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16 Oct 1903
Page 1
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
1
A plain view description notes adaptable writing across operators for many uses. The piece highlights flexibility in style and tone enabling broad readability.
A Washington correspondent reports figures from the Internal Revenue Service showing 6,006,749,068 cigars smoked in the United States for the year ending June 1901. The report estimates per person consumption and notes large yearly increases, with cigars constituting over a third of tobacco use. Tobacco production, imports, and exports are detailed alongside cigarette estimates, revealing significant shifts in US tobacco activity.
The article notes Greece’s top needs coal iron and lumber and suggests the United States could best aid by supplying them. It compares U S steel earnings to government revenue and reports on German quartz glass production, Greek stone for lithography, U M W A membership, peat fuel in Sweden, ship rudder design, prisoner reform efforts, and early photography trends. It also mentions medical observations on blood and microbes and includes various short anecdotes and recipes.
The Chicago Chronicle notes Mow May Preston Slosson, the world’s only woman chaplain, ministers to hardened inmates at Wyoming’s state penitentiary in Laramie. A Cornell PhD and Hillsdale alumna, she held a Greek professorship at Hastings College and married Prof Katwin J. Slosson.
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