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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
2
A Washington Star reflection extols rural pride in Pohick on the creek. The author contrasts local calm and constable watchfulness with distant czars and heralds solid peace, simple life, and contentment over aristocratic grandeur.
In May a new telephone is installed at the Carleton farmhouse and praised by Mrs. Carleton as useful for emergencies. By August she shops at the village market, while Howard and siblings relax on the veranda as the threshing herd and wheat harvest unfold. Howard discusses prices with Barton and notes Girard, Hib bard, and other buyers moving into the market as the huge harvesting machine processes grain.
In a sunlit town, Charley and Bess relay an urgent message to Carleton via a telephonic signal. Helen uses the ruse to trigger a pivotal wheat sale, raising Carleton to a windfall as Hibbard drives a competing bid and Girard exits.
An article urges parents, especially fathers, to model pure behavior and guide children's early habits. It stresses mother father cooperation, shared confidences, and avoiding exposing boys to improper talk. It calls for parental responsibility to break bad habits and shape right ideas for a child’s life.
The column updates on league moves and opinions as of May 20. Lew Drill opens a law office in St Paul, Buck Freeman fans as before, Waddell rides an eight game win streak, and Comiskey numbers six pitchers for Chicago. Trade chatter about Green for Anderson remains speculative. Nats star Little Nill hits well, while Detroit sells Wood to Buffalo with refusal to drop to minors. Washington pitchers abandon the spit ball amid arm strain. Cleveland singled out by Collins as the sole Western flag contender. Toledo struggles to acquire a pitcher from Chicago. Jake Stahl pursues Illinois football post, Collins optimistic about team readiness, while Young and Dineen lag behind. Denny Sullivan leads American Association batters. Chick Stahl’s health concerns noted. Bill Coughlin flourishes in Detroit, amid hot form from Howard in Pittsburgh. Tom Fisher shines for Shreveport after Boston tryout, with five straight wins. Minor league releases and signings dominate Three- and Central Leagues, including Campbell, Desmond, Stauffer, Leighty, Davis, Snow, Holmes, and others.
Reports from the Western and Southern leagues detail player movements and game notes. Doc White anchors the White Sox influence, while Tip ONeil struggles with a barley horse for Milwaukee. Krouse departs, Warner and Horn move to Sault Ste. Marie, and Harry Martin shifts to the Sault. Clyde Nelson is released at Leavenworth. May 19 saw Howe shut Oklahoma with one hit, Nick Carter sharpens the spitball, and umpires receive pay and travel. Gehring stands out as a hitting pitcher for Wichita. Davis of Sedalia is spiked sliding to second. Ed Hickey signs with Guthrie to replace Jimmie Collins. In the Southern League, Bayne is released by Atlanta. Lessie goes to Jacksonville. New Orleans teams skew older, Atlanta younger. Little Rock protests a May 20 game with Montgomery, Pfeninger’s ruling on a grounder play cited. In the Western League, Joe Bille moves from Sioux City to Keokuk. Omata notes William Douglas’s youthfulness after forty years.
Sebring returns with Cincinnati while Cozy Dolan is marked for release by the Reds. Outfielder Barclay exits Boston and Jack Barry develops into a solid first baseman. Hanlon tours the East scouting talent as Brooklyn, Boston, and Cincinnati shuffle rosters. Rumors touch Phelps inheritance, Volz’s status, and Dunn’s managerial prospects. Odwell and Sheckard face declines as the New York Nationals season picture falters.
A Florida born woman nicknamed Julia lives a life of repeated romances and misfortunes. From engagement to an Englishman who died, to eloping with a seafaring man, to divorces and remarriages, she never finds lasting love before turning 33. An intimate friend sighs that fate blocks her from a real home and stable marriage.
In Athens Georgia a white haired widow of a Confederate officer tended a garden tree whose fruit was donated to charity. Passersby could pluck cumquets for a price, with proceeds totaling about twenty dollars over years shared among local charities. The widow lived by embroidery and kept the tree as a silent fund for community aid.
The Springfield Journal notes a playful contrast between grand titles such as steel trust president and czar of Russia with the appealing yet modest job a boy covets the ball game scorer. The piece lightly mocks ambition and ends with a cautionary joke about a boy advising someone contemplating life.
George Ade, a playwright earning over $100000 annually, joked that fellow journalists once knew him as a Chicago paper reporter. The piece notes his witty reminiscence and wpłyp on valuing his serious work. Also mentions the Russian czar’s nest egg in English securities and a $6 million American rail, iron, and coal investment.
The world's silk crop in 1904 reached 20,268,000 kilograms, up from 18,135,000 in 1903. Japan exported 6,555,000 kilograms, an increase of 927,000. Far East exports totaled 12,165,000 kilograms, with the remaining 1904 crop from western Europe and the Levant.
Vegetarianism wins favor among thoughtful eaters as the London Outlook notes. Bridge and boiled cabbage come together, and the fashion’s grip on the fashionable prompts debate over which sustains them more firmly.
The piece recalls Mexico City's famed thieves market once tied to Montezuma gardens where stolen goods passed from crime to tourists. Mayor Dudley notes space clears and booths move, signaling the end of the long history of the Vola dor market and its notorious trade in pilfered wares.
The essay questions the idea that Adam could not be rich, citing Adam as the first man who owned the earth and had wealth beyond modern rulers. It contrasts Gladden’s view with Adam’s imagined wealth and influence, highlighting his extensive possessions and dominion over land. The second piece warns of appetite as a monstrous, ever-growing force that drives self-destruction.
Mrs. C Durga of Bethel VI has received 20000 by the will of Alfred Burte of Liverpool England, a near stranger. Years ago she helped him with writing work and refused pay. She had not heard from him since. Corsets Opposed for Girls. A Prussian instruction circular asks school boards and the federal government to ban corsets in girls schools and colleges. Royal French Descendant Col BU app is a Kansas Democrat descendant of a royal French house. One ancestor taught Napoleon at a military academy. Vanderbilt Autos. John Jacob Astor owns 22 cars and W K Vanderbilt 14.
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