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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
4
New stock of black fabrics described as beautiful effects in Black Taffetta and Black Morie. Prices listed as $10.00, $12.00 and $15.00. Earlier items priced at $3.75, $5.00 and $7.00 noted as remarkably low.
Local items report visitors from Valley Junction and Metz and the engagement of Mrs. Gertrude Smart at a Wesleyan University concert. Will Snooks resumes work after smallpox quarantine. Rec ORD subscription labels updated. Garret Post meets April 4 with roll call. H R Shull moves to farm work. City federation of clubs holds annual meeting. Mrs Martha A Brown from Omaha visits. three sons in Omaha police. Fred Lattimer becomes Deputy of Royal Neighbors. Various notes on bakings, sickness, and visits. Restaurant plans, church programs, and property bids feature in Newton community notes.
A. A. Hulse & Co. Stationery and Music Store invites boys and girls to call between 9 and 10 Saturday morning March 2 for a free sack of popcorn. For Rent signs are available at the office for 10 cents each.
The 1902 ice hockey season opens in strong fashion with strong intercollegiate interest. Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Brown form the Intercollegiate league led by Yale captain Stoddard, a top US goal shooter, while Goodwin of Yale is an affiliate of the New York Athletic Club and offers a prize for the Amateur league winners. The Amateur league comprises New York and Brooklyn teams with many leading puck manipulators.
Major Taylor, noted colored cyclist, signs for a spring racing campaign abroad with twelve races planned in May and June. Victor Breyer, French cycling authority, has arranged with the speed merchant to manage Taylor’s Europe tour, aiming to return for the National Cycling Association grand circuit.
The Harvard fencing team trains under Jacques ex Boston Fencing Club instructor. A spring membership tournament is planned with occasional bouts against the Boston Amateur Athletic Association. A Cornell challenge awaits action, a Yale match is set in Cambridge in March, and the intercollegiate tournament occurs in New York in late March.
Edward Corrigan, a western turf man, plans to race again in England with twenty five horses. He reported a successful last season and bright prospects for the coming summer. Derby contenders Indiana, Jed by Indo, and a Riley colt are American bred and likely to wear his colors in England’s greatest race next season.
Trinket a 2:14 mile champion sired by Princeps out of Oui da dam Hambletonian died in Boston aged nearly twenty seven. She was a star of the era and favored by owner Major H. C. McDowell. In 1899 she won Dorchester races in 2:20% and 2:20% and remains the only trotter to navigate a mile that fast at age twenty four.
Herbert N. Harriman former U S champion of 1900 will move to the New York colony at Aiken South Carolina to participate in winter tournaments at the Palmetto Golf Club. The Palmetto season closes with the Southern Cross championship planned for early March.
The Wisconsin crew received an invitation to compete on the River Lee near Cork from July 21 to 23. An estimated $2,000 is needed to fund the trip, and the team will accept the invitation if the funds are raised.
Henryk Sienkiewicz the Polish author of Quo Vadis was not arrested for lese majeste by the German government. A false report stirred European literary and political circles. He is not a Prussian subject and lives in Warsaw, Russia, not Posen, and was born in Okrego Podlachia. He left Poland for the United States in 1876, later returning to Warsaw to write.
The article profiles Chin Tan Sun, touted as the richest Chinaman in the United States, with fortunes from 100000 to 500000 dollars. He allegedly owns towns, ranches, real estate, mines, and diamonds, runs lotteries, imports laborers, and operates stores in San Francisco. Known as Big Jim for his size, he arrived via steerage, began in a San Francisco kitchen, built wealth through a small lottery business, and rose to commercial and political influence.
Letters from London praise the Duchess of Marlborough and highlight an American woman, daughter of William K. Vanderbilt, as among the most admired at the January 16 opening of parliament. She wore white satin with pearl jewelry and Marlborough gems. Also noted were Mrs. Arthur Paget and Mrs. Harry White.
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