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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
2
An extensive May sale offers women and children apparel at deep discounts. White shirts and lace trimmed items cut from $1.50 to 75c, drawers to 50c, corset covers to 50c, and dresses from 39c upward. Millinery features three lots of trimmed hats from $1 to $3. Silks, lawns, cottons, and white goods on sale with marked reductions. Stock is limited and delivers ready. buyers urged to shop now.
The excerpt depicts a governor railing against a proposed law seen as favorable to Britain. He argues the East may pass such measures to invite British gunboats, while he boasts Illinois would deploy a hundred thousand men to sink them, a grand wartime gesture noted by Brooklyns Hagle.
Dr Hugo Winckler publishes the law code of King Amraphel of Babylon dated about 2250 B C a century before Moses. The 282 statutes cover penalties for bad value at taverns wife and widow rights engagement rescission and dowry rules.
Mrs Julia Filbridge of West Cornwall Connecticut says Burdock Blood Bitters cured her severe breakout on the body, calling it almost a miracle and expressing deep gratitude.
Edward Everett Hale declares Daniel Webster was not a drunkard and that rumors of intemperance are unfounded. He notes Webster occasionally tasted liquor but could distinguish stimulants and once refused a offered whisky by burning the drink in a stove with a remark about heating the stove more than him.
Houseworth Bros markets Rocky Mountain Tea at 35c as a dispenser of cheerfulness and sunshine, claiming rainbows appear across clouds of despair after use.
A humorous domestic exchange follows a dinner dish, as a young wife recalls the pud ding and the husband responds with a double dose of cholera mixture, highlighting comic dialogue over dinner.
A historic ad claims Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates and can safely be given to children. It is pitched as peculiarly adapted for asthma and bronchitis with sale by Fenton's.
Reports from St. Petersburg indicate government view favors expulsion of Jews from Russia within a year. Kronshaven calls Christians to convert or Jews must leave, while authorities deny aims. Demonstrations in Warsaw suppress autocracy. Kishenev burial details reveal brutal mutilations and mourning across Jewish stores in Syracuse.
Financial agent G. James of Thomas Lowry in Minneapolis the street railway magnate is in Girard amid talks to close a deal for several thousand acres of coal land along the Jacksonville and St Louis Railroad recently purchased by the Burlington between Girard and Burnett. Payments of five to ten thousand dollars per day are being made to farmers for their coal. The exact associates of Mr. Lowry are not clear.
A canvass for 300000 seeks funds for the Washington Young Men's Christian Association. John D Rockefeller Jr reports his father’s favorable view and records the donation to date reaching 210000, emphasizing the national reach over local focus.
Bloomington Ind May 25 John D Rockefeller offers to raise his gift to Indiana university from thirty thousand to fifty thousand dollars on condition a further fifty thousand be raised from others before July first. Subscriptions of thirty five thousand were obtained last year and trustees will plan to secure the remaining fifteen thousand at the next meeting.
Hartford Wisconsin May 25 3000 persons attended the titular feast at St Marys church on Holy Hill with 10 30 am high mass led by Rev Mr Matthews from Chicago. The service included a German sermon by Rev Mr Bertram and an English sermon by Rev Mr Berg and concluded with the stations at 2 pm. Many crippled and blind persons were present seeking relief.
Edward Christ a Carondelet Electric Lighting lineman fell thirty feet from a pole injuring his back. The injury prevented him from lying or sitting still, causing four days of relentless pain and sleeplessness. He lapsed into violent insanity and was admitted to a city hospital.
Margaret Carr applied a paste to remove facial hair and was poisoned after buying it at a drug store. She suffered nausea cramps and fading consciousness before being treated at Harlem hospital where doctors warned recovery depends on no complications.
Plaquemine La May 25 An explosion at Wilson and Cochran saw mill of Wilcox near Maringoin station killed six workers including William Pearson James Victor Archer Philip William Hill Richard Hill and Jesse Thomas Nine others were seriously injured with two expected to die Among the injured were Glover the sawyer and J J Dolinger boiler maker of Plaquemine
Princess Louise of Tuscany requests permission to reside in Austria. The emperor grants consent on the condition she live in a convent within the realm.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Macedonians and Turks with a place near Seres and a village being burned. No full names, dates, or context available to clarify the event.
Enid Oklahoma records hundreds homeless after a cloudburst in the bottoms causes $300000 in damage. A three foot high, 200 foot wide flood swept through Enid with many houses submerged and fatalities reported in Foss and Springfield lightning incidents nearby.
Malay governor signals possible export duty on tin ore shipments to Singapore, stalling talks and sparking concern among producers and traders about higher costs and supply disruption.
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