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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
6
In a daylong battle in northern Indiana near Miller’s Station and Hast Polesion the Chicago bandits Van Dine Niedermeier and Raeski fought police, killed a brakeman, and escaped before being captured by rabbit hunters led by Charles Hamilton at Polleston. Detectives and officers suffered wounds in the pursuit.
Jenny I. Riechers, a Pine Lake County schoolteacher, told Chicago police how she spotted three strangers Thursday carrying groceries. She followed them toward the Baltimore and Ohio tracks, alerted authorities, and led officers to the cave where the suspects fled.
A seven man posse led by Charles Hamilton traps Van Dine Niedemeyer and Roesiki in a cornfield a mile northwest of Liverpool. Hamilton compels Van Dine to surrender his revolvers and hands up. Niedemeyer is captured from behind a corn shock. Varmilton’s posse with city detectives captures him at the Wabash Railroad station in Aetna before a Chicago-bound escape could occur.
Four youths Van Dine Niedermeier Koeski and Marx carried out a spree over less than five months. They robbed saloons and a railroad station, killed seven men and wounded several others, including a cashier and a motorman, with a planned dynamite attack on a train. The sequence began July 3 at the Clybourn Junction station and culminated with the air barn raid on August 30.
A collage of jokes and quips from Aunt Ann and exchanges about social foibles. Includes lines about Sister Hinklesby’s charitable drives and a quip on “sensible” fiancés. Also jokes on a caller’s imagined phone in Towne’s house and a dinner invitation with a staged reveal.
A humorous exchange features a president dismissing inventions while a Taventor describes a non-raisable summer car window. The scene ends with a quip about saving the idea and naming a price, contrasting writers’ ambitions with wealth.
A satirical volley on stage misfires with a snowstorm gag about a New England play and a sour joke about Mrs Sweetie. Mrs Torkins laments a pathetic Shay story while Charley mocks theater and race day blues in a Washington Star excerpt.
A fragmented dialogue from the New York Herald shows a superintendent dismissing a Brooklyn motorman for insufficient advertising impact. The exchange wades through sharp humor about marriage, courtship songs, and imagined noble suitors in a dated vernacular.
A playful exchange from the Washington Star features a wife noting her husband objects to progressive euchre and a crowded house. A joke about a daughter singing and an opera manager’s cautious optimism follows, ending with a comic medical diagnosis about lone someness and an all gone feeling.
A collage of humorous lines and quips on marriage work and social norms. Jokes about baking biscuits, prescriptions, shams in shopping, and the trials of love are presented as brief exchanges. The tone mirrors a society page with witty clips and domestic satire.
A collection of light humor and witticisms from daily life. A man boasts about supporting six wives while offering his fiancée, a humorous note on engagement and rings. A father offers daughters after a boast about supporting, misreadings at the opera and a mill advertising quip. Multiple brief vignettes centered on social misfits and witty exchanges.
In a white cottage at 158 North Myers Street, Mrs Claus Henry Koch and thirteen of her sixteen children live a contented life. One son studies for the ministry, two others work through college, and three boys are in Eastern cities preparing for futures. Mrs Koch, a robust Baptist mother, recalls arriving from Germany 12 years ago and settling in Los Angeles. Her family, the largest in Southern California, sustains itself without tobacco or liquor as they work hard to make ends meet.
Mr G L Butler of Friarspoint Mississippi testifies that his son suffered spinal disease signs and night terrors before using eight boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills. He credits the medication with curing the boy and restoring health, claiming the old symptoms disappeared permanently.
In a humorous exchange Jimblecute questions his son’s college plans while Bobalong notes the boy failed an entrance examination in the college yell, reflecting a lighthearted campus misstep.
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