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Newspaper
Hedrick Journal
Location
Hedrick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1903
Page
2
The Hedrick Journal offers subscription rates, contest policies, and reader guidelines, then riffs on varied items from trials and weather to jokes and local opinions. Highlights include Caleb Powers trial prospects, Marconi wireless station plans, and odd anecdotes about taxes, trains, and beaus.
A collage contrasts sensational events and sharp wit from the era. Topics include flood warnings and prohibition, social entertainments, Chicago drama club dress codes, a Montana sheriff’s necktie party, a college graduate’s harvest, Carnegie’s European voyage, a fifty day world tour, Jules Verne’s imagination, a Chicago heiress gift, a Shamrock yacht captain’s American ambivalence, an Iowa editor’s delinquent accounts sale, a French baron fined for auto speeding, and Keokuk county tax collection debates urging equal taxation.
The Iowa cases against Dr. Mark Vance and Charles Pasnau were dismissed in Wapello County District Court. The piece notes a peculiar Atchison Kansas debacle where competing papers attacked the Globe editor, later apologizing publicly for false accusations aimed at attracting readers.
A Chicago News extract surveys clever aphorisms on manners, gossip, fame, and appearances. It notes a moth’s taste in dress, marks of flattery, and the public gaze on orators. The piece contrasts sun on fields with fame in death and hints at social misreads from company kept.
Readers can save money on subscriptions by combining THE JOURNAL with many other papers and journals. The notice promises better-than-regular-rate deals and invites readers to write or call for details on available bundles and pricing.
The Pittsburg Dispatch questions the view that coal corporations squeeze the public. It suggests the process might be a preliminary scientific test to see if people have money left over from last winter, rather than a deliberate price squeeze.
The banquet was a great parachute with which to let Sir Thomas down easily. When a loser is fed on the fat of the land, and told in all the ways possible that he is a prince of good fellows, it tempts him to come over and lose some more.
A wager led a Chicago pianist to play a saloon piano for twenty six hours straight. He collapsed after the marathon session and had to be carried from the venue. The incident prompts reflection on the cruelty of self inflicted endurance tests and the toll on the performer.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch quotes Simeon Ford arguing that baseball could pacify Latin American provinces and suggests sending professional teams to colonies instead of teachers or soldiers. He contrasts European hotels with American service, noting ice water and butter as reliable comforts abroad.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Biggsley grumbling about overwork. When he went to draw his pay he was required to sign the payroll, reflecting a satire on staffing and compensation practices.
An old advertisement claims blood health relies on bone marrow and spleen fat, fed by cod liver oil. It touts Scott’s Emulsion as a pleasant tonic for pale schoolgirls and invalids, strengthening blood formation. Free samples offered. product sold by Scott & Bowne in New York and major druggists.
Bob Murray, a famed early gambler who died in Kokomo Indiana, built a vast gambling empire from Cheyenne to Denver. Bat Masterson recalls Murray’s skill calm nerves and bold bets, creating Murray & Pierce’s lavish house with red carpets and paintings. He amassed wealth beyond the Union Pacific, bought horses and diamonds, and ruled the hills with a mix of generosity and hard rules.
The tale traces Murray's fall from wealth after a con with a gambler’s diamond score, his uneasy alliance with Francis Schlatter the alleged divine healer, and his ultimate decline as Schlatter gains fame. Also notes Masterson’s skepticism and the wider Albuquerque travel of Schlatter. Murray’s fortunes fade as blind luck and illusion erode his life and finances.
In the Memphis Commercial Appeal passage, a critics notes southern barbarism and cites 27000 saloons in the South and 34000 in New York, claiming the South has three and a half times as many people as New York and hints at reform for New York.
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