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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
3
Peter Neidermeier, identified as a member of a quartet of bandits, admits to additional robberies and related crimes. Authorities report his statements while investigations continue.
Peter Neidermeier, a member of a Chicago gang terrorizing the city for six months, offered to name accomplices if rewards were given to his mother. He confessed to several crimes including train hold ups and robberies, naming few details to spare his partners. He pledged cooperation in exchange for $500 to aid his mother financially after his execution.
Adolph Waltz a former servant of Mrs. Wm Harrison of Glenside near Philadelphia is jailed on a $20,000 jewelry theft charge. The loot including a $15,000 pearl necklace was taken during Thanksgiving dinner and most pieces were recovered when he was arrested.
In Carbondale Illinois during November 80 Wizard Kennedy was killed by his own shotgun trap meant to deter chicken thieves. He forgot the device and triggered the charge when checking the henhouse.
A verdict of guilty was returned Sunday in Chicago against Alderman J Brennan and political allies Charles McCarle and Herbert E Kent on charges of violations of the elections law.
Pittsburg November 30 The Moorhead Brothers rolling mill at Sharpsburg resumes operations after a two week shutdown. The plant, which employs 700 men, returns to work with a twenty percent wage reduction for the workforce.
Lincoln Illinois November 30 Charles Stanbury jailed on charges of assaulting Mrs Lucinda Davis a 83 year old woman Mrs Davis is in serious condition and public sentiment runs high over the case
Brooksville Florida November 30 Henry T Valentine was found not guilty of the murder of Allan T Jones in the circuit court. The jury returned a verdict exonerating Valentine from the charge.
Housekeepers face pressure from grocers and peddlers to switch to a cheaper baking powder. Alum powders are harmful and often used in low priced products. A New York seizure exposed dangerous formulations with sharp materials and acids. Most phosphate powders mix alum. one inventor uses bone digested with acid. Buy reputable cream of tartar based powders and avoid testers in homes.
The article notes a population shift from English and German roots in 1790 to a mixed 1900 with Slavs and Italians. It cites 985 250 foreign-born in 1900, with 310 000 from distant lands. It argues concentrated immigrant communities in mining areas threaten state peace and connect to labor troubles per Addison B Burk in Story of the State.
British ships coal at Lagos Portugal for mail but the final 20 miles are delivered by mail carriage drawn by mules. A sub lieutenant found his sweetheart’s letter torn to pulp while another officer received none. The cause is traced to a mule trying to eat the mail.
In 1889 a New South Wales hunter wounded a kangaroo and tracked it through mulga and salt bush. A blood trail led to a stone the hunter examined, revealing a red spot within the stone. Not blood, but opal, marking the start of the White Cliffs opal fields, per the London Globe.
The linaloe tree grows in Puebla and Guerrero Mexico and yields a coveted essence used as the base for fine perfumes. Its light yellow wood gives a fragrant distillate with a lemon jasmine union, a yellow liquid carefully preserved. Workers use primitive methods, cutting trees into cord wood sized sticks and chopping them at the stills.
He asks for marriage but she refuses saying she is unworthy and notes his noble traits contrast with her defects. She cannot say no and stick to it, prompting a wistful reply from him. The exchange appears in the Baltimore American.
The city of Leipsic awards Rudolf Von Gottschall an annuity of 1200 marks marking a continuing trend of supporting writers with modest incomes after Baron Von Liliencron. The move signals broader German encouragement for talented authors.
Margaret jokes about aging while Gertrude notes changing desires as Sam says she no longer buys everything she sees. The brief cartoon caption records a light domestic moment.
The opening railways functioned as tollways allowing individuals to operate their own cars on their own schedules, reflecting a libertarian approach to early transit design and private road use.
Col Edwards described the daring transfer of 3 million dollars in 1000 dollar bills from the bureau of printing to the insular department for Philippines use. Marion E. Beall of Fort Wayne undertook the dangerous trip, hand carrying the treasure in a suitcase after agencies deemed transport costly.
In St Marys church New Britain Connecticut Peter Wood and Rosa Strader faced a halt as the bridesmaid Edwina Loftleigh refused to yield her place. The best man Stephen Ferry stood with the couple before the ceremony resumed with Rosa Strader stepping in as bride. The bridesmaid had never attended a wedding before.
Thousands of Parisians who depend on the famous clock at the bourse were dismayed when the timepiece lost several hours in a day and then stopped. The clock, long regarded as infallible, appears affected by recent alterations and improvements to the building.
Lynchburg Tennessee earns notoriety as the first southern town to indict a white man for lynching a negro. The Chicago Daily News notes the town seeks a civic reputation beyond its suggestive name. Prof Small of the University of Chicago predicts an inevitable war between Germany and the United States. The Chicago Record Herald says Boston residents need not fear immediate danger.
A San Francisco fish commission report notes many inland inquiries about acquiring animals. A hill town merchant asked Prof. Charles A. Vogelsang for a box sent by express with a permit to keep a specimen for scientific use. Vogelsang replied that he could provide a dear instead of a live animal, with perpetual maintenance at the inquirer’s expense, and advised obtaining permits from the county clerk.
In a country picnic tale from the Jo hn News-Florald Area Shade drops a watch into a spring and tells a jeweler it broke. The jeweler confirms the broken spring and the joke lands as Arch explains the setup.
In Friarspoint Mississippi G L Butler, father of a ill boy, says his son suffered spinal trouble and night terrors until after using eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He credits the remedy for permanent relief and notes the boy now enjoys his sister's music. Cincinnati Times-Star.
An old page notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents and includes a whimsical line about a woman's train of thought focusing on her dress. The fragment mirrors period magazine style with light humor embedded in advertising context.
Mrs Muriel Armitage district organizer of the Royal Templars of Temperance writes of five years of uterine irregularities and hysteria eased after taking Peruna for six months. She claims fifteen bottles cured her and urges others to try the remedy for catarrh of the pelvic organs.
An advertisement describes female weakness as pelvic catarrh and claims Peruna cures catarrh permanently, including chronic cases. It urges nervous women to seek the remedy and offers free advice from Dr. Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
In a terse exchange a cautious suitor asks about dowry while professing he might love the daughter. The Chicago Post reflects on clever suitors and practical concerns of marriage market. The Philadelphia Record adds a quip about self-made men exploiting opportunities.
Vignettes and quips from readers and newspapers present short remarks on cures, money, fame, and friendship. The lines include J I Boyer praising Piso’s Cure for Consumption, Edith and Edna sparring over money, Dumley claiming folly, Synnex and the Boston Transcript quips, and a Tribunelike definition of friendship as shared camping.
A collage of quotes features reflections on influence, character, and self-improvement. Notable voices include Ernest Thompson Seton, a sunken rock metaphor, and snippets from Washington Star and Emerson about daily accountability and luck. The pieces blend admonitions with literary and newspaper echoes.
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