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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
3
A Philadelphia Ledger report warns that healthy looking individuals can be typhoid carriers. It cites a case where a cook caused typhoid outbreaks across seven families over five years, leading to detention and bacteriological testing revealing chronic carriage.
The article discusses how factories and department stores foster recreation through clubs and outdoor activities. It notes noon-time dances, gymnastic programs, and roof gardens in cities like Dublin, Pittsburg, and New York as ways to improve worker life and curb idle midday hours.
A Hindoo editor faces imprisonment for publishing his views. The Chicago Daily News argues that a jail sentence matters little if crowds praise a hero outside and jeer at authorities during lulls. The piece suggests the editor may gain lasting historical note or better treatment in jail, while praising the Whitish government for its action.
In Thuringia a cottage industry thrives as four men work with gas jets to blow glass eyes from plates and molds. Colors are added with needles, producing unique results with no standard coloring rule. The piece notes a decree on longer skirts next year and hints at evolving fashion trends.
Miss Robb aged 94 died in Edinburgh. She was a naval pensioner for 93 years and a posthumous child of Capt Robb of the Royal Navy. She was placed on the state pension role at birth.
The Hague reports contrast 1899 optimism with current sober aims at the peace conference as nations weigh arms reduction amid tense Britain Germany relations. Public sentiment grows for disarmament while fear of ridicule and strategic traps shapes diplomacy. The United States stance is noted as influential yet circumspect.
A.H. King of King Auxiliary Manufacturing and Malleable Iron Foundry outlined a plan to build a Pueblo plant employing 5,000 workers. A syndicate of Chicago financiers plans subsidiary plants. King, in Pueblo for days, met with business leaders and seeks no bonus. A Pueblo committee will study the proposal as King expects more associates to arrive.
Professor Robert Wallace of Edinburgh University spoke at the Denver Club about converting sage brush land into productive farming. He noted high altitude alfalfa varieties resistant to frost could thrive without irrigation and predicted Colorado could become a major agricultural state with immigration. He compared Bear River soil to the Andes foothills where sugar cane grows and cited broom corn potential.
Dr. G Stanley Hall of Clark University calls Harry Orchard a congenital criminal born short morally and says his fiendish psychology is nourished by mining frontier money madness. He questions civilization's ability to reform such a man and suggests Orchard may reflect environmental factors.
Wellington residents search the Laramie county irrigation ditch for three year old Harry Yost son of C. B. Yost after he vanished while returning from the fields. Authorities fear he may have fallen into the swift flow and been carried away as workers scour the ditch and nearby brush. The mother grieves as the hunt continues.
In Toston Massachusetts, Fer man Unger of Pittsburg, who died by his own hand in a Boston hotel on May 20, had his cremated ashes mixed with cement to form a brick. The brick will be buried in a Jewish cemetery if a local cemetery accepts it, amid cemetery authorities’ reluctance. Unger, a Jew, faced lifelong troubles and depression and allegedly believed burial turned a man into a tree.
The Keystone hotel on Main street, once the Merchants hotel and a relic of Deadwood's early camp days, is being razed for a modern building. Once the best in the Black Hills in 1879, it has since undergone many renovations and was condemned as a fire trap.
Florence Colorado fishermen protest farmers drawing water from Beaver Creek for irrigation without headgate screens. They allege fish pass into irrigation boxes and die, with Beaver Creek fishing poor and roughly half of last year’s trout already dead.
Ex governor Peabody and daughter witness in the Haywood murder trial at Boise. Denver and Greeley to be connected by an electric line. O W Yeager dies of Brights disease at Fifty one in Longmont. J B Bailey a Florence coal miner dies after illness. St Francis Seminary Longmont to open September first. Boulder names new hotel the Boulderado. Pueblo hosts 1908 state federation convention. Gov Buchtel accepts Senator Lewis resignation and Florence postmaster appointment. Weld county probation officer John Corne resigns. Father Tisdel appointed. Oak Creek merchants Costello and Sieverson discharged in minor case. Trinidad high school graduate Lucile Murtis fatally injured near Berintville Illinois. Magpies extermination effort in Fountain valley. man injured near Little Buttes. Wellington dam construction north of Boulder for irrigation. Skeleton remains found with Cheyenne affiliation near Colorado Springs. Fort Collins frame building moved to allow new hardware store by Judge Boughton. Anti-Saloon League claims gambling and Sunday-closing violations across Arapahoe county. Fruit outlook: apples, pears promising despite freezes. peaches and other fruits fair. late cherries good. New forage plant papaslum dilatatum introduced in Boulder to improve dry soils. touted as high-yield hay and year-round green. Dr Ambrook distributing seed for field testing.
A congressman and his wife return from Baltimore to Washington. Mrs. Blank discovers her umbrella is missing, blaming her husband for neglect. She quips that national affairs are managed by a man who cannot guard a woman's umbrella, a line cited by Success Magazine.
Gov Hughes influences Legislature to avoid radical changes to the New York insurance law. The Equitable Life report for 1906 shows lower expenses and higher dividend payments, with expense ratios improving from 19.42 percent in 1904 to 14.45 percent in 1906, supporting a cautious, gradual approach.
A traveler from Mexico discusses matches and luck in a colorful if odd exchange. He describes wax lucifers with two heads and claims double ended matches affect luck and record keeping, noting a fight if one end fails and that revived old time matches spark for the baby but invite scrutiny from God.
A young Irishman seeks work in western Illinois and asks a Cairo farmer for a job. The farmer tests him with “Can you cradle” and the Irishman offers a witty reply about being paid out of dure. Humorous exchange from Harper’s Weekly.
A Salisbury Maryland woman says coffee harmed her health and tea helped, but severe dyspepsia followed until she switched to Postum Food Coffee. She notes rapid weight regain, lasting satisfaction, and calls Postum good and nourishing, urging readers to read The Road to Wellville and The Road to Wellsville.
Boise reports a dramatic confession recounted in court as Orchard describes crimes from arson to assassination. The piece notes defense doubts, cross examination, and the haunting image of a man seeking absolution amid brutal acts. It emphasizes that Orchard may not be on trial, while Haywood and others lack sufficient links to Steunenberg’s murder.
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