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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1905
Page
1
A local store announces a closing sale on shirt waists in muslin and silk. Muslin waists with multiple tucks drop from higher prices to 35 cents each or three for a dollar, while 75 cent and higher priced styles are reduced, with $1 and $2 waists cut to 1.60 and 2 price points respectively, encouraging quick sales before week’s end.
A one week sale offers deep cuts on silk waists crepe de chine in pink blue and white blue red blue white sets in taffeta silk and black wash silk waists. Prices drop from 5.50 to 4.00 and from 1.98 to 1.60 with several other reductions on crepe de chine and taffeta waists plus skirts.
An ad touts whites linens at 12 1-2c and 17c, featuring white linen cambric as the genuine article for skirts and shirtwaists. It claims superior quality for the price and invites comparison.
Ex Senator John P Jones of Nevada recounts a discovery near Monterey Mexico of about twenty broken and intact skeletons, aged at least 250 years, under rock debris in a mine shaft with ore. He describes bones piled remains of victims, maguey leaves and a deep ash bed indicating ancient ore roasting. A report appears in the Washington Star. A Terrible Experience. An aged Berwick whaler William Jackson, last survivor of a 1836 Arctic voyage on the Norfolk, dies after a five month ordeal in Davis Strait. Scurvy and famine struck, fourteen of sixty-two survive. A New Automobile Record. Dr W T Burleigh and another Pittsbury man crash on National Pike as a funeral procession assists, a coffin strap cable lifts a 500 pound car back to road.
A curious scene in Tokyo shows an old man seated on a smooth ground, arranging colorful sand piles in red blue yellow and black. He draws figures of people with a pinch of each color, fashioning detailed attire as the sand trickles through his fingers with rapid dexterity. The caption notes a blind man who cannot see may go to sea.
An excerpt describes Roger Pollack’s Arctic journey along Greenland's west coast. Jakobs Havn, a Danish outpost at Disco Strait, is depicted as a nine-person metropolis with 400 natives, tarred Royal Trade Company buildings, and stark granite surroundings. Despite banishment myths, social life flourishes with nightly dances and nine days of festivities among Danes, sailors, and Inuit servants. The piece notes native and Danish attire, cleanliness differences, and a Greenland diet of seal meat, fish, reindeer, venison, and birds.
In Williamsburg, a fierce clash between a rat and a cat near Wythe avenue and Ross street drew a crowd as a grocer’s cat attacked the rat in a stable. Policeman Nicholas Benson, bitten in the leg, killed the rat with a single shot after the rodent seized his leg. The wounded cat was carried away, and Benson’s leg wounds were treated by a doctor. The report also notes brief science tidbits about ants from various regions and mentions a London Spectator remark on slave-owning ants.
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