davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD


is the shortest line to the east and
the service equal to the best. You will
save time and money by travelling
over this line. It has three through
4aily express trains, with through
vestibuled sleeping cars, and .Ameri-
can club:m ranging in price from
35c to 81. 90, are served in Nickel Plate
dining cars; also a la car service.
Try trip over the Nickel Plate road
and you will find service equal to any
between Chicago and the East.
Chicago depot: Harrison ST. and
Fifth Ave. City ticket Offices III
Adams st. and Auditorium Annex.
John Y. Callahan, general agent, III
Adams street. Room %. Chicago.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
The Wife Of a King.

Princess Zofka of Montenegro, the
late wife of Peter Karageorgevitch,
the ne king of Servia, was hand
some woman, whose portraits show
her to have resembled her mother,
Princ css Milena, and her sister Elena,
queen of Italy.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

While digging potatoes on the tn.
gas farm north of city Wednesday Joe
Fimon found q human skeleton. The
bones had evidently been there long
time and many theories have been
formed as to the mortal that once
owned them.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
Hard Cider-

Cider Is the only alcoholic beverage
that Is not taxed. When sold ferment.
ed, in bottles, it contains ordinarily
4 or 3 per cent Of alcohol, but this
amount may be increased largely by
adding sugar sufficiently, indeed. to
render the beverage quite intoxicat-
Ing. This makes it popular in pro-
h1bition communities.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Simon Peka Of Two Rivers was op-
Grated on for appendicitis at the hos
pital Monday, by DR.. J. P. Chance
of Royalton assisted by Drs. Chance
and Richard Of this city. He will re-
cover.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Harry Little, barber, fractured
his arm at the shoulder in fall about
three weeks ago, but paid no attention
to it till it got very lame. DR.. Chance
set the fracture Monday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Ralph Smith, the N. P. fireman
drowned in Rice Lake.. near Staples
Tuesday last week, and whose body
has not been recovered, was a BROTH
or of Mrs. Dan Kirchgessuer.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

A ten-year-old son Of Ze6er King
fell off fence Monday and broke an
arm in two places, at elbow and wrist.
DR.. .Dumont set the fractures. The
boy broke leg a year ago.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

House of eight rooms near Columbis
school house for rent or sale
Stephen G. Vasaly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Rev. A. A. Joss, rector of the
Cnruch Of Our Savior here several
years, now Of Bismarck, and Mrs.
Joss, visited at the home of M. M.
Williams this week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Latest styles, fall and winter mil
linery, at Mrs. R. Herron's Open
ing next Tuesday and Wednesday
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Germany and The United States:
Germany has only 10000, 900 fewer
inhabitants than the United States.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

". II. Dudley has recovered from
his illness. :. ..= y,

A new porch has been added to the
Baptist church. -. *. -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Several rooms for rent in Vasaly
block, suitable for housekeeping.
Stephen Vasaly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
For A GREAT COMBINE
Farmers lr'!' Convention to
be held at st. Paul
in October.

III OCt008T.
st. Paul Globe 80: It's q colossal
affair-the Farmers Onion Of Amer
ica-backed by capital of 500, 00O,-
0O0-but @. 3. jackson. a prominent
farmer Of Buchanan, MIMI, hopes to
see it fairly launched Got. 6. when a
meeting of the farmers will be held at
the state capitol for the purpose of or
ganizing state branch.
The organization, If effected, will be
the result Of meeting held at Chica-
go the early part of the month. when
representatives of the farmers associa-
tions from nine states decided upon
the amalgamation of their organiza-
lions and the creation of q monster
exchange for the control of farm pro-
ducts. with q head in the capital of
every state. 1t will be a gigantic
trust, organized to protect the farm
ers of the country against the ZEN
croaching power of capital
''We propose. said Mr.. jackson,
who is organizer for the state of Min
nesota, "to organize the farmers of
every county and township in the
state. and when that has been effected
to establish bank in each county.
We shall supplement the bank with an
exchange, and it will report daily to-
a:.central exchange the exact condition
of crops. the supply of the various
farm products available and the prices
prevailing.
I'm the case of wheat. instead of
the speculator and capitalists fixing
the available supply, we will do it.
Every farmer will be market report
or. In my own case, where I had
5000 bushels last year, this year I
will not get 1000. It is the same
with the farmer; q half crop. and
yet the figures are being boosted bv
the spectators. Where we should get
q dollar for our wheat we get 10 cents.
At the Chicago meeting three farm
ers' societies, with membership of
500, 600, were represented, and it was
decided to amalgamate the three, with
all other societies that might be in
Quoted to come in, and incorporate
the new organization with capital
Of 800, 600, 600. At first q $50, 600, O00
capital was proposed, but Mr.. Jack
son informed the members that double
the amount would be better, and it
was adopted. It was decided that the
object should be the creation of banks,
the building of elevators and cold stor-
age houses, and the lettering of the
farmers condition generally.
Mr.. Jackson, who is at the Hotel
Foley for few days, talks alrily Of
the many things that the organization
proposes to do, and says no trouble
will be had in financing it. He is
sending out.a call to every farmer in
the state and hopes to have the ma
jority of them at the preliminary
meeting to be held Oct. 6. The as
sistance Of the commercial bodies has
been asked and notices of the meeting
will be sent broadcast. It is proposed
to make st. Paul the state headquar.
ters.
Mr.. jackson has q 9SO.acre farm at
Buchanan, MIMI. and is associated
with Senator Buckman in it's control.
Mr.. Jackson says the organization is
to be non-political.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Mines W. A. Butler and F. A.
Lindbergh entertained the members of
the Rebekah lodge Thursday evening
last week,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Mrs. Eva E. Stuart and daughte
Beulah left. Monday for st. Paul, and
after visit there and in Wright coun-
ty. will go to Everett, WASH, their
future home.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

WANTED-Young men to prepare
for Government positions. Fine Open
ings in all departments Good salaries.
Rapid promotions. Examinations
soon. Particulars free.
Interstate Cor. Inst,
Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Geo. D. LaBar has been elected
president Of the First National Bank
of Brainerd to succeed the late A. F..
Ferris. F. Farrar succeeds Mr.. LaBa1
as cashier,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Richard Bros and N. Richardson
are putting down a 16foot cement
walk in front Of their First st. prop
erly. It will be 1866 feet long:
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
Blacksmith shop for rent.
Stephen G VasalY.

If you want reliable Minnesota
grown fruit trees guaranteed for two
years, call on or write to the Morrison
County Nurseries,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
Pressure of Grana san,

Pressure Of Grape Sap.
The pressure Of sap rising from a
grape vine root has been found equal
to sustaining column Of mercury
three and half feet high.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

f. w. Reeder has moved into tht
Mahan-Kemp residence near the pass
enger depot.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

For sale-House West side. Hu ndred
doll ars down.
Stephen Vasaly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Bergren of Eighth street north
east, died Friday of spinal trouble
and was buried Sunday afternoon.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

For Sale-businese property on First
avenue Sc. paying ten per cent.
Stephen Vasaly
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Miss Abbie Phillips Of Port Orchard.
WASH, is visiting relatives here.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Rev. q. L. Dickerson, pastor of a
Presbyterian church in indianapolis,
Ind, visited his nephew, Rev. T. F.
Nj. Clark.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Fred Burial began teaching school
at Grow Wing Monday. Mr.. Burial
has first grade certificate and his
salary is 500 per month.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Host & Hoist, physicians and sur
geons In the Buchanan block, received
a lot Of appliances this week, includ-
ing an X-ray machine.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Seeks Light on Trusts.
The German imperial board of trade
has requested all chambers of com
merce to report infinitely all facts for
or against the organization Of trusts
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25
Not That Kind.

The sheriff at Joplin. Mo-, the other
day was approached by a man who
asked the official to perform the mar
rage ceremony for him. The sheriff
replied that while he did tie knots for
unfortunate men, they we're of diff
ferent character.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Several rooms for rent in Vasaly
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Stephen G, Vasaly
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-25

Aug. Grund
Abel A. Wedin
Olaf Olson
GERMANY
Diedrich Hilmer
Aug. Brown
J. S. Tomozik
DENMARK
Chris Nelson
AUSTRIA
Geo. Krych
CANADA
F. Schneider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
WAS A PRoTEaE OF CLEVELAND.
Blind Boy Whom He Helped When He
Was Bookkeeper Dies Rich

A dispatch from Mineola, l.. L, says:
The will of John Alexander Whitaker, one
Of the most remarkable blind men that
Long Island has ever known, was admitted
to probate Thursday in the Nassau county
surrogates office.
Whitaker became totally blind when a
boy and was sent to the New York Insttu-
ton for the Blind. At that time Grover
Cleveland, who little thought then that one
day he would become the head of the ma
ton, was a bookkeeper in the Institution.
He took a great fancy to the blind. though
happy, youth. and taught him many things
not in the curriculum. AS a result Whit
aker left the institution an exceedingly
bright young man.
He went to Hampstead L. l.. and al
though seriously handicapped by his loss of
sight. built up one of the largest and most
successful real estate businesses In this
section of Long Island. He collected all his
rents, going about unassisted and walking
up and down stairs in factories and tene-
ment houses With an ease that was remark
able.
The friendship between the blind youth
and President Cleveland continued for
years, and even after Cleveland became
President he wrote occasionally to his blind
protege of the training school.
The real estate of Whitaker is valued at
$1,000, and the personal estate, 1t is UNDER
stood is more than 100000.
OF this, 5000 is to be invested for Kath-
crime w. Terry, who, ii is said, was en-.
gagged at one time to marry Mr.. Whitaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Outlook at the Opening Of
the Year.
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
SOME LARGE TRANSACTIONS IN
RESIDENCE PROPERTY.
Increase in the Number of Houses of
the Medium Glass and in
Their Attractiveness.

The recent change in the ownership of
several of the large residences of the city
has served to call attention to this class
OF property. AS compared with the houses
of moderate size they are not regarded as
so generally marketable, owing to the fact
that there are relatively fewer people who
want large houses. The percentage of
homes of medium size available in this city
is far in excess of those in the class of
big houses, yet 1t Is known, and 1t goes
without saying that the number of people
who occupy the former type of houses is
greatly in excess of those who live in large
edifices. In other words, this phase of life
merely illustrates what is we'll known, that
people of moderate means largely predomi-
nate.
One of the features of the real estate mar
ket, which has not grown any the less con-
spicuous during the past few years, is the
tendency on the part of those who have
small incomes to own their homes. This
movement no doubt has been aided greatly
by the enterprise of builders, who have ap-
parentiy studied the requirements for
houses of this class. not only in the ar
rangement and style of the building, but
what is, perhaps. more important. the price.
1t Is safe to say that never before In the
history of the city has 1t been possible to
get so much for the money as is the case
with those who buy homes of what are
called the medium class
Increase in Home Owners.
The attractiveness of these homes as well
as of the prices and the ease with which
provision is made for payments on the in
stallment plan have contributed no doubt
to the increase in the number of home own
ers. That there has been such an increase
there is no doubt, and much of the steadi-
ness OF the market can be attributed to ex-
pansion OF this class of property owners.
AS to the houses of the larger class.
transactions are not numerous for the
reason that the market Is limited one.
In spite OF that fact, however, each sea-
OF residences of this kind. This season
has proved to be no exception to the
rule. Reference has already been made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
LETTFR-WRITER ARRESTED.
Chicago Man Wrote Threatening Epis-
ties Demanding Money.

A dispatch from Chicago says:
The mysterious letters demanding large
sums Of money which for the last six
months have been received by men high in
the financial world Of New York and Chi
cago were today traced to Leo r. Brennan
commercial artist Of this city, and he was
arrested as he was leaving the general post
office, where he had gone in answer to a
decoy letter.
When confronted with the evidence of his
wrongdoing Brennan confessed to having
attempted to enforce dozen demands for
sums of $4,000 and $4,000 and having
threatened his intended victims with death
should they refuse to comply with his de-
mands for money. He said that all his at
tempts to extort money had been futile. as
he never received dollar in answer to any
of his requests.
The New York men Of whom Brennan de-
manded money were J. Pierpont Morgan
John D. Rockefeller, James Stillman and
Andrew Carnegie. OF each Of these men he
demanded $4,000 in his first letters, and on
receiving no replies. it is said reduced the
amount to $4,000. Among those here on
whom he attempted to levy tribute were
Marshall Field, r. L. Crane. j. Ogden Ar
mour and G. F. Calf None of the Chicago
men were asked for more than $4,000.
In the case of Marshall Field Brennan
wrote under the name of William Craig
He first asked Mr.. Field to leave So, COO be-
meath a pillar of a porch at the latter's
home. No attention was paid to the letter
by MIR. Field until another communica ton
in which the yelled threats in the first letter
were made palmer, was received. In the
second letter Brennan demanded that the
money be mailed MIR. Field then placed the
matter in the hands of a detective agency.
and a correspondence with Brennan was
established which led to his arrest today
NO formal charge was entered against
Brennan but 1T was said that he would be
held for the action of the federal authorit es
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26

Caesars work that can find in the Forum
although underground there is large gal
lery intersected by two cross galleries which
show evidences of having contained the ap-
paratus and scenery used In gladiatorial
games and spectacular displays given by
Caesar to the people in the Forum before
the amphitheater was built We have also
found a series of ritual pits rectangular in
shape four feet long and two broad, placed
at intervals of ten feet, which contained
large terra Gotta vases, probably used to
hold nbations for mother earth in expiation
Of the offense Of staining her with human
blood.
The Sacred Waters.
Last year we obtained an appropriation
Of 100000 francs from the italian parlia-
ment. with which we purchased the old
Church of Santa Maria de la Liberatra,
which was erected in the seventh century
between the Palatine and the Temple of
Castor and Pollux. We pulled 1t down. and
beneath it found the springs of Juturna,
the sacred water of the Vesta's, which was
supposed to be somewhere in that neigh
borhood but had never been definitely To-
Gated. They are walled in with bricks
lined with marble This splendid basin was
built In the time Of Hadrian. We found 1t
filled with rubbish and fragments of Greek
statuary dating from the fifth century B.
C. Two of the statues represented Castor
and Pollux,s with their horses, standing to
guard the springs, and near them were
other statues symbolical Of the purity of
the water and of its healing power-Apollo,
Aesculapius, Roma Salus and another erect
figure, possibly intended for Juturna. These
Greek statues were probably destroyed by
Christian vandals Close by the springs
was the shrine of Juturna, bearing an in
scription of the first century. The water of
these springs, once sacred to the nymphs
and used exclusively by the vestals, to
whose shrine 1t was conducted in UNDER
ground pipes, now rises again pure and
clear. and will soon be surrounded by lau-
rels and jasmine, when 1t will regain some
thing of its ancient poetry. The springs
were held in great generation by the old
Romans. who took the water as their
standard of weight, and placed them under
by careful investigation about the
Shrine of Vesta we have been able to dis
tinguish and identify the trapezoidal cell
that served as depository for the ashes or
the sacred fire, which were carried once a
year to the Temple of Ops. the spouse OF
Saturn These ashes were those of the
oak, the sacred tree of the Aryans and
typical accumulation of solar energy The
worship of Vesta had a philosophical SUBJ
stratum resting upon manifestations or
natural forces, and these ashes were be-
lieved to contain nutrition for other oaks
which were carefully grown to nourish the
sacred fire. Among the ashes Of this oven.
which seem to have been abandoned about
the year 400 A. D.. when Serena, niece OF
Theodosius, drove out the last aged vestai.
I found piece of charred paste. the form
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
Senator Clay on the Treaty.

A dispatch from Marietta, Ga, says:
In an interview regarding the Panama
canal treaty United States Senator A.
S. Clay is quoted as saying that the honor
of the United States must be preserved in
the ratifying of any treaty with Panama.
Speaking of the balloting on the Panama
treaty now before Congress- Mr.. Clay stated
that he was opposed to making 1t party
question. and first of all desired that all
facts concerning the Panama secession be
made public The resolution of Senator
Hoar was indorsed
If the recent developments in the isthmus
concerning the relations of Panama with
tain conditions for which the United States
was not responsible, then" said Senator
Clay. such facts would justify me in vot-
Ing for the ratification of the Panama
treat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26

of which corresponds to the description OF
the cakes representing RATS, which We're
sacrificed to Janus. In the houGe of the
vestals also have identified the penetralia,
or holy of holes. where We're guarded the
most precious objects in Rome; those which
reminded the people of their origin and
primitive customs-the documents of the
Ffdes Publica, they were called.
But perhaps the most important of re-
cent discoveries, however, is prehistoric
metropolis, near the Sacred Way. The first
tombs We're found close to the foundations
of the Temple of AntoninuS and Faustina
some twelve feet below the surface. and
others near the heroum of Romuus Some
of the bodies were incloSed in collins CHI s.
cleo out OF logs of oak, others had been
cremated, and the ashes had been deposited
In cremation uTns, showing two races and
Two religions, which opens up a new field
OF inquiry concerning the race and the re-
lgion OF the people who dwelt upon Pala-
tine Hill previous to the eighth century
when 1t was occupied by Romulus That
period is Shrouded in darkness but these
new discoveries may throw some light upon
the earlier Inhabitants of Rome
Interesting Questions Settled.
We found good deal of pottery and one
OF the jars contained the remains of a
funeral feast pieces of bread and ribs of
an animal, probably a lamb or a goat
scales of fresh water fish and a kind of
polenta or porridge made of corn. That set
ties several interesting questions and shows
that the prehistoric inhabitants of Rome ate
the flesh of animals and fish, raised corn
and wheat, ground them to -four made the
nour into dough and baked it as we do We
also settled a debated point as to the ma
terial OF which the prehistoric vases were
made, for experiments with the clay in
which the tombs were embedded have ena-
Dled us to reproduce these vases perfectly
and to show that they were made of simple
volcanic earth, polished with instruments of
bone and baked in a closed oven One of
the cremation urns is miniature reproduce
ton of a matched hut not unlike those used
today by the peasants of the Roman cam
pagna.
What date have you fixed for the bu-
rials?'
I'VE cannot fix an exact date, but these
bodies were certainly buried more than 500
years before Christi
l asked Prof. Boni how many people
visited the Forum annually, anG while he
could not answer exactly. he showed from
the records that there were more than
$4,000 paid admissions in 1902. Probably
four times as many entered the gates on the
free days. which are Sundays. Wednesdays
and holidays. Students, artists, teachers
and others who apply to the ministry of
education are given annual passes, and they
alone outnuniber the paying visitors, with
out considering the crowds of people who
come on free days. Prof. Boni estimates
that at least one-half the paying visitors
are American tourists. The Germans come
next in numbers.