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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
6
Daily Ogden page itemization shows Armor Market turkey and poultry promos, a missing mare report, local auctions and sales, tax and court actions, new building permits, sheriff activity, a St. Louis World’s Fair info bureau, and a farm-town grocery plug for Weatherby’s Market.
We the undersigned have purchased the grocery business of C. R. Drumiler Grocery Co at 2312 Wash Ave. We will take charge December 1 1903. We assure old patrons courteous treatment and satisfaction in every detail. Good goods and prompt delivery will be our motto. Phone 20. K FRED REDFIELD, WALTER MOONE, Props.
J C Platt, a veteran in the Ilamesejand Saddlery trade, has opened a new store at 2259 Wash Ave Ogden. He is part of a trio of professional brothers with other outlets in Salt Lake City. The shop offers harness saddlery hardware blankets and whips with prompt neat repairs and a phone number 514X.
Corey Brothers Construction Company won the contract to grade the S P yards three miles from Montello Nevada for a new freight terminal. The project will remove 135000 yards of earth and add a seven stall engine house two water tanks a depot eating house bunkhouse and a 16000 ton coal bunker. The yard two miles long will house six miles of track and require many workers as Montello becomes a key railroad hub with the Ogden Lucia Cut-off.
The Mutual Improvement Board will net a comfortable sum from promoting the Kent Concert. A well filled house enjoyed a varied program with strong vocal and violin performances by Mr Kent and Mr Weihe. Ivy Price and Leona Taylor sang well while Miss Ivy Price delivered Tender Thoughts of One Dear Heart and Last Rose of Summer. The male chorus under Mr Coop provided solid support as accompanist.
Proprietors of Ogden slot machines relocate all machines to Salt Lake City citing high fines in Ogden. They deny any crusade against them and threaten to reinstall in Ogden when fines drop, arguing the operating ban is unconstitutional.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers plans a grand reception and ball at Dignans Hall on December Sth with an elaborate electrical display. Exterior signs will use 200 incandescent lamps, plus a line of incandescents around the block. Inside, festive inscriptions and rotating color wheels plus national color stars will adorn the hall. The decor includes an eagle shield bearing 316 and other symbolic pieces, with gold anchors and a broom Doll, all aimed at surpassing any prior city display.
Real estate brokers report brisk demand for residence property and improved city lots in Ogden after weeks of scarcity. Ranch sales rise as new residents seek improved holdings, aided by strong advertising from the National Irrigation Congress held locally.
Marquette Michigan December 2 wages reduced ten percent across all Lake Shore engine works departments. South Shore road shops cut daily hours to nine with proportional wage reductions. Several hundred men affected. Monessen Pennsylvania December 2 Pittsburg Steel company resumes after a month idle. Gold department and other finishing mills to operate tonight employing over 3 500 men.
The foundation is in for the addition to the Southern Pacific roundhouse in this city. Work will commence tomorrow morning on the roof of the new shops as steel girders have arrived and materials are in place. The foundation is completed and the superstructure work will begin at once.
Large audience enjoyed the Iead Waiters with Joe Kelly at the Grand Opera House last night. Mason and Mason join tomorrow, plus a new Lyceum program and ongoing sacred concerts draw notable attendance in Ogden.
Caruthersville Missouri December 2 robbers wrecked the bank safe at Ilayit using nitrogluterine and escaped with an estimated ten thousand dollars in cash and valuables.
New York December 2 report states walking delegate Timothy Murphy of the House Amitha and Bridgemen’s union was found guilty of extorting $300 from Herman Loeb to end strikes at the Martha Washington hotel and the Republican Club.
Harriburg reports that Governor Pennypacker authorized a $2000 relief warrant for Butler typhoid sufferers after Dr. Benjamin Ley briefed officials. An inspection of the water system and quarantine measures are planned. Doctors estimate more than half the town’s 585 cases are under treatment.
Rev. Abiel Leonard, head of the Salt Lake diocese, Episcopal Church, embracing Nevada Utah and western Colorado, is critically ill of typhoid fever and not expected to survive the day. The region watches for updates as his condition worsens.
In Chicago a firm on South Water Street controls a pear corner with about 2 million plus a quarter pears stored in a warehouse. New York soon runs out in 30 days, forcing buyers to seek Chicago supply or face shortages. Pears flow to Boston Philadelphia St Louis New Orleans San Francisco and Liverpool as prices hold at 3 to 3.50 per box.
John C. Pollock was confirmed as United States district judge for the District of Kansas and sworn in today in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court. The oath was administered by Justice Brower.
Washington December 2 The Senate met in open session for about thirty minutes and adjourned until Friday after receiving several bills resolutions and petitions. A majority of the bills were for private pensions and many petitions called for the expulsion of Mr Smoot Rep Utah.
Scofield Utah December 2 a mass meeting of striking coal miners was held two miles below Scofield to consider officials offer to grant all demands except union recognition. Many miners are inclined to accept and a split in the stakers ranks is possible unless favorable action ends the strike.
Washington December 2. The War Department and the President monitor the Wood inquiry without trying to sway the Senate military affairs committee. There is no likelihood that General Wood will be called from the Philippines to testify on his own behalf. The nomination has been sent to the Senate and is expected to be acted upon. it will not be withdrawn.
Dr. Verran visited the State Department to arrange a formal reception for General Reyes. Secretary Hay will receive Reyes tomorrow and hear any recommendations from the Colombian government on settling the Colombia Panama dispute. The administration maintains Panama’s sovereign possession of the canal right of way.
The text explains that butterflies rest with wings closed and fore and hind wings joined, with angular chrysalis in a cocoon. Moths are usually active at dusk or night, wings not folded together, with varied shapes, fore and hind wings often clasped by a book and eye arrangement and non-angular cocoons.
A temple idol at the Tripitane temple in Madras holds bead ornaments valued around 50,000 rupees. The sovereign gold piece is studded with diamonds emeralds and rubies including a largest emerald worth 1000 rupees and a ruby and diamond at 300 rupees each.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a doctor optimistic about saving a patient as the patient questions treatment. The scene hints at a grim, strained hospital moment filled with concern over the cost and process of care.
A fragmented passage presents a beggar claiming blindness by profession, framed as a candid reply to a citizen’s charity. It references the Maelstrom whirlpool, described as four geographical miles in diameter, within the same混 text.
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