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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
3
A compact verse pairing recalls childhood places and skies once bright then lost. Thomas Hood laments youth fading as heaven seems farther, while Thomas Moore’s Tara piece mourns vanished glory and the fragile pulse of freedom.
Henry Jackson a prominent Black farmer in St. Louis County has expanded his holdings to nearly 400 acres near Creve Coeur Lake. He owns 160 and 170 acre tracts plus a 60 acre recent purchase and has other properties with loans out. His sons include a physician in St. Louis and a professor at Lincoln Institute. He is 63 and married Belger eight years ago.
In Gwalior the Maharajah Scindhia is praised as a versatile ruler blending eastern autocratic power with western ideals. He built a large hospital funding its work personally and even studied medicine to supervise care of about eighty thousand patients yearly. During a hospital round he learned of a coolie who fell from a scaffold.
The article notes Mahara jah Scindhia as a judge on his throne, delivering daily justice while applying Western jurisprudence like Austin and Bentham. It compares Gwalior’s geography to Scotland and Wales and recalls his personal acts such as aiding a hospital for Chinese expedition troops. His public acts and benevolent yet absolutist role are highlighted.
Rosa Starratt, 13, of Bath Maine, was struck by a discharged bullet from an 82 caliber revolver held about two feet away. The bullet smashed teeth damaged her jaw and left a lasting scar yet she survived. The event, witnessed by her brother and mother, drew headlines for its improbable precision and danger.
A French bedstead with built in electric light and raiseable reading desk is described as a night reading option. Critics note drawbacks of glare and prefer hotel arrangements with ceiling lights and a side arm for directed illumination. A clerk and a blunt man discuss a six shot revolver as a security reply. A quip observes patient husbands endure cross words and men paying party bills when women host gatherings.
The article describes enormous Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Nebraska holdings led by the X I T ranch in Texas Panhandle covering 3 000 000 acres and shipping 18 000 to 20 000 head of cattle yearly. It notes Colonel C C Slaughter owning 1 250 000 acres and the 101 ranch in Oklahoma with 50 000 acres and eight thousand cattle. It also highlights Forsha in central Kansas with 5 000 acres and alfalfa fields and the extensive network of winter harvesting and road and rail logistics supporting the big ranches and farmers with large land holdings across the Midwest.
The piece notes rising foreign interest in U S horses with Britain spending vast sums and six year totals listing buyers in South Africa Canada Cuba China Philippines Japan and others Germany France Russia and Austria joining as trotter buyers while trade grows since 1895. It also recounts a moral suasion school joke comparing corporal punishment to classroom discipline.
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