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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
3
A devastating encounter sinks a warship and several destroyers leaving 36 missing. Surviving crew abandon ships as darkness and smoke hinder rescue. reports describe vessels breaking in two and sailors struggling in the sea. Rescue efforts continue as authorities brace for updates on the tragedy.
Comprehensive Indiana state roundup reports plans to erect an isolation hospital, plus numerous local incidents. Deaths include Hubert Morlan 15 found dead near his home, and others in accidents or crimes. Fire damages and business notes mix with civic financial changes and community events across towns like Warsaw Mishawaka Port Wayne and Elkhart.
Noah pilots the Comet airship on a high altitude trial over Duntown Moorland. A gear failure ruptures the silk bag and gas escapes, sending the craft toward a crash. Noah crawls along the frame, reverses ballast, and, amid peril, avoids disaster by guiding the damaged vessel into a treetop stopgap.
A fragment from a winter night poem speaks of the wind hag wandering lost under snow and darkness. The speaker notes dawn brings him to play and a sip of new from the vase, suggesting he has found his way again.
The Kansas City Zoological Society seeks bids to build a zoo in Swope Park listing animal prices. A full menagerie sale offers lions, elephants, camels, foxes, and more with prices ranging from 160 for a buffalo to 2,500 for a male elephant and 1,979 for a family of three lions. An Australian dealer proposes birds, but alive keeping is doubtful in this climate.
At a Chester conference of the Tirksh Temperance League a unanimous resolution urged a royal commission to investigate the causes of rising infant mortality linked to alcohol. Dr Johnson Bolton warned of a “Jungle” of annual baby deaths from lack of mothering, and noted a link between paternal drinking and the daughter’s nursing ability per the London Daily News.
A gentle vicar, upset by poor milk, confronts his milkman. He explains he uses milk for dietary purposes only and not for christening, prompting a mild exchange in the exchange printed by Pick-Me-Up.
An open-air museum is planned in Bremen to showcase local culture and art from early days. The park will feature old peasant houses and follow the Scandinavian open-air museum model.
The 1905 coal trade in the United Kingdom employed 837 100 workers. The figure reflects employment across coal mining and related sectors in that year.
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