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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1903
Page
3
The Skagway region faced a border dispute as arbitration loomed. American miners resisted Canadian claims, raising the Stars and Stripes atop White Pass while British flags appeared and were torn down. Ridiculous frontier humor and local bravado framed the tension.
Major Powell-Cotton, an African explorer, notes elephant skeletons and remains in a landscape near Tar ash valley with brackish pools and ducks. He mentions rumors of elephant cemeteries told by Swahili traders and claims to witness a site where elephants die and are laid to rest, though the piece blends anecdotes and sensational iconography.
A cemetery records show a line of balfetes atones with leases past due and most of them expired.
The era of fashionable duties ends as Eastern women follow Western examples by pursuing meaningful careers beyond millinery and dressmaking. The discussion notes practical, useful goals, citing New York social leader Mrs. Mackay who writes a book and continues daily work, and Mrs. Paine Whitney also producing a volume.
The catalogue reveals eccentric trade commodities including eel skins tanned as leather for bindings, frog skins used in bookbinding and fans, walrus whiskers as smooth picks for fashion, and a beetle variety exported in large quantities for theatrical dresses.
Booker Washington suggests migration to elite circles is driven by more schools and more cake walks. He argues colored rural citizens are not oblivious to metropolitan social allurements, countering white rural attitudes, per the Washington Star.
Australia's Tommy Atkins narrowly escaped becoming a teetotaler after a parliamentary motion to abolish liquor sales in canteens was defeated by a margin of two votes. Federal legislators protected local interests in a closely fought vote.
Sir Richard Cartwright announced in the Canadian parliament a bill to provide a subsidy not exceeding 133335 dollars annually for a steamship service between Canada and France. The plan aims to support transatlantic travel and commerce with a formal subsidy framework and yearly cap.
A social roundtable notes a relationship milestone and swift public reaction. Observers, including several commentators, weigh in on engagement choices and cultural expectations, reflecting common patterns of commentary after a couple publicly announces plans.
A nostalgic piece blends lyrics about an old fashioned cider mill with a narrative of two World War II veterans Ackerman and Kaufman reuniting after decades apart. Their surprise meeting occurs during a Staten Island reunion, prompting shared memories, a debt repaid, and a military grand army tribute.
The Survivors Association of the Seventy third Pennsylvania Veterans dedicates a monument at Missionary Ridge battlefield Tennessee for comrades who died in the Civil War. Governor Pennypacker and the group traveled from Philadelphia November 7 and were met in Washington by the Chickamauga Battlefield Park commissioners. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart spoke as Governor Pennypacker delivered the presentation on behalf of the state and survivors.
William Kaufmann of Port Richmond and James Ackerman of Mariner’s Arbor, both veterans of opposing armies, share a long friendship formed during Civil War battles at Chancellorsville and Cold Harbor. They exchanged addresses, vowed to look each other up after the war, and later remained in touch as aging veterans.
Mrs Lucy Bennett of Benton Mar but Michigan writes to the Chicago Tribune with an eyewitness account from Fourth Michigan cavalry volunteers. The detachment tracked Davis for days, surprised his camp before dawn, and a brief skirmish with a Wisconsin regiment followed. Davis was captured without hands being laid on him as he wore a woman’s gown over his clothes. Mrs Davis and her maid appeared with an elderly woman at the tent and the guard halted. Davis refused to yield, and Mrs Davis urged calm. Bennett says the troupe did not know of any reward, and her husband received about $1000.
The Regimental Association of the Fifth New York Artillery Veteran Volunteers marked its twenty fifth Cedar Creek anniversary at the historic residence of Comrade and Mrs Van Houten in Pompton Lake Oakland Bergen County New Jersey. Twenty five veterans with wives and daughters joined in the anniversary dinner and a business meeting followed in the room General Washington once occupied.
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