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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1902
Page
15
Fragmented note from Chicago discusses comforting women, Lydia Pinkham remedies, and a legal warning on weapon carrying. It mentions Indiana Avenue address and a call for counsel, with references to public safety and a past incident involving a weapon.
A mix of belief and curiosity surrounds volcanic activity in Hawaii. Locals pray Mt Mate may erupt again, hoping the spectacle boosts visitors and island economy, while noting Kilaven and Kiladen eruptions in years past. The piece recalls Princess Huth of Kamahameha offering a ritual gesture during 1882 lava flow near Hilo and cites Cure as a claimed throat and lung remedy from Washington Times.
A visiting Englishman at a New York hostess dinner responded to a polite invitation for a repeat visit with a blunt desire to dine again immediately. His remark followed years of the hostess offering what locals called "samples," and his size and family ties to London peers were noted. The anecdote highlights a clash between host etiquette and a bold traveler’s appetite.
Justice Laughlin of the Buffalo Supreme Court orders a permanent injunction with costs and full accounting against Paw J. Hudson and a Brooklyn dealer over the Dr. Clark Foot Powder. The decision brands Foot-Hase as an infringing mark and vows similar actions against other infringers. A Los Angeles woman conducts doctor detective work by prompting prescriptions to trigger court cases.
A ten bell chime was dedicated to William McKinley’s memory in Lincoln Nebraska last week. The bells reside in the spire of the city’s large St Paul Methodist church. Improvised services preceded, with a sacred concert and hymns Lead Kindly Light and Nearer My God to Thee played.
Investigators from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine report that an insect similar to those causing horse fly diseases in West Africa transmits malaria poison to humans as effectively as the mosquito.
A first person account describes a perilous ice water plunge during a winter ordeal on Pillstury Island. The narrator recalls gale, black ice, a snapped mast, and a crash landing while clinging to survival tactics and recollections of fear during the harrowing escape.
An older Maine tale recounts a fur hunter's peril on frozen Eagle Lake near Churchill Lake. He recalls seventy otter pelts packed in a sled as a blizzard loomed, a near open water on the lake, and a nerve wracking escape to avoid disaster with his load and team.
A Detroit hotel room tale recounts a guest freezing for a quilt as a bell boy delivers repeated pitchers of ice water. The guest complains ice water instead of bedding while the ice temperature allegedly rises the room by ten degrees before the quilt is finally produced.
An old Boston gentleman recounts a Panama hat anecdote about a renowned Unitarian minister friend. The story, told in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, notes the minister’s timeless white Panama and the era’s luxury of headwear.
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