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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
7
Six ballots failed to elect a successor to Pope Leo as smoke stories and crowd scenes at St Peters highlighted the third day of confinement. By 6 pm about 50 000 Romans and visitors filled the square while officials heightened precautions against attempted signaling from within the conclave.
Report of two clashes with escaped Folsom convicts near Placerville California. Militiamen Lieut Smith and seven men fired on a hideout, four convicts shot, several posse wounded, and fugitives escaped. Local citizens joined the effort as battles drew in.
The procedure shows cardinals seated under colored canopies with six central tables, senior officials on defined sides, and voting papers sealed yet opened to reveal voted names. If no candidate reaches two thirds plus one, an accessit ballot allows changing votes to consolidate blocs.
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected pope succeeding Leo XIII on the seventh ballot at age 68. Born 1835 in Riese he rose from priest to bishop then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice and was long regarded as Leo XIII’s favored choice.
A replica of the 1871 fire will headline Chicago’s centennial jubilee week with two hours of red fire on skyscrapers and buildings. The event includes an Indian village and Fort Dearborn reenactment with participants from high society, and a militaro civic parade. The celebration will replace the usual fair with gala citywide observances.
The Mississippi River Commission released its annual fiscal report, noting allocations from Sundry Civil and River and Harbor appropriations. Key items include harbor funds for Helena Arkansas Memphis Tennessee Greenville Mississippi Natchez Mississippi Vidalia Louisiana, levees, surveys, and district dredging totals, with commentary on the impracticality of permanent channel work under current conditions.
Reports describe Chicago facing water shortages linked to careless usage. In Fort Sill, S T, Geronimo the elderly prisoner joins the Methodist Church. Samuel A. Parsons, former brakeman, jailed in East St. Louis on suspicion of murdering his wife after a dispute over hauling an Apache eight miles. Nearby Fort Sill farmer Felix S. Crow is murdered by a letter over a dispute.
A Pennsylvania dressmaker Maggie Monahan tours Europe on Cook’s 40 day voyage. After Paris she returns and instantly rebrands her shop as MLLE MARGUERITE Robes et Manteaux. The town jokes that travel broadens her ambitions.
Friarpoint Mississippi August 3 One of the strangest cases. The Butler boy faced spinal disease and nightly dying fears. After two months without relief the father tried Dodd’s Kidney Pills, giving eight boxes until complete cure. Mr Butler claims the remedy speaks for itself.
An inquisitive youth asks why a girl is said to be of age at fourteen while a fan becomes legally adult at twenty one. A wise reply notes the quip about girls born in 1MN2 turning eighteen this year.
Advertisement proclaims that deafness from inflammation of the Eustachian tube or catarrh can be cured by a constitutional remedy called Catarrh Cure. It promises US$100 for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by the product and notes local circulars are free. Sold by WA FJ Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio, and Hall's Family Pills priced at 75 cents.
A scattered OCR page includes a dialogue about seeking a silent partner at a deaf and dumb asylum, an advertisement for Allen's Foot Ease powder with pricing and contact, and assorted observations on erotic fiction, Turkish and Persian pipes, and exiled Bourbon princes.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Dr Kiime's nerve tutor or tonic and a trial botane. details are unclear. Potential product or treatment claim noted with dates or codes that are unreadable. Further readable context needed for a precise headline and summary.
European mills produce paper gloves and stockings with expert praise. The stockings, though made of paper, are said to last nearly as long as ordinary hosiery. The paper is transformed into a woollike substance during manufacture and woven to resemble true wool.
The term nicotine derives from Jean Nicot a French ambassador to Portugal. In 1560 he sent tobacco seeds from Lisbon to Paris declaring them seeds of a valuable medicinal plant well regarded in Portugal, a plant introduced to Portugal from America about four decades earlier.
A fragment from a Buffalo address dated September 24, 1901 notes two bottles of Piso’s Cure for Consumption cured a terrible cough for Fred Hermann of 209 Box Avenue. The second line observes that while a soldier enjoys ornaments, he objects to upbraiding.
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