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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
6
A Rocky Ford Enterprise column surveys a patchwork of current events and curiosities. It jokes about King Edward, Venice, and Sphinx mysteries while lampooning politics, urban trends, and fashion. It wittily airs observations on marriage, birthdays, and public amusements with a sharp, era-specific voice.
In a hotel confrontation, Charlie Stuart pieces together Captain Brand of the Hespasia as a likely fraud. Artemus Barnaby warns of the imposter while Charlie tests Brand’s tale by probing his past in Valparaiso and South America, hinting at a dangerous, staged life behind the noble facade.
Montague Lessler recalls a tense trial involving Ambassador Choate over Standard Oil matters. He describes questioning Choate's clients, a long argument before a judge, and a postponed case when Choate was in New Jersey for a Tobacco Trust case.
In Japan at a Tamagawa stream a boy handles three trained black cormorants used for fishing. The birds wear neck rings and wing loops, drag a low net, and dive for fish while the boy guides them. The catch is emptied into a basket as the birds finish their work. The note ends with a proverb about wheat and dough.
General John P. Gobin commands the state guard sent to quell rioting and maintain peace among striking miners at Shenandoah Pennsylvania. A veteran soldier and former Grand Army of the Republic commander, Gobin previously led a brigade in the Spanish American War and served as lieutenant governor in 1898.
Miss Mary Bogardus a Poughkeepsie telephone girl will marry Albert Edward Tower, millionaire owner of Poughkeepsie Iron Works. Date未定, fall wedding planned amid Tower family tragedy and Mrs Tower's suicide after the 11 year old son’s death.
The Bank of England houses vast wealth with 161b bars of gold enough for 20 million sovereigns. It occupies three parishes across three acres, valued at about £1,000,000 per acre. The bank’s ratable value is around £1,000 weekly, employs about 1,000 people, pays £250,000 annually in wages and £35,000 in pensions, and circulates £25,000,000 in notes handed over at its counter.
The piece cites Sir James Crichton Browne noting hands lose suppleness around age forty while button makers can produce up to 6,240 ivory buttons daily earning 45 shillings weekly. by age sixty five output drops to about 20 shillings. A Philadelphian inspired a horse cart umbrella. Ex Queen Natal ie of Servia reportedly to take the veil as a nun.
Denver magnates claim Pueblo will join the Western League next year. The first crate of Rock Ford cantaloupes hit Denver markets on August 5. A Rocky Ford couple abandons a runaway plan during cantaloupe season. Ouray doctors beat lawyers in a 25 to 10 baseball game on August 7. Tourism teams and special trains to Rocky Ford for Watermelon Day on September 4 surface amid varied state notes.
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