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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
5
In Indiana local items report Cambridge City Governor Maniy is set to deliver the Memorial Day address. The column lists health, crime, business and civic notes from St. Vincent's Hospital Indianapolis to Jeffersonville and Marion with multiple brief incidents and community updates.
Two brothers with a seventeen year age gap, Ross aged fifty seven and the younger forty, met in a heated exchange at the Hotel Bundy in Newcastle. Edward B. Pfau and M. Sinclair clashed. Pfau was the aggressor and paid a fine.
Joseph Coffman of Montmorenci Indiana recalls a decade of severe chronic bronchitis and whispers. He says Foley's Honey and Tar cured him after other remedies failed and notes many others have used it with satisfaction. Sold by Houseworth Bros.
Mullet and bluefish gather in massive ocean schools, with portions drifting toward inland lakes in search of food. Once trapped by gill nets, trollers struggle to catch them, as a tiny fraction of the school enters the lake and follows the main group.
English Spavin Liniment removes lumps blemishes and hoof issues from horses. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Sold by C. H. Leonard druggist Elkhart Ind.
A round red button worn by about three hundred women in Mexico City marks a new step in progress. The badge signifies membership in the Anti Kissing League, whose members pledge not to kiss in public or private to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
$100 reward offered for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Claims constitutional disease CATARRH requires constitutional treatment, internal intake targeting blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents cite testimonials and Toledo Ohio manufacturers. Sold by druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Citizens in the southern Nye County Nevada region threaten to organize a vigilance committee to stamp out liquor traffic between white men and Indians. Under drink, Indians are said to commit many depredations, prompting action.
A London Tit-Bits summary describes the cavern beetle found in Adelsberg cave after long searches. It lacks eyes and dies in sunlight, moves rapidly by antennae, and is hunted by eyeless spiders and scorpions. It and other cave creatures descend from daylight ancestors and prefer darkness.
The New York Tribune recounts how Napoleon III narrowly escaped a fatal charge from a cow during a promenade near Biarritz. Empress Eugenie placed herself between the emperor and the animal, using a bamboo cane with toreador like skill until herdsmen intervened. Nero the dog stood nearby as the royal party watched.
The text describes pre quake phenomena such as fog over Millittello with a surrounding explosion, roofs ruined hours before a shock, and unusual cloud formations. Historical examples include London 1149 Munster 1612 Lisbon Riobamba and Dunstal water rising to a pyramid 100 feet and wells emptying.
In The Figaro M. Sardou recalls youth in Paris where Parc Monceau sits on the former quarter of Poland a den of thieves. A friend recounts an alleyway encounter where a pickpocket card is foiled by a feigned pocket gesture and a quick wrist flick ending with a burned eye in a needled display of self protection.
A Pearson's Weekly survey describes global birth customs where relatives feed the newborn through del to ensure health. Traditions include rum butter in England, seals eyes in the Aleutians, jaguar meat among Amazon peoples, reindeer fattening by the Samoyedes, and horseflesh for Calmuck Tartars.
Judge Charles Swayne of the United States district court in Florida faces a Senate trial after the House voted to impeach. The House committee presents charges that he falsified expense accounts, with precedent noting four impeachments since founding. Swayne, born in Delaware, studied in Pennsylvania, practiced in Sanford before 1889 appointment, age sixty-two.
Captain A J C Donellan of County Cork in parliament and a noted Protestant leader mocked English stubbornness at a United Irish League convention. He cited a Briton who described a horse as sixteen feet, correcting himself about hands, illustrating a misstatement in a humorous exchange.
George Ade recalls school exercises about a local river. He describes three facts he wrote on the back of an envelope a river he has lived near sailed over and fallen into. The quip appears in the New York Tribune.
The well known colored Charleston leader Dr William Demos Crum has been thrice appointed collector of the port of Charleston by President Roosevelt. First appointed in January 1903 the senate failed to confirm him and the president renewed the appointment during Congress recess. Crum studied at the University of South Carolina before leaving in 1876 and later graduated from Howard University in 1880 to practice medicine in Charleston. His wife is a daughter of Bilien Croft the Alabama runaway slave. Crum’s grandfather was said to be German and his family has been free for generations. He is about forty five years old.
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