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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1894
Page
3
A fragmented vocal piece describes two domestic cats and a stray wandering through a cold city. The piece paints scenes of hunger, weariness, and shelter seeking from room to room and street to street. It contrasts comfort with deprivation and ends with a somber image of a hungry, hollow eyed cat by a doorstep.
In a Chicago night, Theo a street messenger known as the wee girl helps nurse Jim and Ned amid a wire-press rush. She saves a boy from a runaway horse before being wounded, plans to keep working, and dies peacefully as Hawley and Jim mourn.
An up-town Philadelphia collector visiting New York brazenly makes a quick profit on a Rajon portrait etching. He buys a cheap copy for a quarter in a shop, then sells it to another dealer four blocks away for twenty five dollars, covering his travel costs in a single stroke.
The impoverished residents of London seek shelter in the Hotel of the Beautifu Star also called Hotel de la Helle Eile where crowded rooms overlook the park and embankment. Christie Murray recalls a story of hunger and sleeping in the park by a London editor and a group of distinguished writers who once slept at this open hotel.
Miss Sarah Adams assumes full control of the Cotton Mill Block in Shelton Connecticut once housing forty families but now crowded with two families per room. She plans bold sanitary changes and insists tenants must comply or vacate, arguing cleanliness and cheap living can coexist.
An old advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest powder for light, delicious food. It warns against substitutes offering gifts or lower prices claiming alum or harmful acids, urging consumers to choose Royal for wholesome digestible results.
The Fiji group of about 200 islands, covering roughly 5 000 square miles, has shifted from a distant mission field to an active participant in world affairs. With 102 000 natives largely Wesleyan, governed by native chiefs under British oversight, the islands cultivate vital tropical exports and a growing modern administration.
A dialog from Utah shows a Mormon elder asking for boots for his wife. The bootmaker asks the size, replying seventeen, but cannot supply that size. The elder corrects that he means the number of his wife, not the boot size, in a stormy, humorous exchange involving Brigham Young.
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