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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1905
Page
2
The Washington Post argues that practical ballot secrecy remains imperfect and considers whether advancing election purity has truly progressed beyond simple open voting. The piece questions security flaws and the potential for coercion or manipulation in modern ballots.
The John A. Izer Seed Co of La Crosse Wis markets millions of vegetable plants at 16 cents each. The editor notes the unusually large quantity and calls the company one of the world’s most reliable seed growers, though the wording suggests a bold sales pitch about their scale.
A promotional offer invites readers to test Salzer's Warranted Vegetable Seeds with a sizable assortment including 1000 fine Cabbages 2000 Turnips 2000 Celery 2000 Lettuce 1000 Onions 1000 Radishes and 4000 Flowers all for 160 postpaid. Return the notice and pay 20c postage to receive a Berliner Cauliflower package. The World To-day is advertised as helpful entertaining richly illustrated with color pictures.
An old newspaper item promotes Defiance Starch highlighting its 16 ounce package and value equal to 12 ounce rivals while noting grocers fear selling out. It also touts Lewis' Single Binder cigars made in Peoria Illinois as superior to prior 10 cent brands. The ad closes with a common sense slogan.
A playful collection of observations on marriage and fidelity from a Minneapolis Tribune humor piece. The author satirizes wifely nagging, spousal jealousy, and romantic misfires while tossing in quips about love, home life, and social mores with a dyspeptic wink.
A collection of witty, satirical lines on life, money, and human folly. The Evening reads like a parade of quips from critics and anonymous voices about folly, dissipation, and the pursuit of profit, including a jab at a new Scribbler novel.
A collection of brief witticisms on virtue, appearance, gratitude, and human nature. It includes lines about well meaning ends, top of the head hair, calling a homely woman handsome, a Cincinnati man cured of deafness by a drink, women improving on nature, and a drowning man needing an arrow.
A Boston Globe report describes a wild cat in Dorchester that adopts an ash house rat burrow as its den. The cat’s kittens learned to hunt rats, eradicating the rodent brood. The feline then enlarged the burrow, using the rats’ larder and living largely unseen at the hole’s mouth during winter.
London banks sending gold coin to China avoid coins with St. George and the Dragon on the reverse as the Dragon offends Chinese religious sensibilities. Consignors select older shield-reverse coins, now scarce with only about five per thousand remaining in general circulation in England.
In Salem Walter J Harris owns a black iron lamp shaped like a bowl with a curved handle. The lamp, used in olden times during the witchcraft delusion, supposedly lit into jail some witches. Salem's spots tied to the delusion include the witch house, preliminary examination sites, courthouse pins said to pierce victims, and the reconstructed old jail now home to Hon. Abner C Goodale.
Gip Williams a churchgoing dog from Nontville Berkshire died after a funeral was held with many children following his burial. The dog attended prayer meetings and village church entertainments for years with the Williams family. One night he followed family to prayer, then returned via window to sit in church.
Sightseers watched a blind man walk a spaniel that led him with a chain along Chestnut street. At the curb the dog barked to warn him to step down, guiding the man safely across as curious pedestrians followed.
A Washington boulevard resident built a small barn or coal storage structure modeled after Fort Dearborn. The weather stained, battered outbuilding sits behind the lot, blending old Chicago style with new Chicago Record Herald era observations.
Miss Mamie Conway of Canton Ohio credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring her health and complexion after years of headaches torpid liver and indigestion. She says two boxes cleared pimples gained rosy cheeks and renewed vigor. The pills are sold by druggists and said to correct irregularities and banish weakness.
Tasmania imposes fines from 2.50 to 5 with costs on orchardists who do not bandage trees to curb coddling moths or fail to destroy infested fruit. Wormy apples are confiscated and destroyed, with shipper prosecuted. New South Wales may seize destroy or return infested fruit at shipper's expense. Authorities urge strict enforcement to aid growers and the country.
The ruler of Russia is correctly titled emperor and autocrat, not czar. Czar is an older term meaning lord or prince, abandoned by Peter the Great after Poltava. Since then the monarch has carried the title emperor, and Vienna 1815 acknowledged the imperial right while granting no precedence over Western kings.
A Hot Springs visitor reports long standing stomach and bowel troubles improved after using Grape Nuts with cream. He notes quicker sleep, relief from constipation, and better memory after following The Road to Wellville guidance. Another friend cured of indigestion using the same food.
A Denver Pa. youth Stephen Mellinger, disabled yet agile in darkness, speeds, farms, milks, and drives horses and a bicycle with remarkable skill. A French case reports sudden speech return after cold exposure. An Harvard Observatory sun spot image notes a very large spot possibly 70,000 miles long, with details on size and growth potential.
Workmen in Silver Street Bideford uncover a slate slab noting that John Wesley inaugurated the site on his way to Cornwall. The inscription records the property’s purchase by John Lee and rebuilding by his son Frederick Lee amid recent fire damage. The exact Wesley meeting spot remains disputed.
L L of Patchogue faced a magistrate over using a near decrepit horse to peddle oysters and clams. Two young attorneys argued the bitter contest before a town jury that ultimately dismissed the case. The horse sold for 2.26 dollars plus two quarts of oysters, with lawyers’ fees totaling five dollars and additional oysters.
The Caronla, Cunard's largest Atlantic fleet addition, is a giant vessel with an immense length and broadside height. It features three promenade decks topped by the bridge, 75 feet above the loadline, and funnels rising 150 feet above the keel wide enough for two railway trains to pass abreast.
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