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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1903
Page
3
A Milwaukee woman Miss Helen Whitman credits Peruna with restoring her health after a long illness. The ad promotes Peruna as a spring tonic for nerves and catarrh, citing letters from readers and officials endorsing its benefits, urging readers to seek Dr. Hartman’s advice if needed.
The Mexican Herald reports John Dyer an American Yaqui leader captured near Bacum Sonora by Mexican regulars. He was court martialed and executed at daylight after offering to betray Yaqui plans. Dyer earned the nickname Hi Renegado for alleged cruelty to Mexican women and a child. American prospector Jack Cleeson was reportedly killed by Dyer’s men earlier.
A Berlin Anzeiger dispatch from Constantinople reports Bulgarian bands and Turkish troops in Okhreida clashing with about 1 000 killed or wounded. Bulgarian inhabitants in thirty villages rise with revolutionary bands, surround Turkish detachment, then retreat after losses. The Mustapha Pacha dynamite plot is blamed on the revolutionary committee. Calm in Mitrovitza and Prishtina contrasts with Albanian unrest worrying officials.
Indiana sexton Joseph Kroch hanged himself by the bell rope in the St John s Catholic church belfry at New Haven. The bell tolled once as it swung free, signaling Kroch s death. He had suffered insomnia and nerves. A separate report from Ouray Colo notes a snowslide at the Trust Ruby mine with guard Swenson and Oscar Lanpen escaping unharmed after being buried four hours. In Arizona, a sheriff led a stakeout that captured eight cattle thieves near Black Rock, sending them to Solomonville jail after a gunfight.
A fragment discusses a conductor correcting a fare dispute aboard a car and a man’s remark about not paying. It then shifts to a jumble of names and ads about Henry J Cheney Co and catarrh cures. Various sensational lines imitate old time newspaper filler and an Allen’s Foot-Ease pitch.
A French paper notes the headdress likely began as a nun’s veil tied by King Louis IX. When two nuns begged alms at the Paris king’s palace during Ash Wednesday, a pretty nun’s blush prompted the king to fold his napkin and place it as a head covering, a practice dating from that day.
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, son of the Brunswick regent, has completed music for the ballet The Miracle of Spring. The Hohenzollern tradition of devotion to music continues with this new orchestration by a royal prince.
The Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. launches a nationwide cookery contest offering 736 cash prizes from $5 to $200, totaling $7,500. Entries show improvement in general cookery with no purchase required. Winners receive certificates bearing the large Postum seal and rules are obtainable by postcard to Cookery Dept No 349, Battle Creek, Michigan.
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