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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
4
Francis Marion Thompson is announced as a candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, subject to the Republican convention decision.
A reflective piece contrasts true goodness with lesser effort, noting that the measure of character lies in opportunity and ability to do good. It argues that fear of hell does not make a genuine follower of Christ and distinguishes between grand and small acts of graft.
The appropriation bill adds 125000 to build a government powder plant. Government now pays 70 cents a pound but could produce at 35 cents. With 12000000 pounds needed soon, potential savings reach about 4200000 if the plant succeeds and additional plants are built to meet demand.
The opinion argues there is no reason for a threatened miners strike as they earned more this winter than most unskilled labor and even many skilled workers. It notes operators have been facing differing pressures.
A vintage advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a remedy for underweight infants. It claims fat stores improve comfort, nerve cushioning, and happiness, urging parents to send for a free sample.
The article argues railroads and coal carriers profit from high freight rates while consumers bear the burden. It calls for public action to force a settlement and even hints at self protection if parties refuse to agree. The piece frames coal as a universal necessity and blames operators, miners, and carriers alike.
The piece recalls Czar Nicholas II granting a promised Douma to Russia amid uprisings. It contrasts the hollow pledge with autocratic control, noting the king’s power to adjourn and limit legislative authority. It ends by quipping that some elect a dog to their assembly, taunting the Tsar’s shadow parliament.
A woman with a neck cancer, swollen and blocking her head, was treated in a hospital by a doctor using radium. The costly remedy involved inserting radium into the incision to the deepest point and the patient felt the atom move. The doctor described radium as giving off sparks or electricity.
The article compares political graft to a cancer in Indiana. Hanly is praised for diagnosing the disease and applying a radical remedy, calling it the Hanly Cancer Cure. The metaphor describes using publicity as a treatment to purge graft and restore the state’s moral health.
The piece argues corruption in office stems from poll corruption and urges disfranchisement of both buyers and sellers of votes. It critiques the pressure on candidates to fund vote buying and calls for aroused public action to punish those who sell or buy votes, despite the difficulty of solutions.
Mrs. T W W Sunman and son Arthur return from Cleveland visits. Miss Lizzie Lampert comes home from Shelbyville due to sickness. Miss Lizzie Dewey of Milan visits friends here. Jos Schmalz visits Batesville. Julio Abplanalo of Newpoint visits relatives. Miss Gutzwiller of Cincinnati visits home folks. C B Faulkner in Cincinnati for business. Mrs Xavier and John Schmalz called to Cincinnati for sister in law Barbara Phister illness. Anna Doer returns home from Madisonville. Nordloh family moves into Wm Miller property. Raleigh Schorling ends a successful school term. General attendance strong as Walter Franke attends every day. record 11-year-old has not missed a day for five years.
W M Sherman of Cushing Me recalls three months of kidney inflammation and credits three bottles of Electric Bitters with a complete cure. The advertisement claims benefits for liver complaints dyspepsia blood disorders and malaria and promises to restore weak and nervous individuals to robust health. Baas Schultz druggists guarantee the product priced at 60 cents.
Misses Minnie Pearl and Chloe Overturf attended a musicale at Miss Madge Ensminger’s home with Groves McNeelan Emerson Carroll and others from Horton and Holton. Religious services were announced at Conover school house each evening and several churchgoers traveled from the area. The township schools have closed.
J C Bayne editor of the Herald Adington Indian Territory says rheumatism afflicts him but Chamberlains Pain Balm enables him to attend to business again. The ad touts Pain Balm as the best liniment with one application relieving pain and lists Baas and Schultz as the sellers.
On March 8 1906 Albert J Shuman filed a petition with over fifty freeholders and voters of Washington township Ripley county Indiana requesting county commissioners to improve a cited highway by grading draining and macadamizing The road runs from the Washington Johnson township line along the Versailles and Dillsboro road to join a previously built free pike The petition notes the road is under three miles long and should be built without public vote The filing names numerous signers including Albert J Shuman Oliver P M Sink George W Henthorn Traverse McCabe and many others The filing ends with designation of petitions upon endorsement.
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