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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1902
Page
2
Miss Mallandaine receives a violet bracelet and amethyst gift on her birthday. Rumors swirl as Mr Mildmay’s secret gift ties to an heiress destined to wed Captain Cleveland, revealing romantic complications and a dramatic turn in the tale.
Mary Mallandaine weighs a $100 bracelet and 25 to 50 cent violets while a handsome suitor, Mr Mildmay, raises questions. A friend notes a jet lace purchase from Levison pawn broker as Mrs Inglis recalls a bracelet hire scheme and a planned engagement within three months.
A young man helps a blind, ragged man on Fourth Avenue, guiding him to safety as the busy Bowery car stops. Onlookers cheer while the helper, ashamed, resumes his ride after the act of compassion.
On a Germantown train two young women discuss engagements and poverty. One says if she loved a poor man she would marry him immediately rather than endure a long engagement. They cite a New York fiance who spends weekends in theaters and suppers, draining his savings.
A brief verse noting the ease of disposing debt contrasted with repeating strain. The piece humorously laments daily troubles, including the idea that the worst troubles arrive before breakfast.
Farmers in Chicago stock yards enjoy record beef pork and mutton prices as last year’s poor corn crop and restrained breeding allow producers to reap higher gains. Feeders hold back stock while consumers pay top rates and poultry demand soars amid drought and drought era prices.
The Vatican’s L Osservatore Romano publishes a papal encyclical in which the Pope says he nears the end of his life and urges bishops to resist persecutions while the Light of Christ spreads among infidels. He condemns social disorder, socialism, anarchism, unjust wars, and armaments and calls for unity among Christian churches and protection of church rights.
United States Pension Commissioner Henry Clay Evans, longtime Tennessee Republican and former Chattanooga mayor, has filed his resignation with President Roosevelt. Evans, born in Pennsylvania, has been a key political figure since the Civil War and was a prominent 1896 vice presidential candidate. He narrowly lost bids for Congress in 1890 and for governor.
W. W. Reed a wealthy land owner and oil operator was walking along a public highway in Indiana when a severe storm struck. His umbrella was struck and torn apart and his clothing shredded leaving him nude. He was found and carried to a farmhouse where he recovered.
Albert T Patrick is convicted in New York for the murder of William Marsh Rice and the alleged forging of a will to gain control of Rice's estate. The trial reveals a conspiracy involving forgery, poisoning, and fraud with Rice’s valet Jones acting as key witness and participant. The death penalty looms under state law.
William Henry Moody of Massachusetts has been selected by President Roosevelt to succeed Secretary Long as head of the Navy Department. At age 49 he is five years older than the President and graduated from Harvard in 1876. He served as District Attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts from 1884 to 1895 and filled a Congressional vacancy in 1895. He rose on the Appropriations Committee, guiding federal expense legislation and naval affairs. He has sat on the Insular Affairs Committee for four sessions and is regarded as a strong member of the House.
Two men fatally shot John Martin proprietor of a distillery at his home in Keokuk Falls Oklahoma They robbed him saturated his body with oil set fire to him and escaped Neighbors doused the flames before the body was consumed Separately the War Department refused the Oklahoma City and Western Railway right of way across Fort Sill military reservation
Rev Francis Edgar Mason of the First Church of Christ in Brooklyn says he refuses to ask brides to promise obedience to husbands. He argues the vow fosters gender inequality and urges both sides to develop complementary traits for true cooperation. He notes he has refused to marry couples when a groom demanded the obedience clause.
Alexander R. Peacock of Pittsburg fears a kidnap plot mirroring the famous Cudahy ransom scheme. His three children, Grant 14 Irene 2 and Alexander 10, have faced threatening letters demanding 25000 to avoid harm. Authorities say suspects are among the nation’s most dangerous criminals as the Peacock family relocates to New York for safety.
Cecil Rhodes died at Cape Town after a serious illness. The magnate, born in England, built wealth through diamond mining and led as premier of the Cape cabinet. He shaped a South Africa vision and funded imperial projects while amassing a vast fortune and influence. He was 49.
Lord Kitchener reports a dusk March 23 to 24 thrust against Delarey. Kekerwich column secured three fifteen pounders two pom poms and prisoners and stock wagons. W Kitchener column took eighty nine prisoners forty five carts and wagons and a thousand cattle. Total prisoners 135. eighty miles covered in twenty four hours.
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