18 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
1
The article describes Japanese laundry methods with outdoor drying and cold water washing while noting Koreans wash many dresses for husbands. It also recounts a Parisian duelist who halts a matrimonial registration with a quip asking if the arrangement can be prevented.
In a lighthearted Baltimore American exchange, Jinks is teased about trading a fine gold watch for a plain nickel plated casing. The quip hints at changing circumstances altering appearances and accessories.
Petition letters to the sovereign or to MPs are exempt from postage if they weigh no more than two pounds. The note clarifies mailing rules for official petitions and parliamentary communications.
Nicholas Fish, 53, banker and descendant of the famed American saga, was found with a crushed skull after an altercation outside Bhandt's saloon on West Thirty Fourth Street. Police arrest Libie J. Phillips and Mollie Casey, along with detective Thomas Sharkey, as witnesses and suspects in the Roosevelt hospital case. Coroner holds Sharkey on $10,000 bail. Phillips and Casey on $500 each.
Revenue officers destroyed a large illicit distillery in the Dark Gar ter section of hly county on Sunday night. The outfit included a 150 gallon steam boiler, two doubling stills, 14 fermenters and 1400 gallons of beer. Fire under the furnace indicated the previous afternoon’s operation.
In Columbus Georgia on September 16 Wil Allen a 19 year old white man robbed C V Phipps store on Fourteenth Street stealing about 900 from a securely left door. He fled with Clifton Duggats a local woman but was captured after authorities traced the money. Allen, drunk at arrest, pleaded with police to shoot him.
New York dated Sept 16 Panama correspondent reports a U S warship at each end of the Panama railroad line easing citizen fear. No signs of an immediate attack by revolutionists. H G Prescott Panama railroad acting superintendent says natives and property are protected under the 1846 treaty and traffic will be facilitated.
In Montgomery Alabama a black boy stabbed through the heart yesterday afternoon survived after a remarkable operation by Dr I L Hill and team. The chest was opened the heart exposed the knife wound sewed and blood removed from the heart sack. Though dying at onset the patient showed immediate recovery signs and is believed to recover. The stabbing was by a son of John Conners of the city.
John Duckett chief clerk to the state superintendent of public instruction dies after sneezing while resting with hands under his head in Lumberton returning from Wilmington. Seven hours of treatment failed to reduce the shoulder before his death.
Two Black men, Robert Anderson and Jesse Lawson, died in a fight in Montgomery when they tumbled and broke necks during a clash over supremacy. Lawson held a knife and stood atop Anderson after the fall, while Anderson’s back was broken. Injured and confused, authorities report the men died in a gruesome struggle.
The North German Lloyd liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm arrived at Sandy Hook after a Bremen voyage via Cherbourg and Southampton, covering 3,047 miles in five days 11 hours 57 minutes at 23.09 knots. The ship beat the prior westward record by 3 hours 48 minutes, with daily runs listed as 349 674 574 681 673 and 396.
Lafayette County Mississippi spent about 12000 on the Mathis Owens Lester Jackson murder case. Four men were indicted with sentences pending and plans for hangings in Oxford on September 24 for Mathis and Lester. William Jackson seeks a pardon though evidence questions his participation. public sympathy grows for his wife in distress.
On September 16 in San Francisco a group of soldiers rioted near the Presidio, throwing stones at a saloon. Police were called, officers were attacked with sticks and stones, gunfire occurred, and the saloon was set on fire and extinguished by the fire department. Other damage followed before a patrol drove the rioters back to the reservation. one policeman was slightly injured by a beer bottle.
Harper's Magazine describes rival apprentice societies in France traveling together to study their craft. Jealousies between Pere Soubise Maitre Jacques and Enfants du Solomon lead to road battles as master companions meet. Fist fights, sticks, and occasional deaths occur on the tour.
A compact essay traces kissing from ancient Greek legend to English royal practice. It cites a shepherdess who inspired a kiss with an opal, royalty introducing the custom in England, and Queen Margaret of France kissing Alain Chartier, framing kissing as religion and social ritual across eras.
A collage of humorous snippets and morals from multiple papers. Jokes about boyhood, punctuality, and everyday stumbles mix with lines from editors on hope and charity and a note on early U S manufacturing in Pawtucket. Includes playful anecdotes and pithy maxims.
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