Two Splendid Features Today at Johnson Opera House
Madge Bellamy in the screen version of the famous novel “The White Sin.” Every body has read the book; now the screen offers it with nothing left out, still censor proof. On the same bill the rollicking, good-natured cowboy. Buck Jones, in his latest picture, “Western Luck.” It’s a bill that will provide all the entertainment any fan could desire in one evening. Meet your neighbors at the Opera House.
September 5, 1861 – Loyalty of the Employees of the Executive Mansion
Federal Enforcement Officer Samardick Makes a Cleaning
Federal Enforcement Officer Robert Samardick, accompanied by four assistants, traveling in two cars, drove from Omaha to O’Neill Saturday and began collecting violators of the Volstead law for whom warrants had been previously issued. At the conclusion of the raid Sunday afternoon eleven citizens were resting in the county jail and two O’Neill men and three Spencerites for whom warrants had been issued could not be located.
September 4, 1861 – Balloon Adventures
Radio Club With Twenty Charter Members Formed
With a charter membership of approximately 20 persons a Montgomery Radio club was duly organised Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce and a constitution and by-laws adopted.
The purpose of the club will be “to band together those persons interested in the science of radio; to cause to be enacted laws, rules and regulations for benefit of radio enthusiasts; to uphold laws enacted by the United States and to promote the interest of radio in the community and further study of the science among members of the club.”
September 3, 1861 – Steamboat Captured
Martian Signals Read by Local Man
‘Old Salt’ Discovers Possible Code For Recent Sounds
The mysterious “signals from Mars” have been read! A local man, a retired and retiring sea captain, has a theory concerning the sounds, not of earthly origin, recorded on radio Instruments during the recent approach of Mars to the Earth, and in view of the fact that scientists themselves are disputing as to what these noises may be, his theory is as good as any other.
“Old Salt,” as the originator of the theory prefers to be known, started from the fact that the sounds consisted of four dots and five dashes, often repeated. He then proceeded to number the bodies in the solar system, starting with the Sun as No. 1. Mercury No. 2, Venus No. 3, Earth No. 4, Mars No. 5, and so on.
September 2, 1861 – Important News from Coast of North Carolina
The Federal Fleet Attacking Two Sand Batteries—Their Capturing Six Hundred Prisoners, &c.
The steamer Louisiana, Capt. Cannon, from Old Point, arrived Sunday, A. M., and brings the following important advices from the Federal fleet, which sailed from Old Point on Monday last. The steamer Adelaide had returned from the fleet and proceeded to Annapolis on Saturday, having on board Major General Butler and fourteen wounded Confederate prisoners, bound to Washington. We understand that the entire fleet, consisting of five war vessels, surrounded and engaged two sand batteries on the beach, at the mouth of Hatteras Inlet, and after considerable firing on both sides, a shell from the frigate Minnesota, caused the explosion of the Confederates’ magazine, when the entire body, said to number six hundred, were forced to surrender, from loss of ammunition and no means of retreat. Included among those taken prisoners, was Com. Barron. They were all sent to New York.
Six Sailormen Rescued After Four Days Adrift
Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish—Three Others Lost.
By the Associated Press.
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., September 1.—Six survivors of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, wrecked at sea last Tuesday in a hurricane that swept the Atlantic seaboard, were picked up early today by the steamship Southern Cross, bound from Buenos Aires for New York.
The rescued sailormen were found floating atop of the schooner’s skylight, where they had existed for four days, eating such flying fish that they snared and drinking water that they caught in their hats.