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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
4
Columbus reports George Schoonover, a local resident, has long ingested glass, carpet tacks, and knife blades with no apparent illness. After a heavy pork and beans meal his condition worsened and he was taken to the poor asylum. Police noted his grave state and arranged confinement.
A public sale at Metzger farm north of Frankfort featured tinware, iron piping, lumber, fence posts, apple butter, grain sacks and muslin to cover Dunkards meeting expenses. Receipts topped 500. In Lafayette, an auto party from Woodward was attacked by a swarm of bees, leaving three members badly stung and needing medical care.
Jacob McCullough a 60 year old wealthy bachelor living near Jinfield Spencer county was shot in the head and killed by Earnest Hawkins age 20 who fired with a rifle. Hawkins surrendered to the sheriff in Lockport and is jailed admitting self defense after a confrontation involving a barrel.
Arthur Shiss, forty, fell headfirst into a lime pile at the Central Oolitic Stone Company. Working on a scaffold, he slipped and was severely burned as lime splashed his body, face, and head. He attempted to flee the police ambulance en route to the hospital.
June Lowe, while frog hunting at Pipe creek near here, fell into quicksand but was rescued by companions who threw a rope. Thirty one frogs were caught, some weighing a pound each, despite a warning from a loud croaker. Gospel Trumpet Officers Re elected in Anderson. J E Byrum re elected president and other officers at the annual trustee meeting for the Gospel Trumpet Company, a large religious publishing house.
Six miles south of Dedford a Civil War era dinner united former enemies. Hiram Tyre who served in General Pickett's guard hosted Captain T. W. Box Samuel Simpson and William Callahan both veterans of the Union army.
Gary report of former Indiana legislator William H. Kliver dying on a train from Gary to California due to heart failure aggravated by heat. Separate item notes Jeffersonville council designates a market square on Market Place near Ver for a business center, with opening planned in two weeks.
Evansville saloonmen vote to defy the lid by opening every Sunday starting in July. Gus Neubling heads a committee with Clifford T. Curry directing action. They argue city police tolerate unlicensed lid clubs and will seek jury trials if arrested, hoping public sentiment favors them.
A roundup of incidents across Indiana reports Cambridge City injury to Camridge City-Lewis W. Cranor and wife after an auto crash, a car fire near Peru injuring owners, a ditch crash near Columbus, dog killings in Jasonville, a $10,000 suit in Jeffersonville, a whisky seizure in Bedford, a large baptism in Lyons, near-drowning at Poland Bridge in Brazil, a lawyers fee suit in Hushville, club delegations from Anderson, possible bigamy case in Evansville, an Evansville man tied to a Kentucky elopement, an accident at Petersburg injuring Mrs. Conrad, and a near-miss auto incident in Shelbyville with brakes failing.
A newlywed man arrives home to a cozy flat and finds biscuits not made by his wife but from a baker. He boasts his sprinter speed from the station to the door and savors a warm biscuit with butter, praising it as tastier than his mother’s. The scene blends honeymoon ardor with domestic comedy.
A trend in fancy labeling spreads from perfumes to dresses and accessories. Titleing garments such as Well of Love and Daphne signals a move from utility to personal branding in fashion and personal items.
The blue Tricholoma Nudum is now listed as edible. Wild specimens appear in late autumn, but Professor Matruchot cultivated a cellar specimen at the Paris observatory to produce a year round mushroom. Its color shifts from purple blue to light blue and its flavor is described as faintly aniseed.
Thomas C. Logan of Philadelphia remarks on tender meat after scanning a calf's heart in a Chicago eatery. He questions tenderness and orders the cut, declaring a tender heart would prove such a thing exists in this world.
A New York Tribune excerpt argues against pockets for women listing eight reasons. It claims pockets are not a natural right, that most women prefer not to have them, and that pockets would burden women and disrupt marriage. It asserts men would continue using pockets for tobacco and liquor, implying women would not use pockets wisely.
J Welch father of Mrs Nelson died of cancer after his coffin was finished. He traveled from Oakland to stay with his daughter last fall. He asked for the coffin three months ago to be completed before his death, and despite delays his son in law and daughter finally yielded ten days ago and completed it before he died.
Lincoln Steffens at Cooper Union in New York recalled a joke about a child labor millionaire. The wife asked what he would do if born in days of hard labor. He quipped he would open a stand for selling hanker chiefs.
Doctor Bighbill greets a former patient on the street and the patient asks about costs. The exchange hints at cautions around medical advice and the proverb that even success may lead to death, underscoring a somber view of risk and fate.
A Maryland senator recalls a ridge country tale where a murder shocks a couple and a widow receives news with unexpected grace. Then a reflection on a longforgotten birthday letter from a beloved girl, sent yearly on a different date.
In a lighthearted court remark a mother sends four year old Jimmy to fetch ten cents for stamps. Jimmy asks if a ten cent piece is a little piece of money and after learning it is the smallest piece, he jokes it must be church money. The judge quips many stars prove false as glitter fades to fireflies.
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a young man dodging a blue and pursuing a proposal to Miss Wombat as she appears to avoid him while he seeks a moment to pop the question.
A witty exchange between a politician and Senator Sorghum about listening for signals from the public. The senator notes honesty is valuable but warns payoffs may be delayed, illustrating the risk and reward of attentive political listening.
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