Aly Wall Leads Wetland Team in Open Meet
Aly Wall captains the Wetland team in a coastal open meet. The event drew several clubs and featured strong performances from local athletes across sprint and distance races.
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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1904
Page
6
Aly Wall captains the Wetland team in a coastal open meet. The event drew several clubs and featured strong performances from local athletes across sprint and distance races.
John Burt learns Miss Cardew has married Arthur Morris, sparking rage and reflection on love and wealth. Blake contemplates moving James Blake & Company to New York while Morris plots influence and marriage, aiming to squeeze rivals and control Cardew’s fortune. Arthur Morris travels to Berlin, then tracks Cardew's movements at Raezynski gallery, plotting to learn her routine and influence the outcome.
Morris pursues John Burt while Jege de Carden sails for Europe. Arthur Morris seeks Burt's arrest and news from Jessie Curron as he recovers from wounds. He writes to his daughter in Berlin, ignores past rebuffs, and learns of his father’s entanglements with General Carden and a looming financial dispute.
A letter from Thomas Carlyle to a London neighbor complains about a nocturnal cock that disturbs sleep. He describes residents as unhealthy and sensitive, requests removing or quieting the bird from midnight to breakfast, calling it a charitable act of good neighborship.
The Missouri Republican platform denounces Democratic rule, pledges honest government and tax relief, attacks debt and mismanagement, calls for fair habeas corpus and election integrity, and supports public education and social welfare while vowing to pursue responsible economic policy. It criticizes Democratic misgovernance, endorses anti corruption measures, and outlines priorities for state governance and fiscal restraint.
The fifth annual session of the Missouri retail merchants association held in St Louis elected officers for Hannibal next year. Fred Busche was named president and J Pohle, RK McIntyre, J ke Heck, W W Smith as vice presidents, with W W Hawke treasurer and W F Sullivan secretary. The executive committee includes Lorens Padberg and George Wakera.
At a board of education meeting, contracts were awarded to T. W. Hackett for repairs to the Columbia school building after the fire for 4880 dollars. Solemn heat and power company won the contract to install a cumulative system in Central High for 2245 dollars. Other contracts covered equipment for the manual training department at McKidew, electric fixtures for James E. Yeatman High, and portable buildings for Wain Park. Plan changes at Clay school and Teachers College saved 9010 and 12225 dollars respectively by substituting stone varieties. A new setting will be advertised. The commissioner of archon buildings reported on the gymnasium plank for Central High, with cost 1700 dollars.
In St. Louis the Civic Improvement League farm school at Tower Grove and Shaw avenues awarded prizes to girls and boys for garden work and product quality. Miss Hirrel Stevens directed prize duties with her father W A Stevens and Karly Layman as judges. River Front squatters were evicted. 23 families displaced as shacks torn down by Marshal James Coulkin’s force.
Twelve men were chosen for a special session grand jury at Clayton to investigate gambling and alleged lawbreaking in St Louis County. The panel includes August Hoege and Louie Rott among others, selected from a 100-name list. The jury will convene Monday August 8 for the September term, while reports describe gambling dens shuttered and outwardly closed, with officials having deserted locations. Edward Salyers, a detective, reportedly defended a selective individual during an assault at Creve Coeur Lake, with John Doyle alleging the attack was vicious and that intervention likely saved a life.
Mrs Berseh of Mexico Mo files for divorce from Schmiund Berseh a felon now in state penitentiary. She cites alleged contempt neglect and finances, claims pawned jewelry and presence of other women at their home. The couple wed in St Louis in 1897 and separated in June last. Also notes deaths and local civic notices including Cameron waterworks contract and board of public improvements engineer.
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