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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
3
President Taft hosts Baron Uchida in Washington praising unusually friendly U S Japan relations and denying talk of war. The piece notes anxieties about Mexico, possible U S intervention, post office reforms giving carriers a weekly day off, and arbitration talks with France.
Personal notice states Mrs Amanda Fisher mother of Walter L Fisher secretary of the interior died at her son's Washington home. Death followed a nervous breakdown after an accident a year ago. Franciscan friars will return to San Antonio to occupy historic missions. Peter F Dunne resigns as Southern Pacific general counsel to resume private practice. Democratic leaders gather in Lincoln for a Bryan dinner with speakers Kern and Owen among them.
The foreign emperor William, noted for his glazed tile manufacture on his Kadinen estate, has enlarged the plant amid strong success. Meanwhile Mexico faces a crisis with no definite government plan, Frem Az Limantour confirms continued military program. Russian artillery officers Elmovitch, Gerdt, Agranovitch and Colonel Danioff will lose their posts due to discovered irregularities.
Atticus James McCabe real name Atticus J McCabe died at Five Points near Williamsport aged seventy seven after apoplexy. He was a longtime western Indiana lawyer and former Indiana Supreme Court judge from 1892 to 1899. He was a lifelong Democrat and a friend of William Jennings Bryan. He was born July 4 1844 in Darke County Ohio and taught school before practicing law in Williamsport. He married Serena Van Cleve in 1852 and left two sons Charles and Edwin with Edward as a partner at his death.
In Richmond Indiana the Terre Haute & Eastern company may renumber a historic streetcar after a long career marked by repeated accidents. Car No 2300, nicknamed hoodoo 303, survived a recent collision and cattle herd crash, with repairs keeping the same digits. Workers blame the series of wrecks for the superstition around changing the number.
Princeton engineers under J S Spiker of Vincennes finished a survey for drains and levees along the Patoka and Wabash rivers. The route ran from near Dongola to the Patoka mouth opposite Mt Carmel WL then along the Wabash to New Harmony about eighty miles. Estimated cost exceeds two hundred fifty thousand dollars affecting over one hundred thousand acres. Survey cost about ten thousand dollars. Public opposition cites costs outweighing benefits.
Huntington-Dr. and Mrs Walter Kline arrived from Guadla jara Mexico after trying to leave for some time. Insurrectos burned the escape bridge just hours before departure and other blocks stopped their exit. They had warnings from anonymous letters cautions about remaining in Mexico.
Special judge Oscar Minor of Tell City opened court in the new Jasper courthouse as the first presiding judge. He heard the ditch case of Sarah Katterhenry and others where 600 land owners are interested.
Dr B A Tucker a veterinarian slept at wheel during urgent Garden City call. Auto high speed veered, struck a rut, hit a telephone pole, but he escaped injury. In Lafayette R Edgar Collins severely injured while saving Miss Beth Wilson from an Interurban car.
Noblesville youth Raymond Hanes age seventeen died at city hospital from injuries in a bicycle collision with automobile owned by C. W. Sower wine a dry goods merchant. He suffered internal injuries a bruised head and a broken leg.
A famous Thompson chick with four legs was picked to death by its mother in Hammond. The healthy bird, valued at $500, was part of a brood of ten and stood out for its unusual distortion. Authorities reported no further details in this brief animal oddity.
R. W. Risher superintendent of the Indiana Black Coal mine at Saline City was seriously injured when a runaway occurred this morning. He was dragged a considerable distance and his daughter Lola Risher was knocked down and painfully hurt.
Champaign county man A. Ascherman aged sixty five ended his life by swallowing carbolic acid driven by grief over his wife’s recent death. He was a truck farmer living near Dewey and died following illness from his loss.
Greensburg sees concentrated lye burn injuries to Ina Barnes hands. Ivansville reports Beverly Morton, a Negro, drowned after being shoved from the steamer Bowling Green with no arrests. Terre Haute notes Frank Parsons, sanitary officer, dismissed for criticising a superior. he contests authority. Jeffersonville covers New Albany and Shrader suit on loss of services with city favored by judge. Brazil records Tarnest Burgess fined fifty dollars and thirty days’ jail suspended for assault on his wife. Sullivan reports William Atkinson injured by a slate fall at Steel Tipple mine, head wound serious but non fatal.
An advertisement touts Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic as a preventive and cure for sore throat. It claims cleansing healing and germicidal action with a gargle dose in water and notes availability in drug stores or by mail from The Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass. A free sample offer is included.
The article extols daily sunlight as essential to health and happiness. It argues against blocking windows with blinds and curtains and urges flooding all rooms with as much light as possible for better well being.
In a rambling quote a hustler named Simeon Ford recalls a turkey dinner and mince pie that leave them sleepy and comparing themselves to natives of Nola Chucky. He recalls asking a resident about the town’s main occupation and receives a wry answer about seasonal sun and shade? wandering through a humorous exchange.
South Australia faces a barmaid famine after a 1890s law abolished barmaids two years prior. Only 40 cents remain employed with current workers earning from 25 shillings to 3 pounds weekly as hotels report worse receipts due to lack of staff.
The lucifer match, credited as the greatest small invention, was created in 1827. It is tiny yet powerful, resembling a small candle, and it transformed human control of fire by turning it from a wayward task into an obedient tool.
A quoted exchange suggests Pipps shows indifference to credit purchases while someone warns each day may be his last. The dialogue portrays a high tension view of risk and fate.
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