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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
8
Senator Wark, a long serving member of the Canadian parliament from New Brunswick, is in his tenth year in the Senate and has been a legislator for the province for over sixty years. He was already elderly at Confederation, making him likely the oldest legislator in the world.
Missionaries returning from Japan report strong demand for American teachers. Salaries run from 75 to 135 dollars monthly with housing provided. The Japanese government is expanding educational institutions, and several American teachers are already in the major schools.
Lord Kitchener attempts to dance at a Dunbar State Ball. His vague grasp of figures turns his and his partner’s steps into a comic tangle while onlookers laugh. He blunders through the set, grins with delight, and finishes inching toward his partner as the music ends.
A Lynn Massachusetts workshop produced a pair of women's shoes in thirteen minutes to set a record for rapid shoemaking. The process used fifty seven operations, forty two machines, and one hundred parts assembled into a finished pair.
An Outlook writer surveys New Mexico people, stating many Spanish speakers sympathize with Mexico and resist American customs while some embrace U S culture. An incident at night shows a family found with a U S flag, a boy from Mission School speaks English, while the elder replies in Spanish, Oh mucho icano.
The Salt Lake Eventing News dropped its single status policy a year ago, replacing three frolicsome reporters Eugene Lewis W S Watson and Hugo Wells with married men. The Tribune reported the policy, other editors denied it as a joke, but now the newsroom is filled by married staff.
France to issue 28 centime nickels matching U S and Belgian coins. Weighing six grams, the new coin fills the step between the rocentime and the frank, offering useful intermediate money for transactions.
Tody Hamilton notes the first English circus appeared in 1770 on Halfpenny Hatch in the Waterloo Road, London. Philip Astley staged a rope ring show with a drum, two fifes, and one cow, charging six pence for front seats. Early acts included conjuring, transparencies, vaulting, tumbling, and fireworks before Astley built an enclosed ground and later opened Astley’s Amphitheatre Riding House.
Yale University forms the Brobetinenags club with twelve members tall over six feet one inch. Frederick W. Wilhelmi of New York serves as president, George A. Gross of Waterbury as secretary, and Suart B. Sutphin of Cincinnati as vice president and treasurer. Thorn Baker of Cincinnati is the group's tallest member at six feet five inches.
A famed visitor asked for an audience with the late archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth. The archbishop, noted for blunt speech, told him to take a seat and then offered two seats after the visitor identified himself as Lord. The terse exchange ended with the unexpected reply.
France faces a public health dispute as the Academy of Medicine warns of poisonous essences in liquor while M Duc haux of the Pasteur Institute argues daily wine or multiple liquor glasses aid digestion and health. The doctors diverge as the nation questions rising alcoholism.
Justice George F. Seymour presided over an unusual wedding in his Hoboken suburb office. Richard Iansansfield claimed to be the groom while Maude Adams gave her name, and after confirming the couple’s residence the official completed the ceremony and collected the fee.
French ambassador M Jusserand is the third European envoy recently accredited to Washington with an American wife. The coincidence that three leading nations have chosen husbands of clever and beautiful American women is noted as remarkable.
At a London first night George Bernard Shaw faced a chorus of calls for the author. A gallery voice taunted the show as rotten, prompting Shaw to quip that their opinions share little weight against the crowd. Another Shaw piece had him quitting town after a private matinee. The stage manager later read a note from the author saying he would rather travel far than watch it again.
Senora Maria Francesca de La Guerra a Mexican resident of San Francisco was sentenced to one day in prison at San Quentin for bigamy. She had eight husbands in twenty four years and married the eighth man before the previous husband died.
A London Times excerpt from January 24, 1803 notes Dr. Galvani's principle to restore motion in dead bodies and Citizen Potel's use of oxycertated Muriane Acid Gas for resuscitation. It questions future miracles in an age of wonders.
In Pittsburgh Dr Bertha Caldwell of India recalls an anecdote about a Mohammedan doctor claiming to be a homeopathist. He shows seven rainbow colored liquids and links each to a fever or ailment with color coded remedies, ending with a sign reading Gee ul whiz Servant of God Homeopathist.
The larger New York hotels operate their own ice plants producing about ten and a half tons daily. Water is thoroughly filtered and cooled by ammonia coil systems. Water moves through cans in a circulating process to remove impurities while brine freezes the water to about 20 degrees below zero.
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