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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
6
At Coronado's ostrich farm 33 birds feed on a bale of alfalfa and a sack of barley. Chicks are curious and can bite fabric. old males are fighters capable of breaking fences. Young chicks worth about $29 each in the market.
The obituary recalls Howe, famed New York criminal lawyer, who died recently. It notes his fierce defense style and quotes a courtroom moment about his poverty, then shifts to a grim report on rising meat prices in Berlin and Europe. It cites Germany’s livestock shortage and restricted imports as causes of a perceived meat famine in February.
Bellamy Storer says Admiral Cervera is living in obscurity and poverty in Spain. No Spanish minister will give him a post and he receives no pay while off duty or an assignment.
George M. Yankovsky a young Siberian from Vladivostok travels the United States as a farm hand and general utility man in stables stockyards ranches and more to gain knowledge of stock raising and agriculture. His father owns 31000 acres of fine farming land near the Japan Sea in roughly the Chicago latitude. He carries letters of credit worth more money than many can raise. He has visited Illinois Texas Kansas and Missouri and is now in the last named state.
A group calling themselves Brothers of the Common Life adopt the rule of St Francis of Assisi. They wear plain black gowns and capes and converge from Westminster Congregational chapel. Rev. R Westrope resigns to join the new order, led by a monkish nonconformist path.
Passengers on an Arlington branch car in Pittsburg witnessed two gamecocks fighting on the fender as the vehicle sped from Williams to Spring Street. morterman Hahn saw the roosters clash on the tracks and they were struck by the car. One rooster died, the other flew away after the impact.
Miss Cleveland sister of ex President Cleveland is a successful farmer owning about half of a 700 acre island near Iseshoro Maine. She recently acquired more land and runs 806 chickens a large cow herd and a big vegetable garden. She grows prize pumpkins fattens poultry and makes dairy butter. She handles affairs herself but employs many workers. Only one other cottage exists on the island.
Edith White of Bennington Vermont is awarded fifteen thousand five hundred dollars from a stranger who once befriended her and who later died. She travels to St Louis to claim the inheritance deposited in her name.
Watts, an English painter, is described as delicate and sickly yet long lived into his 86th year. He never smoked and is teetotal, rising with the chickens. He calls himself a negative person but says he enjoys his work and remains keen to improve continually.
Horace Day of New Haven Connecticut owns the complete bedchamber set that belonged to Lord Percy who commanded British reinforcements at Lexington on April 19 1775. The furniture descended through a long line of New England ancestors.
Balzac and Dumas once crossed paths at a party with no exchange until Balzac departed and remarked that when he can do nothing else he will turn to writing plays. Dumas replied, Begin at once, then.
France maintains a strong bicycle craze with good roads sustaining cycling. While city wheel sightings decline, rural and seaside areas show widespread wheeling, with tourists and locals alike favoring the bicycle for travel and recreation.
Mascagni, director of the Rossini lyceum at Pesaro, Italy, was fired after his tour received scant favor. Managers relieved him of duty near term, while he sought reinstatement by legal mandate and received offers from other Italian music schools.
Senator Stewart of Nevada recounts Twain days in Carson City. Twain’s host brother, a model citizen, is questioned from the stairway about scripture prayers and grace before breakfast. The host affirms all, and the youth who would later stir nations joins at the table.
A Gibbstown New York resident Charles E Hartman reports recovering health after a serious cough, warning against playing with coughs that may reach the lungs. He endorses Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as an early remedy to stop coughs and colds and resume normal activity.
The article recalls Justice Gray of the U S Supreme Court upholding the ancient dignity of the court. As chief justice in Massachusetts he pressed the old regime and faced bar leaders Henry W. Payne and Sydney Bartlett. Payne once walked out after being told to sit, then returned to receive an apology from Gray.
A column reflects on changing feminine attire from opera to daytime wear and bathing scenes, noting moralist hypocrisy and the decline of balloon crinolines. It advocates the end of the pull back skirt as ugly and hard to accept despite its era of popularity.
An elderly passenger irritates a Caledonian canal steamer porter by demanding disembarkation at every stop. He refuses to assist and tells her to go to hell. He then quietly says the captain demands an apology.
Clifton Arizona hosts a county jail carved from solid quartz with four large rock rooms. Entry is via a masonry vestibule with heavy steel cages and cement floors. The jail held southwest criminals including Black Jack, with walls thirteen feet thick and escape nearly impossible. Clifton is a copper mining camp noted for harsh frontier living and extreme temperatures.
John GeTaylor a wealthy retired banker is spending his fortune on monuments in Brandywine cemetery to honor men prominent in national history. He has already invested $100,000 and recently ordered an Italian monument for Wells and McComas, who killed General Ross in the War of 1812.
Cheap iron padlocks from South Staffordshire once dominated a trade to India where natives used them as ornamental fastenings. Cast padlocks, glazed in bright red or blue, were said to be bought for adornment rather than utility, with women of the region stringing them into mock lace.
M Marchand analyzed brains from 1 173 individuals after death. Newborn averages are 371 g for boys and 361 g for girls. Brain weight peaks around 12 or 17 years and adult averages are 1400 g for men and 1270 g for women. Senile atrophy starts around age 86 in men and 76 in women. The heaviest brain on record belonged to Tourgeniff at 2130 g. Gambetta’s was among the lightest at 1160 g.
A more than life size bust of Cecil Rhodes by sculptor John Tweed has been completed and will be erected in Kimberley. The statue shows Rhodes delivering a speech with his right foot forward and hands behind his back, head tilted in a characteristic pose.
A Versa to English Women profiles Miss Dillwyn of Swansea as a famed author reviewer farm bailiff partner in a thriving smelter business. She walks three miles to work each morning and leaves at five. She serves on the school board and chairs the hospital committee.
The piece discusses scarecrows as feared symbols and contrasts them with scientific medicine. It cites physicians who claim no cure for coughs and notes testimonials praising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for bronchitis and hemorrhage, warning readers to avoid dubious dealers.
A lengthy promotional notice touts Dr. Pierce's book Common Sense as Adviser covering medicine and hygiene from Galen to modern times. It claims life enhancing facts and offers the work free by postage paid mailings of 21 one-cent stamps or 31 stamps for a cloth bound edition, addressed to Dr. R Pierce Buffalo NY.
The passage sketches Nikolai Gorki as a self made figure, detailing his early poverty and ascent from day laborer to clerk who rose through hard study. It contrasts Peregrine Leubet with Roosevelt style hunting, and portrays Papa Emile the French president as a hunter turned leader in a casual, poacher like stance.
Signor Galimberti and other high postal officials examine engineer Piscicelli's plan to move letters in aluminum boxes along overhead wires at 250 miles per hour. Rome to Naples would take 25 minutes and Rome to Paris five hours. A technical commission is to study the system before Rome Naples experiments begin.
The Retort Courteous recalls a House of Commons moment when Lord Evelyn Stuart entered with a long moustache. Ministers remark on wartime symbols and advise him to place his moustache on the peace establishment. Lord Evelyn remains guarded in response.
A historic anecdote recalls Sir Michael Hicks Beach as the sole cabinet member who impressed by his restraint at a 1868 dinner. The young Lord Consfield cited his ability to keep a tongue in his head, prompting a later offer of the secretaryship of the committee.
A report describes rag dealers transforming discarded footwear into paste and artificial leather for wallpapers and trunk coverings. It notes the process yields designs resembling morocco. In other notes a Dutch rose study records 6000 roses on a single plant, with Madame Regnew in Holland and a Niel rose at Whitby reaching 3500 blooms.
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