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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1905
Page
2
A crowded New Year audience with seven thousand visitors met the president at the White House despite rain. Reports note homesickness in Panama and reference Germany’s Lustige Blatter on travel hardships. Congress debates pay, immigration shows a 40 percent drop at Baltimore, and North Carolina pine towns resist motor vehicles on streets. Anxieties over the Juggernaut Question fade as agriculture anticipates an ideal growing season.
An article cites high tuberculosis rates in Prussian French Austrian and American prisons. Dr. Bennett of Western Pennsylvania notes 42.8 percent average mortality among fifteen prisons with lowest 30 percent, highest 62.8. Open air colonies like Wynne state farm reduce deaths, contrasting with Eastern Penitentiary, urging reform of confinement and penology.
New York, July 10. Builders fear brick costs will rise further as the Hudson River brick trust drives prices up to 12 per thousand by March. Barged brick has climbed to 3.50 per thousand, with reports of $8 to $10 a thousand by winter. Firms like Green & Richman anticipate costs reaching 12 to 15 per thousand for new projects, while Manhattan, Bronx, and Brooklyn construction volumes in 1904 hint at record activity.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of cahalarrh cured by Hulls Gatard Cure. It features J Cheney & Co Toledo and Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists endorsing Cheney. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to act internally on the blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials available. Take Starrs Family Pills for constipation.
Cairo Illinois January 14 John Miller longtime prominent citizen died suddenly of heart disease at 1 a.m. He was 67. Miller led the Merchants league served on the County Board of Commissioners and held high rank in the Knights of Prihias. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and chaired local building and loan groups. A director of Cairo National Bank and active in many local organizations he left a large estate.
A blast in a vacant rear lot near East One Hundred Street shatters windows of Nos 165 and 166 and injures Frank Tay by fracturing his leg while Fay sits at dinner with his family. Detectives search for Italian workers who vanished from the site and await contractor and foreman inquiry.
Mrs. Jane Carter, 74, died nine miles southeast of Carrollton from burns sustained December 3 last year while trying to save her granddaughter Miss Emma Williams. A kitchen range fire ignited the child’s dress and the grandmother’s heroism failed to save the girl, who died soon after. Funeral services were held at her residence of L. F. Williams and interment was in Carter Cemetery south of Carrollton.
Charles M. Owen outlines in New York how endowment rituals unfold as he testified before a women’s council gathering. He details robes, baptism, creation scenes with Elohim and Jehovah, and the journey from Eden to the celestial rooms.
Detectives Wooldridge and King raided offices of Tolubo Colony and Olena Mining in Chicago after reports they aided illegal land grabs in Idaho. The building at 225 Decrborn Street was crowded with claimants awaiting guidance on government land purchases. Hunter, the manager, had previously fled. a search warrant was sought and later executed.
A vintage medical ad urges readers to treat weak hearts with Dr Miles New Heart Cure. It claims a healthy pulse ranges from seven to eleven beats per something and promises to strengthen the nervous system and circulation, presenting testimonials of prior heart trouble and improved vitality.
In Maple Leaf, Seattle, a 19 year old boy named Smith shot and killed a burglar during a robbery at a saloon that had seen multiple holdups in two years. The assailant hurled an ivory ball at Smith as he defended himself, leaving a bloody wound before the fatal shot.
SICKENING SHIVERING FITS yet Acre and Malaria, can be relieved and cured with Mivetric Bitters. This is a pure, epic Meficine of especial benefit In malana, for it exerts a tec enrative Influence on the disease, driv ing it entirely out of the system. It is much to be preferred to Quinine, hav ing none of this drug's bad after-effects.
Private cablegrams from New York reveal a major influx of foreign car makers to America. Noted European manufacturers including Renault Mercedes Hotchkiss Panhard Clement-Bayard and FIAT plan exhibits at the Herald Square show starting January 12 with trips to Madison Square Garden and Florida racing after.
Thoms McEnroe from Yonkers, a slender member of a prominent family, was attacked from behind by two men as he escorted a White escorting young woman home from a party. He was struck, robbed, and threatened with death. Police arrested John Evans who was identified as the assailant.
Moberly Missouri gears up for the National Good Roads convention with leading county citizens and city officials coordinating hosting efforts. The Commercial Club participates by sending hundreds of invitations to distinguished guests expected to attend.
Dallas, Jan. 19. W. E. Washington of Eady county New Mexico has sold all cattle and holdings in his tar section to Kansas City parties for 270,000. Washington, a leading cattleman, did not disclose exact headcount, but it is known the herd runs into thousands.
Jay Victor Reed and Suzanne McIntyre were married after a romance that began in Kentucky seventeen years earlier. Reed, a former longtime resident, met McIntyre in Seattle through a mutual friend and renewed their shared past. They traveled abroad for the ceremony and are planning new lives in the Pacific Northwest.
The Atlantic Coast Line mail car arriving in Montgomery was robbed about five miles east of the city. Mail clerk Eugene Hester was shot in the hand as the masked bandit, believed to be white, seized registered mail and escaped when the train slowed near Wiley six miles from Montgomery. The robber entered at Wiley and fled after seizing packages. The amount stolen is unconfirmed, with estimates around three thousand dollars.
Indianapolis January 10 negotiations are pending to settle the dispute between Frederick Chase and Mrs Ophelia Fowler Duhme over the estate of Moses Fowler Chase who is confined in the Norway Sanatorium. The estate is valued around $760,000 and the quarrel has dragged for four years. It is believed personal property held by Mrs Duhme will be turned over to Frederick S. Chase the young man’s father. Addison Harris, attorney for Frederick S. Chase, declines to discuss costs but confirms settlement talks.
Charles J. Guédeo of Boston continues his Napier powered world tour driving across Suva Fiji Islands after sailing from Vancouver in November. He has logged about 25,000 miles and plans to reach 40,000 by 1906, with further legs to New Zealand Australia New Guinea Borneo Sumatra China India and Africa before a return to America for the Glidden trophy tour next summer.
In Owensboro Kentucky on Saturday the Rev W W Armer was found guilty of murdering his 21 year old son over a dispute about his farming work. He received a 21 year sentence in the penitentiary.
Two Rockland County men paid a $190 state fine after clubbing a 175 pound deer near Jones Point while it swam the Hudson. Abram Lent and Thomas Slager pursued the animal with a rowboat from the West Shore tracks to shore and buried it under snow after killing it. Game Protector Willet Kidd later confronted them.
An old advertisement claims Binny Echool Children are sickly and promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Pandera for fever, headache, stomach troubles, teething, and worm relief. It cites a nurse at a New York Children's Home and a testimonial from Mrs. Emily Marans of Meridan, Connecticut, urging its use and mail order availability.
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