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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
1
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A poultry guidance piece states a hen can produce eggs totaling six times her weight and worth six times her food cost. It recommends feeding wheat oats grits clover and bone while reducing corn to optimize profits.
Latest mail advices indicate cotton planting in Egypt is generally finished. Upper Egypt is likely to show about a 25 percent increase in area, while the delta also rises but by a smaller share.
A large ocean steamer at 19 knots needs at least one mile to halt after engine reversal, with no authority setting a smaller safe distance. White Pigeon Michigan touts frugal governance costing 1325 dollars for 800 residents last year with small health and police expenditures and a 60-dollar fire budget. D M Walker of Kirksville Missouri, age 59, is a prolific patriarch with 14 children 36 grandchildren and one great grandchild, making him a potential presidential appointment candidate.
J Pierpont Morgan intends to present his entire art collection to the United States government once Congress removes import tariffs and provides a suitable building and custodians. He has bought many paintings sculptures and curios of high value stored in London and elsewhere on the continent.
United States Senator J W Bailey announced the sale of his Grapevine Prairie ranch in Dallas County and said the operation is closed as he could not devote time to it. He noted he spent one day on the farm in 18 months and that would not yield profits. The note adds background on silk production in France, including mulberry cultivation and cocoon yields.
A.C Albertson, an electrical engineer formerly of Copenhagen University, claims a new railroading system using car trains without wheels to cover New York to San Francisco in ten hours. He says a one horsepower locomotive can pull the train at 300 miles per hour and at one sixth the cost of ordinary railways, with letters patent granted by both American and European governments.
The 214 Baku wells average 1302 feet depth with 292 barrels per day per well, compared with 358 wells in 1901 at 1086 feet depth and 330 barrels per day. This indicates markedly deeper drilling and a notable drop in per-well production. Oil costs two thirds of a cent per gallon at the wells.
A peace treaty brings songbirds lasting protection in the west as in the east. The Millinery Robbers' Association and the Audubon Society arranged the agreement, prohibiting use of song birds and related birds in hats.
George H Woodson of Oskaloosa became the first African American to sit as circuit judge in the town during the Delishman versus Chicago Burlington & Quincy railway trial. Judge B W Preston stepped out. Woodson was selected as judge. Woodson, born in Virginia, is a personal friend of Booker T. Washington.
In Paris on Rue de Charenton a 40 year old laborer named Negocier tried to drink a dozen glasses of absinthe after a wager. He swallowed the first glass as the clock struck the last, then collapsed and died soon after, while companions applauded the stunt. The death follows such foolhardy feats in tavern challenges.
A roundup of statistics and notes: Lord Curzon as India governor, South Africa war coverage, Alberta’s vast arable land, India's population, company profits in Germany, Liverpool and Ireland health notes, Belgian estates, lunatic asylums, Zimbabwe Rhodes memorials, Arctic expeditions rerouted to the Antarctic, German telephone use, North Carolina bird losses for millinery, U.S. imports and exports, British weather deaths, Chicago grip, U.S. irrigation networks, Lincoln kinship, khedive of Egypt harness, Rhodes pilgrimage, Kootenay coal and oil, New York employes, London school attendance, February exports, British navy fears, Mazatlan plague washings, Ladislas Modaras’ return, U.S. cotton export history, Irish motor car critique, railroad rates, and Col R B Creecy’s long journalism career.
Col M E Urell announces the year’s national encampment likely Sept 28 30 in New Haven Conn. Dates not fixed yet but presumed for late September.
Major floods in Topeka and Kansas City cause hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction. Rescuers rush boats and trains bring aid as officials fear epidemics and a prolonged humanitarian crisis amid mounting property losses and scattered relief efforts.
A devastating cyclone struck Gainesville Georgia on June 2 causing widespread destruction. The three story cotton mill suffered the highest loss with about eighty workers killed and many injured. Dozens more died or were unaccounted for across the city as homes shops and hotels were leveled.
The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co winning a Supreme Court decision over Philadelphia taxes on telegraph wires and poles. The court reversed the lower ruling, holding that while cities may tax, they must not deny juries from considering what constitutes a reasonable tax. Justice Brewer noted municipalities may legislate taxes but are restrained in charge amounts.
In Cook County 18 candidates were voted for and Democrats won 14 seats while Republicans captured 4. Republican Elbridge Haneey was defeated. Judge Theodore Brentano was re elected to the Superior Court and Republicans Richard Tuthill John Gibbons and Frederick A. Smith won seats on the Circuit Court.
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