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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
2
In a remote seaside hotel a grave man and a lively girl flee a life and death crisis aboard a small cutter. As waves surge and wind howls they reveal a shared secret and vow to face life together after surviving the peril and their emotions.
A London and Paris gallery of curiosities offers live earwigs ants lions and bees at penny and halfpenny prices with bullfrogs alligators and whale remains selling cheaply. Auctions in Covent Garden featured mummies Peruvian Laotian deities Congo relics and a giant sloth hide fetching high sums. Walrus whiskers become novelty teethpicks, prized in China for elegance.
In a quip about a debut speech, Senator Grabawl says the hard part was getting the audience to listen rather than the speech itself. The exchange highlights the difficulty of engagement during formal addresses.
Representative Landis plans bills for Kokomo and Fort Wayne public buildings. Crown Point tem perance push prompts twelve local saloons to vow strict adherence to laws. Valparaiso editor Englebirt Zimmerman dies after 37 years in the field. Evansville man William Martin dies after a sixty foot tree fall while gathering mistletoe. Libby Prison escape figure Captain Evan Sharp dies at 70 in Kokomo. Bard James B Elmore publishes Autumn Roses. RepNeville and Fanny Murray wed at Walkerton. Michigan City prison grounds to gain eighteen acres with two million bricks for a new wall. Morocco doctor E E Triplet, 74, famed rifle shot in Newton county. Turkey shoots bolster his scores.
Harry Miller of Warsaw rose to wealth following ventures in Mexico City Mexico, while his young wife recently secured a divorce in Kosciusko Circuit Court.
At an Indianapolis meeting the Indiana Hotel Keepers Association decided there will be no rise in hotel rates across the state. Members voiced confidence that the elevated prices of foodstuffs would soon ease.
Charles A. Burgess, bookkeeper at the English Hotel in Indianapolis, was arrested on an embezzlement charge. He allegedly took $3,500 and admits a shortage ranging from $1,260 to $1,800.
The state auditor ordered Bank of Fowler Citizens' Bank of Ambia and Sivotka Bank of Goodland to shut down. The action follows the implementation of the new state law governing private banks.
George Fiddler, Munice oil well supply manager, obtained the release of William Winter who had defrauded him by false pretenses and was serving a prison sentence. Mr and Mrs Rush McCammon of Jasonville seek membership in the anti race death by own action club as their fourteenth child is born. Thirteen children live. Mr McCammon is forty and wife thirty four.
The ditch law from the last session drew denunciation at the opening of the Indiana Farmers congress in Indianapolis. Resolutions praise Congressman Watson's grain inspection bill and also back a parcels post service.
State Board of Health figures show consumption caused 292 deaths in November, pneumonia 245, while violence claimed 175 lives, highlighting the deadly month for Indiana residents.
James P. Goodrich state chairman and Carl W. Riddick secretary issue a call for reorganization of the state committee and fixed dates for district meetings to elect members. Meetings set for Tuesday January 14.
Representative William Elijah Cox Democrat from the Third Indiana district advocates major rural road improvements. He drafts a bill to create a bureau of public highways within the Department of Agriculture to cooperate with states on building better roads.
Robert Guseman sues the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company in Hartford City Circuit Court for $30,000, saying a belated night passenger train killed his wife and two children several months ago.
Protestant ministers of Frankfort adopt resolutions prohibiting funerals on Sundays to avoid interference with church services. The action was taken after church activities were interrupted by funeral services.
The Retail Merchants Association of Newcastle Indiana declares a price war on city mail order houses. A public notice states prices of mail order firms will be duplicated, with seventy eight Newcastle merchants promising to meet competition in methods terms quality and prices.
Indiana Bureau of Statistics lists 37 facts including two railroadless counties Switzerland and Ohio, state dates, population in 1906, land area and economic figures. It notes coal output, cement value, factory counts and wages, farm yields in 1907, and a tragedy about Mabel Burwell a 20 year old country school teacher who died by suicide after dismissing students.
The notice lists multiple pattern numbers including No 2157 No 2139 No 2151 No 2161 and No 2137 with details of child and girl dresses and outfits. It describes fabrics such as French flannel shephard plaid invisibile plaid worsted blue mohair and features like jumper style sailor suit and center back closure. Fashion Editor Indianapolis sends pattern sales and requests ten cents.
A East Cleveland man, sober after an evening out, walks home with a crumpled two dollar bill and fear of a pursuing stranger. The man behind him reveals he is the street light worker, brushing past as the scam seems to end.
In the Evening Post from December 20 22 1700 a London newspaper shows an engraving and account of a flying ship claimed by Bartolomeo Lorenzo a Brazilian priest. He says the airship could travel 200 miles in 24 hours. The note ends with a caution about degrees and heaven.
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