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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
6
A sermon by Dr. Vabnage uses a barnyard hen as a metaphor for divine protection. It argues life is cold and dangerous, but faith offers warmth under God’s wings, urging listeners to seek shelter and conversion, drawing on biblical images and pastoral memory.
A Boston firm tests a limestone derived wool from Indiana stone near White River Yorktown and Mitchell. The material resists heat electricity and water, may replace asbestos in walls and theater curtains, and could revolutionize fire safety and industrial packing. Production grows with deposits seen as inexhaustible.
Mrs Josephine Whetsel files a $2000 suit against Chauncey Waterhouse and his son in Dekalb county alleging her landlord spanked her with a board during a dispute at the Waterhouse farm last summer as she held a piece of board and was restrained by the son.
Walter McVey, 22, of this city and a US infantry veteran, placed two cartridges in a revolver and fired at his wife and himself in a doomed gamble. The first two tries failed, then the fatal shot entered his right eye as he aimed at himself, ending the life instantly. his widow, Mrs Hughes, had no warning of the suicide pact.
Indiana's census bulletin shows decade growth in manufacturing with 1920s data. It reports totals for establishments capital and wages, including slaughtering and meat packing leading the state, flouring and grist mill products as second, and shifts in workers and product values across years and Indianapolis.
A local boarding house incident in Charlestown involved Bert Mitchell a young farmer engaged to a popular local woman. Marriage plans collapsed after Mitchell pressed for her property and canceled the ceremony tearing up the license and leaving the bride-elect distressed. An Eagle Flyer story follows with a retired Tipton indiana connection and a letter from Barkersville North Carolina about a tag on a liberated eagle later killed on Linville river.
Indianapolis special reports a 2000 pound stone eagle on the Indians arms near the south base of the court house dome was found loose and could fall any time. County commissioners ordered the south doors and approaches closed to protect passersby on Washington street.
A London cable reports Miss Ellen M. Stone has arrived in Constantinople en route to the U S legation after six months in brigand custody near Bansko and later in the Lyuder district. The tale follows the brigands' movements, harsh travel, and the captives' hardships amid snowbound mountain terrain.
In bleak Denver country a three year old tabby daughter of ranchman Adam Gunther wandered from home northwest of Henderson. She was found nine hours later in a muddy draw up to her knees, awake and unharmed, guided by a dream reported by a local ranchwoman. John McClary and Henry Diercks led the search as droves of men fanned the prairie.
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