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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
3
Two men offered the bartender tainted beverages after sampling cigars found in a cutter. They urged him to drink both glasses and, after joking about a will, left the scene as the bartender grew gravely ill and needed a doctor to recover.
Nora the Lindsay cook quits after years with the family over moving to a fashionable street. Mrs Lindsay pleads, but Nora insists the move risks her reputation in the intelligence society. She vows to stay on her avenue and not a street.
Commander Beghler reports an eight word wireless message from Colon received at Key West station. The distance covered is about 1,000 nautical miles, with Cuba directly between the two points, making the achievement particularly noteworthy.
A Bengal hospital doctor notes the lack of sense of proportion in illness. He cites a case where a man is deeply disturbed for not sneezing in three months, while ignoring early signs of leprosy.
A Tokyo journal issues a special number marking the war as reflections on Anglo-Japanese treaty influences appear. An advertisement by a milk dealer shows a cut of cows at milking time with the phrase the squeeze out place of the milk dealers signaling satire on wartime commerce.
The Peterborough Cathedral clock, dating to 1320, is the oldest working clock in Great Britain. It is believed to have been made by a monastic clockmaker and is unique for being wound with an old wooden wheel.
In applying to a London magistrate for a transfer of his license a labor keeper said he wished to move because the district he was in had become a New Jerusalem and Jews did not drink as much as Christians.
A fragment urges turning over a new leaf with a resolution to invest surplus rather than waste it, claiming such thrift will lead to financial fortune as a steady path to wealth.
William Easton a Mare Island navy yard hospital steward fell into San Pablo bay from a boat and nearly drowned before his hunting dog grabbed a drifting oar at his command and hauled it to him rescuing him.
A publisher notes Wilde's De Profundis as an example of fruitful jail writing. He cites Bunyan, Cervantes, Defoe, Leigh Hunt, Raleigh, and others who produced major works while imprisoned, asserting jail can inspire literary achievement.
Description of Naga tribe men in Central Africa who insert cotton wool wads into their ears. The wads are arranged on a frame into a fan shape several inches deep on each side of the face.
A rowdy pupil shouts dead boys as the teacher asks what kind of boys go to heaven in a Lincoln's magazine style anecdote.
A historic midwinter warm spell broke records from the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast. Ohio saw 70–74 degrees while New York and Pennsylvania reported 55 to 74 degrees, prompting springlike scenes. A following cold wave threatens a 40 degree drop as far west as the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Guayaquil erupts after new ministry takes office led by Vice President Baquerizo Moreno. Rioters free political prisoners seize police barracks, obtain rifles and artillery as order breaks, then Gen Eloy Alfaro is proclaimed president. Leonidas Plaza escapes by steamer Loa to Panama. Rumor of Lizardo Garcia seeking refuge in Quito Brazilian legation circulated.
Telegraphic dispatches from Greensburg Iowa report Joseph Sitman a Jefferson Military College sub freshman died at his home after leaving the college on January 11 alleging injuries from hazing while at the institution. Dr C W Sitman the boy's father will seek an investigation. Lieut Gus Morris official on January 11 denies hazing and says Sitman suffered a carbuncle and left without permission.
A rear end collision near Kent on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad left Conductor Griffin of Cleveland dead, Brake man Hawkins of Cleveland seriously injured with fingers lost, and Engineer Watrous of Newcastle, Pa. badly cut. The crash followed an omission to send back a flag from a stopped train as a second freight hit the standing cars. In Selins Grove Pa Murray Heider and Mary Cromwell were killed crossing a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Susquehanna after being struck by a freight train.
A gathering of Fifth district Protestant Episcopal bishops from Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin starts in Indianapolis today and runs through Wednesday. They will discuss plans for a forward movement in the church.
The battleship Kentucky, damaged in a collision with the Alabama off New York two weeks ago, has completed repairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It sailed Sunday for Hampton Roads and will join the North Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Evans for southern drills.
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