Garden Tools Price Ranges for Hoes Rakes and Spades
Garden hoes cost 15e to 40c each. Rakes priced 15c to 35c apiece. Spades available at 60c and higher up to 75e.
15 Apr 1903
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1903
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Garden hoes cost 15e to 40c each. Rakes priced 15c to 35c apiece. Spades available at 60c and higher up to 75e.
The listing highlights steel shovels and wooden wheelbarrows in multiple sizes. Prices shown include 60 to 70 cents for shovels and 81.40, 2.75, and 3.50 dollars for wheelbarrows, representing a selection of affordable garden tools.
New Brunswick New Jersey April reports Mary P Breasteale wife of Rutgers College Professor disappeared after leaving home Monday. A letter from New York stated she planned to take a steamer but did not name which one. Her condition described as acute melancholia. A woman matching her description jumped from the Tremont steamer. identity unconfirmed.
Washington reports the International Building Laborers Union formed by unskilled builders in the United States and Canada. Temporary Chairman James H. Smith presided as credentials recommended seating about 30 delegates, mainly from the eastern region. A constitution was adopted. In Tennessee, work on a soldiers home project is halted after government inspectors condemned $40.10 worth of hospital and power house work, risking heavy losses for contractors without concession for faulty specifications. In Vienna it is claimed Russia will demand $250,000 indemnity from the Porte for the assassinated consul M. Stcherbina, plus a chapel at the murder site and Turkish troops sent to Serbia to maintain order.
The San Juan grand jury seeks information on smuggling charges involving U S officials and prominent locals. Judge Upham cites presidential pardon cannot override jurors, urging full duty to investigate. December testimony linked navy army and insular officials to the case, with a merchant Ricardo Amado previously fined for contraband liquor.
Bliss Huth Clark, a bookkeeper for Vipard Construction in Altoona, faced a black intruder who demanded payment. She discarded nearly 500 dollars in a waste basket, was knocked unconscious when he returned, and the thief searched the safe and drawers but missed the basket. A superintendent later found her and she recovered.
Philadelphia April 15 The Philadelphia schooner George C Thomas sailed from Grand Constable Island February 5 for New York and has been given up for lost. Commanded by Captain Morris with a crew of ten men no tidings have been received since departure. The vessel valued at 30900 was owned by George C Thomas of Dread & Co.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt of New York wed Miss Cathleen G. Neilson in a white wedding at a private Newport villa with about 150 guests. Decorations were white on green, gifts valued at likely the era’s largest, jewels alone estimated at 252000. The couple to spend three months in Europe after a wedding breakfast at Sandy Point.
President Roosevelt breaks camp in Clintonbar and moves toward Major Pitcher’s headquarters at Fort Yellowstone. He will reach Lancey today, then the fort tomorrow, remain one day, and proceed to Norris to visit the geysers. Snow delays travel but health is reported strong. He enjoys horseback riding and hiking, has not fired at a mountain lion, and Buffalo Jones and scouts pursue game.
Reports circulated that Northern Securities would not appeal the merger ruling and might seek alternatives, but a company representative denied the claim. Washington officials said there is no information supporting abandonment and anticipate an appeal to the Supreme Court to contest the case.
President Roosevelt sends Cardinal Gibbons a gift for the Pope in Naples aboard the Liguria. Ten finely bound volumes compile all U S presidential messages and official documents from Washington to Roosevelt. The gift, including autograph letters, is conveyed by a clergyman as a special mission.
Adolfo Lorenz arrives in New York on April 15 aboard the steamer Laba from Genoa. The visiting foreign arms expert conducted several surgeries during his stay in the United States, including hip procedures on a patient in Chicago. Locals note his first American visit and the fragile recovery of those treated.
Autopsy reveals 18 stab wounds to the neck and two fatal gashes severing the jugular. Detectives probe a barrel found near the East Eleventh Street docks, tracing clues from Italian handwriting on the barrel bottom and a pencil address at No 500 Third Avenue. A perfumed handkerchief and a clue-laden note add intrigue as officers query locals and a furnished-room proprietor.
In Montgomery Indiana on April 15 a merchant received a letter from unknown threats warning that the town would be destroyed by fire and dynamite unless $2500 was placed in a glass jar at a bridge. Incendiary attempts have happened over the past three weeks, signaling possible mass destruction if demands are not met.
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