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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
4
The Weekly Truth is published every Thursday with latest foreign and local news. Subscriptions cost 1.00 per year delivered to any post office in the United States or Canada.
The Chicago Daily News reports Attorney General Moody argues that federal statutes against graft are outdated and full of loopholes. He says reform is needed to curb corruption in the growing federal service and to enable effective prosecutions and harsher penalties.
Light local showers for two days and general Saturday storms improved crops. Wheat yields above normal, oats good though slightly below last year, corn damaged by wind in places but overall looks well. Rain would help unfinished crops including clover and early vegetables. reports from northern counties show showers relieved drought, apples light but fruit promising.
Crop notes report potato shortness and pasture drying with rains needed while crop quality remains fair to good. DeKalb potato prospects cited. oats threshed and wheat good. Section Director Blythe reports 1905 expenditures and tax levies for Cleveland township advisory board meeting September 5 at 1 pm. Budgets itemize township, local tuition, special school tax, and road tax totals.
Elkhart citizens share experiences praising Doan’s Kidney Pills. Dc E Moor of 116 Main StTestimonial notes back pain and stiffness easing after using Doan’s. Advertisement urges purchase at Houseworth Bros drug store with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
Mothers are urged to prepare for summer ailments with Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, described as nature's specific remedy for summer complaints. The ad features Garvin's Tin Shop and Moore & Son Wells and Cisterns with phone contact 245.
The Big Four runs an excursion to Winona Lake on Tuesday August 8. Train departs Hikhart at 8 5 a m. Round trip priced at 1 dollar.
Great Western Railway advertises $16.00 to St Paul Minneapolis and return from Chicago with daily sale to September 80 and final return by October 31. Also low rates to Minnesota North Dakota Colorado Utah and Wyoming. Inquiries at F R Mosier T P A 115 Adams Street Chicago.
Elkhart Gas Co at foot of Main Street announces price of coke per ton delivered for immediate orders until further notice.
A. J. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana writes of lasting three months with a summer cold that disrupted his work. He tried various medicines and a doctor’s prescription without relief until Foley’s Honey and Tar provided noticeable improvement.
A fragment notes mothers urged to beware a product named Hollister's Hicey Mountain Tea priced at 5 cents sold by Houseworth Bros. It touts strengthening babies and keeping them active though evidence and legitimacy are unclear.
Classified notice advertises bicycle repair and enameling services at a music store location. It mentions re pairing work guaranteed, contact numbers 506, 430 and 423, and references Southan Haskins' home and address 108 Jefferson Street.
Thomas Edison announced from Orange New Jersey that after two years of testing his storage battery is ready for large scale production. The cell uses iron and nickel plates in potash lye, can power a two ton truck at 33 mph or an ordinary car for about 100 miles between charges. He notes mechanical issues were resolved, but touring vehicle charging needs more stations.
Chicago chief of police John M. Collins announced a murder bureau will be created within days. Assistant Chief Schuettler will head eight top detectives who will coordinate with the state attorney's office to quickly gather evidence at crime scenes using photographers artists and draftsmen.
Reported remark during a dinner with Arthur Balfour Joseph Chamberlain Lord Charles Beresford and the Japanese minister included light back and forth about drink orders with political undertones. Harper's Weekly records the exchange noting Chamberlain offered the choice and others followed.
Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey of Denver plans to test hypnotism in the juvenile court at the September term. A cigarette habit may be first treated. a hypnotist will guide the boy toward self control by suggesting the habit is injurious and undesirable.
Kansas City pie baker J Schroerer has sent a paper balloon with his age and wish for a wife every birthday for five years. A recent balloon found by a neighbor carried his plea for a wife and a promise to keep trying annually until he finds one. The letter notes he is 32, a baker with a good trade, and seeks a wife or a recommendation.
A great American humorist has sent the following advertisement to Harpers Weekly, as reported by Diogenes. The item hints at a literary or humorous offer destined for readers of the periodical.
A fragmented note reports veterans in Crimea voicing opposition to recent policy changes. Details are incomplete, but emphasis is on veteran groups and government response.
A United Press report details a northern Indiana railroad with no clear purpose, no salaries paid, no recognized freight or passenger business, and a perpetual operating deficit. The owner cites lack of expenses but lists numerous passes and a small workforce while the line shows a combined loss of over five thousand dollars after taxes.
Toneka Kansas August 9 Governor Folk of Missouri surprised Kansans by drinking in a smoker on a train from Dodge City. He said he drinks when he feels like it but does not visit saloons, taking high balls at his clubs or home. He also is an inveterate smoker and supports enforcing the laws.
A London Stock Exchange member connected to a retirement case faces inquiry. The imperial Tobacco content reports profits for the year ended April 30, with substantial figures noted in the period.
The item catalogs assorted 19th century social sketches. It notes Sarah Bernhardt’s alleged passion for a miners’ gold nugget necklace, Modjeska’s rumored California ranch sale and return to Poland, Mrs. Howard Gould’s famed bird collection, Countess Boni de Castellane’s jewel display, Adelina Patti’s temper control and a singing parrot, Miss Margaret W. Tantum funding a Tuskegee building in memory of her father, Mrs. G. M. Lake’s Idaho homestead at age seventy, Miss Ida Smalley’s new stenographer post for Charles W. Anderson, and Smalley’s youth under twenty-seven.
Edward Hughes, the renowned painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy at age fifteen. F Wellington Ruckstall is commissioned to sculpt a Washington monument in Denver for German societies at an estimated 35000 dollars. Theodore Mommsen’s unpublished writings are prepared for publication by Otto Hersenfeld. Dirce St Cyr gains translation rights for Tommaso Salvini’s plays and Italian League adaptations. An English art school seeks to revive antique egg yolk painting, abandoned five centuries ago.
An earthquake in Switzerland lifted sixty five organ pipes in Berne. Abyssinians at Emperor Menelik's court eat raw meat. A Paris resident inherits forty five thousand dollars if he cycles to Constantinople. Peking streetcar plans provoke protests as locals fear harm to the poor reliant on rickshaws and wheelbarrows.
Newspaper comments on the Norway Sweden throne crisis and a potential international arbitration. Comparisons are made to a cat and robin alliance to illustrate shifting loyalties as crowns lose popularity amid the upheaval. The piece surveys reactions from Norfolk Virginian Pilot New York World and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Kerosene removes sticky residues after painting and cleans enameled bathtubs or zinc items in minutes. A few drops added to boiled starch smooths ironing and gives clothes a glossy finish. Rub rusty kitchen sinks and tubs with kerosene to remove wash water buildup.
Fragmentary text references Russia unrest and various troubles with unclear details and unreliable wording.
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