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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
6
A pasteboard of sensational items from political gaffes to social follies. Notes include Chile’s naval purchases and a famed New York shooting case, a divorce suit in Chicago, Mrs Astor’s parrot class, Prince Henry rumors, and the humor of aging ambitions. Also coverage of church salaries, Chilean money, and a Kansas rain report.
Don McGregor arranges a duel test between Overton and Livermore with pistol practice and a sharpened conflict over Fedora. Livermore shoots first and spares Overton, while Fedora’s wedding to Jack casts a pall of guilt and regret. Overton contemplates love, wealth, and moral choices as they flee to the city and a chop house breakfast.
The narrative follows Mc Gregor’s tense realization the shot came from Livermore’s pistol as Overton aims and fires. Jack contemplates vengeance against Livermore for stealing Fedora, weighs killing him, and is haunted by Mazette’s memory before Overton fires into the upper tree branches.
Jack Overton, an ambitious painter, delays his bachelor life as he plans to witness Fedora's wedding. He engineers attendance from the church loft, while Mazette clings to loyal hope and Musette frets over his misery and lost inspiration.
Reports from Chelsea experiments show six tons of solid matter per square mile in a week, with soot and tarry hydrocarbons harming life. Metropolis bears 3600 tons of fog compounds in a 600 square mile area before winds disperse them. St Pauls gallery mold deposits reveal 1 percent soot and harmful chemicals endangering Portland stone and paintings.
Congressman Adolph Meyer visits the Illinois battleship testing in New Orleans via dry dock test on the Mississippi. He is warmly greeted by officers who joke about the secretary of the navy and the Washington boys as Meyer prepares to return to Washington.
New York letter carriers have purchased small electric lights to read addresses on letters and packages after dark. The device is a black cylindrical battery pack worn in a carrier’s pouch with wires to a lapel light. A pocket button activates a reflector and a two candle power lamp for illumination.
Germany now leads Europe in education with high literacy and schooling. The article notes distant past hardships where teachers earned meager wages, forcing some to seek extra income by selling items from front of houses.
The article outlines pasteurizing milk in Sterilizing bottles using a boiler with a perforated bottom, cooling methods, and odor control in milk. It discusses sources of germs in milk, the coney flavor from manure contamination, and the need for clean dairies. It also offers turkey care tips, lice prevention for poults, and general poultry brief notes on breeds, costs, and equipment.
Butters E C Lewellen told Kansas dairymen that a dreath year pushed plans for winter feed ahead. Farmers plan more alfalfa planting, while California and Kansas compete for butter markets in New Mexico and Kansas. The Illinois commission to the Buffalo Exposition will return $19,300 of the $75,000 appropriation.
The article notes a rush for farming lands as homeseekers move west, with debtors selling out to pay debts and buy supplies. Colorado attracts eastern farmers trading one acre there for two or three irrigated acres here, driven by irrigation agriculture. The Sunny San Luis Valley receives many immigrants, including interest in ROMEO area lands. A tramp calls his shoes “corporations” due to missing soles.
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