the camping party at loch lilly
1905-08-02 - Roxboro Courier
- THE CAMPING PARTY. A Week of Pleasure, Enjoyed by a Large Party at Loch Lily - The Gayest Week of the Season. [note: clip this whole article, it is great]
- Who went? Everybody! Some Milton Watkinses, Rebecca W & Julia Cooper, Lila Wright, some dudes (incl. Dr. EJ Tucker, a H. W. Foushee, and ‘B. Finger’)
- 6 chaperones including “our genial postmaster” Mr. Long
- WASHINGTON. “Postmaster General Corteyon [?] has authorized the painting of the 83000 rural letter boxes in the country.” To be painted “a resplendent green.”
- Peary expedition headed north on the arctic steamer Roosevelt
- 200 deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans.
- Yellow fever currently raging in Mexico, through Central America, to Maracaibo & Guayaquil.
- US Govt hospital service is headed to New Orleans to enforce sanitary conditions
- Tobacco seized by Fed revenue authorities @ cigar factory; 2 men arrested, seized: 1000 counterfeit tobacco stamps, 25k high grade cigars and 2k lbs tobo.
- Japanese army captures 200 Russians on Sakhalin Isl.