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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
4
A poem depicts a courtly scene at a scaffold as a lovers’ farewell. He asks to go first, she hides her heart with a kerchief, their parting becomes a timeless romance. The crowd fades as their love endures beyond death, shining in memory and verse.
A tense late night at the city desk ends with a train robbery in Melrose setting off a scramble for facts. Chief Busby’s lax force and a hostile press climate trigger a reckless chase by reporters who trap two gunmen after a dramatic car pursuit and capture.
In a New York Sun report, City Editor Stone negotiates with Chief Busby after a staged confrontation. Stone declares he will reveal the robbers and their boots in fifteen minutes if Busby resigns, ending a brief clash over coverage and the fate of Clive Dan Busby.
The War Department issues a nationwide plan to train students in military arts with army instructors, arms, and equipment. About 100 officers will serve two-year terms, overseeing 10 000 pupils across three school classes, with records kept at the War Department and top graduates honored in the Army register.
A Brooklyn Eagle item notes a large city office with many clerks and messengers. One frugal clerk uses flattery to press for favors, prompting a revolt among the messenger boys who refuse his personal errands until a single outward attempt to gain a benefit is described as “something to get a jolly from him.”
The Chicago News reports inventors in String, Scuchaud, have created a lifeboat that uses a dry spring strip to store tension. Upon immersion, wetness loosens the spring, rupturing it and releasing a surge of material claimed to be sufficient to ignite LEDs and enable avianistic infection claims.
The New York and city ceremony last Friday unveiled an equestrian bronze statue of Gen Henry Warner Slocum on its granite pedestal at Gettysburg. The 81 foot monument, with a 15 ft 6 in statue, commemorates his stand on July 3, 1863, and bears his council of war remark Stay and Fight if out on its western plate.
A vast forest fire outbreak spreads along the Wyoming Colorado border north of Pearl Colorado with at least eighteen serious fires in Wyoming and many more in Albany Carbon Fremont Uintah and Natrona counties. Government crews struggle to suppress several blazes as 300 square miles burn in the Medicine range and Big Horn region.
Railroads pushing western expansion plan to replant wasted cattle ranges in Nebraska Wyoming Colorado Utah Montana Idaho and the Dakotas. About 4000 acres will be fenced and divided into thirty experimental lots to test suitable grass for stock. Government aid expected after feasibility proven. The Omnipresent Mosquito noted as a global pest from equator to pole, thriving in tropics and polar regions, posing a burden to man and beast.
Last Wednesday a plain shaft monument unveiled at Antietam honors New Jersey troops in the famed battle. State funds supported the tribute as a tribute to their part in the engagement.
Alexander Ramsey of St Paul Minnesota celebrates his 87th birthday and is noted as the only living war governor. Though not as vigorous as twenty years ago, he retains remarkable vitality and presence in public memory.
United States Senator Willam M Stewart of Nevada, at The Hague for the Pius fund arbitration, received numerous telegrams of sympathy on the death of his wife who was killed in an Alameda California automobile accident. He has not decided when to return to the United States.
Diamonds were reportedly first found in Bahia in 1821 in Serra da Sincora. In 1824 Jose Pereira do Prado, traveling from the region toward Bahia City, camped beside the Mocage on the Paraguacu river and accidentally found diamonds, spurring interest in the precious stones.
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