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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
3
A report recalls the nomination of a 27 year old Texas representative candidate Mortis Rhep opera and the hostile response from opponents who argued for mature minds in Congress. The piece also touches on a debate analogy about sending a boy to Congress and notes observers' sharp commentary on youth in politics.
A miscellany recalls Lee Burr challenging Alexander Hamilton and Hamilton's death, early church and fleet events in Kentucky and France, and global affairs from revolutions to explorations. Notable items mention British and French envoys in Constantinople, tropical epidemics, and historic troop movements across Europe and the Americas.
James G. Blaine, Republican candidate for the Presidency, gave the commencement address at Bowdoin College and received the serree of LL. Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Vendricka were nominated for President and Vice President at the Democratic national convention. Reports from Paris claim Gen Gordon was murdered by his soldiers in Khartoum. The Democratic convention Iehieh nominated Cleveland and Trendricks met in Culrage.
The Tanhandia railway yards from Sixty-first Street to Brighton Park were swept by a blaze set by strikers. Loss listed as 7000 dollars with seven fatally tied to the riots. four killed and twenty five injured in clashes between railway workers and authorities in a prior period. England offered its services to Japan and China to settle the Korean dispute.
Unseasonably cool conditions slow corn and cotton in the Missouri valley and upper lake region. Heavy rains hinder cultivation and harvest in lower Mississippi, central Mississippi, Ohio valleys, and parts of the middle Atlantic. Winter wheat suffers from persistent rains in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri while the wide Atlantic states report strong progress in crops.
A compact report notes Bighball from Brighton Beach wins the Dergy Stakes for two year old horses. The event marks a standout performance in a brisk winter season with a strong showing by veteran horse Bighbail as runner up.
Curiosities about cycling speeds, coal fires, and Bible revisions mingle with naval feats. The piece notes a cyclist covering thirty miles in just over thirty-three minutes, a coal dump fire threatening millions in value, and the American Bible Society debating revisions. It also mentions the Oregon voyage craze and a Kentucky record run from Madeira to something unspecified.
A Brighton Beach race accident ends in the death of the valuable thoroughbred Highball after a leg fracture during the final stretch of the Bengal stakes. The injured colt, valued at $595,000 and previously offered for £70,000, succumbed despite veterinarian efforts.
A historic cloudburst in San Juan del Monte near Manila drove a 24 hour rain event pouring seventeen inches of water. The flood killed two hundred residents and destroyed property valued at two million eighty thousand dollars as families fled toward the hills for safety.
The report lists reserves and trust funds with notes and certificates issued. It shows the general fund and national bank balances, awaiting reimbursement, and overall liabilities and cash balance totals in the national accounts.
A historical note says a few years ago only three liver tools existed between Lady Alexander Drffami the Farleh throne. Now there are eight as of ages around thirty.
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