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Newspaper
Des Moines Daily Leader
Location
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1902
Page
2
A veteran engineer recounts guiding a fast mail train through a ferocious rainstorm on a washed embankment. With a hunch of danger, he eased speed, used sand on wet rails, and backed to solid ground to avert a catastrophic derailment and tail-end collision as a second train approached.
Washington Post reports the Oberly pension fight, a Civil War veteran paralyzed by a neck wound, with allies arguing fraud and guardianship, while the Pension Bureau halts increases and seeks a rehearing. The case spans decades, involving guardians, court orders, and appeals to the interior department and Commissioner Ware. Bail denied in the Chicago beauty doctor case, with E W Johnson held on manslaughter charge after Miss May Thompson's death.
The piece portrays Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter and the Zion suburb, noting crowded tenements, palaces, synagogues, and secular aid from Montefiore and Rothschilds. It contrasts religious factions, census doubts, and a growth in Jewish merchants atop Mount Olivet’s slopes while recounting missionary tensions and a Dead Sea steamboat episode.
Mrs C Leasenfeld of New York City claims one bottle of Ayer’s Hair Vigor stopped her hair from falling out. The 1.99 remedy from J C AVERCO of Lowell Massachusetts is sold at all druggists and cures dandruff while restoring dark color and softness.
A study of Visayan legends notes the caribao's guardian great white bird, monkey and parrot alliances, and the python as feared foes. Grasshoppers are food due to a missionary legend, while rice, coconuts and fruits drive seasonal migrations and mythic explanations of names such as Salog.
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