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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
1
In Milam County and town the campaign thrives with the School Board for Teachers for next year. The Red Tag sale extends 14 more days featuring summer clothing and footwear, inviting shoppers to call and be convinced.
Red Tag sale on 36 mens three piece fancy checked worsteds. Originally $10.00 to $7.50, now $5.95. New style and color, tailored fit, deluxe value. Limited quantity, act fast to save money.
Senator J F Allee of Delaware lists himself as president of Bay State Gas Company and ties himself to Addicks. Heyburn of Idaho is described as untouched by the 1896 silver craze. Ames of Massachusetts notes his grandfather Benjamin F Butler and father Adelbert F Ames. Utah’s new senator states he married Alpha M Eldridge on September 17 1884 and seeks to correct the record regarding remonstrants.
D O Mills a New York millionaire owns a $1 000 overcoat. The garment vanished after a dinner at a relative’s house as he prepared to leave. A reward of $100 is offered for its return.
Secretary Cortelyou remains one of the few figures in public life to preserve the pompadour style. The feature notes how the hairdo once surged through society, and how Cortelyou uses the look to pace his thoughts without altering his profile.
A notice from Trenton New Jersey seeks a witch doctor to cure Miss Dora Copperstein who is paralyzed from the waist and suffering in the upper body. She believes an old family adversary cursed her with a strange yard flower. Doctors doubt the ailment and urge proper treatment.
The Towneley lamp in Towneley chapel England has been extinguished ending England’s last so called ever burning lamp said to have burned since King Alfred over 1000 years. Monasteries once kept hundreds of perpetual lamps burning since the Norman Conquest.
In a tense exchange during a police commission session an officer declares that the aim is to remove thieves from the force rather than recruit more. a veteran remark suggests shifting focus to rooting out corruption rather than expanding the ranks.
The article notes Mayor Low of New York is regarded as cold yet kind in public dealings, showing remarkable self-control with a quiet voice and precise wording. It contrasts his temper with former mayor Van Wyck, who was famed for a volatile nature.
Fragmentary OCR recalls a tense scene where figures named Reed and Adams discussed a bill in a heated exchange. A coin held in Adams pocket becomes a focal point as he speaks about funds and influence during a period of political strain.
Duke Carl Thodor of Bavaria long practiced medicine and has now made it his lifelong work. His cousin Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, also a doctor, works at the Women’s Hospital in Munich.
A fragment from a humorous dialogue shows a boy asking why a tin can is tied to a dog’s neck and the reply notes the dog is bobtailed. The line captures rural or colloquial banter with a playful misdirection in speech.
Heinrich Peterson a professor at a Baptist seminary in Hamburg Germany now serves as a motorman on a Chester Pennsylvania trolley line. Fluent in five languages he arrived in the United States seeking an appointment to a theological seminary but took a street job instead.
An Ethiopian ruler, Emperor Menelik II, shows strong interest in clocks with several Swiss chronometers imported via his adviser. Ras Makonnen ordered multiple mechanical clocks from Swiss firms for presentation to the court and empress. The standout is a large chiming clock modeled after Westminster Abbey's St Margaret's.
A fresh roe egg was brought from Antananarivo to Johannesburg amid price speculation. The sale, led by Absereen, reportedly fetched around one shilling, with traders noting the high value of this import amid cautious demand.
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