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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
2
James Buchanan urges the reader to dwell deep in duty and selfless service. He counsels forgetting personal grievances, serving others, and trusting that good unfolds through God and love for mankind. The poem extols forsaking pleasure that harms duty and comforting those who weep.
A weary narrator describes a woman’s awakening through nature. She forms a soulful bond with a wooded hill view from her window, guiding her moral growth and poetic voice. Her disease and isolation give way to creative purpose and a life enriched by nature’s influence.
Joseph S. White preserves a 1806 memorandum between John Dickey and Daniel Henderson for delivering 40 hewed logs from Shenango with a two month deadline and three shillings per log. The document bears signatures with Crawford White as witness. Also recounted is a court martial tale of three year old Jack blamed by a grandmother for picking nasturtiums, who admits the deed after a stern prompting from his grandfather.
The census bureau reports the value of farming property in the United States. It catalogs 657 farms totaling 16.67 billion dollars, with 3.56 billion in buildings and 13.11 billion in land and improvements. Farm equipment is worth 761 million and livestock 3.08 billion, for a total farming wealth over 20.51 billion dollars.
A Kentucky witness recalls Jim Porter the seven foot eight inch scarecrow of Ohio river fame. He rushed to the river when the Nathan Hale steamer burned at Shippingsport shouting to save the kitchen as onlookers watched his colossal sombrero and bellowing reach the shore.
A distraught wife confronts her husband holding a glittering knife hidden in her dress. She drops the blade into the coal fire, collapses in despair, and reveals a lead pencil she had tried to sharpen, sparking a quiet, fatal moment.
A bridge projected six and a half miles south of Quebec will cross the St Lawrence River with a suspended main span of 1800 feet and two cantilever arms. The total structure length, including abutments, will be 3300 feet. It will carry two railway tracks, an electric motor track, and a highway. The main span depth is 120 feet. Substructure includes two main piers, two anchor piers, and two abutments.
A married man praises his wife’s bravery in a Cincinnati Commercial Tribune quote. He recounts a department store scene where the hat dropped from $15 to $14.98, and his wife, among twenty women, reacted with decisive action. The anecdote ends as the others laugh and the fat man orders cigars.
The speaker recalls a piano piece "DiL" that evokes a memory of a loved one. Daffodils in a vase, sunbeams through a window, and a phantom figure accompany the fond recollection. The scene blends music, fragrance, and light from a long-ago afternoon.
The article lists city and district production shares: Troy 85 percent linen collars and cuffs, Baltimore 64 percent oysters, Gloversville 54 percent gloves, Connellsville 48 percent coke, Wilkes Barre 47 percent brassware, Philadelphia 45 percent carpets, Providence 45 percent jewelry and 36 percent silverware, Chicago 35 percent meat and 24 percent agricultural implements, Meriden 32 percent plated ware, Paterson 24 percent silk. A closing personal aphorism notes a woman’s jealousy and a husband.
A reflective piece on fishermen facing fog shrouded seas off Georges and the perils of Gloucester to Grand Banks fleets. It recalls lost crews aboard the Independence and similar tragedies, the lure of dawn hauls, and the annual Gloucester service that mourns vanished mariners.
San Francisco friends report H. E. Huntington, son of the late Collis P. Huntington of Southern Pacific fame, has cleared over four million dollars in recent stock speculations.
Kate Hassett, leading woman at Keiths Eighth Street Theater, Philadelphia, was shot through the heart by Barry Johnstone, who then shot himself. Motive reported as jealousy. Johnstone, recently dismissed from Richard Mansfield's company, waited at the stage door and fired as she passed. Hassett’s death described as a striking rise in a promising stage career.
Monster audiences in England listen as Annie Besant departs for India to oversee the Benares school for natives and lecture across Europe before returning in June. The piece notes her enduring influence and contrasts prophecy with her ongoing work and English reception. Also cited are June 30 1902 rail statistics from Poor’s Manual: 198000 miles of rails, 1.612 billion in receipts, 600 million net earnings, 27000 engines, 36000 passenger cars, 1400000 freight cars, average dividend 2.62 percent.
The expansion of university wealth allows at least ten colleges to publish daily papers. Yale Harvard Cornell Princeton Brown Stanford Tulane and the universities of Pennsylvania Wisconsin and Michigan are among those offering daily editions, reflecting growing academic prestige and student media presence.
Iridium, costing about $780 per pound, is identified as the hardest metal known. The material is noted for extreme durability and high density, making it sought after for specialized industrial uses.
Senor Jose Vincent Concha has been recalled as Colombia withdraws its Washington representative after his obstructionist stance during Isthmian canal talks. He arrived last spring and was well received, noted for a strong diplomatic record and service as attorney general and minister of war.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana and Delegate McGuire of Oklahoma trade barbed lines about labor. McGuire boasts of his sawmill toil while Beveridge scoffs, challenging him to punch cattle or ride a handcar to earn real bread.
Mme. Chang a Corean high caste woman arrives in California on a mission for her people to study American methods and return to introduce them. After two years of persuasion her husband agreed that travel and limited schooling would not harm her. She is the first high class Corean woman to seek an American education.
The faculty and instructing corps at the College of New York will erect a bronze bas-relief portrait medallion of retiring president Gen. Webb to commemorate his long and successful administration of college affairs.
Mississippi to place a portrait of President Lincoln in the state hall of fame at Jackson. The picture, furnished by Robert T. Lincoln, arrives after a request and will be exhibited beside Robert E. Lee’s portrait.
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