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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
2
The Chicago Record-Herald holds the largest two cent newspaper circulation in the United States, far ahead of any other two cent paper. With the Chicago Times-Herald added, it leads metropolitan dailies in circulation and boasts extensive news facilities.
A proposed extension of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway from Eureka in McPherson County South Dakota to Linton the county seat of Emmons County North Dakota will run through prime Wheat Belt prairie country The line is expected to finish this fall in time for harvest Five new towns Greenway Zeeland Hague Stafford and Linton will be marketed in August and September Watch for opening sale dates highlighting the region known for the world’s largest primary wheat market with over two million bushels handled in a single year.
Dr Chas H Utter of Panama Panama Columbia reports a case of a sixteen year old girl with a severe dysentery. After failure of all remedies she used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Within eight hours she improved, in three days her rest was fine, and within a week she was entirely well. For sale by BE Cobb Druggist.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers a Sunday August 17 excursion to Spirit Lake and Okoboji. A 12 PM and 4 PM program features a grand concert, a balloon race by Madame Francis LeRoy and Prof T J Cash, with five excursion steamers on Okoboji Lake. Round trip from Akron is 82, landings at Milwaukee Beach.
A Plymouth County item notes W. D. Bryan seeks high crop profits on a free silver basis and comments on market ideas. It mentions a Rock Island reorganization gag and a tongue‑in‑cheek earthquake claim in western Iowa. Also referenced are the Dos Mounds Republican platform, County Auditor Kistle’s eye surgery, Mary MacLane’s literary rise, tariff revision aims, and Congressmen resisting lobbyist money in shaping policy.
Brazilian coffee planters abandon crops as market demand collapses. This year’s crop is about 16,000,000 bags once sold at 315 per sack, now faced with a potential government purchase to absorb off years. Prices have not dropped despite the crisis.
Ernest Loveswar, described as half breed, was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged for the brutal killings of Sioux City ranchmen George Puck and George Ostrander. The murders followed a disputed $20 advance on a horse purchase, with Loveswar allegedly killing them at midnight after being asked to stay the night.
Two Boer commandants visited President Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay summer home and engaged in a friendly target shooting match. Commandant Snyman, famed as a crack marksman, scored a hit with the first shot while Roosevelt followed with a bull’s eye. The pair traded shots as the bull’s eye showed multiple impacts, but Snyman missed the center and conceded.
President shows remarkable skill firing a Krag rifle and a revolver at fifty yards, hitting five bull's-eyes. Boer opponent grants the achievement but notes policy shifts blur this record. McKinley’s Buffalo speech on reciprocity and fear of lost machinery markets spurs Congress to focus on trade pacts with Russia, France, and others.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad orders all civil engineers to rendezvous at Miles City Montana to survey a route to the Pacific coast. The line would run from Evarts to Miles City cross the Yellowstone and pass through Judith basin Ubet and the Rocky mountains to Lolo Pass then direct to Seattle. Branches would reach the Black Hills and Helena.
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS reports Mars returning from a five month Europe tour. The Carnegie library contract for Hawarden goes to William Payne for 84765, to be built in Sioux Falls granite. Plymouth county Democrats call a convention August 23 at 2 pm in LeMars to pick delegates. Remsen hosts Salvation Army music after saloon suppression news. The Le Mars team in the Bush league costs about 1000 monthly with gate receipts running 1600 in the red this season, while local business men fund much of the bills. A neighbor’s infant recovered from cholera infantum after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, per Mrs. Curtis Baker of Bookwalter Ohio, and sold by B. F. Cobb, Druggist.
Notice to all persons knowing themselves indebted to me or those I am indebted to call on C. E. Gibbn at 51 At. Dan Mpionen for settlement at once.
Five stray calves and three mules located at a farm east of Akron cemetery. Owner may recover by proving property and paying charges. case reference 60-26.
Beginning Sunday July 37 the Commercial Hotel will offer a first class Sunday Dinner for 250 cents for Akron residents. A J Beverly proprietor announces the meals are for the accommodation and convenience of the local people during hot weather.
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