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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text lists various times and train identifiers with references to daily arrivals and late services. It hints at a rail timetable noting pm and am entries and mentions trains carrying passengers, with incomplete details about specific routes or stations.
Explorers and British scientists plan summer digs at Mesa Verde Colorado to study cliff dwellers. Telephoto cameras will aid photos across canyons, while Dr. Bennett and A L Bennett analyze skulls pottery and ruins. National park designation aims to stop looting and protect sites for science.
Bulgarian scholar Professor Stoyan Erstoff Vatralsky visits Washington to recruit support for a monument at Januarius MacGahan’s unmarked grave in New Lexington Ohio. President McKinley expresses sympathy and pledges aid. Ohio Bulgarians and Bulgarians abroad may join in the memorial. Also notes plans to ship the Reina Mercedes to Portsmouth New Hampshire for conversion and possible reactivation, and compares unrest in China to St Louis with Boxers lacking firearms.
The text presents lyrical, nature driven imagery with drought and thirst in a rugged landscape. It evokes autumn longing and the speaker’s solitary awareness of life’s thirst amid parched lavender fields and rocky paths.
A Memphis man bought a fine buggy mare for 150 dollars believing her speed justified the price. The mare proved stone blind, yet the buyer paid 165 to another bidder, who uncovered the deception. The seller admitted knowledge of the mare’s blindness but hid it, prompting an angry demand for restitution and a warning to another buyer.
In a Tennessee cemetery a journalist finds a granite inscription joking that a firm remains alive under new names. Jones explains it honors local readers who might think the business closed. A man then misuses shall and will in a marriage proposal joke from the Cincinnati Post.
A collage of brief curios from past papers includes a Chicago Times-Herald quip about shoe buttons mistaken for complex ion pills, a Fliegende Blatter joke on medical bills, a wry lineset from an Indianapolis Press quote about happiness, a note that Stone Street in New York was cobbled in 1657, and a Chicago News aphorism on friendship and enemies.
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