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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
6
The Century Magazine recounts young Robert Fulton at eight years old showing a disdain for books while pursuing hands on problem solving. He impressed a Quaker teacher with a handmade pencil and declared his head full of original notions, signaling an early drive toward invention.
A Leipsic Missionsblatt tale describes a maharajah angry at disfigurement from smallpox. He kills physicians, then orders idols blasted with cannon from a temple. gun crews refuse, he hangs several workers, and afterward the cannons fire destroying the idols.
Police report a break in at five rooms with small purchases paid by checks. Rev F A Bonander reports bicycle theft, John G Klein notes loss of an old wheel. A wheel left by the Indiana and Michigan Electric Co. office was recovered by police. The first frost drove ten wanderers to city shelter Thursday night, and one intoxicated man was detained.
Reported this morning an interurban express car failed near Goshen and had to be hauled to the car barns by the 8 o clock car. Franklin street fill patches were removed and the walk repaired in workmanlike fashion. A near collision on Second street Friday afternoon prompted a quick evasive turn toward Marion street. The rear wheels skidded and narrowly avoided the car. A piano recital by Miss Rose Keene’s pupils is set for October 14 at Trinity M E church with organ and piano pieces, readings, and a saxophone solo. tickets at Templin’s music store. Republican clubs prepare for Hon. J. S. Sherman’s visit next Monday. a joint meeting in Hoffman's Hall aims to coordinate Taft Sherman supporters. An unknown vandal damaged lounge upholstery in Hotel Oliver, South Bend.
Mrs. Teal entertained the Sunday school women in honor of Mrs. Culver who leaves the city. The Ready for Service Class organized with officers led by Mrs. Teal. P. G. Club at Mrs. Cullen’s home elected officers and planned meetings. Miss Iva Long’s group enjoyed games and a duet performance with a later fright-filled disguise incident. Congregational church social set for Friday with talks and Rev. Puddefoot visiting. George Messick and Hazel Kesler wed on September 25. Elks Temple opened with a dance crowd of about fifty couples and weekly dances planned all month.
Mrs J E Curran attending the biennial Catholic Lady Foresters convention in Detroit witnessed a tumult over a $2000 insurance payment to Bridget Cahill's beneficiaries after her Chicago death with five months arrears. Delegates adjourned after priests restored order as a bazar for church redecorating was planned for October 15 16 and 17 at the Eagles hall.
Trustee Puterbaugh traveled to Goshen on Thursday to obtain a closed school wagon for transporting pupils from District No. 8 Riverside to District No. 7 Rowe. The districts merged due to small Riverside enrollment, replacing the open wagon used in cold weather. Mrs Ira Moyer, formerly of Napanee, died in Colorado Springs after a three day illness, leaving a husband and two children.
An English traveler recounts a South American outlaw raid where a farmer snags a robber through a door hole by a rawhide lasso loop. The thief is captured but, fearing betrayal, his companions abandon him and they all retreat as the scene ends with a fatal outcome.
A young man asks for the daughter’s hand, sparring with the heir whose wit turns to money and laundry humor. The lodger leaves after the old man asks which hand signs checks, and the laundry delays his collar return. Kansas City Independent.
A Players' club member who collects blue china returns from England with new treasures. He speaks about them but dodges questions about their origins, sharing only fragments of his offbeat journey and discoveries.
A collector evades questions about his hidden hoard and finally writes on a card the word Mynyddysiwyn. He explains it is the true name of a parish in Monmouthshire near Pontypool, England, startling the inquirer.
A popular undertaker jokes about Persian funeral custom where mourners at the door receive fine sponges to absorb tears. The tears are said to be stored in crystal vases and later used as healing medicine, as undertaker moves about collecting each shed tear.
A Glasgow Times item recalls an impressionist painter finishing a blue and purple canvas and his wife proposing the title Home for its suggested sentiment. A Goshen medical society meeting heard Dr. G B Hoppin garner discuss typhoid fever treatment alongside a local accident report from Wabash where a wandering intoxicated woman fell along the Big Four cut.
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