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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
2
In a tense night at the jail inmates whispered of a breakout and heard eerie voices from underground and upper floors. A tramp released for vagrancy hurried from town after a cryptic exchange with a bootblack as Sheriff Ferguson confronted a strange light.
In Crawfordsville on June 4 the corner stone of the new YMCA building, valued at 80000 dollars, was laid. Rev Joshua Stansfield of Indianapolis delivered the address, Henry Alfrey laid the stone after a 20000 dollar contribution. Attendees included local pastors, businessmen, ladies auxiliary rep Mrs Cicero McCluer, and state official S B Stacy. The ceremony featured a silver trowel presentation to Alfrey.
Mrs Kaufman and family reach the scene as the body of Mr Kaufman lies in his automobile. He had suffered a recent serious attack and likely fell ill while resting before returning home. In other news cattle have died from clover poisoning at Clover, Indiana, with examinations planned at Purdue.
Reports from Indiana towns note casualties and incidents including Linton-Herbert coal mine collapse injuries, a missing person found dead possibly due to lightning, a toddler injured by paste, a nervous collapse at a high school, and a compromised personal injury suit in Greensburg. Other items cover a fatal fall of a child in Clinton County, a vehicle crash near Kokomo with injuries, a murder plea in Evansville, a kleptomania case in Anderson, a serious injury to Mrs. Hoover in Hagerstown, forgery charges against James Chatterly in Marion, a public health fundraising push in Tank and Gas City, and assorted local council issues in Elkhart and nearby towns.
The piece describes American visitors in London seeking ghostly amusements at the Temple and the Tower. It cites Judah P. Benjamin’s shade, Doctor Johnson, Henry VIII, and Queen Adelaide as reported specters per Eliot O Donnell in occult reviews. A vivid episode involves a glass tube phantom and a bear apparition near the crown jewels.
A joint scheme by the Agricultural Organisation and the National Poultry Organisation Society sends a three coach train from London to North Wales to instruct hens in laying eggs. The party will stop at stations for two weeks and poultry experts will lecture to farmers at each halt.
A stray fortune was reportedly thrown from a moving train near Philadelphia by a steelworker named Russo. The mysterious incident involved valuables tossed into the wind and new leads suggesting a possible reception of funds at Harrietary.
The article describes large populations moving from the United States and Europe toward Western Canada and the Pacific coast. It emphasizes vast prairies and British Columbia as centers for farming, forestry, and settlement. It lauds the “home making spirit” and envisions towns growing amid trees, gardens, colleges, and a lasting sense of permanence rather than fleeting wealth.
At a dinner Thomas W. Lawson urged decisive effort in finance saying the successful thrive on action while indecisive men fail. He recalled a boyhood friend Grimes a chronic doubter who hesitated over a dirty waistcoat, illustrating overcaution as a barrier to enterprise.
A northern visitor attends a bear hunt in Mississippi where the bear hides in cane. A planter sends a negro named Ram to flush the bear. Ram crawls into the thicket undaunted and recounts his fearless, natural instinct despite danger.
A reflective quote urges discarding vain self condemnation and useless remorse. It argues that comfort won through blame is unattainable and that focus should shift to addressing avoidable troubles. The speaker emphasizes active effort to pursue good things still within reach.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a character asked about smoking and disapproval while another mentions coupons in a terse, unclear exchange.
A London Mail report describes a 22 year old woman with two personalities A and B and a third naughty side. Doctor William Brown cites Mise Beauchamp cases and Dr Morton Prince’s work. hypnotism fused A and B into a single normal personality.
Mrs Emma Patterson reports severe scalp breakout on her daughter at 815 EB Second St Muncie Indiana. After months of itching and hair loss she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment obtaining complete relief within a week and hair growth, claiming the products cured the condition.
Remains scattered across Ponape and Lele form massive wall and earthwork ruins. Ancient stone roads and platforms hint at a sophisticated civilization once thriving in the lagoons. The islands’ barren fields and soils hold clues to a lost architectural era. freight costs and rail mention appear garbled.
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