10 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
Oklahoma Ada News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
1
Rear Admiral Robby D. Evans recounts a near fatal accident aboard his ship during Cervera’s fleet action. A steel hatch weighing over 400 pounds fell edge first onto his shoulder, dislocating and mashing it, while crew feared he would be killed. Medical men treated him and he reflects that four inches would have changed his life.
A demure nurse recounts a sorrowful Alabama tale to solicit donations. She describes a lake that froze for the first time, trapping a local family and geese, leaving only the aged grandfather alive, as recounted by the New York Times.
1823 magazine outlines a method to improve drinking water by boiling and agitating it in a barrel churn to absorb atmospheric air and other gases. After filtration the water is bottled with dried raisins to imbue fixed air, producing a safe palatable beverage for all and especially the poor.
A professor and Elinor debate sacrifice as campus voices fade. Elinor and Winfred share intimate moments while Lucie and Elinor’s mother note a hidden romance. In memory, Elinor recalls her continued beatific view of love despite loss.
Prince George of Prussia aged 76, eldest of the Hohenzollern line, is known as the Hohenzollern poet. He writes as George Conrad and authored several tragedies including Praedra.
A Harper's Weekly note observes art prices by area, citing Christie’s sales of a T. S. Cooper piece and a 1877 landscape. It wonders if commercialism drives London prices from 30 cents to 1.25 dollars per square inch and compares livestock values to canvas worth and animal subjects.
The Washington reception for Prince Henry blends military splendor with light humor at a White House dinner. Guests admire scarlet and gold uniforms while a playful incident involves steins bearing a caricature of the city’s mayor, captioned Stolen from Ernst Gerstenberg.
The Icelandic Althing has set aside 50000 to enable wireless telegraphy but no cable project has begun due to private company withdrawal and foreign subsidies. The Marconi Syndicate has proposed wireless links between the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands to connect Iceland with the outside world.
Salem Massachusetts skipper Captain William Driver is credited with naming the flag Old Glory in 1851. The brig Charles Dickens carried the flag around the world and it is now exhibited at the Essex Institute.
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