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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
6
Advertising rates listed for locals, professional and legal ads in the Jackson Missouri post office section. Display rates available on application. The notice is recorded as second class matter dated November 4, 1897.
The market report outlines prevailing grain conditions with focus on supply demand and price trends. Analysts note harvest progress, crop quality, and weather impacts influencing futures and cash markets across major grain regions.
A sermon on biblical watchfulness from Matthew Saint accounts, urging perpetual vigilance for Christ’s return, temperance reform, and faithful daily living. It links the Parable of the Master’s Return to temperance efforts, warning against worldliness, deception, and neglect of duty, while stressing faithful service and readiness.
A devastating fire tore through Toronto's wholesale retail core on April 19, destroying one hundred plus business buildings, with about 12 million dollars in property loss and 6,000 people displaced. One man was killed and another seriously injured as flames raged for hours, threatening major warehouses and landmarks like the Gordon Mackay building before dawn. Insurance totals reached nearly 9.9 million, with early alarms sent to London, Hamilton, Montreal and Buffalo as local firemen fought the inferno amid exploding fireworks.
A young constituent pressed for a government post, but Senator Dolliver of Iowa urged gaining legal knowledge by working on a case before a justice of the peace. He stressed practical study over easy positions, recounting his own frugal beginnings cooking meals on an oil stove in his early career.
John D. Crimming of New York reports from Rome on the Vatican’s shift toward simplicity under Pope Pius X. He notes the pope’s aversion to pomp and formality, keeping intimate dinners modest, with social cards among friends, signaling a calmer atmosphere at the Vatican.
Congressman Adamson of Georgia recounts a tale to prove common virtue beyond the Ohio. While campaigning he faced a homeward message and no train until tomorrow. A farmer offered to walk with him, saying he would spare no horse to help, prompting admiration for rustic generosity.
Peaf Von Gardener of the University of Tubiesen, Germany, has begun a study to divorce abstinence from beer. He surveyed student clubs about total abstinence from beer or meals. Replies varied. some said the student would lose himself without beer, others treated the inquiry as a joke.
A French firm pays well for parchments of all kinds and uses a process to remove ink, returning cleaned parchment as high quality French kid gloves. Waste from glove production is repurposed. clippings with vellum and leather are boiled for tea, and scrap shavings plus seal skins are used to fill cheap cricket and tennis balls.
A sawmill fire in Agen France created a striking display when water sprayed on the flames vaporized instantly and froze in the cold air. The dry wind carried the resulting snow high above the fire, producing a brilliant and bizarre scene under starlight.
Albert the Paria monkey assisted in sounding the alarm at a fire in a min tress' house. The monkey opened a window and guided the porter to rescue the woman from danger. In Rome, Father Perosi conducts Moses amid clerical protests over theater bans for priests, with calls for uniform suspension rules.
A E Dolbeoar, recently awarded the LA D from Tufts College, rose to prominence forty years ago with a writing telegraph. He then devised a magneto telephone in 1874 and a static telephone in 1879, advancing a long ago wired wireless telegraph system.
A Bridgeport Alabama description recounts Martha Grasscock Mere nearly paralyzed by tingling skin burning feet and chills. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills she regained strength and weight, claims she owes her life to the remedy. Lighthouse keeper Milton Reamy earns $1000 yearly after 17 years service at Mines Ledge off Massachusetts coast.
An advertisement touts FITS T as curing catarrh with internal medicine and warns against local applications. It cites Ches ET & Co of Philadelphia and mentions street addresses and druggists. The piece also notes London state awards and a relic about a frozen crew steamer launched at Jarrow on-Tyne.
A note on estimating cosmic scales by a toy model where placing Earth and Sun one inch apart implies the nearest fixed star lies about eleven miles away, illustrating vast interstellar distances with a concrete analogy.
Defiance Starch Co offers twenty five round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition. Five winners from each state of Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri will win by sending in trade marks from a ten cent Defiance starch package. Entries must be received by September 1. Tickets sent by registered mail.
A Toledo report alleging naval apprentices at Newport are treated like slaves and starved and beaten is questioned as likely as extravagant revenge stories spread by those who feel defeated. The piece hints at skepticism about sensational claims and urges careful verification.
Gen Miles, known as George Nelson Miles, pursued French during later years, taking up the language to pass time after retirement. The note records his effort to learn French as a hobby in his mature years.
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