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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
2
A miscellaneous column surveys politics and society with quips about offices in China America mothers of large families gold medals quilts of Alaska fortune and faith. It riffs on public salaries, imperial politics, and contemporary manners while noting a Kentucky tragedy and a New York centenarian who chews well.
The piece surveys health anxieties in pre Civil War America and modern parallels, noting Cornelius Vanderbilt's wealth and family actions, the rise of a New York Technical High School for Girls, and the hope that practical training empowers women to escape lowpaid, unskilled work while enriching character and future prospects.
A gentleman recalls a tale where fortune knocks at every door. An old man begging says fortune sent his daughter after missing him. The man asks what he means and the reply explains that fortune sent "missfortune" through the man’s door, a punny twist from London Tit. Bits.
The earliest prune tree reached California in 1870 via a French introducer. An initial ten acre orchard yielded in 18/5, with California producing 150 million pounds in 1901 and a larger 1902 crop anticipated. Santa Clara valley anchors the industry, hosting 2,507,140 bearing trees. The text also notes correlations between marriage and gray hair and a self closing door joke about angry men.
A detailed portrait of 19th century immigration to the United States focusing on New York as the port of entry. It notes rising immigrant numbers, inspection processes at Ellis Island, and the distributions of nationalities and average earnings by origin. It also discusses employment bureaus, relative desirability of European regions, and housing life in urban flats.
The article recounts Ernest Hogan, hailed as the father of ragtime, detailing how he wrote Pass This and other hits like The Phra Coon and All Coons Look Alike. It notes his influence on syncopated time, his rise from street performances to the opera house, and a Chicago-ball incident that inspired his famous line all coons look alike. Hogan’s works reportedly earned significant early sales and popularized the genre.
An description of Ellis Island intake and immigration inspections detailing how officers question arrivals, group them by manifests, and detain those with discrepancies. It recounts Florio Vincenzo from Palermo and Pietro Viadilli, illustrating poverty and attempts to conceal money and contraband as inspectors tally funds and assets.
The piece surveys crime origins and urban life notes from large cities, contrasting old belief in darkness with sociological views. It cites burglaries disrupted by modern flats, a New York Press anecdote about household routines, and reflections on crime tied to social standing and publicity.
A small Connecticut plant turns iron sheets into cow and sheep bells. The process uses rolling iron, steam driven shapes, brass coating, and crucibles with charcoal to form the bells. A theater window scene shows a box office interaction and a joke about progress toward matrimony.
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