Local Gazette Name and Publisher from Ashton Paper
The Ashton Gazette lists Ralph J. Dean as publisher in Ashton city pages. No additional story content is provided in the readable text.
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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette lists Ralph J. Dean as publisher in Ashton city pages. No additional story content is provided in the readable text.
Nebraska farmers with vast wheat lands pledge to refrain from selling until Chicago bids hit $1. The movement follows J A Everett of Indianapolis addressing Hastings officials steering a broader campaign by the American Society of Equity. Prospects favor a large Nebraska wheat crop if moisture remains and pests stay non damaging.
Fragment shows numbered scores across Des Moines Sioux City Denver Lincoln Omaha and Pueblo with decimal and period separators suggesting a early league or game tally. Readable entities include Des Moines Sioux City Lincoln Omaha Pueblo and Denver with various single or double digit figures.
A cloudburst over Capital Hill near Oklahoma City flooded lowlands along Lightning Creek, forcing residents from tents and shanties and leaving seven reported drowned as the river ran bank full. The extent of fatalities awaited official confirmation.
Bay Timber Tract, A C Trutton and Co and John Fender Son & Co of Springfield Mass purchase seventy two square miles of timber lands and a mill from N C Mc Nair at Jacquet River N B and twenty square miles and a mill from John Dutch at the same locality.
President Roosevelt opened the Jamestown Exposition at Hampton Roads amid cannon salutes from nearly 100 warships. The exhibit commemorates 300 years since the first English colony, highlighting local Revolutionary and Civil War sites nearby and featuring 25 buildings on a 600 acre site including palaces of manufactures, history, and education.
A tour from Jamestown to Yorktown highlights historic landmarks across Norfolk and Williamsburg. The text notes Fort Monroe, Fortress Monroe, the Monitor’s era, and the Cornwallis surrender site with monuments and key buildings, including Bruton Parish Church and the college of William and Mary.
James Bryce the British ambassador spoke at a Chicago Commercial Club dinner on the functions of modern cities. He described three distinct classes of city duties, with one class containing those functions vital and indispensable.
The Mayflower carries Russia and Japan peace negotiators as Roosevelt reviews a 700-voice choir and 21 gun salutes in a dawn ceremony. The 1607 Jamestown landing is recounted with Susan Constant Godspeed and Discovery, while states build exhibits from Independence Hall to a Maltese cross complex. Forester Pinchot cites deforestation as cause of Ohio floods and urges forest restoration and scientific conservation.
Prof Belar, director of the Laibach observatory, compares first quarter shocks with 1906 trends and warns that if global disturbances are to stabilize, the earthquakes expected soon must be faced with anxiety.
Six American widows own more than a quarter of a billion dollars in combined wealth. Names include Hetty Green, Mrs Russell Sage, Mrs Anna Weightman Walker, Mrs Marshall Field, and heirs of Field. Estates cited range from 60 to 100 million with significant charitable gifts and planned inheritances for sons and grandchildren.
District Attorney Jerome exposes a Fulton Street pool room ledgers showing a $5000 bank roll in January 1899 with profits of 20088 75 after costs. From May 1899 the bank roll rose to $10000 and eight years of winnings averaged $250000 annually, with splits including a 16 percent take for a high official. Jerome signals deeper corruption but will not name the man higher up.
The South education conference re-elected Robert Ogden as president at Pinehurst N C. Dabney of Cincinnati University plans a commercial college with work in banks and brokerages. Minnesota defeated a ballot based county school board bill. Rockefeller funds give 625000 to Yale Princeton Bowdoin Colorado College Millsaps. Harvard leaders apologized for egg throwing at Brown of Harvard. Indiana passed a bill to credential teachers training courses. Maxwell urged that teachers be athletic and physically trained for classroom strain.
A reader testifies that Peruna relieves catarrh and recommends it to friends. Another letter praises Peruna as a wonderful medicine and notes rapid health improvement after starting the remedy. Dead steer strikes farmer and horse, throwing them into Cannon Creek where both drown.
Justice Geo E Law of Brazil Indiana has wed about 1400 couples and recalls suffering kidney trouble a decade ago. He credits three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills with curing him in 1897 and reports nine years free of kidney complaints and backache. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
In a stark confrontation a condemned horse thief protests illegal acts as a regulator leader asserts strict adherence to a perceived law. The leader's action ends with the barrel knocked away, and gravity resolves the scene.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, offering one hundred dollars for each cure of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason dated December 6, 1886. Claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and requests testimonials. Also references Hall's Family Pills and a Garfield Ten laxative claim with herbal, guaranteed wording.
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