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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1903
Page
6
Frank J. Stanton notes in the Atlanta Constitution how winter’s chill clashes with lively fiddle music and dancing. The verse evokes a hall spinning with quadrilles, mockin birds of spring, and rosy sweethearts to contrast frosty weather.
A newlywed couple, St Clair and Agnes, quarrel over Agnes’s uncle Joshua McQuitty, who soon arrives with a surprising fortune and moves in for a month. St Clair’s harsh words-turned-contrition clash with Agnes’s suspicion as Uncle McQuitty plots a playful reveal behind curtains, revealing a lasting family bond.
A New York artist freshly returned from the Far East recounts painting a native Corean prince. After three hours the prince stood still. upon completion the sitter rejoiced then noticed the missing jade ornament behind the left ear. The artist added a profile sketch with the jade, but the prince exclaimed that the other eye was missing.
A verse parody in Kipling voice about a woman who loves a man who misunderstands her. It laments pride, folly, and a failed romance with lines on concealed faults and the pain of learning a godlike man cannot understand.
The late Rabbi Wise of Cincinnati was succeeded as president by Rev. Dr. Kauffman Kohler of New York. Kohler, about sixty, studied at Munich Berlin and Leipzig. He came to Detroit in the same year to lead the city’s Hebrew congregation and later helped establish Chicago’s community. Since 1879 he has led Beth-El in New York City on Fifth Avenue overlooking the park.
Bud Doble, famed trotter driver and trainer known for his distinctive nickname, announces a comeback season. He aims to reenter racing with Kinney Lou seen as the potential fortune maker on the trotting circuit.
A parent explains a quartermaster to Floramay describing the role as a porter on a sleeping car. The dialogue presents a child asking what a quartermaster is and a wise reply defining the job.
Judges Amos M. Thayer Walter H. Sanborn Henry Clay Caldwell and Willis Vandeventer are four Western jurists of the eighth circuit who ruled on the Northern Securities merger. Thayer since 1894 on the federal bench. Sanborn since 1892 with St Paul ties. Vandeventer educated at DePauw and Cincinnati Law, former Wyoming chief justice. Caldwell a Virginia native raised in Iowa and appointed to the circuit bench in 1890, now based in Little Rock.
The U S circuit court at St Paul ruled the Northern Securities company illegal under the Sherman act and enjoined it from voting Great Northern and Northern Pacific stock, ordering the stock returned to former owners. The decision strikes at railroad mergers, limits further consolidations, and aids government efforts to curb restraints of trade. An appeal to the Supreme Court is expected but unlikely to overturn the findings.
A collection of opinions from James J. Hill Pierpont Morgan Governor Van Sant and others on the Northern Securities case. It includes reactions praising the decision as revolutionary and a restoration of competition while noting the implications for the Morgan Hill holdings and the restraint of trade.
Bishop C. C. McCabe, a prominent Methodist Episcopal figure, visited Fort Worth. A New York paper wired him to comment on the Anglo American alliance, but telegraph confusion delivered the query to local C. C. McCabe. He replied, It’s a d d good thing, though the editor’s reaction remains unknown.
The London Grain Elevator company at the London docks uses a grasshopper derrick elevator designed to transship corn from American liners to lightships and warehouses. Its spout belt lifts up to 150 tons of corn per hour from a vessel hold, resembling a stomach pump when in action.
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