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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
3
The old firm Willis Bros with J W Willis have bought William B Shepherd's livery business. The Shepherd barn will host the livery and passenger transfer. the Ridgway barn will be used for freight. Phone number 10 for patrons.
In Squire W E Cowle's court the Beech Fuller Company of Evansville won against William J Settles. Judgment for the plaintiff totaling 130 dollars and 57 cents was rendered yesterday.
The state of Indiana ex rel Hiram Hughes files assault and battery charges against Ellen Gray in Squire Cowle's court. Witnesses listed are Harve Free, Thos Meeks, Frank Sunms, Abel Hughes and John Shelton. The incident is dated September 12 near the Shelton schoolhouse southwest of town.
In a Sunday drive, the Bradys ride in a littered trap called the litt thrap drawn by the old gray mare. The vehicle veers into a ditch dumping Micky the boy Mrs. Brady and many children. Mrs Brady cries for help as the buggy overturns in the ditch.
An earthenware jar buried 2,200 years ago in an old Luxor well yielded about 500 coins from the Alexander the Great period. One hundred are silver tetradrachms weighing roughly a half dollar, thick and highly pure. Coins bear Hercules portrait and Zenus seated, all inscribed with Alexander in Greek and many with mint marks.
Two British engineers report that 92 psi six atmospheres can be endured with no unpleasant results if pressure is released gradually over at least 20 minutes per 15 pounds and normal blood flow is maintained by exercise. Only slight temporary neuralgic arm pain occurred.
Chinese officials in Peking open official pawnshops after pawnbrokers refuse to cut their 50 percent interest rate. The municipal board imposes pawnshops charging 15 percent.
An analysis of why children lie, noting elder influence and fear of punishment as key factors. It argues honesty comes from love, not fear, and suggests encouraging children to confess faults to reduce punishment, even for nervous youngsters.
A Manayunk philosopher recalls a Brooklyn Unitarian service where the pastor faltered and his wife climbed to the pulpit to finish the sermon and close with prayer. The husband called it officious, wondering if a wife can go too far in helpful zeal.
A leech kept in a water vial serves as a weather oracle. It lies motionless at the bottom during fair weather, climbs to the top when rain is coming, and dashes about rapidly when strong winds are expected.
Echo de Paris reports the government weighing a tighter opium decree. Only authorized apothecaries or druggists may sell the drug, and they must record buyer details, purchase purpose, and quantities.
A curio shop window displays a comb claimed to have been worn by a witch. The alliterative card sparks passerby interest as shoppers speculate an ancestral link to Salem. The item resembles a high shell object common in old portraits and may become a family heirloom tale.
Haydon the painter praised Shakespeare to rustics in a Stratford inn. They boast of John Cooper, who has lived 90 years in town and never had a toothache, marking him as Stratford’s other wonder boy.
A Paris journalist founds a babies club housed in a spacious building with a garden and clubhouse. The venue offers games, a Punch and Judy show, a cafe selling sweets tea milk lemonade and toys including ships, plus a theater for members and their parents.
A junior partner notes the bookkeeper has been married nearly four months and the senior partner pushes for an immediate examination of accounts citing no salary increase as a concern. The Catholic Standard and Times quotes the dialogue.
The article explains English noble ranks from duke to baron with the baronet as a non lord title. It notes the courtesy tradition where a duke’s son is called a marquis and a marquis’s son is called an earl.
In a casual exchange a reader notes a battleship stuck fast in mud might become a record breaker once free. The other person considers the idea, musing on a ship’s potential performance on open seas.
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