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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
2
A republication style report claims Mrs Hay and other spouses of top officials pressed to observe formal etiquette with foreign dignitaries. The note describes consi lation with wives of ministers and ambassadors and outlines expected calls and duties for diplomatic social life.
In a fragmented briefing, officials discuss a vision of a waterless Niagara amid engineering and transit talk. Poetic reflections echo concerns over river flows and the future of the falls as a symbol and resource, with questions about timing and feasibility for renewal projects.
News notes a new Chinese legation planned at Nineteenth Street and Vernon Avenue to be among Washingtons finest official edifices. It will cost about 845000 to build with conservatories a dining hall and drawing rooms, much furniture sourced from China and tableware from the royal kilns of Peking. The Japanese legation near Vermont Avenue seeks exchange or sale for a more desirable official home. A Paris court scene reports a legless man lamenting leg loss in the palace corridor and a passerby crowd who later learned the cause and his arrest for vice offenses. wooden stumps were offered as a charitable gift and later placed with his belongings at the registrar.
A Boston preacher says society women of the city swear horribly. The piece notes ongoing fears in Chicago that intense Browning study could lead to trouble if continued long, while Chicago papers remark on European monarchies reacting to J Pierpont Morgan returning home without a merger.
The Midland Exhibition opened May 1 in Wolverhampton with a pavilion of modern light structures and a grand bell tower. Highlights include a Japanese collection of edges and lacquer, Danish porcelain machinery, and a Dominion exhibits hall. A single American exhibit aims to showcase Midland coalition work amid broader foreign designs. The Canadian pavilion features a domed hall, while an art gallery presents Watts, Whistler, Le Cire and other figures in a developing English arts display.
A fragmented report describes Pref, Vith, Pesseneeno of United Sites testing a weather signaling system at Wherepart Keuinobirteland Nook. The goal was improved weather telephoto messaging for Hyverre flog ply, with tests involving the Cage Metter Hehe, Shmiles, and observers Berther and Mite ciny. Telegrmipy experts HON Le Wheee two CD LOers and Prof. Pessenden disputed results, noting a nearly complete success except for a stubborn instanen sample.
The Sorlat Math association of New York advances a project to provide entertainment spaces for workers in the Rastsile area. Newton Mhelps Stokes completes two plans for levelling while ground floors, a second floor ball room, upper floor clubs, and a roof garden are outlined. A director notes the aim to offer light wines and beer and to host dances, balls, and lodge meetings in a welcoming, attractive venue.
The remains of the Man in the Iron Mask were located in an old cemetery behind St. Paul’s Church in Paris during demolition. Nearby were skeletons linked to the Brinvilliers poisonings, with Francois Rabelais once buried there. Scientists may date the masque to resolve if he was Louis XIV’s twin.
The British bread tax adds only a farthing to a loaf but cuts its size so the price stays the same while the loaf yields fewer slices. The Chicago Inter Ocean notes the tactic ensures nobody lacking the extra farthing loses out in loaf size.
War plans settle on gray as the practical camouflage for vessels. English navy favors the color for its serviceability and invisibility in combat conditions.
The Chicago Regard-Herald notes four simultaneous revolutions across South America, calling the insurrections too numerous to detail and signaling widespread regional upheaval.
Guthrie Oklahoma May 14 Acting on a complaint of white citizens of Pottawatomie county United States Attorney commenced action for the arrest and prosecution of several white residents charged with attempting to dispossess Helen Bonner a colored woman of her homestead in Cleveland county They allegedly threatened to kill her if she relinquished the claim and left the country She has revived her homestead entry and is entitled to federal protection The possession of the claim was contested by her against a white man before the interior department and she won.
An advertisement claims a product Causearets Candy Catharite can cure constipation forever. It promises refunds if customers fail and mentions a motive to educate novels with the remedy. The tone mirrors a sensational sales pitch.
A San Francisco letter from a member of the December expedition aboard the schooner Phelps reports the Treasure Ishand reached safely. Gold was found in beach sand and quartz on the island is believed gold bearing, though the island’s location is not stated. The letter was posted in Ecuador, suggesting the New World offshore coast remains uncertain.
Seattle May 14 The Trans Siberian Railway is nearly complete awaiting the opening of a tunnel of about one and a half miles later this year George Janson a veteran construction engineer on the project says Jerdan Prottheenstane travels to St Petersburg his home to observe conditions in the US Moersborg is en route to Russia via the United States Afterward the liver bile and biliousness cure Herbine offered by H L Tucker says 50 cents
Joseph J. Gutridge died at his Granite Oregon home on May 4 2022 at about TS years. Born in utes county Missouri he emigrated to Oregon in 1888 with his parents and settled in Granite where he lived nearly his whole life. He was loved by all and leaves a large family in Granite and Baton County Missouri. The notice ends with unrelated advertisements about Ballard’s Snow Liniment and a Filipino joke from the Post Dispatch.
An Arkansas farmer has just received 2500 dollars for 50 acres of arrow berries, with the buyer to pick them.
A farmer was approached by a stranger who offered $7,000 for his place and paid $25 to bind the bargain, then vanished. Another stranger offered $8,000 and was asked to return later. The first man later paid $275 to cancel his option, and now waits for the second visitor to reappear.
In 1895 none, by 1900 six million boxes of Cascarets Candy Ca thartie's jump into popularity. Advertised as the best medicine for the bowels in the world, the product claims wide acceptance. Sold by all druggists.
A dispatch from Delagon Bay Portugal says peace in South Africa will likely follow the Boer leaders conference at Vereniging Transvaal on May 15 with official proclamation planned for May 20. Preparations for general rejoicing are under way.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The text says the remedy is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces, claiming to destroy the disease’s foundation and strengthen the patient. It offers $100 to any case it fails to cure and invites testimonials.
In Butler Missouri, the county court of Lale County directs the sale of described real estate to satisfy a school fund bond. The sale will occur June 7 at the courthouse door between 9 am and 2 pm, overseen by Sheriff of Baws county. Proceeds go to the mortgage trust and costs of executing this trust.
The Merwin Academy Association through officers Richardson and Reywolde executes a school fund mortgage to secure a bond. By order of the county court the property in Kates County Missouri is offered at public sale at the court door in Butler to satisfy principal, interest, and costs on June 7 between nine and five. The parcel covers about 451 100 acres in the southeast quadrant of section 42, township 42, range 0, with description describing a public notice of sale to creditors and the proceeds to discharge the bond.
Trustee Samuel W. Gilliand conveys real estate in Bates County Missouri by deed of trust dated January 15. The property lies in Lot two in the northwest quarter of section one within range twenty nine containing forty acres. The sale is to satisfy two notes of fifty dollars each with interest, due and unpaid. The public auction will be held near the square where the circuit court sits in Kotler County Missouri on Thursday May 2, at noon.
The notice promotes a limited time club offer for four publications The Live Stock Indicator The Poultry Farmer and The Farmers Institute Editions plus a local paper at 1.25 per year. It touts these papers as premier farm reading and urges farmers to sample at the office.
The St. Louis Mirror, twenty eight pages, edited by William Marion Reedy, is a weekly review of men and affairs with short stories and broad topics. It targets merchants, teachers, professionals, students, politicians, and homemakers, offering ten weeks for ten cents mailed to St Louis Missouri.
A damaged OCR fragment from a local administrator notice references approval processes and a publication with annexed attachments. It mentions county context and a date in April, without clear names or concrete actions.
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