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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1904
Page
6
Philadelphia report on a bizarre case where a police officer faced larceny and assault charges over kissing a woman. The jury acquitted after deliberating about the act, while the officer had been suspended and later reinstated amid public debate and legal commentary.
Vintage classified snippet promotes a Clark Jewel gas stove or range as an essential commodity. Mentions quick ten minute breakfast prep and morning use, with sale being offered in a local for sale listing.
In New York a 24 year old Italian, Louis Carvalio of East One Hundred Forty-ninth Street, is hospitalized with a dangerous stomach stab wound after a saloon quarrel over a fist fight. Corgetto Clofioli, also of East One Hundred Forty-ninth Street, fled after the stabbing. police seek him. Carvalio says Clofioli drew a stiletto during the melee and stabbed him. Clofioli allegedly agreed to a fist fight. Doctor Stder took Carvalio to Tehanon Hospital in critical condition.
The Lynn Hospital corporation held its annual meeting with President Johnson reporting 1441 patients admitted in the year and eight deaths on the circuit. Receipts from church collections on Hospital Sunday neared $23,000, with sewerage collections from Saugus, Nahant, and nearby towns. Treasurer Symonds presented receipts of $6,658.30 and expenses details. changes included a new board and bonuses for several managers.
Harvard psychologist Hugo Munsterberg translates and summarizes American democracy for Germans in The Americans. Dr Edwin B Holt of Harvard and McClure, Phillips & Co publish a condensed, optimistic view of U.S. life, culture, and governance with brief notes on influences and progress.
The market shows widespread apathy as merchants tidy away Christmas stock. Prices span Produce and Poultry wholesale, dairy items and eggs, with fruits, vegetables, and staples listed and priced. overall activity quiet amid cleanup after the holiday rush.
Thos Stevenson and Florence Smith, an English couple separated by distance, united in Philadelphia after meeting in Yorkshire. Stevenson, 22, went to great effort to secure work and funds to bring his 17 year old bride to Lancaster County after a steerage voyage on the Friesland.
New York December 27. A man who claimed to be John Lyons of Jamaica LI attempted suicide at Fourteenth Street Subway station by lying across the tracks and trying to seize the third rail. He puffed and discarded cigarettes as workers signaled a halt and pulled him back to the platform before Bellevue Hospital doctors examined him. He was taken to Mercer Street police station.
New York reports city lodging houses strained by destitution. Officials plan modern temporary housing on East Twenty third Street while existing facilities, including Blackwell’s Island, Staten Island poor farm, and hospitals, face overcrowding with patients and inmates. Dr King’s New Discovery touted for coughs and lung ailments, with testimonials and drugstore guarantees.
Gen Lew Wallace, longtime territorial governor of New Mexico, denounces statehood as a tyrannical measure in a senate confrontation. His fiery gesture and stern stance depict firm resistance to granting statehood.
Dolgeville residents excited by a carrier pigeon linked to Alfred Dodge, multionnaire founder of Dolgeville in California, said to have traveled from Dodge’s settlement in the West. The bird bore initials A G HL and is identified as one once owned by Adolph Korn before he departed with Dodge for the Pacific.
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