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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
4
The Elkhart Truth is published daily except Sunday by Truth Publishing Co at 308 S Main St. Home delivery or mail subscription costs 10 cents weekly or $5 yearly. Report missed deliveries to the office. ads and communications must reach by 10 o'clock to ensure publication.
A brief notice lists phone numbers for the editorial room and business office with a 95 and 61 designation. The fragment implies contact lines for newspaper staff.
William D Hazelton manager of the Elkhart Truth swears the November 1907 bona fide circulation of the Daily Truth was 3,625, excluding sample copies and prints spoiled or unsold. Subscribed and sworn Dec 13, 1907 by Notary Louis A Dennert.
The Chicago Record-Herald discusses how large employers can help workers via old age insurance through deferred annuities and small premiums. It argues universal compensation and measuring industrial benefits to restore human ties in impersonal industry, noting small firms struggle to fund noncontributory pensions.
Washington December 26 Admiral George Dewey the only full admiral in the American navy is seventy years old today born December 26 1837 in Montpelier Vermont. Friends called on him at home to congratulate him and he marked the day with a large dinner last week. He remains on active list until retirement and recalls Manila Bay when with a small squadron he defeated the Spanish fleet.
Local notes report on a shopfronts scene along Main Street Hickor, with focus on a era centered around Pinnaged 5 and Truth on saic ab. Anevals' book store and Keene's inter are also mentioned in brief notices.
A compact chronology lists key moments: 1776 Trenton siege relief, 1779 Clinton sails to Savannah with 8500 troops, Canada split into Unser and Lower Canada, 1805 Napoleon crowned King of Italy, 1817 Jackson ordered to fight the Seminoles, 1836 Belgium's independence recognized, 1831 Stephen Girard dies, 1837 Admiral Dewey born, 1891 Jorge Montt becomes Chilean president.
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley born December 26 1837 in East Had dam Conn. He rose from Hartford public schools to mercantile success in Brooklyn then Hartford. He led as Hartford mayor 1880 to 1888 and served as Connecticut governor from 1889 to 1893. He was elected U S senator in 1908 with a term expiring March 4 1911.
Modern sociologists link industrial ills to impersonal business control and urge state safety and old age measures. Yet railroads and other corporations also provide voluntary old age pensions and humane treatment for employees during and after service, showing private action alongside public laws in humanizing industry.
Lake Shore and Other Railroads report the automatic blocking system extended west of Walls Station between Buffalo and Chicago and placed in service Friday. Signals are 3,060 feet apart with day blades and night lights. when both blades rise a train must stop. Green only allows passage to the next signal. Power is supplied by plants about 15 miles apart, with LaPorte plant west of the P.M. crossing. Manual train placing by telegraphers is discontinued at this point.
The notice describes large trunk line orders for steel rail in the next three years. It cites figures around 5000000 tons and mentions projected costs and timing, with references to months and quantities.
Massachusetts fair drew crowds as financier Thomas W. Lawson bid for a two year old heifer. After rival offers reached 235 dollars, Lawson roared six hundred dollars, causing a dramatic collapse of onlookers perched in trees watching the sale.
Augustus Heinze on mining reform dismisses practical implementation while recounting a joke about catching a mule. A dinner aboard his yacht Revolution frames the critique with a parable of a boy who offers a simple solution behind a hedge by making a noise like a carrot.
A lumber dealer calls the carnahuba palm the world’s most useful tree describing its many products. Roots yield a blood purifying medicine, timber polishes well for fine cabinet work, sap makes wine or vinegar and starch and sugar, fruit feeds cattle, nut serves as coffee substitute, and pith yields corks.
The old postmaster at Bacon Ridge recounts a press agent stunt. A village editor ran an ad offering Hiram Brown five dollars per dozen to take city boarders. The theatrical manager wonders if Hiram kept his word as Brown acted as the village photographer.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a personal prayer asking guidance and discipline. The speaker seeks to observe proper conduct and to focus on personal duties, avoiding interference with others' affairs.
The big liner Lusitania showcased an automatic life buoy system with a button-activated release from a slanted frame between decks. Copper balls, cross arms, calcium carbide lights, and loops aid a man overboard by floating upright and guiding him to the buoy.
A pair of men collide from opposite directions and tumble to the ground. They trade brutal blows with improvised weapons as a crowd watches a comic yet bloody skit. The scene ends with a barrel smashed and a pickaxe driven into a back, thrilling but shocking.
When a man says another got money easily by marriage, it does not prove he is ignorant but implies he is likely single. The remark signals social perceptions of wealth, marriage, and dependence without asserting character.
A muted report notes a person who believes life is not worth living always wears a chest-protector and goloshes. The odd detail appears in a local notice reflecting a peculiar personal habit.
A reflective note on hardship and sorrow as burning forces that remove selfishness from people. The text suggests trials refine character and temper moral fiber through adversity.
A quotation notes a woman’s brains surpass a man’s astonishment at looks in Dolores Bacon’s line. The remark highlights intellect over appearance in a social context.
The New York Herald recounts a horse thief's execution under the wild and woolly justice motif. The item appears in a column headed Strictly Business with a subheading Another Sus pension.
A reflective note on habits forming unseen degrees, like brooks becoming rivers and rivers flowing to the sea, echoing Dryden's imagery of gradual growth shaping destiny.
A fragment quotes Dean Swift noting that people possess just enough religion to fuel hate rather than love, hinting at a local moral debate shaping community views.
A single ton of steel yields about 10 000 gross of steel pens indicating mass production scale and output capacity.
A Swedish butcher discusses canned shark meat used as a meat extract. The process yields a clear liquid boiled to molasses thickness, seasoned and sealed in jars with an unknown chemical. The product is claimed to taste like beef extract and to aid consumption or anaemia.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a misread hint tied to an incident involving a mother and an eight year old boy. The text references a hospital and a private bed setup, with unclear names and places, lacking clear dates or locations.
In 1860s Siberia a river Lena flood exposed a mammoth buried in a bog. Benkendorf, a Russian engineer, watched the carcass emerge as thawing floodwaters carried it toward the sea. The frozen remains preserved bone flesh and hair with the last stomach contents showing fir shoots.
The Boston Transcript describes Switzerland's universal citizen army where every able bodied man from age 17 to 50 serves, with varying yearly duty and a permanent general staff. It notes equal treatment of rich and poor, open career paths, and feats of mountain artillery by enlisted men. The piece appeals to democracy’s ideal military system.
A Chicago lawyer recalls Frederick McNally consulting him about an infringed copyright. McNally believed the publishing infringement was innocently done by an amateur. An Irish tale about a village rector, a girl and poaching frames the moral question.
Old friend Crabtree recalls an Oklahoma snowstorm that brought drought relief for a wheat crop. A south wind then drifted the snow north, followed by a fierce north wind that drove it south again. The sequence continued daily until the snow was exhausted.
Edinburgh features many odd street names such as Jacob's Ladder Gabriel's Ladder Coffinland and Cuddy Lane. The close system shines with Hole in the Wall close Little Jack and Big Jack close Lady Stairs Heave A Way and Long closes. Long close is among the shortest and echoes London’s Crooked and Turnagain lanes famed for their sharpness and narrowness.
The fiber from the dwarf palm tree, once deemed worthless, is spurring a growing industry in Algeria. Factories rise as natives harvest palm leaves to feed steam carding, spinning, and braiding processes producing vegetable fiber for mattresses, harnesses, military bedding, hats, and woven goods. The material offers moth and insect resistance compared with horsehair.
A girl returns from Paris sharing humorous country contrasts about chicken served on Sundays. She recalls pension meals with a “whole chicken” and jokes that it resembled a giant centipede, noting how locals described the dish.
Readable parts show a damaged OCR of a local item with unclear names, dates, and events. The fragment lacks coherent facts but suggests a brief notice or story segment from a historical newspaper page.
Dr. H P Judson, head of the University of Chicago, declines an interview saying it would be futile and even harmful. He likens it to a housekeeper who washes, mends, and redeems a torn flag, only to find it missing after returning.
The text quotes Walter Bagehot arguing that stupidity may be nature’s tool for maintaining steady conduct and fixed opinion. It suggests progress requires people to avoid broader knowledge and stay focused on what they must learn.
An OCR fragment notes a remark about a congressman outside and a suggestion to Philadelphia, with an usher quoted. The readable text is sparse and fragmentary, offering little clear context or identifiable names beyond a congressman reference.
Canton seeks eight and a half thousand dollars for its franchise and players as the Central League leaders prepare for a decisive Fort Wayne meeting next month Zanesville balks at a price and may push Canton from the circuit Marty Hogan will run the Zanesville club while Canton reads a possible Cleveland Jan 7 league reorganization including Akron Youngstown New Castle and Erie with Day ton eyed for the eighth city and Central League permission required to break away
Chess experts from Cornell Brown and the University of Pennsylvania gathered in New York to start their ninth annual tournament. Play runs until next Tuesday. In seven contests Cornell leads with four titles and Pennsylvania has three. William H. Hughes of Pennsylvania and Omar R. McCoy of Brown, both last year’s co leaders, compete again.
Miss Charlotte Warren married William Greenough at St Thomas Church in New York. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Whitney Warren and niece of Mrs Robert Godet, was once linked to James Hazen Hyde. Greenough, Harvard 1896 graduate, is son of the late William Greenough.
An advertisement touts a Hamburg professor’s discovery that dandruff is caused by parasitic germs. It claims Herpicide uniquely destroys dandruff parasites living on the scalp and serves as a hair dressing. Sample offered for 10 cents. sizes 50 cents and 1 dollar, sold by Houses Worth Bros. as special agents.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference an attack involving a Wildcat and person named Frank Snellen living near an unnamed location. Details are incomplete and unclear from the snippet.
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