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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
2
A report notes bats nearly five feet from tip to tip discovered in a cave near Tanga in East Africa. The piece weaves various random global notes including fashion, industry, demographics, and historical curiosities.
The new Bristol sloop Constitution defeated Columbia by about thirty minutes and Independence by over an hour in the first of three corner races. In light winds the Constitution set a record, beating Columbia on all legs except the second where Independence briefly led before falling behind.
At the Union League club in New York on the 6th a dinner honored General Gomez and General T Estrada Palma. Mr. Stokes, once with the Cuban league of America, praised the reception in the United States and stressed Cuba and the U S as brothers. Gomez spoke of Cuba libre and the deep debt to the United States, calling Palma the first president of Cuba libre.
Inter Mountain reports that pursuit of the Great Northern robbers has been abandoned. Authorities say the pursuing posse from Glasgow is despondent and likely the robbers escaped southward. Southern Montana counties hope for capture while crossing state lines.
Unprecedented heat grips Kansas with readings up to 108 degrees in Maxyaville and 106 in Fort. Reports across counties flag failed corn crops, soaring hay prices, and looming feed shortages without rain. Also noted is the death of Mrs. Johanna Weber in Kansas City at 65, and a revival at Republic Iron Steel Co in Youngstown adding 5 percent wage increases amid resumed operations and a 5 percent price uptick.
Topeka dispatch reports the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the state irrigation law and the condemnation of land by the Pasqnee Lake Irrigation Company. The decision enables the Barton county project to advance a large scale scheme including a reservoir at Pawnee Lake and a long ditch from the Arkansas River, with storage to support water needs for eastern Barton, Rice and Reno counties. The plan aims to secure water for a wheat region while Kansas and Colorado continue a dispute over river diversion.
A New York death follows a claim of royal birth by Sophia Adelaide Kent who said she was England's Queen Victoria's eldest daughter. She died June 6 after heat and hunger at a German hospital. Her body will be buried in Calvary cemetery, not Potter's Field, after a doctor's charitable intervention.
Fifteen thousand acres of wheat near Great Bend Kansas burned when a passerby threw a lighted cigar into dry stubble. Inhabitants fought the blaze with all methods but could not stop the flames until late evening. Estimated loss nears three hundred thousand bushels, most in stacks.
C Porter Johnson, attorney for the affected Indians, plans to file an injunction in Reno to stop the opening of lands held by Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes. The suit seeks to restrain the land office registrar, the receiver, the surveyor, and others from proceeding with the president’s proclamation and the related act of Congress. Judge William M. Springer has arranged for Johnson to represent the tribes.
William Bansbach aged twenty two son of Louis Bansbach a leading citizen of Morrisonville Christian county DL recently released from the central hospital for the insane at Jacksonville as cured threw himself before a west bound passenger train at Morrisonville on the Wabash and was cut in two dying immediately.
Workmen at Frankfort Michigan uncover a golden altar crucifix claimed to be once owned by Jesuit priest Marquette buried there 225 years ago. A skull found nearby stirred excitement earlier, with demonstrations in Toledo. The tale blends relic lore and old rumors across the fired and fragmented report.
Dr Talmages Cincinnati sermon lauds the Christian Endeavor movement amid claims of Christian decline. He cites historical Christian growth, missionary expansion, Bible printing, and church building, arguing infidelity fails beside the churchs influence and public need for religious institutions.
A Kentucky political scene recounts a confrontation where Tom Stuart, editor of the Winchester Democrat, mocked J. N. Boone with a soap and water quip. The exchange, tied to Ethan Allen’s infidelity anecdote, ends with Stuart’s victory and Boone’s defeat as the audience erupts in approval.
Notre Dame University in the West invites readers to request a free catalog from the president. A thorough preparatory school links the university with options for all grades. The Commercial Course for young men can finish in one or two years, with higher courses noted as thorough and exacting. St Edward's Hall operates for thirteen hours, and fifty seven years of active educational work have made the institution famous nationwide.
Sir Noel Paton, famed painter and poet, marks his seventy eighth year. Admitted to the Royal Academy in 1843 and named an academician of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1860. Knighted in 1867 after publishing Spendthrift. Residing at George Square, Edinburgh, with a renowned arms and armor collection.
In the Austrian court it is against custom for perishables to appear twice on the imperial table. The system grants perquisites to attendants with items like corked bottles, wine left in glasses, joints, game, or sweets. Each morning a marker is held in the palace basement where Viennese buyers obtain the remaining goods.
Philadelphia Inquirer notes a Connecticut case where a millionaire paid taxes on 15 dogs. It contrasts Bill Nye’s tale of a man with 19 dogs and poverty, suggesting the pot of wealth has shifted and that the millionaire is a modern Nye pauper reference.
Unexplored regions span over 1 250 000 square miles with the dominion totaling 3 450 257 square miles meaning one third remains untraveled by explorers. Local ads promote medicines and tonics from Kidd Drug Co and Rigg's Pharmacy in Lincoln Nebraska, with various dubious claims and self-help lines.
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