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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1902
Page
2
Mrs. Mary Brown of Wichita becomes the oldest woman in Kansas and proclaims she feels fine at her 101st birthday. She quips about needing teeth for another husband as visiting relatives note her healthy, flirtatious outlook.
The Ohio Democracy struggles to enlist capable men for the state ticket as Tom L. Johnson moves Charles P. Salen across the state promising nominations and hopeful prospects. With the convention three weeks off, no patriots have stepped forward, and the usual activity is notably absent this year.
A Montgomery correspondent reports a string of violent incidents in a single day in Montgomery Virginia with shots fired street car assault and revolver incidents. Notable names include Harris Hughes Bert Hopkins James Hughes and J Morrison.
The Massillon board of education postponed the opening of public schools to September 8 due to unfinished new buildings and sanitary repairs. They discussed sewage, planned temporary outhouses, and decided on hiring Manly Clark for sixth and seventh grades at North Street. Bills totaling 5452.02 were approved and teacher and janitor salary matters reviewed.
Surveyors for the St Louis world fair begin grading for the cascades to be built on the hill, a major feature expected to exceed all others in cost. Nine pumps will move 15,000 gallons per minute to the hilltop, with rainbow lighting and crystal caverns enhancing a nighttime spectacle.
Nearly 100 boys from Montclair society left for a one month camp in Maine under FR Arne strong of the Montclair Y M C A. The camp near Friendship Maine features tents 12 by 12, a 34 by 12 dining pavilion, twelve rowboats and a war canoe, with tents arranged in a circle around open spaces for a baseball diamond a tennis court and cricket.
Harpers Literary Gossip notes Miss Jordan's Tales of Destiny stirs lively discussion. The stories In the Case of Dora Risser and A Collaboration draw strongest comment, with opinions split on economy versus prodigality of material and potential for future fiction. A New York editor calls A Collaboration one of the best stories he has read and challenges Miss Jordan to surpass it.
Everard B Wilton Kons Hie, a retired hardware dealer and inventor, lives in Shore View Park Jamaica near Queens New York, with a house run almost entirely by electricity. His windmill powers a dynamo and batteries to operate lighting, doors, telephones, a kitchen, stairs and nursery devices, a gate button, pest control, alarms, and even a lawn mower, all controlled from within the house.
Reverend Vaughn Collins of Asbury M E church Smyrna uses a whistling method to deliver a sermon drawn from Genesis sixteen. He imitated meadowlark notes to echo the text and urged listeners on repentance as God sees and hears. The approach startled his Wilmington Conference peers and reflected a fresh homiletic style.
West Chester dispatch reports Mr. Mather, a Philadelphia fox hunter, plans to feed foxes on his estate by rearing poultry. He erects pens for fowls and will let foxes roam the large estate to feed. About twenty five wild foxes inhabit the area with dens in nearby woods. several young foxes were recently released.
The Rev Robert Zaring pastor of a Methodist church in Indianpolis suggests appointing sermon inspectors to review sermons before delivery to weed out obsolete or heretical material. He says he would risk losing portions of his own sermon if it benefits the public.
A Lindsay dispatch to the Kansas City Star reports a wolf chase set for November 10 near Criner Creek. It is a match race for a $1000 purse between the Hudspeth pack of Sibley Missouri and the Birdsong pack of Texas. J E Irons will handle the Missouri dogs and Ket Fouley will manage the Birdsong dogs.
Civil Engineer Cole at the Wikwam reservoir in Phoolston drove a team of draft horses along the dam, a structure ten feet wide and one hundred feet high. A recent dispatch from Winsted, Connecticut, reported he previously made the perilous journey on horseback.
A New York Times excerpt recounts storekeepers lamenting the chaotic lamp wick market. With around a thousand wick types for as many burners, customers guess sizes, return mismatched wicks, and create a replenishment backlog. Wicks smell in the store, yet clerks note limited remedies.
Guidance on strengthening lung power and range through steady vowel practice. Focuses on sustaining the syllable ah on mid range notes, then expanding up and down to refine purity and resonance, avoiding rote learning of pieces and emphasizing understanding musical notation and vocal resources.
The Post Office bans disclosing patrons addresses even to help locate someone. Regulation aims to protect debtors, women facing harassment, and others who may wish to keep their residence private, despite public inconvenience and inquiries at the counter. Youth's Companion notes the government should not reveal addresses.
In a Toynbee Hall student remark, Dr Samuel Rowson Gardiner is praised for patient tolerance and mild humor with a sharp satirical edge. He admires Fronde for brilliance yet calls his conclusions unsound and notes relying on Fronde when perplexed to avoid false conclusions.
A Philadelphia Times item recalls a shopper asking who charged for feather cleaning at ten cents each. When offered a possible bulk discount, she reveals two beds full of feathers, revealing the joke: she is in the wrong department.
The article notes that both phrases are acceptable but differ in usage. In the United States both forms appear, while in England “named after” is preferred and currently standard. The piece suggests “named after” for broad, contemporary usage in both countries.
Tess dislikes Mr Creetick as Jess recalls his remark about her being "an artless creature." Tess defends the label while noting his pose as a landscape painter in a Philadelphia Press item.
Lord Acton’s Aldenham Park collection, annotated by Acton, will be presented by Andrew Carnegie to John Morley. The Acton library, rich in papal and Protestant histories, Jesuitica, and council records, lacks rarities but offers abundant general works. Morley aims to place the books in a public institution for wider use.
The interior department in Washington approves a plan for a two hundred member Red Men congress at the St Louis World’s Fair on the exposition grounds. Reservations will be invited to participate with aim of gathering older Indians to preserve tribal traditions before assimilation proceeds. A large appropriation is set to cover several hundred attendees with a separate protected space and guards.
From Aldershot the story recalls Boer courtesy as a British soldier Barker from the mounted infantry mails a letter and a postal order to his mother from Krogersdorp. Loss of haversack and letter follows but the mother eventually receives the letter with a doctor’s postscript and learns Charlie was not killed, returning home.
A subsidized English theater is planned in Paris to help French students become familiar with the English language. The project aims to provide accessible cultural education and promote language practice for learners in the city.
A poetic sketch by Roy Farrell Greene describes Daisy in a gingham dress preserving fruit in a steamy kitchen. Sensual imagery highlights her simple attire and the fragrances of spiced fruit, as the narrator recalls a past romance while she works.
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