Memory Lane: Notable headlines from the Missourian’s first year

Editor's note: This story has undergone minor editing to correct errors of grammar and spelling.

Sept. 14

Remarkable Feat in Grafting is Successful in New York

Man is able to see through eyes of a rabbit. Dr. Henry R. Leaser grafted the cornea of a rabbit's eye to the eye of a blind man. The bandages have been removed from the eye, and it was found that the patient's sight had been completely restored.

Sept. 15

Those Piercing Yells Came From Boys With University Missourian

Two leather-lunged St. Louis newsboys were hired to let all of Columbia know that there was now another newspaper in the field. Max Silverman and Ben Getzler set forth down Broadway yesterday to distribute the new University Missourian and their efforts proved to be effective as all papers were sold.

Sept. 15

Warning to All Freshmen: Read These Rules and Obey

Busy sophomores last night posted the town with glaring green bills containing the annual rules and regulations for new freshmen. They then put the rules into practical effect with the aid of some stout paddles.

Sept. 16

Attempt to Assassinate President Cabrera of Guatemala is Failure

Passengers returning today on the steamer City Of Paris told of an attempt recently made to assassinate President Cabrera of Guatemala by means of an infernal machine attached to a telephone. He escaped with slight injuries.

Night Riders Terrorize Farmers in Illinois

Farmers are guarding property at night following the depredations of a band of night-riders the last few days. Several barns and other farm buildings have been burned, apparently by an organized band.

Sept. 17

Airships to Circle World in a Week

Thomas A. Edison, inventor, predicts wonderful future for the Sky Sailors. Edison says that within five years airships will be crossing the Atlantic ocean in eighteen hours, reaching the North Pole in forty hours and encircling the world in a week.

Many Are Injured in Chicago Fog

The heaviest fog in years enveloped Chicago today, causing many accidents. A Northwestern train ran into a crowd of thirty laborers, and a girl in a foggy room walked out of a third store window.

250 Revolutionists Are Arrested in Berlin

Two hundred and fifty members of the social revolutionary committee and the revolutionary railway union were arrested here today, and scores of others are being hunted, as the result of the discovery of 500 pounds of dynamite and many bombs at their headquarters.

Stephens College Opening

The opening convocation of Stephens College will be held in the Sappington Auditorium tomorrow at ten a.m.

Sept. 18

Airship Wrecked: One Man Killed, Wright is Hurt

Orville Wright lays in a hospital in Washington, D.C. as a result of the plunge of his air craft fifty feet to the ground while in full flight over Fort Myer. Wright's companion, Lieut. Thomas Selridge, was fatally hurt in the fall.

Forty Are Overcome in St. Joseph Fire

Fire this morning broke out at the cold storage building of the St. Joseph Swift Packing plant. Forty firemen and employees of the plant were overcome by heat. The fire has caused $60,000 in damages.

Shopping All Day With Daughter Drives Man Crazy

After shopping all day in St. Louis with his daughter, pushing his way through crowded stores and listening to discussions as to the quality and prices of dry goods, dresses, furniture and household accessories, Hubert Kunster, 79 years old, suddenly became insane. He is now under observation at the City Hospital.

Sept. 21

Crowd Cheers as Murderer Hangs In Kingston, Mo.

When Albert Filley, convicted of murdering his wife, daughter and brother, was led to the scaffold this morning. A crowd of several hundred persons pressed about the country jail and threatened to lynch Filley if a reprieve was granted. Cheers went up when his death was announced. His neck was unbroken by the drop and he hung for fifteen minutes before dying.

Kansas City or St. Joseph For Annual Kansas-Missouri Football Game

That question has not been settled, although negotiations have been underway for nearly a year. St. Joseph has made bid that will furnish park for free and pay expenses of ball team. Most students and alumni prefer Kansas City to St. Joseph, but it may be that St. Joseph for the second time will be the Thanksgiving Day mecca of the students.

Device to Avert Train Wrecks is Tested

A train stopping device will practically eliminate the telegraph operator as a factor in the movement of trains. It already has been installed on eighteen miles of Santa Fe railway in Southern California and is said to be successful in operation.

Sept. 22

Independent To Reappear Sunday

As a result of a strong demand from students and alumni, The Independent of the University of Missouri, a weekly student publication which was discontinued at the beginning of the present school term, will be revived as a four-page weekly.

New Record for Aeroplane Made by American in France

Wilbur Wright broke records yesterday after he completed a 91 minute flight, all the while keeping the aircraft under perfect control. Experts say the next step will be the carrying of passengers.

Sept. 23

President Ready To Supply Proof About Haskell

Roosevelt preparing extended statement regarding the Standard Oil exposures made by W.R. Hearst.

- Student, Lyndon H Phifer, won a medal for bravery. Phifer was a student in the School of Journalism.

Sept. 24

- Class Rush, an event where about 400 men, was postponed because it was not "befitting of gentlemen," said Dr. Hill, president of the University Assembly. On Sept 25, it was reinstated under the conditions it remain a "polite affair."

Sept. 25

Washington — The Naval Bureau of Medicine states that tuberculosis, "the white plague", can be cured with mercury. Navy doctors had saved one man using mercury, and there were 40 cases of TB with the new treatment already underway. Surgeon General P.M. Rixey, head of the bureau, made "no expression of [his] opinion," the paper reported.

Washington — The U.S. also took steps to combat Cholera as it spread in the Philippines, China and Russia. A cholera expert was sent to Russia to study the disease, and the US Consults in places with high numbers of Russian emigrants are told to watch for the disease.

An electric iron can be purchased from Andrew G. Orear, student electrician, at 912 Broadway.

Sept. 28

A cold snap breaks Columbia's previous records as at 6 a.m. it was 34 degrees, then 58 degrees at 2 p.m. The lowest temperature recorded in September in the previous 20 years was 26 degrees on Sept. 30, 1895, a fall of about thirty degrees in 36 hours.

New York — A $10,000 helicopter was finally assembled at Morris Park race track in New York. The helicopter was compared with the Wright's famous airplanes, which cost $2,500 apiece. The helicopter weighs about 400 pounds and is designed to carry one person.

Sept. 30

Noted engineer H. Wade Hibbard joined the MU faculty as a Mechanical Engineering professor. Hibbard came to MU from Cornell University and is known for work at the Pennsylvania railroad, where he designed link motions and cylinder sizes on compound locomotives.

Amherst, Mass. Amherst College officially banned hazing. The students attempted to urge College President Harris that hazing is "good for the freshman and that the sophomores administered it solely from a sense of duty."

Oct. 1

Missourian staff of student reporters to take a straw ballot on the national candidates to be voted on in November.

MU gets a machine for taking photos of athletes in action.

First meeting of the Department of Journalism held last night

Oct. 2

Augustus Thomas, playwright, address 700 at the Airdome in Boone County

Executive board of Curators ordered that the University Missourian be sent to all accredited and partially accredited high schools in Missouri.

Oct. 7

66 students now enrolled in Journalism Department

Detroit Tigers win the American League pennant for the second year in a row

Oct. 9

Tuition of $20 a year will start being charged for out of state students.

Wabash Railroad collects $15,000 a month in Columbia. Its rolling stock and service on the Columbia branch is acknowledged to be the poorest of the Wabash system.

Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants to win the National League pennant

Oct. 12

Columbia Theater sold for $20,500 at auction to J.W. Stone

Stone was a part owner with W.W. Garth Jr. but they disagreed over management. So Stone bought all of it.

Oct. 19

Burglars, in blowing up a safe in the Trade Center Building in Ashland, started a fire that wiped out the business district of the town. Total loss of $60,000. The burglars got $220 in money and checks from the safe.

Oct. 23

Kansas City — Meeting was held for an organization's movement to have bibles in every hotel room across the country. The Gideon are the organization, and they are an organization of traveling Christian men.

Oct. 27

Ruling the State Circuit Court that liquor may be purchased through an agent makes possible, distillers and brewers believe, order houses will make it possible to purchase liquor.

Order Houses provide businesses the opportunity to sell liquor on practically as large a scale as saloons.

Oct. 30

Kansas City chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution discovered that Missouri has no state flag and has no legal colors for a flag and seal.

Nov. 2

Publications in the University Missourian showing the unsanitary conditions of the Wabash station in Columbia have lead to plans for improvements at the station. F.J. Delano, vice president of the railroad, and Henry Miller, general manager, called the Missourian to personally pledge that improvements would be made at the station.

Governor Folk spoke in Columbia as part of his campaign for the senate. During his speech, he encouraged Democrats to support the county and state ticket. Folk spoke earlier in the day in Centralia, and will end the day with another speech in Ashland.

Nov. 4

William Taft is elected as the President of the United States. Missouri had contributed 18 electoral votes in the election. By Nov. 6, it was determined that Boone county had contributed 3354 votes to Taft 1264 votes to his opponent, Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.

— William Strother Cowherd, a graduate of MU, was elected Governor of Missouri. He won by an estimated 12,000 votes.

Nov. 5

Columbia Tailoring Co., 8 N. 9th St., is offering suits and overcoats beginning at $18.

Nov. 6

Students of MU expelled from school, suspended or called before the Discipline Committee is eligible to membership in a new Greek fraternity, Kappa Delta. The fraternity's emblem will feature the letters "K.A.N.D." and will feature "honorary members".

Paris — Airplanes are "all the rage" in Paris, and Parisians are currently reading "everything they can get" about planes. Wilbur and Orville Wright's success in the United States "has awakened a great interest in France."

Nov. 9

Lord Milner of Britain stated that whether Canada remains a part of Britain or becomes its own nation is up to the Canadians. The debate as to whether Canada should secede continues still.

Nov. 11

Jefferson City — An effigy of Governor Folk was burned in Richards, Mo., after Folk paroled a man convicted of murder. Folk said he would investigate the case of Dr. J. D. Todd, accused of murdering Robert Wall, again and will issue a pardon if it is needed.

More than 50 clubs, fraternities and associations will be represented at MU this year. Two fraternities have also purchased permanent houses starting this year, and several more are considering purchasing homes in the future. The largest organizations on campus are the Agricultural Club, with 140 members, and the Engineering Society, with 75 members.

Nov. 14

An extra edition of the University Missourian to announce the Tigers' 40-0 (win) over Washington. Missouri's team was ten pounds heavier to man, and the score was 23-0 by the end of the first half. Snow had to be swept from the field prior to the game. The issue was put out 12 minutes after the game.

Nov. 17

Investigators began looking into whether the University needs a substation specifically for University mail. The post office downtown is frequently congested with local mail in addition to University mail and student mail.

The University of Birmingham, England, began to offer courses specifically for journalists.

Nov. 18

State Commissioner M H Lamb, in addition to the University's Home Economics Club, called for sidewalk grocery displays to be stopped. The act, Lamb said, is unsanitary and is often a source of complaints from customers.

Boston — The Boston Herald ended its Sunday comic supplement, saying "That accompaniment of Sunday newspaperdom has had its day. We discard it as we would throw aside any mechanism that had reached the end of its usefulness."

Nov. 23

A proposed 120-mile electric trolley line will connect Columbia with eight large railways. The line will run from Brookfield to Rolla.

Nov. 24

Fifteen head of cattle will be taken to show in the Chicago International Live Stock Show. The Department on Animal Husbandry, which won 75 prizes in 1907, already won 50 prizes this year.

Nov. 30

The Tigers lose 10-4 to Kansas in Kansas City. The loss is credited to a failure in trick plays.

Dec. 1

The Department of Agriculture accused fertilizer companies based in St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City of fraud. The companies, according to the department, don't contain all the ingredients listed on the packaging. Fertilizer sent to over 75 cities and towns in Missouri were tested.

The debate whether Missouri needs an official flag continues. The last flag approved by legislature was for the Confederate Congress, and no evidence was found that it was ever used.

Dec. 2

The price of groceries in Columbia increased 8 percent between October and December. Eggs saw the highest increase, going from 24 cents per dozen in October to 35 cents.

Dec. 3

The electric light service of Columbia received complaints due to the dimness of inside lights throughout the city. The increased demand for electricity was unexpected, said J. M. Sherman, superintendent of city water and light plant.

Dec. 4

New York. A German scientist says apes are capable of reasoning after an ape was taught to ride a bicycle in Amani, German East Africa.

Dec. 7

Columbia was divided as to whether the historic courthouse in downtown Columbia should be torn down in order to build a new one.

Dec. 8

The University of Missouri will remain in Columbia, instead of moving to McBaine, after a debate at the First Baptist Church. Despite McBaine having the best fishing around, Columbia won out because of its dry town status and the need for travel between the University and Stephens and Christians College.

Dec. 11

Dr. Albert Ross Hill is installed as President of MU. His predecessor, Dr. Richard Henry Jesse, sat beside him during the inauguration. Hill said the journalism profession college-trained men and that the profession is expected to recruit its ranks from the University's graduates.

Dec. 14

In 1908, the University of Missouri hosted a graduate department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Agriculture, Teachers College, the Department of Law, the Department of Medicine, the Department of Engineering and the Department of Journalism. University of Missouri-Rolla hosted the School of Mines and Metallurgy.

Dec. 16

Citizens in Columbia raised $2,000 for the construction of two new sewers in the south east part of town. Damage to the pipes was a result of street paving on College Avenue.

Dec. 18

MU gained in enrollment in 1908, increasing from 2,274 students in 1907 to 2,558. The university's Teachers College has 950 students.

Dec. 22

The Department of Labor found that 35,000 workmen are killed annually, and the percentage of accidental deaths are greater in the U.S. than abroad. One out of every 1,000,000 workmen deaths was due to an accident.

- Compiled by Jenna Dunbar, Sarah Scully and Noelle Buhidar of the Missourian's staff