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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1904
Page
6
A scrambled, era-spanning montage recounts a French revolutionary era volunteer scene, a local praise of Dodd's Kidney Pills with testimonials, and a Longman’s Magazine note on Louis XIV praising duty and courtesy. Names and places include Fredericksturs Indiana. Enoch P. Stevens. Gere department. Louis XIV.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a reward of 300 and 100, and refers vaguely to individuals Maryn Halse and others. The readable phrases are garbled and do not provide a coherent event, action, or outcome suitable for a full news item.
In English and French counting systems confusion arises over billion and trillion. English defines billion as a million millions, while French uses thousand millions as billion and thousand milliards as trillion. British and US usage differ, causing terminology conflicts.
The Austrian study reports doctors account for about 40 percent of deaths from heart and nervous system diseases, with 1 percent mortality from tuberculous entosis. It highlights medical professionals among victims of the morphis habit and gives average ages and other indicators.
A narrator in Oak Park recalls a manager urging care with stationery to save costs. He notes wasted paper burdens employers, argues inexpensive practice boosts profits, and suggests employees can act as a model for thrift. He asks readers to consider writing on better conduct.
Constable P D Doyle auctions the trunk contents of Mrs Moble Smiddey, who left for Augusta after unpaid bills. Amid the sale a large doll draws tears from officers and bystanders, moved by a beauteous girl and a moral refrain about life’s station. The doll is spared for the Augusta girl, while others are sold.
From Cleveland Moffett's Caveers of Danger and Daring, the story recalls Captain Conkling who volunteered to seal a dangerous dam leak. He descended without extra rope, the life line failing, and died at the work, his body later recovered in the Holyoke dam.
A fragment recalls a Bayonne schoolteacher testing pupils on spellings of to and two. A Jewish boy quips two dollars is too much to upend. The piece then shifts to West Africa where girls are betrothed at birth to a boy older than them, married at twenty, and praised as obedient wives with generally successful marriages.
Advices from Santiago de Cuba report a decade storm began Friday bringing heavy rain and a hurricane. The village of El Cobre destroyed, at least forty five dead and many missing. Bridges washed out, trains wrecked, firefighters and mail agents killed. Mo ron relief train wrecked while Daquiri area crippled. extensive property losses reported across the city.
Advices from Tokyo confirm the loss of two Japanese transports Hitachi and Sado after engagement with three Russian warships near Udi Island. Survivors report 397 from Hitachi reached Moji and 153 from Sado landed at Kokura. Details remain unclear. casualties may approach a thousand.
A Butte dispatch reports two bandits stopping the North Coast Limited east of Bearmouth, dynamite wrecking the express car and killing Engineer ONeill. The rear brakeman carried the alarm to Bearmouth as the robbers fled into the mountains with likely large plunder.
New York dispatch reports ongoing search for victims of the General Slocum disaster. Officials estimate fatalities may reach up to 700, with some figures suggesting as high as 1,000, as authorities race to recover bodies in a tragedy of unprecedented scale.
Official figures from Secretary Gael Hong of the Victor Citizens' Alliance report 144 union miners and sympathizers deported since Monday June 6. About 320 more are booked for exile, with no prisoners in Cripple Creek and Victor bulls es, 72 men likely to be ordered from camp next.
President Moyer said he had no opinion to express on the Colorado strike or labor troubles and stated he had not been in touch with Western Federation of Miners affairs since his detention, unable to gauge membership sentiment.
The Knickerbocker Press promotes recent publications including American Immortals edited by George Cary Eggleston with portraits and essays on twenty nine Hall of Fame figures. It also covers Freder ick the Great in the Heroes of the Nations series, plus Slav or Saxon by William Dudley Poulke, and The Mystic Mid Region by Arthur J Burdick with its desert exploration themes and abundant illustrations.
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