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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1904
Page
2
Thomas Brennan, longtime Chicago board of education member for 26 years, helped oversee a shift from 74 schools and 55 000 pupils to 300 schools serving 250 000 pupils. He also managed Calvary and Mount Hope cemeteries for the church.
City admits inability to fully clean streets. Merchants and Commercial clubs organize private funding to tidy central business districts. Private crews sweep around Marshall Field & Co. and other firm sites, with areas in South and North sides showing momentum for privately funded street cleaning.
The article notes many Japanese dwellings are single story with flexible partitions. Panels about three feet square form multiple apartments. Framed paper shutters slide within grooves to close the partitions.
Emigrants from southern Italy are described as many bearing severe dental decay. The article notes the prevalence and impact of what is termed black teeth among these travelers and communities.
Potter Palmer is the moving spirit. Chicago is the only big city in America where such methods are necessary.
In a critique of Chicago’s fire protection, Chief Musharn cites funding as the root of weak service and high insurance rates. He contrasts with New York’s budget, warns of unsafe urban belts of fire traps near the business district, and predicts many structures will be condemned as aging timber decays in 25 years.
Wright A. Patterson notes Chicago enjoys a steady summer surge with 100000 visitors monthly range, rising hotel rates, and thriving theaters and gardens. Furnished flats rent briskly for June to August, attracting residents and out of town guests seeking city summer stays.
Text discusses a growth period effect where a gaseous constituent in drinking water, likely from volcanic vapors, causes a sinister look to some faces. It notes the defect does not seem to affect tooth strength or durability.
Quick thinking mother rushes to save baby brother who has fallen down a well. She fears contamination as the well is not sterilized, prompting a tense rescue moment described in Town Topics.
Long dispatches from St. Petersburg report Chinese forces attacking Russian frontier guards near Yantai with 800 brigands. Russians repel the assault with 70 casualties, while 16 prisoners are taken. Other wires detail Japanese progress, torpedo boat losses, and Russian actions around Port Arthur, Dalny, and Liaoyang.
Chicago reports a lake commerce tie up after the Masters and Pilots rejected the Lake Carriers offer. Arbitration is proposed for Chicago harbor but no action taken as deadlock persists at 25 of 26 harbors. More than 150 000 workers could lose employment and millions in business may suffer.
The international convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America opened in Buffalo on May 12. It marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first international convention in America with 1,400 delegates from 600 city associations 700 student groups 200 railroad bodies and various other groups including military and industrial affiliations. Two sessions welcomed delegates and established a permanent organization under B F McFarland. A banquet for 1,400 followed and a Roosevelt letter was read.
Lieut Winfield Harper and 39 men of the Seventeenth Infantry were ambushed by several hundred Moros on May 8 at Simpatem Lake Liguasan Mindanao. Two American officers and 15 soldiers were killed and five wounded. Sir Henry M Stanley, famed African explorer, died after pleurisy and heart trouble.
Buffalo on May 14 Marie du Calm of Niagara Falls hugged Walter Lorraine of Riga causing a broken rib. Lorraine sued for 20000 dollars claiming injury. du Calm testified dizziness from a red lamp made her misjudge her strength.
Montreal May 14 fire wipes out 25 houses in St. Henri suburb. Most residents are in poverty and lose nearly all possessions with no insurance. The total loss is estimated at 75000 dollars.
London May 14 Sir Henry M Stanley who died May 10 will not be buried in Westminster Abbey. A memorial service is planned there on the funeral day May 17.
Ex mayor Ward S. Williams, a founder and leading businessman of New Richmond Wisconsin, died Thursday of paralysis at age 63. His long service as city’s first mayor marked the early civic era and he held prominent roles in local affairs.
A New York clergyman and a clubman clash over cash and cursing on a Morristown course. The golfer offers a dollar for each swear word and later a twenty, but the clergyman pockets the cash and vows to swear it out after a tough hole.
General Reyes, president of Colombia, spoke in New York before sailing to Paris aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II. He noted the US has its share of nouveaux riches and recounted a Panama millionaire who hired a butler and chose dining times at random to fit his whims.
Letters from Cairo and Viborg illustrate the global demand and trust in Dodd’s Kidney Pills. A Cairo reader seeks six boxes and his Egyptian branch details after local delays, while a Danish correspondent asks how to order six boxes by mail. The Galveston News item notes a rumor about the Korean emperor’s hair oils.
The Kansas City Southern Railway announces its 1904 Almanac for distribution. It includes monthly calendars, household hints, and regional information for Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Texas and Louisiana. Price eight dollars. G Warner General Passenger Agent, Kansas City.
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