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.