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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1901
Page
4
L Deweese buys a superior sprinkler from E R Cook for 450 dollars as part of spring street watering plans. Invoicing dominates activity amid January bustle in Rocky Ford with shoppers and streetcars underlining daily life and a feature on women’s health issues and Dr. Pierce’s remedies.
The 1898 99 trade report notes a surge in imported manufactured tobacco especially cigarettes from America. It highlights a shift among Indians toward foreign tobacco and the decline of native handloom and local goods. The piece predicts a domestic shift to on the spot production by capitalists as quality improves.
An eastern traveler mistook a cab fare in Boston exchanging a ten for a two, but the driver exposed the error claiming a twenty was paid. the driver chased the man down a street to return the excess. The stranger vanished toward a subway car.
New York leader John B Galore quotes a Chinese tea house scholar on religion and missionary efforts. He compares Christians and Chinese followers, using a tale of a lone Chinaman who sees one ray of light from the moon and notes others also see beauty in their own light.
M E Sunday School officers named for the year include Burr as Superintendent and Woody as Secretary. At Presbyterian church Sunday morning the pastor will preach on The Trumpet Call to the Ministry. The evening will feature the New Year’s sermon. Baptist church holds usual services. Christian Science study focuses on God. Revival meetings at M E church target conversion and sanctification with popular hymns. Sabbath morning theme is The Christian for the 20th Century. evening topic True Repentance. About 150 attended Watch Night at the Baptist church despite storm and cold. program included youth talks, historic recollections, and a sermon Turning Over a New Leaf. M E church Epworth League elected officers. poems and papers on inventions and church progress shared. one conversion reported.
The Hessemer Irrigating Ditch Company petitions to alter water priority points among Cape from Kane Ditch and Wheel Ranch Ditch, seeking a 2 cubic feet per second transfer to the Hessemer Ditch. The order sets a January hearing, requires public notice in Pueblo and Otero counties, and details service, publication, and posting of notices to owners and corporations in the Water District Fourteen.
The article notes that more than half the human race is governed by women, led by China’s empress dowager and England’s queen. It highlights Holland’s Queen Wilhelmina, Spain’s Queen Regent Christina, and the influential queen mother Margherita as signs of female-led nations and their wide influence across populations and colonies.
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