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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1903
Page
32
The Commercial Tribune presents Our Boys and Girls in volume five issue eight. It highlights youth activities and community news for readers.
In Monroe County near Knob, 10 year old Levi and 12 year old Willie found a mother bear with three cubs while sap gathering. Levi shot the mother bear, killing her, and captured the cubs alive. The trio returned home with the cubs as the father and hired man fetched the carcass.
The private car, described as both a pleasure jaunt and workshop, serves as the President's mobile office. It travels by regular train or special, with the private secretary reporting on the car's mail and papers, allowing uninterrupted business and strategic consultations even during meals or social moments. Maps, reports, and official papers are prominent aboard, emphasizing governance over leisure.
Readers are urged to spell a mix of difficult terms and proper names such as kalidoscope synchronism lachrymose basque and Shendoah. The piece lists places rivers and languages like Rappahannock Dnieper Seine Kamchatka Havana and Shenschlill to test spelling accuracy.
Reports from United States Barracks Columbus describe a new army rifle praised as greatly superior to the Krag Jorgensen. The gun is lighter with higher velocity and greater accuracy, features a magazine, five cartridges in a clip, and a bayonet round released by a spring.
Roy Farrell Greene writes that stamp collecting moved west as the West hosts more collectors and societies while eastern centers decline. The column notes rising Western interest, catalog value quirks, and requests for foreign-collector addresses, plus brief items on forgeries, South American reprints, and a proposed city postage-stamp plan.
Cleveland and Winchester letters discuss postage stamps under China rule. A single country separate stamps exist but a full list is unavailable. Antikamma 2c is catalogued at 25c and the carmine Emerson Drug Company 1c stamp at 5c.
The Blunderkins witness a fat balloon bound for the moon with Andy and his parents aboard. They journey amid a vivid parade of colors. pa bows, ma smiles, and the family is painted in bright clothing as they head toward the moon.
Readers discuss stamp values and denominations for Azores and Cuba issues, with opinions on 5c In land Exchange and Netherlands stamps, plus anecdotes on telegraph and old letter stamps. A reader jokes about a school essay on the human body and vowels.
Marcus Alonzo Hanna born September 24 1837 in Lisbon Ohio built a career from a Cleveland wholesale grocery job to partner then head of M A Hanna & Co a coal firm president of the Union National Bank Cleveland City Railway and Chapin Mining Company and director of Globe Ship Building Company He became U S Senator from Ohio in 1897 chaired the National Republican Committee and helped elect McKinley.
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