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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1904
Page
1
A lengthy overview praises the St Louis World’s Fair of 1904. It details Philippine villages, Native and international exhibits, massive buildings, and sprawling landscapes. It notes government investment, the large clock tower, German pavilions, Japan’s pagodas, and the Pike thoroughfare.
A young Allentown woman returned from New York and described her first visit to the metropolis. She spoke of attending a matinee and a brilliant evening at the opera, sharing vivid impressions with friends amid curious commentary.
A lecturer and former Zea colony member argues cooperative colonies fail when detached from the wider world. He notes equal division of property and earnings reduced energy and thrift, with petty jealousies and leadership death causing gradual decline.
Royal Transportation Commission meeting notes in Malifax show reports and maps indicating the Canadian route between Europe and the East is 630 miles shorter than from United Kingdom ports. Russian Ship Canal surveys completed for a canal across Rusela would connect the Baltic and Black seas, reducing distance to 4,468 miles at an estimated cost of 139 million dollars.
The passage recalls Bho, a young girl visiting a first warship with a Royal Navy gunnery lieutenant. She studies the torpedo mechanisms from her parasol touch to a critical question about how the crew enters the weapon, leaving the officer momentarily halted.
California’s Building at the world’s fair erects a pavilion in the agricultural hall. The exterior is clad with dried fruit including apricots peaches and prunes. Missouri varieties of mosquitoes are also exhibited in Louisiana’s world’s fair display with ninety eight varieties shown in cases and guaranteed not to bite.
Greeley Colorado and nearby towns grow as lamb centers with lamb shipments to eastern markets rising to 75 to 100 carloads weekly. Feeding lambs in winter using beet pulp from local sugar beet factories proves successful, with thousands of sheep and lambs fed in Greeley and Fort Collins Loveland and surrounding area.
A 74 year old widow who married her fourth husband, aged 72, died after being deserted a fortnight post wedding in December at West Ham. Her last words were My heart's broken. A Coroner's Jury ruled the death caused by hardening of the heart. Philadelphia Ledger notes the case.
Dr Maximilian Nitze, Berlin instructor, helped develop an early internal examination device. The piece notes a U S telephone landscape with over 20 million families and 6 million businesses, totaling 256 million potential lines, about one eighth currently equipped.
A jumble of ads and brief notes covers household goods like washing machines and Defiance Starch, cosmetic and health claims, a gum wrapper book offer, and scattered anecdotes from around the world about agriculture, pets, and daily life. Names include West Gum Co and Hall's Catargh.
A man claims 28 years of digestive and rheumatic troubles improved after adopting an exclusive diet of Grape-Nuts milk and fruit, following a physician friend's advice. He says headaches, rheumatism, and indigestion vanished within two months and credits Postum Co for the health transformation.
Fragmentary wires report attempts to assassinate General Kuropatkin in Nigewang with Japanese suspects seized. Viceroy Alexieff wires of mine explosions killing twenty men, and port Arthur torpedo loss. Reports of Japanese concentrations and skirmishes near Wiju and the Yalu stir London and St Petersburg, while unrelated ads and anecdotes follow.
Washington reports Hearst files a Sherman act complaint alleging collusion between Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Central Railway of New Jersey under one management to restrain competition. The suit seeks to undo stock ownership arrangements and enforce antitrust provisions against the parties. Fourteen buried in Madrid after a Cerro Plate quake blast. Severe April blizzard hits Salt Lake City with wind damage and heavy rain.
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