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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
2
An old poem laments a home once filled with children now silent. The speaker recalls toddlers at play, a restless house, and a life of missed gatherings. With faith in God, she accepts change, yet longs for vanished joys and her long-cherished nestlings who have flown.
A fragmentary dialogue reveals a tense breakup and lingering love as a character proclaims independence and dismisses others. The emotional exchange hints at a marriage and strained relationships, with a final abrupt good night.
A newly unveiled full size Kaiser Wilhelm statue in Barmen Germany triggered protests over payment and royal attendance. The dispute involved a $4000 bill, a boycott by the royal family and a call for an international conference to regulate trusts and power. The article also notes Russian financier M De Witte and census data on slaveholding in 1860. Further, it cites Charleston News and Courier.
A jumble of brief vignettes: a Fayette Street church pastor gently teases children about smiling for photos during a Sunday service, while a Jersey City train tale lampoons temperance and porter tipping. Other anecdotes cover Monte Carlo gambling bravado, a Lewiston boy and letters, a golf miscue, and patient fishermen.
A Cuban campaign scene shows transports off the coast as regiments vie to be first ashore. General Shafter halves the tension with a blunt order to Captain Grimes to “throw your guns overboard and let them swim ashore.” A jumble of age jokes and odd anecdotes follows, including musings on aging and a taunting exchange about a dying man.
Elizabeth G. Jordan recounts a luncheon prank at a New York newspaper office. Miss Q orders a modest meal. Miss Jordan secretly samples it, then returns to work. Miss Q discovers the loss, eats a feast from a waiter's tray, and Jordan is billed $4.50 for the stolen lunch while continuing her tasks.
In a quiet library a man known as The Egotist recounts a colleague’s tragic death by morphine. He reveals long friendship with a gifted chemist, his fragile wife, and a love triangle that ended in denial and suicide. The woman Listener shocks him with her own confession of shared love.
German Emperor William tightens marriage rules for Prussian officers. An officer earning 1125 yearly must show 75 private income. a district gendarme with 900 salary needs 525 private means. Those under 750 must not wed. The Kaiser's bureau requires disclosure of father in law business and wife status. With such constraints a man may need 10 000 to 15 000 in own name to marry or abandon his commission.
A humorous tale from the late Dr. McCosh of Princeton recalls two Scots farm hands who argued over the cuckoo’s first call. They sought the dean’s judgment on whether it foretold marriage or wealth. He revealed the sign simply proves they are not deaf.
The late E. M. Reed, once vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad, was famed as a shrewd buyer who kept prices low. In a tale of old days he challenged a sales agent over a locomotive appliance deal, noting the agent’s ten percent margin while the railroad took a full year to earn ten percent itself.
Senator Hoar purchased a three story brick house on Connecticut avenue in Washington for 18000 dollars. He borrowed the money and hopes to profit by a future sale. He and Mrs. Hoar have boarded in hotels for thirty three years in the capital.
The London Globe reports experiments by Herr Luksch aboard the Austrian frigate Pola in the Levant, Aegean, and Red Sea measuring sea transparency with a white disc. Depth of visibility varies with temperature, salinity, sun altitude, and wind, affecting where submarines might hide.
London headlines joke about a man whose wit fails to amuse, while labor data show sixteen thousand four hundred workers employed daily at London's docks and principal wharves. The Globe notes the tepid humor contrasts with the bustling labor market on the Thames.
Dr Jacob Josephs longtime chief rabbi of Russian Orthodox Jews in the United States has died at age 52. A Vilna native, he led Beth Hamedrash Hagadol in New York for fourteen years and was a leading authority in Jewish law and philosophy. He authored several standard works and was widely known among scholars of his faith.
Sir A L Jones of the Elder-Dempster line announces annual free passages to England for Rhodes scholars sailing from Canadian and Jamaican ports served by his steamers. The Observer of Fiverts and Times quips about a voyage myth while Yonkers Coatesman notes the tale.
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