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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
6
A chaotic courtroom episode unfolds as Frank Goodbody bursts in with wild hair and shouting claiming a girl born weighing ten pounds has arrived. He tears through the room, makes odd demands, then vanishes via a spiral stair, leaving judge and witnesses in confusion. Mother and child reportedly doing well. Frank’s fate doubtful.
The article recounts how William Booth and his son altered the proposed title from The Christian mission is a voluntary army to The Salvation Army. It notes Captain Cadman popularized the general’s title. It also mentions nautical roots for a captain’s rank to please Whitby fishermen and a playful aside about general importance. It closes with unrelated notes on fruit prices and Hawaii sugar cane used for fuel and potential paper manufacture.
An unclearly written health note claims a four year old with stomach liver and kidney issues improved after a diet centered on Grape Nuts. The physician warns against sugar and presents Grape Nuts as a natural pre digested sweet. Portum Co Battle Creek Michigan promotes a booklet titled The Road to Mallville.
The dispatch describes a colossal battle around Port Arthur on August 14 and 15 with heavy Japanese losses but strategic gains. It notes 20 000 more sacrifices and the capture of Pigeon Bay and several forts while detailing the Japanese armor, ships, and the surrender terms offered to Lieutenant General Sto manelln and the ensuing reaction.
M Odages the Japanese consul general informs Shanghai officials that Japanese forces plan to seize the Russian cruiser Askold and torpedo destroyer Groxovel. Customs report Russian ships are unseaworthy and repairs on the Marsiana removal will finish in about ten days. Authorities grant a grace period until August 33 for ships to remain in port, amid cautious neutrality efforts.
Shells rained on Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, on August 17 for forty minutes. Government artillery replied, one gun burst wounded several soldiers. Ministers of Argentina, Brazil, Italy and France boarded an insurgent vessel and held a secret conference, declaring 24 hours to allow women and children to evacuate the capital.
Hungry packers district crowds thronged Chicago streets Thursday night rushing to capture eight steers that broke from yards. Four thousand residents joined the chaos as 120 officers in five squads charged the rioters from four sides. Gunfire rang out and many rioters were clubbed but few arrests followed as police dispersed the scene.
Japan issues an ultimatum to China demanding immediate neutrality for the protected cruiser Askold and torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi in Shanghai. If China fails to comply within 24 hours, Japanese warships near Shanghai may enter the port to seize the vessels, as done with the Ryesh Teint in the past.
Severe rainstorms sweep Goldfield, Columbia, Tonopah and the southern Nevada bonanza district for five days. Torrents continuous until Wednesday. Tonopah railroad company mobilizes crews to replace washed tracks. Passengers stranded at Mound House Hawthorne and Soda Springs as rail and mail service face delays and high accommodations.
Four persons were killed and another fatally injured with twenty three more hurt when an express Chicago Great Western train collided with a Hawthorne race track trolley bound for Chicago. The trolley three car unit, speeding at the crossing, was torn apart with passengers in the front car killed. The third car remained on the tracks though damaged.
A mutilated body found on a Georgia bridge eight miles from Stateline is linked to a web of racial killings. Rumors claim Handy Bell, jailed suspect seen near Statesboro, was targeted as part of vigilantist violence. A neighbor watch group reportedly forms to target Roeld’s associates while dozens of men mobilize from Statesboro.
Henry Gassaway Davis was formally notified at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia on Wednesday that he is the nominee of the Democratic party for vice president of the United States. Davis accepted with a brief speech reviewing the political situation and echoing Judge Parker on the money question. Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, chairman of the notification committee, delivered the notification address.
A special Cincinnati to Colorado Beach train derailed one mile east of Scranton Bank on Wednesday afternoon. One person was fatally injured, five severely, and six others slightly injured as the tender jumped the track causing the entire train to ditch. The baggage car overturned, the day coach was badly damaged, and a Pullman car tipped over amid the wreck.
Depletion of U S forests sparks interest in Mexican timber. Southern forests yield mahogany ebony and cedar nearly exhausted by past exploitation. Remote areas hold anch timber oil. Central and northern regions contain soft pine and oak across a wide western strip with limited transport access.
A historic note on reindeer teams delivering mail from Kotzebue to Point Barrow, covering up to ninety miles daily with sleds carrying six hundred pounds. The animals weigh about four hundred pounds and hoofs are broad, not damaging new crusts, with no food carried for the deer on this route, the northernmost post road in the world.
Friarpoint Mississippi August 22 special Rev H H Hatch cites 26 years of bladder and kidney trouble cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. He claims no pain since using the remedy and calls it the best he ever had. The text asserts kidney disease causes urinary issues and promotes Dodd's pills as a universal cure, including Bright's disease.
An English newspaper recounts a noble lord’s rise from a reckless fifteen year old to heir. At a race meeting he loses 100000 pounds, mortgaging all he can, and tells his father in the enclosure he cannot even buy a cigarette lighter, asking for a match.
An advertisement urges readers to use ALLEN'S FOOT-BASE powder for hot tired aching swollen feet at the St Louis Exposition. It claims 30 000 testimonials and warns to not accept a substitute, noting it is sold by all druggists.
The article notes Italy once led cork production but extensive cork oak forests have been destroyed. Calabrian trees are felled for charcoal and other provinces cut cork for potash content. Also mentions Piso's Cure as a cough remedy and global bread traditions including white bread in the United States and England.
A fragment notes the claim that inexpensive remedies for infants exist and cites Clapton, London, where fees of two pence are described as bringing sickness within reach of all and offering little justification for good health. It frames Castorta as essential yet questioned.
A. C. Sprague of Normal Illinois writes that two years of kidney pain, sleepless nights, and backache were cured by three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. He now travels freely and sleeps well. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY advert. 50 cents.
A tall elm on Walter Wellington's Lexington estate, dating to 1732, was planted by the father of Jonathan Harrington, a drummer boy in the Revolutionary War. The tree began as a roadside sapling pulled by Harrington's farmer father to spur a weary horse on the way home from Salem market.
A new feature in Scotland promises strong prospects for wild duck shooting. Driven wild ducks offer a challenging target for crack gunners, with hill loch drives beating lowland lakes. The sport can start in August earlier than grouse shooting, aiding wider adoption in grouse counties.
A midwestern notice from 1904 offers free assistance for travelers to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. It urges readers to contact F. H. Worsley of Salt Lake City for prearranged lodging, depot pickups, and information on fares, stopovers, and hotel rates. The offer targets Utah travelers and organized groups, including teachers.
A Prussian company organized at Rendsburg plans a peat distillery to start operations this month. The process aims to produce cheaper alcohol than other sources for use as fuel.
A traveler notes that Venice and its gondola are inseparable, comparing the gondola to a London hansom and Dublin jaunting car. He portrays gondoliers as oaths prone and cantankerous, once famed for moonlit songs and now occasional melodies funded by travelers.
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