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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
3
Eleanor confesses ambitions to teach and Struthers learns she seeks a career, not a rich match. They share thoughts on love, money, and independence while Uncle Phineas misreads motives, and a quiet future talk hints at a deeper bond to come.
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt condemns fuel wastefulness amid coal prices from a strike. It argues Americans endure extreme hot rooms, then drastic cold transitions, risking health and lives, urging prudent heating to conserve natural resources.
A vivid London Answers tale recounts how Thomas Alva Edison, after three days of solitary study, bursts with a cryptic mental riddle. He collapses in his wife's arms, his mind seemingly mastered by the problem. His final quip involves matches, heaps, squares, triangles, and numbers.
A columnist notes that small, overlooked materials are exploited by manufacturers. In China the thistle down is blended with raw silk to fool experts in woven fabrics. It also serves as an effective cushion stuffing, replacing eiderdown in some uses.
In India China Japan and nearby regions about 400 million people rarely eat meat yet stay strong, active, and long lived. Darwin cites Andean natives who perform double ordinary labor and subsist mostly on bananas.
Miss Ruth Hanna daughter of Senator Hanna married Joseph Medill McCormick of Chicago at St Pauls Episcopal Church Cleveland June 10 in a ceremony attended by President Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt. The service featured Bishop W A Leonard with a lavish white and green decor and a church packed with dignitaries. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was held at Glenmere and the couple departed for the West to begin their honeymoon with guests including Roosevelts and other prominent figures presenting gifts such as a pearl necklace and an Italian vase.
The Hotel and Tourist association of Ireland acts against hotel operators charging extortionate rates for Gordon Bennett race visitors. Reports cite requests of thirty dollars a night for a single room, twenty five dollars in another case, and a hundred dollars for a week’s use of a small plot of ground along the route.
The late Max Bell praised English education for its liberty and its power to Anglicize students of all nationalities. President Roosevelt’s western trip added nearly twenty pounds to his weight, raising concern as his normal range is 180 to 183 pounds. He weighs about 198 after return and plans a rigorous weight-reducing regimen.
Henry R. Edmunds president of the Philadelphia board of education declares support for curriculum changes that would make home study unnecessary in elementary public schools. He argues knowledge gained at the cost of physical health is too high a price for growing children.
Edison joins Wireless Telegraph company as director in exchange for stock. He transfers several wireless transmission patents and predicts the system will be fully operational within a year.
A lengthy analysis explains how Austria-Hungary’s dual structure fuels racial and religious tensions, with the ausgleich customs union at stake. It recounts the 1902 deadline, the last minute salvage by Dr. von Korber and M. Szell, and the pivotal role of Francis Joseph in averting a formal split while noting ongoing constitutional flaws and future risks. The piece also touches on English views of the monarchy and the strain of joint governance on Austria.
The article notes parliamentary ratification remains to come before Austro-Hungarian imperialists can breathe easy. In London the Austrian embassy says the pact will be presented at the reichsrath session with hope for its passage. A bizarre medical anecdote describes a doctor sewing a toe onto a missing finger, later hardening in plaster, serving as a substitute.
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