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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
2
An antiquated love song remembers Katharine in fairy features and Kate as a saucy beloved. The speaker praises Katharine masking as Kate and laments modern time while treasuring the woman and the gate surrender that sparked enduring affection.
Betty and Jack face pressure from Adeline Fenton as Betty’s close friendship creates tension. The narrator guides them toward patience, warns of romance rivals, and helps plan a private future, ending with a postponed honeymoon and Betty restored to Jack.
The term canteen may derive from the Latin quintana meaning fifth in order. Quintana was a street in Roman camps between the fifth and sixth maniples where camp business and market activity occurred, later broadening to mean market. Chicago News.
A humorous exchange questions taking a mother to a game and ponders home without a mother. A quip notes a woman is rarely jealous of her husband's first love after meeting her.
The piece emphasizes clean water for cows to prevent typhoid, noting milk is largely water and cows need frequent watering. It covers pigeons profitably, proper care, housing, and feeding, plus advice on dairy housing and manure preservation and air for chicks.
Digestive results from varied feed favored for horses and cows. Noting farmers value shelter, feed, and care, the text cites Cuban tobacco trade rising 1905 figures and compares Cuban nourishment to bread weight.
Farmers are advised to select breeders carefully and avoid downgrades. Mature healthy stock should enter the breeding pen. Sunshine sterilizes and keeps the poultry house dry. expose it daily in winter to reduce dampness.
Dr. J W Spencer the British scientist told the House rivers and harbors committee that Ontario Power Companys request to use 40000 cubic feet of Niagara River water per second would cut 20 to 25 percent of the falls flow. He warned of damage to Whirlpool rapids the river bed near the falls and Goat Island and noted potential recession of the Horseshoe.
The plan would reduce falls from about 4000 to 1600 feet and 1200 to 800 feet, shifting most flow to the Canadian side. Lowering basin water raises river slope, dropping Lake Erie by three feet and echoing through Huron and Michigan. Partial use already drops Erie ten inches, masked by high waters. Authors cite Chicago canal as major cause and estimate a one foot depth increase would cost over 12 million dollars.
In a 20,000 mile contest from New York to Paris six entrants start the race via Alaska and Siberia. Spectators fill the streets as thousands bid them farewell. Entries include three French cars, plus Austrian Italian German and an American Thomas motor.
Fayette County Kentucky grand jury indicts the American Tobacco Company on a charge of conspiring to reduce the price of raw tobacco.
After a brief executive session the Senate closed its doors and spent hours debating the Wether spoon nomination. Leaders planned to take up the ocean mail subsidy bill on Wednesday as the House passed the large appropriation bill totaling 32,836,573 dollars.
Senator Perkins urged navy funding and Pacific fleet deployment while the Tillman resolution targeting Oregon transport grants passed. The House discussed the DC streetcar extension to Union Station. Washington's birthday prompted a civil rights debate as Heflin sought segregated cars. the bill passed with universal transfers. Lemoine diamond formula discussions spread after Paris case. Wernher and Cohen linked to alleged swindle. details involve heating mixtures and gas to produce diamond-like material.
Fire destroyed the Pine Tree Worsted Company's plant at Putnam Connecticut with losses around 70000 dollars. The Central New England Railroad roundhouse and machine shop at Fishkill Landing New York were also burned with losses about 160000 dollars. Miss Alice Hollis who is totally blind sailed from New York on the steamer Statendam heading to Weisbaden Germany to seek treatment to recover her sight.
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