| A Chance to Visit the
1 Great World's Fair
I Without cost and only a little work.
For every One Hundred New Subscriptions to
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The Weekly Independent
We will pay your expenses for a Week’s Visit to the
World’s Fair in St. Louis.
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\ By Expenses we mean your Railroad Fare and an allowance of $3 per day.
The editor recently took one hundred subscriptions in Bird Township in three
days, and we believe any young man or woman can do as weli in the community
in which they live.
Try it, and if you fail to make up the full hundred we will allow you 25 per
, cent, on all the subscriptions taken.
CONDITIONS:
The subscriptions taken are not to be renewals. The subscriptions are to be
for one year, paid in advance, at regular price, $(.00. This offer is effective till
November First.
Sample Copies
To assist you in your work will be furnished free upon application to the office.
Engraving Orders
Taken at Regular Prices and Full Line of Samples carried to select from.;
We are agents for
Lambert-Deacon-HuH,
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of St. Loots, Stationers and Engravers, who
have made a repotation by their neat||and
artistic work.
NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the daily Independent
NEW WORLD’S FAIR i
PASSENGER ENGINES.
Fifteen High Speed Machines ,
On Missouri Pacific-Iron
Mountain System.
The Missouri Pacific has just
received fifteen new high speed
Atlantic type of locomotives for
fast passenger service, ten for
the Missouri Pacific and five for
i the Iron Mountain. They will be
| brought into use at once for the J
I World’s Fair’s service and the j
results will be watched with in
terest.
The total weight of the new |
locomotives is 82 tons, of which
50 tons are loaded on the drivers j
and 21 tons each on the lead and
trailing trucks. The capacity of
the tender is 5,000 gallons of
water and 12 tons of coal, and
weighs when loaded about 62 1-2
tons. The cylinders are 21 -
inches in diameter and 26-inch
stroke. The driving wheels are
79 inches in diameter over the
tires and trailing wheels are 58
inches in diameter.
The driving or rigid wheel
base is 7 1-2 feet and the total
wheel base of the locomotive is
28 1-2 feet. Total wheel base of I
locomotive and tender, 55 feet 9
inches, and total length of loco
motive and tender, 66 feet. The
extreme height of stack above
rail is 15 feet 6 inches. The boiler
is 67 1-2 inches in diameter at
the first course and is of the ra
dial stayed extended wagon top
style and carries a steam press
ure of 200 pounds. These en
gines are capable of developing a
tractive effort of 24,670 pounds.
They are equipped with all mod
ern improvements, electric head- «
lights, etc., to fit them for fast ]
passenger service. ]
NIGHTS TOO COOL
TO GROW COTTON.
Crop Report Just Issued for Ar
kansas Says Crops Are
Retarded.
The government crop report
for Arkansas for the week end
ing May 17 is as follows:
The week was cool with well
scattered showers, and was very
favorable for farm operations,
but unfavorable for rapid growth
of vegetation.
The nights were too cooi xor
cotton. Planting is well ad
vanced and the early planted
is being worked out. Where
necessary, replanting has been
done, but there is still some of
this work to be done, as the late
planted is coming up to poor
stands in some localities. Some
of the early planted is being
chopped out in the southern por
tion of the state.
Corn planting is nearly com
pleted. The stand is generally
fair, but replanting has been
necessary in some sections. Con
siderable has been worked out
for the first time and fields are
generally free from weeds.
Oats and wheat are doing well.
Wheat is beginning to head out1
in the southern portion of the
state. I
Potatoes and gardens are doing
! well. There is still some com
plaint of apples and peaches j
dropping, but the indications are
that a better crop of these fruits
will be secured, as the trees were
too heavily loaded and this will
thin them out and give the re
maining fruit a chance to ma
ture.
Strawberries are being picked
generally and good yields being
secured.
EXCURSION RATES.
Coach excursion to St. Louis
May 21, 1904. Rates $5.60 for
the round trip; $4 for children.
Tickets on sale May 21st. Final
limit on these tickets seven days
from date of sale.
T. H. Reamey, Agt.
If you want to look neat have
your suit cleaned and pressed by
A. Mortensen. In new quarters
opposite city jail. 86d
^ow is the time to make Your Home Merry, and
do so if you will buy
A VICTOR TALKING
Don’t Forget They are the Best.
Palace Jewelry Store.
Agent Victor,
NEWPORT'S LEADING JEWELER.
W. H. BARNES & CO.
NEWPORT, ARK.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
Cotton, Stocks, Bonds. Grain. Provisions,
Handled on Commission.
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Private Wires direct to New York, Chieago,
St. Louis, and New Orleans.
Write for daily Market Letter.
IOR PRINTING
IVU I I 1111 ■ 1I1V1 and bcst equipped JOB
PRINTING offices in Jackson county. Bring us your
Printing and let us quote you our prices.
KEYSTONE OF
Kimball Piano
i
STRUCTURE,
The szale of the Kimball Piano is the kfeystone of its unsurpassazie quality, the founds' (
tion of its great musical worth, the cause of its popularity with artists and musicians. Perfect
piano scale-making is a mathematical problem figured out by sound waves to the merest fraction
of a sezond. Not all piano makers strive for perfection along this line (many making no pre
tense), but out of the few who have nearly reaJhed the goal,
Kimball is Prom inent.
One of the most perfect musical scales is displayed in the zultivated human voice. An
inperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing correctly—it’B worse because all do not
jlaim to sing. It costs money to cultivate the voice, it costs more money to perfect a piano
scale. The cost to produce a perfect Kimball scale has been no less than that of other of the
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the largest output
from any factory, we are able to sell the Kimball at a very moderate price, quality considered
The Kimball System and easy payment plan brings it within reach of all.
Call or write for Catalogues, prices and terms. <
ESTABLISHED 1853.
Hollenberg: Music Co.,
Factory 317 Main Street, Little Rock.
Warerooms 243 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
Jack Jones
The Crack Barber, keeps
a neat and busy little
shop. Upper end of Front
street. Expert tonsorial
ists. Easy shaves and
the best haircuts. Our
work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards, mm j
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Given away to get the people to
talk about Bixler Physical Train
ing in Penmanship, the best
method of instruction in the
world-Saves 90 per cent of time,
etc. Merit Prizes, Surprise
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from 10c to a $1, and a $10 pnze
goes with each 100th 10c order
conditional.) ,
Prof. G. Bixler,
97 Ogden Ave.s
Chicago, 111.
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Engines, Launches,
Automobiles, Etc.
Yon can avoid nse of
batteries and expense
of their constant re
newals If you have In
their place an
AUTOSPARKER.
It can be attached to any machine, new or old.
Write for descriptive booklet containing testi
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of gas and gasoline engines, automobiles,
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MOTSINQER DEVICE MFG. CO.
2 flaln Street, Pendleton, Ind.
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RAILROAD TIME CARD.
ST. L.. I. M. & S. RAILWAY.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 72, Local Freight. 12:20 p. m
No. 2. 4:25 a. m.
No. 4. 10:40 .a m.
| No. 12. 8:48 p.m.
; No. 6. 10:45 p. m.
No. 18. 11:14 p. m.
No. 20. 12:08 p. m
No 8 10:55 a. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
j 'Jo. 73. Local Freight. 7:30 a. m.
I No. 17. 5:30 a. m.
No. 5. 4:43 a. m.
No. 11. 0:45 a. m.
No. 3. 4:45 p.m.
No. 1. 10:45 P. m.
No. 21. 4:57 a.m.
' No. ..11:38 k- m
BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenger Leaves. 73)5 a. m
Mixed “ . 11:45 a. m.
1 Passenger Arrives. 8:30 p. m.
Mixed ** . 10:15 a. m.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Passenger Arrives. 2:20 p. m.
Passenger Departs. 3:15 P.
Local Freight Departs. 6:30 a. ra.
On Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
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