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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
6
A Century obituary tribute to women who lose their own as they comfort others. It honors childless, faithful hearts whose tender deeds and consoling presence mark their lives, and suggests in God’s book they are named the faithful-hearted. The verse links earthly sorrow to the blessed vision beyond.
A young wife in the married quarters dislikes neighbors yet her day shifts after a dirty doorstep child asks to wash. She cleans him, they share craft and songs, and she discovers a rewarding care beyond self containment as she helps the boy and plans lessons while awaiting his mother’s return.
In a London Christian World excerpt, Mrs Hawkins endures crowds of children in her spotless kitchen. She hesitates over inviting Simmy for tea, fearing his fatigue might keep him awake, while her husband Henry worries about saying the wrong thing.
A London crisis tale follows Frederick Murray alias Sylvester, a youth who used yachts as crime hubs. From Greenwich pirate beginnings to multiple escapes and a Dartmoor capture, he repeatedly stole vessels such as the Silver Spray and Elsie, using them to hide loot and plan continental runs before a river collision ended his latest escape.
A London Telegraph report recounts a Ceylon legend of a cobra guarding a phosphorescent fluorite stone. A scientist offers rupees to witness the cobra stone, a Tama laborer retrieves the glowing gem by pouring ashes over it, and the cobra flees dusted with the prize.
A customer asks for a four seat box, but the undertaker Bones replies he only makes ones to hold one. The line echoes a humorous exchange in Tit-Bits.
A witty remark contrasts two halves of the world with Puck noting one half attends to its own business. The exchange highlights social awareness and ironic humor.
Senate debates dominated by tariff issues with Root Heyburn Borah and Dolliver pushing protection for lumber while Clapp Burkett and McCumber resist. Sugar schedule draws multiple speeches, McEnery and Foster defend high tariffs as Bristow advocates Dutch sugar grade change. Beverages and Porto Rico bills discussed. House not in session.
The deadlock on the U S Senate ended with William Lorimer of Chicago elected. Lorimer, a Republican in his seventh Congress term, rose after gaining support from Democrats and defeating multiple candidates in a lengthy joint assembly ballot process. He was born in Manchester England in 1861 and moved to Chicago in 1870.
Payments through banks and lower defaults indicate healthier conditions and an keener commercial outlook awaiting tariff revision settlement. Manufacturing activity expands in heavy materials factory products and grain while live stock arrivals fall and packing capacity remains normal. Weather supports expansion in leading industries and construction with broader demand for seasonable goods. wholesale dry goods and clothing see wider orders as cheaper prints and wool fabrics influence textile, footwear and furniture markets. Bank clearings rise 19.5 percent from 1908 and 1907 levels. Chicago district failures total 24, with liabilities over 5000 at 10. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade.
Charles S. Grasty of the St. Paul Dispatch has secured a majority of Pioneer Press stock and the paper's evening edition is expected to be suspended. A Jefferson Davis portrait on a silver service made for the battleship Mississippi drew criticism. The service was donated by Mississippi and will be presented June 1.
The United Dry Goods Companies of New York, with capital of 51 million dollars, is headed by John Claflin and formed to absorb the Associated Merchants' Company. Incorporation papers were filed in Dover with directors Eugene D. Alexander Kenneth McEwen and Thomas F. Bayard.
Hawthorne Nevada with 1,500 residents gains its first Christian place of worship as the Methodist church grounds are laid. The town long lacked a church, relying on a nearly abandoned Chinese joss house for religious use. Goldfield once seized the county seat partly over Hawthorne’s lack of a church.
New York reports uneven weather but improving staple crops and slightly better retail activity. Optimism grows for next fall and winter, with best retail results in the upper central valley. Cold wet conditions depress parts of New England and the middle Atlantic States, while San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest lag in recovery. Business failures in the U.S. total 219 for the week, with Canadian failures at 25, per Bradstreet's.
Prices listed for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Buffalo New York Toledo and Indianapolis include ranges for No 2 wheat and corn No 2 varieties as well as oats rye butter and eggs with notable highs and lows across regions and shipping markets.
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