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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
3
Advertises extensive Summer Sale with every item discounted. Offers 20 percent off marked prices on clothing including infants, children, ladies, men, and boys. Highlights fall goods arriving to clear space and cash flow pressures. Emphasizes Hart, Shaffner & Marx pants and a broad range of shirts, night robes, underwear, and hosiery at reduced rates.
A garbled miscellany mentions people such as C. Richarda Jr and Beeles Tidy with names like Wrights, Skeen, Burrows, and Ariel at Ryanston. It references tax and court items including Justice Coertsan of Whatsville, a cholera note, a burial at Cueden City Cemetery, and various legal actions and postal rumors amid a sprawling, unreadable OCR fragment.
Elks Lodge No. 71 closed a deal last evening securing a new home in the former Margonis Hall building. The project includes a billiard and pool room, a banquet hall, a dance floor, and lodge rooms. The plan envisions a finely equipped meeting place for members and visiting guests, with the Judge aiming to furnish a comfortable, tasteful facility.
The trial center is Moats Critchley found guilty of perjury in a grand larceny case. Defendant’s defense failed as sentencing loomed. prior grand larceny charge had led to acquittal, and additional arrests followed for perjury and elimination.
The People’s Ticket won in a landslide for incorporation of Huntsville in Weber County. Results show M. Nelson as mayor, Mary Ann Fell, and Peter A. Anderson among officials, with 1388 votes for mayor and 255 for council seats. Opposition faced scattered protests as the town becomes a new city with celebrations and early governance steps.
A Vatican dispatch reports Pope Pius XII expressing warm regards to the American people in a message transmitted today. The pontiff appeals for unity and moral steadiness, praising American youth and urging charity toward all.
A garbled report notes a formation of groups named the Towne Phenes union and the National, with mentions of Amorion and an organization called the Intermational Team Privers Ainivu. The text references a vision and wait for Geb hati but details are unclear.
The Ringlings circus arrives from Salt Lake after midnight and performs in Ogden tomorrow. A large parade features forty elephants, over 100 animals, six hundred horses and about 1,000 performers in costumes. The programme includes theatre acts at 10, 2, and 7 pm with groups of girls in international wagons, dancing girls, and a large tent show of Hormealon and the Crusades with 1,200 seats.
The Board of Health considered a test case against H C Wilson a Christian Scientist practitioner accused of violating quarantine laws by treating a fever patient. The city attorney was ordered to prepare charges and Wilson was given days to enter a voluntary appearance with his attorney.
Bayllatbor Maine reports forces of the United States moving to defend the coast from possible attack. The North Dakota squadron sails, led by the flagship Kearsarge under Rear Admiral, as secret stations for protection are assigned after departure.
Private detectives probe a Chicago jewelry robbery valued over $1000. A couple used deception to divert a watchman, then vanished with the gems. Investigators link the case to a wealthy country house robbery near White Pines, with a missing family heirloom and delayed police notification.
A Glycyrine Works plant near here exploded this afternoon destroying the entire plant and killing three employees. A visitor entering the plant just before the blast was also killed. Machinery parts were blown to about 500 feet, and the cause is suspected to be a diver dropping a wear or other accident.
Col. William J. Bryan drew a large audience at a Chautauqua assembly in Urbana as he promoted the Johnson program for Ohio. Delegates to the state convention were chosen, with leaders conferring privately. Bryan denied being a disturber and blamed Wall Street for party troubles since 1892, while Lentz and others urged loyalty and continued support for Bryan.
In Brooklyn on Aug 3 the international challenge tennis matches at Longwood were postponed for today and tomorrow due to rain. No arrests reported in a separate incident where a man shot his wife Elly. the 80 year old victim remains unnamed and the assailant Newt Toni is not identified in custody.
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