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Newspaper
Hilo Tribune
Location
Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
8
The notice indicates rental terms available by month or year and invites interested parties to apply for particulars. It signals flexible leasing options and directs readers to seek more information from the property manager or listing authority.
The steamers of the Oceanic Steamship Company will arrive and depart this port as scheduled. Vessels will follow the listed times and docking arrangements for passenger and cargo service.
In New York at the Waldorf Astoria the Society of American Authors hosted a centennial tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson. More than 200 attendees, a loan exhibit of Emersoniana, and speeches by Moncure Conway, Charles Haswell, and others celebrated Emerson's life and work. A Roosevelt dispatch and messages from British and American figures were read.
President Schurman of Cornell extols Emerson as the most influential prophet. Dr. Harris lauds Emersonian optimism and progress. Colonel Watterson argues the ideal has no place in public life and government remains imperfect. The speech laments the limits of politics and praises a thinker as a cosmopolitan figure.
Agents announce coupon through tickets for sailings of the steamers. Intending passengers may obtain by mail from San Francisco to all U S points or from New York by any steamship line to European ports. For further particulars apply to the agents.
The passage traces a leader who ascends from modest roots to power, becoming a national symbol and a shibboleth for millions who expect him to be Chief Magistrate. It argues that public life requires a diffused intelligent public opinion capable of judging truth from spurious claims, and notes the ambivalence toward newspapers as leaders or mere communicators.
May 31 dispatches describe the Missouri river flood as the worst in history with water up thirty feet submerging hundreds of buildings. Six thousand refugees in Kansas City and thousands more homeless across Armourdale and Argentine. Railcars seized, fires in lime yards, and millions in losses reported. Topeka endures a dire night with two hundred deaths feared. Des Moines reports thousands of refugees and extensive property damage. Government aid including tents and supplies dispatched to stricken communities in the Middle West.
In New York on May 26 the defender Reliance defeated Columbia and Constitution in trial races. The new defender steered well and clearly proved superior. Indications point to Reliance being chosen to defend the cup.
May reports note Russia ordering 250000 tons of coal and lining up emergency measures in Manchuria while Tokyo cites heavy imports of American leather. Navy yard activity and thirty warships at Port Arthur are mentioned amid global tensions. In California, a Southern Pacific wreck near Santa Barbara injures fifty, two fatally, as rails spread causing three coaches to plunge into the sea.
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