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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1904
Page
6
A collage of sardonic jests and observations from a 1900s editorial page. Comments touch on Tibetans and Russians, doctors, a Harvard astronomer, an ugly girl inheriting money, farm horses vs automobiles, Cocaine as a new luxury, Napoleon books, the Hague, whaling, lovers suing for damages, Britain’s Welhaiwel expansion, Igor rales, divorce anecdotes, Perdicaris and Raisuli, a $100000 wedding fee, meat in heat, and cucumbers as cooling fare.
A fragment notes Harry Lehr appearing before Newport aristocracy in formal attire. It mentions Jijfi Shimpo hoping Turkey will not aid Russia, adding a remark that Turkey borrows, and asserts no danger. The text is garbled and relies on partial quotes.
A reflective remark notes the paradox that those without hay fever are convinced there exists a place where the ailment will vanish. The line highlights belief in a lasting remedy or end to hay fever, suggesting skepticism about such promises.
Prophet Barton argues the greatest evil is the concentration of money, while lamenting the community's own inability to concentrate wealth more effectively. The statement contrasts moral critique with self-critique of economic control.
The text notes that William Waldorf Astor's daughter's steady companion has his own money. She will be able to hire a maid and he won't need to mow the lawn.
The London press spoke generously of Paul Kruger’s remarkable career upon his death noting his long political influence and the enemies he made during his time in power.
The newest trend among Newport fashionables is to cut from newspapers all items about themselves and paste the clippings into scrapbooks. Clearly the fashionable set does not do the clipping themselves.
Mr. Claus Spreckles plans to dispatch an Ohioan to Hawaii to search for an insect that will feed on the pests harming sugar cane. It is understood that no attempt will be made to kill the trust bug.
A massive mob of about 5000 in Chicago attacked a saloon and a grocery on Forty fourth and Wood streets. They battled police with bricks and stones, wrecked Maziko’s saloon and Feinden’s grocery, and damaged a patrol wagon. Police, aided by 100 officers, dispersed the crowd after gunfire in the air and clubbing 200 rioters.
A mob blocks Wood Street as a patrol wagon arrives with blue coats. Officers leap out with clubs and disperse the crowd. Horses are capsized and trampled as rioters retreat only to regroup at each corner. The clash lasts over an hour with both sides firing shots.
London reports urge caution as rumors from Port Arthur and Haicheng fuel speculation on the war. Admiral Togo eyes naval actions while land movements show heavy fighting with Kouropatkin’s army threatened by Japanese columns. No major battles confirmed since Tatcherno affair, but several serious engagements noted recently.
National League Chicago 9 St Louis 1 Cincinnati 1 Pittsburg 8 American Association Columbus 4 Toledo 4 Louisville 8 Indianapolis 8 Kansas City 4 12 St Paul 6 11 Milwaukee 10 Minneapolis 2 Western League St Joseph 6 2 Omaha 2 3 Sioux City 8 Colorado Springs 8 7 Des Moines 8 Denver 1 Three Eye League Rock Island 13 Davenport ? Springfield 4 Dubuque 2 Rockford 1 Bloomington 5 Cedar Rapids 4 Central League South Bend 3 Fort Wayne 2 Marion 4 3 Grand Rapids 3 Wheeling 2 Terre Haute 3 Dayton 8 4 Evansville 2 3
Attorney General Hamlin issues opinion that the common practice of transferring liquor licenses between parties, widespread among city councils, is contrary to law in Illinois.
Aug 1 report lists F R Young named postmaster of Metropolis Illinois and W J Lincoln appointed postmaster of Mount Pulaski Illinois in the Washington dispatch.
A dispute over alien contract labor laws erupts as American engineers face Canadian efforts to recruit workers and deport national workers. The Ottawa strategy includes government agents promoting migration to Manitoba, prompting questions on sovereignty and cross border rights.
Earthquake shocks were felt in Woodland California on Saturday Aug 1 waking residents but causing no damage.
In Preble New York a 60 year old widow, Mrs. Emanda Burlingame, offered to marry BE. J. Bowdish of Chicago, a sewing machine representative, to manage her two farms. Bowdish, 47 and widowed with a Chicago daughter, accepted and they wed on sight after she came to Cortland.
In St Paul and Minneapolis doctors face a new illness misidentified as diphtheria. Over six weeks, patients showed a virulent spirillum instead of the diphtheria bacillus, causing unnecessary quarantines and antitoxin use though rarely fatal.
Portage, Pa Aug 1 Pursued by 800 determined men three men who murdered Charles Hays a driver and perhaps fatally wounded Patrick F Campbell paymaster for the Puritan Coal company are hidden in Cedar swamp about seven miles from Portage. One fugitive is wounded having been shot entering the swamp. In parties of about twenty pursuers cover the Laurel thicket and swamp twelve miles long seven miles wide while hundreds press through undergrowth seeking the fugitives trail.
Four bears halted an excursion on the Cammal and Black Forest railway near Wilcox Summit. A large bear perched on a trestle while three others dug under it, endangering crossing. Train crew and 250 picnickers tried to drive them away with stones and clubs until long poles with oil were used and fired. The bears fled into the woods.
White Pigeon Mich Aug 1 The state bank at this place capitalized at 251000 and one of the oldest financial institutions in western Michigan did not open for business Saturday A statement by bank officers promised depositors payment in full No reason was given for the closing Crowds gathered outside the bank and there was excitement for a time The bank counts many Indiana farmers and capitalists among its thousands of depositors.
A blaze in Prairie du Chien wiped out the City Opera House, B N Peterson hardware, and Peterson Hiie Otdines bottling works at Soldiers Grove. Loss runs about 22000 dollars with 11000 dollars insured. Origin traced to a lit cigar stub discarded in rubbish behind the stage.
Twenty-three people were injured in a rear-end trolley collision on the shore line of the Cleveland Western and Painesville railroad near Nottingham Ohio. Except for Mrs John Heinrich of 384 Harbor Street who is said to be badly hurt the passengers escaped with minor bruises.
At a resort just outside the fair grounds main entrance a brawl led to a fatal shot. Stanley Gelino of Wisconsin was wounded and died from the injuries sustained in the August incident near the St Louis World’s Fair site. Police investigation underway.
Reno Nevada August 1 disaster reports Douglass and Silver Star near Sodaville swept away by four to five foot flood waves. Schoolhouse and four dwellings destroyed. Widespread damage along Carson Colorado railroad at Rhodes and New Boston. Kingman Arizona reports thirty foot canyon flood washing tracks and bridges, wrecking stations and pumping facilities. Cedar mining camp cloudburst shifts debris, mill parts, and mine shaft blockages.
Preliminary plans to organize the Central Illinois Independent Telephone association were made in Bloomington Il Aug 1 The group aims to represent over 10 million dollars in capitalization and include every Central Illinois independent telephone company Albert Schuler of Streator was chairman and R C Critchfield of Minier secretary A committee was appointed to outline permanent organization plans.
Dr Henry Prentiss of New York City is named professor of anatomy by the regents at the University of Iowa. He currently teaches practical anatomy at Bellevue Medical College, New York University. He will assume duties in September.
Anna Harroun twelve year old daughter of Alderman Harroun of Hast Dubuque drowned in the Mississippi near her Galena home. She fell from a barge while with a Sunday school picnic party.
Charleston, W. Va. Aug. 1 The proposed constitutional amendment abolishing forfeiture of lands for non payment of taxes, one of the purposes named in the call for the special session, was defeated by a strict party vote.
Nellie Bly, a 14 year old girl, fell twenty feet through a skylight on a second floor while delivering a package in Chicago. She sustained internal injuries but details of her condition or exact location were not fully clear in the fragment.
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