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Time Machine 11-4-09
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share this- Revenue agents swooped down on a bootleg liquor operation on Gage Street in Mount Carmel. The revenuers came away with 145 five-gallon cans, 50 of them full of illegal hootch.
- Officials of the Reading Railroad in the Shamokin area made sure everything was ship-shape on area tracks and stations as Reading President Agnew Dice came to town with other officers of the company in a luxurious special three-car train.
- Two local men, 50-year-old Edward Chapman and his son, Norman, were killed in a freak accident in an iron mine in Ishpheming, Mich., where they had gone to get work. A hidden pocket of quicksand over the 1,000-foot deep shaft in which they were working broke through the roof of the shaft, drowning a score of miners in wet sand.
- The Shamokin Dispatch had its own rather distinctive views on the prohibition law. In an editorial, the newspaper said, "Prohibition can be enforced when all the Ten Commandments are enforced and only to the same extent and in the same way." In effect, said the paper, people had to be taught, not forced, to obey the law.
- The Victor Company, later to become RCA Victor, announced a new way of recording music. It was called "orthophonic," and the folks at Victor said you couldn't tell their recordings from the real thing. Their first selections were "Baby Face" by whispering Jack Smith and an Irish medley by the great tenor John McCormack.
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