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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
1
The notice describes ongoing campaigns in the county and town including a School Board for Teachers for next year and a Red Tag sale extended 14 days. It advertises summer clothing deals with skeleton lined items and footwear urging readers to visit and be convinced.
New in style and color suits offered at red tag prices. One lot three piece fancy worsteds previously ten to seven fifty now five ninety five. Shirts reduced to fractions of a dollar with multiple lot options for men.
A quarrel erupts in General Wheaton's mess over Filipino fighting qualities. After a tense dinner, a member challenges the general on Filipino bravery. He lashes out, declaring Filipinos are not brave and will not stand up to being shot.
The Seamen's Church at Sunderland features a wooden boat bow shaped pulpit bearing the gold inscription Nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net. The gift honors the officers and men of a torpedo boat destroyer flotilla for kindness shown during a spring visit in Igor.
President Harris of Ambhurst notes regional differences in profanity. He cites a mining tale where a miner buried out West had a stone inscription reading Bill Jenkins died June 13 190%. He done his damnedest Angels could do no more, illustrating how a word seen as profanity elsewhere can convey deep sentiment locally.
San Francisco reports Chinese consul and chief consul Wu, a Christian, has organized a $2,000,000 iron and steel company for China. Most capital is subscribed by Chinese merchants in the United States. Wu outranks Hoe in government rank as the minister holds fourth rank to Hoe’s fifth.
Signor Luigi Manara of Bologna publicly vowed to stop supporting his son and burned about 200 000 in banknotes hidden in his bed. The fire destroyed the notes though authorities may still recover value if the serial numbers can be traced.
John D. Rockefeller head of Standard Oil has been elected Honorary member of North Tarrytown New York fire patrol. He said the boyhood dream is realized and joked no policeman can fan him from the fire lines and he could turn the hose on any foe.
Discussion of the Confederate seal intended for South Carolina and a London engraver Joseph Wyon. Mentions an equestrian Washington portrait, the Capitol Square monument in Richmond, and proofs showing Washington with whiskers and a Confederate slouch hat. References the engraver's charge around 600 dollars and notes the piece as a potential curiosity.
The Lancet offers cautions on family size for young couples citing statistics on multiple births. Triplets occur about once in 6,400, quadruplets in 12,000, and quintets are exceedingly rare at about one in 40,800,000, though not without an exceptional case of seven successive triplets.
The Japanese minister presented Mrs Grant with a framed enamel picture of the crown prince's newborn son. The mikado's accompanying letter thanks Mrs Grant for the gift before the prince's birth and reiterates friendship for the Grant family while recalling his admiration for General Grant, whom he hosted years ago.
Fragmentary notice describes French ambassador and Tarorean envoys in Washington with American spouses. Text is unclear but indicates diplomatic arrivals and associated couples.
A chronicler notes Jonathan Edwards era households used large fuel amounts. In winter 1740-41 Northampton supplied Edwards Bar with 75 loads of wood, next season 82, then 78, and a following year 95 loads. The Edwards hearth stayed ablaze throughout.
The exclusive women’s hotel in New York, named Hotel Martha Washington, debuts on East Twenty Ninth Street near Madison Avenue. A brick four-story house offers rooms and apartments priced from four to forty seven dollars weekly, with occupancy limited to women and a policy similar to other women’s hotels.
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