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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary rail schedule lists arrival and departure times for St Paul and Minneapolis routes. Mentions 7 am and 7:13 am trains, sleeper service, freight and accounts, and daily operation except Sunday. Agent M J Young notes handling arrangements in a damaged text.
Passenger service details show the Davenport Rock Island and Northwestern Tri City Route connecting Chicago Clinton and points via C N W line. Departure from Rock Island lists various destinations including Sterling and Omaha with daily and Sunday exceptions. Station at B J P depot foot of Twentieth Street. L F Berry GP A Davenport and George W Wood Agent noted.
Reports from Bombay correspondent Thomas A Bailey describe destitution in Surat Ahmadabad and Prantij with beggars, ruined villages, and people selling roof wood to survive. Relief works at Praunte and Broach employ thousands, while officials sometimes hinder aid as corruption and road needs are raised.
The life of William B. Curtis, founder of the Fresh Air club and editor of The Spirit of the Times, is chronicled. A renowned late 19th century athlete, he led summer White Mountain tours, set records in sprinting hammer throw and rowing, refereed Yale and Harvard games, and reportedly lifted 3,239 pounds in harness. Born January 17, 1857 in Salisbury Vermont, he was famed for strength and endurance and never wore an overcoat even in midwinter.
An American businessman who returned from Shanghai describes the Boxers and the empress dowager as the main obstacles to China's openness to trade. He argues the empress dowager must be removed, the young emperor restored, and foreign forces pressed to finish the intervention. He cites Shanghai merchants backing the powers and estimates 30,000 to 50,000 seasoned troops needed.
Fifteen cents a bucket funds a new caterpillar oil program under state forestry oversight. In Saratoga, a special probe prompted by caterpillar destruction aims to extirpate the pests by conversion to oil. Villagers at summer resorts gather the striped insects, hauling them away for processing into lubricant and fuel. The process was sparked by observations that crushing caterpillars on rail lines suggested oil production, with the public engaged in this industry. A separate note reports a new five dollar bill series, featuring a portrait of a historic American Indian and blue treasury seal, with the numeral five repeated across the bill. Also mentioned: Sac and Fox Indians to receive $50,000, awaiting a ghost dance prelude.
An English company won a Russian concession to render the Dnieper navigable by building dams along its lower reaches. Water power would be used for industrial purposes, hoping to unlock 46 miles of rapids over 157 feet of descent. If successful, southwestern Russia would gain a major commercial artery.
The final report in Captain Frank McHarry's estate recalls a peculiar river career. Once buried in a cave on his Indiana farm overlooking the Ohio River, his body was later moved to Cave Hill in New Albany. Though dead forty years, he heard his steamer whistle from the cave as boats passed, a custom that made his memory saluted by many steamers.
A Kansas Times report describes a Great Bend women’s group the Dont Drink My Boy club formed to curb alcohol sales by patrolling saloons. Members record offenders, issue on first offense a warning card, and publish offenders in a Monthly Bar Record if offenses persist.
The pastor of the church tried to boss the choir for six weeks but the group won by getting his wife to join. This humorous note appears in Harper's zar.
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