24 Jun 1904
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Newspaper
The Bellefontaine Republican
Location
Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1904
Page
1
The fragment lists subscription rates for the Republican and related papers, including the Cleveland and Toledo papers, with various combinations and prices. It then advertises Kilmer’s Swamp-Root kidney and liver remedy, praising its effectiveness and noting the product name and town address.
EMSONVILLE heats up as Deacon Malachi Blevins is revealed to be the mysterious “Kisser” behind a string of flustered townsfolk groping through a rash of late night embraces. The tale centers on Belle Jackson and several other women, with Mrs. Plimpsey confiding a risky encounter and the deacon facing calls for honesty amid gossip and consequences.
A European engineering report by Vladimir F. Gne sin analyzes a large Russian factory founded in 1722 by Peter the Great now employing 14 000 workers. It notes nursery care for children, provided by nurses, improves child health and fosters proper maternal child care practices among peasant families. The article discusses benefits and social aims of such nursery systems within industrial life.
The piece chronicles a high society scandal involving John R. Pratt suing Mrs. Elias over alleged blackmail and long running affairs. It notes parallels to Andrew Green, the so called Father of Greater New York, his murder, and widespread speculation about bank accounts and the social whirl surrounding Bennett, the Lysistrata, and Newport society.
A collage of brief items notes steel postal cars for clerks, US and UK mail volume, Lebanon PA’s record iron cable, McKinsey monument fund needs, timber land sale losses, a Kansas City house raised on jacks, a Queen's University offer to mortgage a body, tropical drink distillations, Belknap reserve fencing, and triplets aging toward a century in Upham New Brunswick.
The piece surveys proposed lines and projects including a German rail to promote cotton in Togoland, the Trans-Siberian length and cost, an American steamship plan to Plymouth, a Cape to Cairo bridge over the Zambezi, and Illinois Central’s tree-planting for tie supplies with forests in Du Quoin Illinois and planned Mississippi plantings.
Florence Mary Fitch of Stratford has earned a doctor's degree from Berlin University with honors, one of nine women to do so, three Americans. Alla L. Dawes of Massachusetts, daughter of the late Senator Dawes, is the fourth vice president of the World’s Fair Indy managers at St Louis, noted for political economy writings. Rebecca Lee Doreey of Los Angeles practices medicine and lectures at nursing colleges and hospitals. Mother Drexel pledges 500000 for a Winnebago Indian school and church in Nebraska, with Indians' consent obtained. Mary E Brainard of Cleveland leaves 130000 to Brooklyn and Parma trustees for the worthy poor.
The Slocum inquest hears that a cheap fire hose purchase fueled delays and possible inspector conflicts. Second pilot Weaver testifies price was 16 cents per foot, while officials defend standards. Meanwhile, many bodies were recovered from North Brother Island as rescuers continued a grim search.
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