CROSSVILLE CHRONICLE.
June 3, 1910.
Here’s hoping all you laborers had a good Labor Day weekend, and that you carried a memory of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, where you were, or what you were doing on Sept. 11, 2001.
The memory of that day should be fresh in our minds as a remembrance of those who died at work in the Twin Towers, and those who died trying to save them. May our nation never forget the devastation of that day.
God bless those who died and the families that they left behind.
Now we return to news articles of 1910 titled, Important News Notes of the Week, Condensed for the Busy Man, for another week. (Forget all the rest of the long heading.) Theodore Roosevelt has added to the string of letters he is entitled to write after his name the LL.D. of Cambridge (England) University.
(Uncle Gib note: I guess the paper thought we were all too dumb to know Cambridge was in England.)
With quiet ceremonies the signal honor from one of the world’s oldest and most famous universities was bestowed upon the former president.
Prof. Robert Goch, the famous bacteriologist, died at Baden Baden from a disease of the heart. He was born at Kisausthal, Hanover, Dec. 11, 1843. Professor Koch gained great renown as the discoverer of the bacilli of tuberculous and cholera.
William Rankin of Summit, NJ, who will be 100 years old soon, asserts that he is the oldest college alumnus in the United States. He was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1831.
William Brown, who started from New Foundland Dec. 26, 1906, with a team of four dogs on a trip around the world for a purse of $10,000, has reached San Jose, CA, after traveling 25,000 miles.
Robed in a white lace gown that cost $15,000, Miss Mathilde Townsend, one of the best-known girls in Washington, DC, daughter of Mrs. May Scott Townsend, was married to Peter Goelet Gerry of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry of New York.
A Boston (MA) (Uncle Gib note; Well, they didn’t think we knew where Boston is either.) patrolman, Stephen Higgins, is standing a lot of joking from his fellows because he mistook Thomas W. Lawson for a second-story worker the other night and actually “captured” the financier.
Leroy Hendricks, 18 years old, son of Mayor A.R. Hendrick of Sterling, IL, has started on a tour around the world on a motorcycle. He expects to earn his expenses by painting signs.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt visited Buckingham Palace and had a long chat with Alexandra, the queen mother. The call was made at the suggestion of her majesty, who, when she received Mr. Roosevelt, expressed the hope that she might see the former president’s wife.
Wearied of publicity, tired of fame of newspaper praise and abuse, James A. Patten, the wheat and cotton king, is to retire with his millions from business July 1.
Commander Robert E. Peary received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Edinburgh. The conferment was made before a notable company, which gave the American explorer a cordial welcome.
E.F. Hutton & Co., one of the most prominent brokerage firms in New York, was suspended from membership on the New York Stock Exchange for one year for having violated a strict rule of the exchange in regard to splitting commissions.
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Old Uncle Gib is a historical feature published each week. Old Uncle Gib is a pseudonym that was used by S.C. Bishop, who founded the Chronicle in 1886. Bishop actively published the Chronicle until 1948.