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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
3
News of the Week catalogs deaths and major appointments from across the globe. Figures include H. Weakley of Ohio, Judge Tracey in the Philippine court, and Rear Admiral Train in China, with political shifts and international incidents spanning Cuba, Finland, and Washington.
The Aero Club de France prepares for the coupe international des seronauts race to be held two months hence from the Tuileries gardens. Entries come from Germany Belgium Spain America Britain France Italy with balloons capped at 2200 cubic meters. The club refused a second entry from Belgium and Italy to avoid last minute changes.
The Italian steamship Sirio, with about 670 passengers, wrecked off Hormigas island near Cape Palos. About 300 emigrants, mainly Italians and Spaniards, drown. The captain died by his own hand. The archbishop of Sao Pedro and possibly another bishop are reported lost. Survived crew and passengers were rescued or taken ashore in distressing conditions.
The state after a capitol conference awarded a $2,000,000 contract to the Central Wyoming Irrigation Company to build storage reservoirs and 75 miles of canals in the Shoshone Indian reservation. The project provides water for 265,000 acres at $20 per acre with perpetual rights. work starts within three months. The company is Chicago backed by the American Trust and Savings Bank, with Joy Morton as president and Mark Morton as vice president.
Plans are finalized for Weld County Harvest Day Festival to be held August 23 in Greeley with expectations of a record turnout. The event will feature attractions intended to surpass the flower fete at Colorado Springs and will involve Windsor Eaton Ault Kersey Lucerne Peckham Evans Platteville and Fort Lupton as participating communities showcasing Weld county’s resources.
The Shoshone reservation opening drawing began on Main Street with officials W A Richards W H Schnitger and 8 Maginnis presiding. Hans Berlin of Laramie won the first pick and can sell his plot for 3000 while Edward Buck of Basin and Thomas Bly of Fairplay claimed second and third prizes.
Gorham of Olympia Washington details six years of back pain after a cold. He reports relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills with improved kidney secretions, clearer urine, and restored regular passage. He finished six boxes to ensure cure, and the trouble has not returned. Sold by dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A collection of witty aphorisms and observations from the Atchison Kansas Globe. The items riff on vanity humor love jealousy childhood singing and old fashioned funeral views with light playful tone.
A playful collage of quips on chorus girls cooks rainbow gold writers envelopes and jewels of honest toll. The piece lampoons modern financiers chaperones and social manners with clever lines about youth marriage and seeing again.
The passage cautions against hurried activity and public hustle. It promotes calm, deliberate rest shaped to individual needs, favoring a quiet retreat over crowded travel or excessive indulgence. It suggests discovering personal restful practices and following them as closely as possible.
A Massachusetts physician reports relief in fifteen cases of constipation in children using Grape-Nuts. He says predigested, energy giving nutrition supports bowel function and overall vitality, and notes benefits for chewing teeth. Read The Road to Wellville.
The tale of Treasure Island remains unresolved as interest grows in the 1903 voyage of the steam yacht Kore Marine. Capt Mathews returns to Southampton reticent about findings, while belief in the treasure quest is reportedly strengthened.
A letter from Mrs Sara Wilson of Cincinnati endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for ferrile trouble and related female weakness. The writer reports relief from pain nervousness and headaches after five bottles and urges others to try the tonic.
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