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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
6
In Regent's Park Miss Llewellyn and Master Kenneth Waller mingle with spectators at the gardens. Mr Bradley, orchid hunter, reappears guiding a budding romance with Miss Llewellyn as the pair plan a South American departure while Waller teases for attention and watches a band concert.
In a fragmentary exchange, Bradley asks to present himself while Miss Llewellyn hushes him, quoted from The Woman at Home. The text captures a delicate social moment with subtle humor and restraint.
The Paris designer Mme Barutti created a coronation gown for the Czarina of Russia that was never worn by royalty. The robe, valued at $40,000, features gold thread, royal ermine, and purple velvet. Barutti died by suicide after royal commissions collapsed, and the gown later sold to a New York firm.
In New Orleans a unique old washerwoman lives on a popular avenue and uses Bible quotes as a basis for her self described vocation. She calls herself a professional prayer, earning money by praying for neighbors weekly to influence spouses away from drinking and urging believers in her method.
A special trolley car for fire engines operates in Springfield Massachusetts. The engine sits on a platform nine and a half inches above the rail, with front truck detached to load the engine. Car length is thirty feet ten and a half inches and weight 14 000 pounds. The department loaded an engine in two and a quarter minutes and unloaded it in one and a quarter minutes.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a Michigander who bet on peach crop yields with a 500-tree orchard in St. Joseph County. After offering $1,500 for a 1,500 bushel yield and a later drought, the deal collapsed, ending with the buyer claiming $1,590 and the deacon joking about preferring Providence again next year.
Adriana H Joline recalls intellectual domination and a clash of power as Charles O Conor, a dignified lawyer, is depicted through a vivid anecdote. The tale centers on a overbearing cross questioning style and a subservient clerk named Effingham who fears a harsh morning snub.
Lord Spencer of Althorp buys a bric-a-brac item for two guineas in Bond Street. A connoisseur later reveals the piece is merely a shilling marmalade pot with a green thistle painting. The tale contrasts great collectorship with a humorous misjudgment.
A great ruby once said to be stolen from the Swedish treasury was not taken by force but pawned by two royal family members. Which prince delivered it to the pawnbroker remains secret, though the king could retrieve the jewel if he could also slip his hand in his pocket.
Kentucky crime tale centers on Express agent Schlitzbaum and accomplice J C Schlitzbaum held at Falls of Rough and J W Boater jailed in Irvington as $28000 vanished after a Memphis fraud scheme. Boatner claimed South American birth and a father funded the winnings from horse racing.
A dispatch from Treasury expert T B Sharretts reports the tariff treaty between the United States and China was signed on the 16th instant and he will sail home on the first steamer. The accord concludes months of negotiations, part of the open door policy to open China’s interior markets.
A Skaguay telegram reports Lieut. Owens found two intact boundary monuments in Alaska and locates a third site recently destroyed. The discoveries support the American claim to the boundary as defined by the Russian treaty, with further exploration planned and Indian testimony to be gathered. The news also notes the Okay monastery fire and Brewer Ballantine's possible $150,000 after debts.
A Pittsburg Dispatch special reports that Charles M. Schwab of United States Steel will retire indefinitely from active business life and seek a quiet foreign climate. He remains at home with family, seeking rest while doctors advise rest and careful supervision of his health.
The Columbus and Southern Railway Company raises capital to 2 million dollars. Colonist rates to the Northwest are reinstated for September and October. The Moffat road will gain eighteen miles of mountain track. Union Pacific contracts a vast Salt Lake viaduct project. Illinois Central completes a Chicago to New Orleans line and now operates 1,045.78 miles of railroad-owned long distance telephone lines.
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