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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
5
A collage of social maxims, crime questions, wine and temperance notes, and theatre trends. It notes many U S mail carriers, hints at Senator Clark, mentions Paris prisoners, Pretoria roses, wine temperance issues, and the Sapho theatrical boom with Degenerates on tour, predicting a longer season.
An eminent doctor notes wars advance hospital design and care. He cites Crimean and American Civil War lessons shaping trained nurses, pavilion tents, and antiseptic surgery. He asserts South Africa’s war will yield medical benefits for civilization despite loss.
The Paris exposition power plant contains a 289 foot chimney with 263 feet above ground and 26 feet below. The foundation sits on oak piling with a concrete block and a 59 foot diameter base. A 42 by 50 foot masonry truncated cone rises to the interior tunnels feeding smoke. Above ground, pedestal, shaft, and capital total 262.5 feet, with white brickwork and red enamel bands.
The text notes the phrase opening of the baseball season is misleading as the season starts at different times nationwide. It compares the staggered start to honey, birdsong, and strawberry seasons, beginning soon after New Year in Florida and extending months later in Maine, while American soldiers have spread the game to Havana, San Juan, Manila, and Iloilo.
The Populist national convention opened in Sioux Falls with about 140 delegates and 600 visitors. Chairman Butler, joined by J. A. Edgerton and George F. Washburne, led prayers, welcomed by Governor Lee of South Dakota, and temporary officers were announced as the session adjourned to 9 AM.
In London at Albert Hall the Primrose League celebration heard Lord Salisbury praise progress over the past fifty years and caution against Gladstone's home rule path. He cited the Boer War, Roberts’ leadership, and 200,000 troops as proof of imperial resolve, while warning Ireland could not gain practical independence.
In Peoria Illinois on May dates the Ellinore Republicans nominate Richard Yates of Jacksonville for governor and William A Northcott for lieutenant governor along with James A Rose James B McCullough M D Williamson Howard J Hanlin for state offices. The platform endorses McKinley administration and St Louis platform. It backs gold standard and denounces trusts. Governor Tanner's administration is approved and Shelby M Cullom is urged to return to the U S Senate.
May 9 in St Louis saw reduced violence as the great street railway strike continued. The St Louis Transit Company and St Louis and Suburban halted most service while police kept lines secure. One man was shot by company employees, signaling a tense but controlled day. Both sides held talks and voiced confidence in outcomes as abandoned tracks and idle power houses marked the standoff.
The British ship Argus arrived in Astoria with fifteen Tolani crew members and four passengers rescued from the Tolani, which sank off the San Francisco coast after colliding with the Argus on May 8. The Iolani was total loss, but all aboard Tolani were saved.
Judge Leehren Molde denied Rafael Ortiz's request for release from Minnesota prison after a Puerto Rican military tribunal convicted him of murdering a U.S. soldier. The decision holds territorial constitutional limits, states that Puerto Rico became U.S. territory, and that military law governed the case.
London reports friction between Russians and Chinese in Manchuria along the railway line. A detachment of thirty five Chinese soldiers shot a Russian captain and ten Cossacks on police duty. Cossacks retaliated, pursuing and cutting down Chinese. Russia demanded punishment of Chinese officials. China complied. Several Russian engineers have been murdered or mutilated by Chinese brigands.
Samuel Gompers, president of the labor legation, tells striking cigarmakers in New York to ignore Judge Freedman’s injunction that bars picketing and deterring replacements and forbids sympathizers from funding the strike.
Foreign exchange experts estimate weekly gold exports may total between 0.0 and 5.0 million dollars. Some circles call the figures extravagant. Likely shipments to London are expected in the week.
A fragment outlines themes of temperance education for children and insurance risks, then presents Nancy Priest Wakefield's poem Over the River. The poem reminisces loved ones crossing the river to the afterlife with imagery of boatmen, angels, and the spirit land, ending with the Angel of Death guiding souls to peace.
A health educator urges reframing dietary basics before scientists finalize cell life definitions. He contrasts natural foods for young mammals birds and plants with protein carbs fats and salts, and warns alcohol is a narcotic poison, even in moderate use, weakening disease resistance and causing tissue degeneration.
Dr Koppe contends alcohol cannot justify heat energy use in the body despite burning in the system. He compares morphine oxidation and cautions against treating ethyl alcohol as a proper energy source. Prof Conn notes the illogic of equating oxidation with dietary usefulness.
The Union Signal notes gunpowder is dangerous due to secondary effects beyond its oxidizing power and argues alcohol’s food value cannot be judged solely by oxidation but must weigh its secondary effects as well.
The National W C T U moves its headquarters to Rest Cottage Evanston Illinois the former home of Frances Willard Miss Rossiter of New York seeks to raise ninety thousand dollars by December 1900 with a pledge of one hundred thousand dollars from Marshal Field Chicago This gift would greatly reduce the temple debt and enable rental income and further aid to advance temperance work.
The Victoria Mutual Assurance Society reports that the abstainers section shows a smaller death claims proportion. Over the past three years general section claims reached 51.76 percent of premiums while abstainers stood at 24.29 percent. Reserve funds rose to £101,886 14s 11d, with £4 4s 84d in interest and total income to £15,626 13s 10d. Expense ratio fell to .59 percent.
Des Moines judge rules that divorces granted on habitual drunkenness will trigger formal notice to every saloon keeper and druggist in the city. Dealers must stop selling liquor to identified habitual drunkards or risk immediate license revocation once the court is informed.
The oldest teetotaler in Great Britain is said to be Mrs Sampson aged 7 born in King's Lynn who signed the pledge in January 1820. She had ten daughters and eight still living are teetotalers.
Solon Chase argues in the Boston Herald that nations must disarm or starve and refocus military spending into public utilities and development. He cites U S cities Lewiston and Auburn building a railroad connected to the Grand Trunk as an example of debt benefiting communities, and urges using global labor and resources to uplift mankind.
Richmond Dispatch recounts the boy Almont where young Harry, bred to soldierly fortitude, endures a stone bruise on his foot. He limps home crying not from pain but from unseen tears escaping his eyes as he confides to his father.
A brief dialogue from the Philadelphia Bulletin quotes Mrs B lamenting that Mr B no longer thinks to make things nice. She notes the change from past behavior to the present when asked for something pleasant.
Fragmentary text shows a political figure facing ribbing about career ambitions and three days of announcements. Other phrases mention health remedies and bodily strength in a scattered, unclear context.
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