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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
2
A plan in England will publish 160 large Imperial volumes detailing each county from prehistoric times to present. Genealogical experts will oversee family charts tracing ancestry to England and descendants in colonies and the United States, easing access to records once costly to obtain.
In Bavaria military authorities use St Bernard dogs to carry letters and provisions to snowed in garrisons in the Alps. A bi weekly post operates with ten dogs, delivering heavy supplies and lighter delicacies. When snow tightens, six dogs haul a stall car. The scheme aims to maintain communication and support amid long isolation.
French postal cards lead global mail flow with about 88 million sent annually. Austria-Hungary follows with 31 million. Experts estimate total worldwide postcard circulation at roughly 2.3 billion per year.
General Russell A. Alger argued in a recent speech for reforesting barren lands. He urged adopting Germany’s Black Forest system to Michigan and the United States, with emphasis on the pine barrens.
The Santa Fe Railway announces colonist tickets from Denver Colorado Springs or Pueblo to California points at a rate of $5. Full particulars by calling Hall, General Agent, Santa Fe, Denver Colorado.
A testimonial from Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale California praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing congestion and inflammation of the ovaries after 18 months of illness. The letter urges women to use the remedy for irregular menses and related symptoms, warning against other medicines.
A Paris Texas man keeps an oyster bed in a well after a child dropped an oyster. The item pivots to humorous quips about medicine and quack cures, warning against mercury in catarrh remedies and promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features assorted ads and light jokes from prosperity era columns.
The one act play It All Depends by M Octave Mirbeau is enjoying success in Paris. A starving cab tout finds a pocketbook with 2500 and is praised by a stern police commissionaire who then arrests the honest finder as a vagrant, letting the owner keep the money.
A survey traces April Fools Day in literature from Sir Walter Raleigh to Arabian Nights and Dickens. It highlights playful pranks, calendar references, and moral reflections, noting biblical and Shakespearean echoes and Arthurian or biblical defenses of the date.
A fragment comments on a Mount Vernon election where over two hundred women voted for a public school appropriation, noting not the supposed degradation. It mocks male superiority and cites a New York Times column. The piece ends with Rev. Dr J B Hodges of St Pauls Baltimore serving 31 years and performing numerous rites.
The official Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants magazine reports the discovery of a gravestone for a Mayflower passenger. It is the only known Mayflower grave marker and rests in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem. Prior beliefs held that pilgrim gravestones had crumbled.
At a Rome meeting of the Society of Hotelkeepers plans were approved for next season to stage fetes at the Coliseum. Efforts will revive the Nero era wild beast shows under modern humanitarian conditions for visiting tourists.
President Roosevelt opposes state control of irrigation funds and argues for federal supervision. Senator Hansbrough, initially skeptical, concedes local control may prevail if the section on state control is removed. Representative Mondell defends the current provision aligning with the President’s views as necessary to avoid an inoperable bill.
Miss Ellen M. Stone American missionary remains tired and anxious to return home. She recalls her ordeal, denounces speculation about her abduction, and says Macedonia is in upheaval as authorities decide who must atone for the kidnapping. Reporters pool in London while she awaits passage home.
March 31 reports the pope releasing an encyclical letter. He thanks God for life, urges renewed adherence to Catholic teachings, condemns attacks on the church, and portrays society as anarchic. He calls for return to Christ and the Roman pontiff as paths to peace and salvation.
A large delegation of old soldiers visited Senator Burton in Topeka Kansas on March 1 asking him to oppose any confirmation of a new Pension Commissioner Evans. They argued Evans policy should not be continued by his successor and urged action before Evans retires.
Colon el T P Moody a prominent Knight Templar and jeweler’s auctioneer from Chicago credits Peruna with curing his long time catarrh and stomach trouble. He reports his wife improved as well and urges others to begin Peruna therapy to seek cure. The letter promotes Peruna and touts its forty year testing and a free catarrh book from The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
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