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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1901
Page
1
Bertram Lebhar notes New York’s rapid transit expansion as the North River Bridge race plans advance. Aimed at uniting terminals and easing Jersey–Manhattan traffic, elevated rail links, multi bridge projects, and tunnels promise far reaching metropolis growth and regional connectivity.
Crowe faces abduction charges in the case of young Cudahy with a $50,000 reward offered for his capture. He agrees to surrender after being granted a fair trial and the withdrawal of the reward.
A Bodwell Granite works in Vinalhaven Maine will supply eight granite columns for the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City. Each rough block weighs 120 to 180 tons and measures 57 to 60 feet long and about 7 feet in diameter. After finishing the stones will be round columns 6 feet in diameter and 56 feet long, each over 60 tons. The eight stones cost $220,000 with $25,000 per column, and a special $50,000 lathe is being built to turn them. The project follows historic large scale granite work at Washington Treasury, West Point Wool monument, and precedes the cathedral plan.
Edith Harlowe, a sharp businesswoman, is saved from a perilous fall by Larry Creston, a humble guard. He becomes her unexpected ally as she navigates independence, romance, and a forthcoming job change while her uncle watches closely. Their budding connection grows through dinners, secret notes, and late night conversations, culminating in a hinted engagement and workplace ascent for Creston.
A Boston letter describes experimental camps to treat consumption via outdoor life. Ten tent camps near the city will house consumptives in circle layouts with central fires, sleeping in tents, guarded by blankets and hot water. Patients may be admitted from 6 am to noon with hot chocolate and a varied diet. Dr. Javis’ winter tent study in Hunting Avenue informs the plan, proposing improved skin, hair, and nail health, reduced hemorrhages, and calmer nervous systems through outdoor living.
M Santos Dumont, failing to win the Deutsch prize for a complete Eiffel tower circumnavigation under restrictions, offers 4000 francs to the first person to achieve the trip from the Aero club grounds with no time limit. The prize lasts a year if not won. Exclusions apply to the donor or any user of his machine. A Liverpool chamber commission will study health in West Africa with one rep from each chamber and a sanitary engineer. Major Roland Ross to assist as tropical medicine expert.
Paragraphs express surprise at Washingtons poor showing as a health resort. Among large cities the national capital records the highest death rate per 1000. Al lowance should be made for those who go there seeking health and fail to find it, yet residents insist on government bearing grave responsibilities with patriotism.
The Russian government passes a grain trading law requiring sale and weighing to be by standard methods, blamed on widespread merchant cheating. The New York Times notes Dr Henry Meigs proposes an ordinance to ban gowns sweeping sidewalks to curb disease spread. Saratoga Journal reports no indictment for Richard Canfield after gambling charges. a fatal stabbing occurs in Bastia during Linguizzetta elections with three dead and five wounded.
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