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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1904
Page
6
Apples flood Davenport and nearby markets with abundant supplies though demand lags. Grocers report more on hand than saleable, many discarded. home grown sweet potatoes fading while southern shipments fill shelves. Prices and livestock quotes listed for wholesale and retail items across produce, dairy, and grain categories.
A Yale University bureau offers employment for needy students as nannies to professors' children ages two to eight, highlighting a possible shift toward Yale men as domestic servants while funding their college education. Hazing at Wellsley College draws concern as students describe severe roughhousing by sophomores, including humiliating tasks and solitary punishments, prompting scrutiny of campus traditions.
Listed items include Filberis I7e Hazel Nuts Home grown Nutmeats Peru dex and Brazil nuts with per pound and per box prices. Pineapples Texas peaches California plums apricots and other fruits priced per basket or box. Coal varieties retail domestic steam hard smokeless and Indiana block priced per ton and per cord.
A mob threatened six suspects after the body of 4 year old Michael Maverski was found in a deserted farmhouse near Phoenixville Pennsylvania on October 25. The suspects Henry Wells Robert Wells Michael Daugherty Barney Daugherty Jus Ragler and George Wolverton were in custody for kidnapping and murder. Police protected the prisoners as crowds urged lynching and burning. The child was abducted while playing on Friday by gypsies in two covered wagons near Moore Hall Governor Pennybacker’s home and Senator Knox’s residence nearby.
John Oliver of Philadelphia narrates a dramatic recovery tale from near death. After three doctors gave up, he used Electric Bitters, noting rapid improvement after the first bottle and full restoration after three weeks. He urges others to try them, available at Frank Nadier's drug store for 50 cents.
A political quarrel among about a dozen parishioners after a church service near Mill Creek on the Big Sandy River in Huntington West Virginia led to Walter Kennedy's death and Henry Wellman’s fatal wound. John Shrewsbury was arrested for smoking, while Ralph Wellman faces charges of shooting Kennedy.
Vicksburg Miss Oct 25 three trainmen were killed and two severely hurt in a headon collision between a passenger and freight train on the Natchez Jackson branch of the Yazoo Mississippi Valley railroad at an early hour today.
William Johnson of Delaware county 9 year old seeks to wear the blue in the army. Officer Cummings finds him in good health but short at 5 feet 6 inches. A bump on the head is revealed as the reason Johnson boosts his height.
The Illinois state convention of the Young Men's Christian Association finished after three days in Alton. A rally at First Baptist Church capped the event with numerous addresses and a mass meeting for men led by Rev. Henry Ostrom. The gathering was hailed as highly important in the association's history.
Puris October 25 Mrs Hugh Tevis Sisk the beautiful American widow rents two apartments in the Hotel Casts and Hart McKee from New York visits her on the same steamer. Gossip says she has not announced an engagement to McKee as he has not settled all suits with his wife. She has not been strong since a spring typhoid attack in London and the trip may have worn her out.
In Berkeley across the river, George Blount, a prominent Black politician, was seized from the station house and killed by a mob Saturday night after reportedly striking a policeman with a lit lamp during an arrest attempt at Blount's restaurant. The incident followed Blount's earlier arrest in a public safety case.
A Clark Jewel gas stove or range is a near indispensable commodity for any season. It can prepare a meal quickly, especially in the morning, taking less than ten minutes once breakfast is ready. For sale by request.
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