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Newspaper
Akron Daily Democrat
Location
Akron, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
5
Canadian explorer Bernier aims to use Marconi wireless telegraphy to link his polar party with Dawson while sailing toward the Behring Sea. Governor Ross explains that a Behring passage could place the ship within 150 miles of the pole and establish pole line communications for updates and supplies.
Dick Inskeep of Cleveland Construction Co criticizes the Board of City Commissioners for not fixing the Vine and Sploerats street crossing. He notes that patrons must jump mud and water when it rains and that the board has not seriously considered the request, joking about acrobatic riders and advance thanks.
Chicago dispatch states Attorney General Hamlin will sue to prevent a merger of meat packing firms even before consolidation is completed. Federal case evidence has been reviewed with no basis found yet, but rumors of a large combine persist. Boston interests and Standard Oil ties are cited as sources for the anticipated merger. EB. A. A. on Standard & M. of Cleveland is noted for Saturday events at East End grounds.
James Smith river captain aged 45 with a wife in Paducah was horsewhipped on a street corner in St Louis by Katherine Smith Waterways Journal stenographer. She said a telephone insult and proposition spurred her action and added she had previously whipped Charles Street for a similar remark.
A garbled snippet discusses ongoing health derangements of digestive organs. It mentions regulating gut function and an alleged purely vegetable remedy called Bt. Bernard Vepe tabia with several unclear terms and names. The passage reads as a stray OCR fragment with no clear source context.
The Church of Christ, Scientist, announces a yearly readers cycle replacing a three year term and extending a conditional warrant. Present readers are Mrs Kate A Lunch and Thomas J Hulderrens. Also noted is Fowler's extract of Wild Strawberry as a traveler’s boon claimed to cure dysentery diarrhora and seasickness.
Newport gossip centers on Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt leasing Beaulieu W A villa for an outdoor light comedy. An amateur cast is listed including Miss Augusta Hunter Brett Wendell Miss Edith Clapp and Miss Evelyn Harris of New Orleans. Mrs Vanderbilt may invite former society members now on the stage to assist.
Officer Fred Baker reports his nephew in Allegheny Pennsylvania has endured numerous accidents in seven years. A recent incident left him with a broken arm and possible amputation after a failed attempt to jump a rope stretched over a sidewalk pole.
Stark county court will hear a constitutionality challenge brought by Jackson township residents against the Metzg ar road law. Attorney McQaughey of Massillon prepared the petition to remove road master Daniel Hoaster from Jackson township, contending the law requiring appointed road masters violates local choice as no supervisors were elected previously.
A terse notice notes the town will lack a road master or supervisor if the law is knocked out. It mentions a good game at Gant End grounds Saturday at 8 pm and EB. AL ALCL on Standards from Cleveland. Two more Sundays August 3 and 10 gifted as colored camp meetings at Springfield Lake.
I, W. Spalding of Verona Missouri relate how his mother, aged seventy six, suffered long from distressing pain and poor health due mainly to indigestion. After two years of using Kodol she improved immediately and now can earn and do as she wishes with no bad effects. She keeps a bottle of Kodol handy and recommends going after the cause of illness rather than masking symptoms as Kodol digests and strengthens the body by aiding digestion.
Kansas City report details D. C. Levitt of East Twelfth Street waking after sleeping since April 20. Physicians theorize car-seat pressure caused vertebral dislocation hindering blood return to the brain, producing a prolonged sleep. Neck kneading restored blood flow and consciousness.
In San Francisco on August 1, Mrs Katharine L Ball, 50, proprietor of a family hotel, died of starvation after a 45 day fast begun to reach a 50 day goal. She weighed 250 pounds before starting.
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