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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
7
Ashbrook, a seal brown trotter 15% hands high, offers stud service at 4 miles east of Lexington on Dover road for 10 dollars with breeding rights. His 2:134g current record and a line of inbred Wilkes progeny are highlighted, with pastures for mares at 10 cents weekly and safety disclaimers.
A farmer advertises two fine black Jacks named Onward Silver and Onward Sillver. They cite a 15 hand high quality, sired by Monseus World’s Fair Premium Jack. Colt insurance offered at $10.
Jas F Ramey and Albert Allison racing register detail a Missouri bred stallion named Albert Allison. born 1605 bred by B F Swaggard Sweet Springs. stud season in 1902 at Higginville and Moberly Missouri with a $20 service fee to encourage breeding within the state. stated pacing record 2:10 and speed reports claim 2:00 mile pace timed.
A New York Sun piece profiles Ichiwawa Danjuro as Japan’s premier actor and outlines the country’s theatrical aristocracy the nedai. It notes Danjuro’s 78 performances in the role, Japan’s lengthy eight hour Tokio shows and 15 hour interior programs, and the rarity of women on stage with men with male actors often playing female roles.
The New York Times notes a color divide among Central Park fallow deer after a brown buck and several brown does were added from Van Cortlandt park. The white albino herd groups separately while the brown faction, led by the lordly buck, forms a distinct social unit.
A brief tally shows seventy one percent of British land fenced or entailed, eighty seven percent of French land, fifty three percent of German land, and ninety six percent of Norwegian land under similar entitlements. The figures reflect comparative land tenure patterns across nations.
A Popular Science Monthly note explains most bird migration occurs at night during clear periods. It lists species that migrate by day and details how clear nights reduce collision deaths. It cites mass fatalities at Bartholdi Statue and Fire Island Light and notes Washington Monument deaths yearly.
Paris aims to lead in wireless telegraphy by creating a city wide system of Hertzian wave posts. Private subscribers will receive real time news and sports results at home, with racecourse data delivered second by second to residences and businesses.
A dialogue shows a father’s reluctant consent to marriage. The would-be groom reports his approach, the father’s silence, a brusque reaction, and a slammed door. The piece also notes a France strike by Alencon barristers opposing a shortened vacation. They object to early court openings, arguing better roads enable cycling yet the roads deteriorate.
Northwest settlers offered very low one way rates by the Burlington Route for trips to Portland Tacoma Spokane Puget Sound and related areas 22 50 to Spokane and surrounding territory 20 to Butte and Helena district plus through coaches sleepers and dining cars all via fast Denver train and double daily through chair cars to St Paul and Minneapolis rates and free descriptive matter available from agents in Kansas City MO and St Joseph MO.
The Frisco lines announce the Meteor and World’s Fair Special trains running via the old line through the Ozarks Indian Territory to Sapulpa, then over the Red River Division to Fort Worth and Dallas. The new route features modern ballast, electric lighting, and air cooling with Palace Day Coaches, dining service, and a rear observation saloon. Managed by Fred Harvey, the train promises fast, convenient hours and ornate equipment, signaling a major boost to service toward Texas and the Southwest. Also noted are improvements on the Wort Smith and Paris to Texas route with general advertising and health product notices from Crenshaw & Young.
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