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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
6
A New York Tribune excerpt argues farm life centers on home surroundings shaped by financial means, while emphasizing the farmer’s duties. It urges keeping business out of dining room discussions, fostering cheerful family life, and investing in farm amenities, reading, and social events to keep youths on the farm.
Louis Schuelke Jr. a Waterbury Republican correspondent at Bunker Hill writes stories and draws by using his teeth due to a lifelong inability to use arms or hands. He learned to write with teeth and toes, preferring teeth for efficiency, and produces news, drawings, and decorative lettering despite his disability.
Emigration from Finland by young men avoiding Russian service, British investors backing Mexican railroads and mines, and Sir Hiram Maxim praised by Lord Salisbury. Reports cover U.S. Grant’s farm near St Louis, shop hours violations in London, church attendance in London, Turkish monogamy shifts, pest work in Hawaii, and Chartres Cathedral clock tower restoration. Also notes on Warren County circuit court push, election commissions, levee board finances, capitol pamphlet, and civic appointments.
The passage surveys global trivia and curiosities: undelivered mail in 1901 with many untraceable senders, American sugar use and dentition, New York elevated train ridership and fares, an Egypt Sahara auto for 40 passengers, a large Philadelphia medical library, Kansas weed troubles on a railroad, English cat trade plans, Allied Colonial Conference on science education, Caucasus brigandage and attacks along the railway, abductions in Tiflis and Baku, and Queen Amelia of Portugal earning an M D and active medical charity while pursuing writing and animal lore.
Washington reports scarce war signs as Corea protests Yongampho fortifications on the Ya river. Officials note lack of a Russia Corea addressed message, leaving the risk level uncertain while embassies monitor press reports. The Russian embassy currently lists Mr Hansen as chargé d’affaires.
Newark man Patrick D Toon secretary and treasurer of a large bending manufactory was struck by a train at Grand Central Station while searching for his wife who rode in another carriage with their child. He fell beneath the wheels as she later learned the man outside was her husband. An officer brought news to their home shortly after.
Baltimore conference between railroad companies and the National Association of Undertakers with state and provincial health boards produced nine rules effective January 1, 1904. After that date no bodies from smallpox bubonic plague or several specified diseases may be shipped except under strict infection controls.
Danish efforts push to end cantons and limitations akin to those in the Anglo French agreement as leaders of the international arbitration movement report progress from Copenhagen. The negotiations aim to align Franco Danish arbitration terms with broader treaty standards.
Reported thefts totaling 100000 in diamonds and jewelry from Knigh Frank Rutley vaults during an auction in London. Police watched incoming steamers and suspected a band of thieves targeting high value items.
The Rankin plant of the American Steel and Wire Company resumes operation after a two week shutdown. The red, wire and galvanizing mills will be fully on within a few days.
Telegram from St Peters burg reports no need to insure Welsh coal shipments to Russia as negotiations between Russia and Japan advance. London interprets message as forecasting a favorable outcome for the talks.
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