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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1903
Page
6
Jean Charteris surveys a sunlit morning as Decoration Day festivity unfolds in a western town. A freckled boy asks about Rosine while Miss Charteris gathers flowers for the cemetery visit and plans for the country, with Billie eager to wear his new clothes and join the outing.
A young girl and her guardian arrange flowers for a grave on a hilltop cemetery visit. Nora questions a painful family history as Jean Charteris helps Rosine place sprays on various graves while Billie watches from the road, unaware of a stranger approaching.
In a fading village scene a man confronts Jean Charteris about her hidden child Rosine Raymond. He learns their daughter is his own. Past deceptions surface as he recalls Rose’s betrayal and their ruined fortunes. Jean forgives and reunites with her former lover, now promising a new life. Memorial Day ends with a hopeful, patriotic closing.
A Chicago Record-Herald reminiscence recalls Frank Thorn a seasoned Civil War veteran, once brave and merry, now aged and ragged beneath rain on State Street. He wore a Grand Army badge while begging ten cents, as the narrator relives marches, letters, loss, and the fate that led to his decline.
London readers react to Count Cassini's claim that Kishineff troubles stem from money lenders usury. The Jewish World editor offers $250 to an American charity named by Cassini if he substantiates the assertion to three respected Americans in the United States.
Denver May 22 reports a settlement of the city strike with a pact signed May 21 by the Citizens' Alliance and the labor executive committee. The accord grants unions the right to organize, sets arbitration for disputes, orders immediate cessation of strikes and boycotts, reinstates workers where possible, and dismisses several lawsuits with costs borne by plaintiffs.
A sequence of tornadoes hit Saline county and nearby towns on May 22 causing two deaths and over a dozen injuries. William A. Olson, 13, and Peter Olson were killed as their home collapsed. Christine Olsenburg narrowly escaped. Ashland, Wright, Blaine, and Bridgeport also reported substantial damage but few if any injuries.
California promotion committee reports from 34 canneries that 8,000 additional workers are needed for canning and over 3,000 for harvesting the big fruit crop. Without immigration, crop loss could reach 50 percent, higher than last year. The committee denies efforts to import cheap labor to undercut union workers.
Sugar Beet Corporation of Denver filed papers May 22 with the secretary of state to form the Western Sugar and Land Company. Alfred Hand J R McKinnie and R P Davy incorporators, principal office Colorado Springs, base in El Paso and Mesa counties. Plans include growing beets and cane, manufacturing sugar molasses and related products, establishing refineries, dealing in lands, building reservoirs and promoting irrigation with branch offices in Grand Junction and Scranton Pennsylvania.
President Roosevelt journeyed by train through the Willamette valley from morning until 2 pm arriving in Portland. He spoke on citizenship at Salem’s capitol during a three hour stop and visited Oregon City, a manufacturing town fifteen miles away. Crowds lined the route and greeted him enthusiastically.
Los Angeles May 22 The 115th assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States convened with 670 commissioners from conservative and liberal factions. Rev Dr Robert F Coyle of Denver was elected moderator on the second ballot after the morning sermon by retiring moderator Rev Henry Van Dyke. An unusually large number of young delegates attended, with twelve colored commissioners present.
Canal Company organized in Denver May 20 to acquire the Gunnison tunnel and government built canals for irrigation and power. It issues 100000 shares at 1 each, assessable up to 24 per share, with offices in Montrose and Delta and meetings in Olathe.
In Omaha on May 22 seventy five colored waiters and cooks were locked out after being replaced by strikers, with restaurants closed pending settlement talks. Two department stores rehired old drivers on prior schedules, others followed. One hundred deputies were discharged by the police chief, though many remain on night duty as negotiations proceed piecemeal and public trouble is not anticipated.
Bozeman Montana May 22 One section of Montana is eaten up by locusts while another lies under three feet of snow Professor R A Colley of the Agricultural College has word that a district forty miles square east of Forsythe is pestered by the Rocky Mountain grasshopper which has eaten up everything Cattle have to be removed from infested district as there is nothing for them to feed on
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