 million dollars, was informally opened to pedestrians and vehicular traffic linking New York and Long Island City.
The oldest and best institution in the county, Winchester Roller Mills, urges using their Kerr perfection and Waite Pearl flour as the top choice for home baking, claiming no equal.
A historical overview notes that in 1559 France punished printing without royal permission by death. The 1881 law finally recognized press liberty. Austria Hungary gained press freedom in 1867, Germany and Italy began in 1848, and Belgium pioneered with a 1831 constitutional declaration.
Dr. M S Browne sold to Tom Robinson a Burns Avenue lot for 1500 dollars. Robinson then sold back to Browne four Bloomfield Avenue lots at 375 dollars each.
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