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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1873
Page
1
A long domestic tale contrasts Adaline Relaigh’s hard life as a washerwoman with her husband’s illness and their child. The narrative stresses pay fairness, short workdays, and compassion for workers, ending with a moral about kindness to those who toil for families.
Forty two new trial docket entries for September. Wm Savier of White Pigeon dies of typhoid at home after a relapse. Goshen youths steal sixty dollars in Kerdallville. both captured, one unnamed. Public works plan to fence the courthouse yard at an estimated cost near 36500 with contract to Martin Kramm. Warren H. Thomas travels to Monticello Ind to practice medicine in new partnership. Irvine Becknell of Milford joins medical circle after Indianapolis training. A brave boy wards off a train with a rail alert and reports to his editor father, amid tales of a reporter who trained his son to bet with matches.
The New York Supreme Court granted Pauline Lucca a divorce from Baron Adolph von Rhade, married in 1865, on grounds of profligate living and suspected adultery. Witnesses from Berlin testified to the baron’s residence and alleged misconduct, including visits to an actress and a $50 bouquet, with custody of their child Maria Helena, born 1870, discussed.
A rough man buys a wrong ticket at Denver’s Union Railway. The agent refuses a swap, the man draws a six shooter, forces the ticket to be changed, and departs declaring he could induce a switch by force. He later says he intended to alter the agent’s mind.
A correspondent portrays the Shah of Persia as a well educated, multilingual ruler. He reads and writes French, speaks it fluently, and ministers and the Grand Vizier are French scholars. Courts grant easy audiences, and Westerners should view him as a refined courteous ruler rather than a barbarous Asiatic sovereign.
Prominent Norwegians including Ole Bull and Wisconsin Professor R B Anderson raise ten thousand dollars for a Leif Erikson monument to be built in Madison. Proceeds from early concerts will fund the effort ahead of a planned hundredth anniversary dedication with Ole Bull Bjornson and other celebrities attending.
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