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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1901
Page
4
A playful exchange explores gendered defenses as a charming girl blinks and pouts while a lover hints at a rosebud and a poet proclaims tears as the surest weapon. The verse juxtaposes gaze charm and emotion across three voices.
A New York Street feature profiles Sarah Cohen known as Old Sal who runs a button matching business from a small shop off Hester Street. Her window sign promises buttons sold inside matched from one cent to a nickel, with stock spanning pearl, glass, bone, jet and many varieties. She has saved about $5,000 from the trade, buying from junkshops and dressmakers to supply customers who lose a button and need an exact match.
Ottawa report notes private talks between Crow's Nest Pass Coal and the C P R fail to resolve differences on the bill. C P R threatens to oppose the measure unless coal deliveries to British Columbia smelters stay at current prices. Elias Rogers for the coal company argues for provincial fuel security. meeting ends with no agreement.
United States Steel Co halted operations on Andrew Carnegie’s proposed railroad to parallel the Pennsylvania system and build a seaboard outlet. Surveyors were recalled and discharged as the road, a Carnegie project, was stopped after Carnegie claimed deception by Pennsylvania officials over a 13 cent rate on manufactured steel.
A 50 000 dollar Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire, stolen from London in 1876, is reported recovered after 25 years abroad. A Chicago detective agency claims involvement, with a thief-turned-holder receiving a large reward and agreeing to drop prosecution. The painting is arriving in London tomorrow.
The ap poplectic seizure of Yang Yu, Chinese minister to Russia, following his interview with Count Landorff, Russian foreign minister, will likely force his withdrawal from the post. Negotiations with China at St. Petersburg have ceased due to his illness.
Advices from Pimentel report a bright aerolite seen over Lima on March 31, appearing as large as a full moon. It traveled north westward and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean.
In Johannesburg on April 6 Lord Kitchener personally awarded the Red Cross medal to Mme Ferriers, head of the French ambulance department, in recognition of her services to British wounded.
An 1866 summer morning on the Fifth United States Infantry en route to New Mexico halted on open prairie. A vast buffalo herd charged, followed by a 500-strong war party of Indians aiming to stampede the herd and overrun the camp. The herd opened at the last moment, sparing the soldiers and their wagons from disaster.
Close connection East and West bound at Spokane with trains of the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway Direct connection at St Paul with all trains for Chicago Toronto Montreal New York and all points West and South Leaves Spokane daily for East at 10 15 a m Leaves Spokane daily for West at 7 45 p m West bound trains connect for Victoria Vancouver Portland San Francisco and all Sound region During navigation season East bound trains connect at Duluth with North West and North Land steamships of the Northern Steamship Company Line Run in connection with the Great Northern Railway For information maps folders apply to agents of Spokane Falls and Northern Ry Kaslo and Slogan Ry Koote ai Railway and Navigation Co or to F J Whitney H A Jackson General Passengers and Tickets Agent Consolidated Agents St Paul Minn Spokane Wash
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