04 Jul 1893
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1893
Page
1
In a Charleston interview Governor Tillman defends a strict liquor plan, asserting no pure liquor exists in South Carolina and detailing high costs, state profits, and plans to curb dispensaries. He compares policy to the Scandinavian method and vows state enforcement in prohibition counties. The remarks reveal aims to control price, quality, and distribution.
Relentless floods in the New Blwer Bedon region drove waters through crevasse gaps along the 25 mile stretch of the New river, submerging towns and causing hunger and fear. At least ten deaths reported including a white girl and several colored residents. Rescue fleets deployed to save survivors, with Captain Henry Doyal’s house remaining above water in the Dutchtow area as the river steadies.
Jackson relics. Colonel Andrew Jackson plans to move his belongings from the Hermitage as the Ladies Hermitage Association seeks funds to buy the items. An option to purchase was at 215000, with an unsuccessful attempt for state aid of 15000. He prefers moving the artifacts to Cincinnati rather than stay. The collection includes furniture, carpets, silver, bric-a-brac, apparel, and mementos.
The Falcon departs Brooklyn at six, heads to Boston then Portland where Lieutenant Peary his wife and Mrs Cross join. They will coal at St Johns Labrador then press to Greenland and beyond to build a winter camp and begin a two year ice cap expedition with dogs and supplies.
Secretary Hoke Smith spoke at Ashbury Park on July 3 urging active parental involvement in child training. He warned that early mental and moral development shapes future manhood and urged using available opportunities for a decade to improve the nation’s youth, ending with a standing ovation from a record audience.
London Queen accuses the stationery department of a patriotic saving by buying pencils in Bavaria, arguing the move costs hundreds of workers their livelihoods and drains thousands from the country. The piece calls the saving a lie and urges keeping production domestic to sustain families.
The New York Press contrasts a sane woman’s tears with a talkative fanatic, suggesting tears relieve pent up emotions and madness. It argues reason affords the right to weep, while the insane find no relief in tears.
A historical note explains the lungs hold about a gallon of air when inflated. Humans breathe roughly 1,000 times an hour, taking in about 600 gallons of air per hour and 14,400 per day. The lung air cell surface covers over 20,000 square inches, nearly the floor area of a 12 foot square room.
Sensational reports claim the case of George Watkins involved alleged adulterous ties with his wife and planter Andy Hedgepeth. Hedgepeth was hanged after a second conviction, but Watkins allegedly lived quietly in Neusas, revealing a possible wrongful execution.
A jumble of fractured notes reports Bank of England gold holdings and foreign currency, American citizenship of a governor, clerical appointments, a Sherman act repeal claim, a four year old boy’s fireworks death, and political speculation. It mentions Colorado incorporation, closed Muncie factories, a death of an observatory figure, berry harvest absurdities, a prince’s relative in electric firms, and dubious Duke of Veragon confidant ties. It also covers aurora observations by Peary and scientists across polar and northern shore regions, seeking links to storms.
A former Black editor and manager of The Free Spirit and Headlight, James Fleming, was attacked in Marion Arkansas after an editorial criticized Southern white women. He claimed Ida Wells wrote it, fled town, then returned to be beaten. one ear was severed, and the assailants dispersed, leaving Fleming to escape.
Hundreds of veterans and dignitaries attended a New York ceremony marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Gettysburg battle. TheGettysburg monument rises 60 feet in the national cemetery with a Victory statue, bronze reliefs, and a $302,000 polished granite base, honoring New York officers who fell.
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