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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
8
A garbled retrospective blends disappearance rumors, police actions, and scattered notes on trials, likely referencing a missing child case, legal actions, and local incidents. Names, places, and dates are severely distorted but hint at investigations, charges, and community reactions.
Last entries recount financial shocks in New York and Northeast coast wrecks and fires. Fractured reports describe drownings at Coney Island and Maine, balcony collapse in Philadelphia, a gypsy shooting in Philadelphia, and naval warfare chatter with wireless signals cited amid market turmoil and bank consolidations.
Following an extreme heat event an atmospheric condition lasting minutes proved fatal to cattle near Qacema. Six of eighteen head fell dead in a drove approaching a gate. A man resembling Karl Gottfried Carlson, a Liverpool Scandinavian, was murdered with a blunt injury and possible gunshot. His body, found by the Mississippi River, was wrapped in coarse sack and carried a Swedish handwriting note listing Elin Johann and John M. Nelson in Chicago and San Francisco.
The report cites John Kemper fatally shooting Welborn Dewees after family trouble, a mob in Needmore Tenn lynching Joan Millikin and wounding Jobs Hunter, and other violent events including a Stanford Ky death from corrosive gas exposure. Various political and local calamities follow.
Reported election of Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto as Pope, coronation at St Peter's amid grand ceremony. Overseas dispatches note mood across Europe and Asia with political unrest and military activity in Bulgaria Hungary and the Philippines. The article also mentions Venezuelan training academy, railway plans in the Northwest and currency issues in the Philippine stands.
Twenty two people died and about fifty were injured when Wallace Brothers circus trains collided on the Grand Trunk near Durand Michigan. Air brakes failed on the rear train, causing a deadly crash that wrecked multiple cars and released animals.
Rev Ram Jones, a Georgia speaker at a local rally, defends lynching as a response to what he calls anarchy and black violence. He argues for white supremacy, praises disenfranchisement and a white primary, credits Booker T. Washington for improving black labor habits, and calls for harsher action to curb alleged black aggression.
The Weekly Review of Trade reports continued confidence in legitimate commerce after a speculative collapse. July railway earnings rise 12.3 percent from last year and 23 1/2 percent above 1901, while retail fabrics remain strong and jobbers note brisk opening business. Labor is well employed nationwide, agriculture is favorable, and foreign trade persists with egg galas in imports and exports. Copper prices dip to about 18 cents, iron and steel show cautious improvement, and overall demand appears steady with new blast furnaces under construction. Wheat harvesting progresses in Chicago and Northwest, with favorable yields and a strong hay crop. Prices for coarse grains stay remunerative, while merchants in the West report robust cash business and ongoing road flood disruptions easing rail capacity.
A raw OCR list shows varied grain and livestock pricing by market regions including Chicago and Cincinnati. No clear story, but prices for hogs wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs and dairy are given with multiple units and ranges.
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