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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
4
A New York court raised a minor heiress’s yearly allowance from 6000 to 9000 dollars amid Chicago sisters’ outcry over fashion costs. Debutante expenses, including 1500 dollar wardrobes, spark talk of social excess and wealth responsibility in society and media comment.
A crítica of Congressman Brick and his aides highlights how public speeches are often shaped by assistants who tailor subjects and sentiments to suit constituents. The piece mocks the grandiose rhetoric used to exalt a statue for Count Pulaski and notes the performative nature of political oratory.
A Louisville teacher dispute erupts over the Confederate song Marching Through Georgia. A thirteen year old girl refuses to sing the tune, drawing threats from relatives and a county superintendent review. The case splits opinion and rekindles Civil War tensions in education.
The ex-hypnotist Charley Landis delivered a congressional speech praised by Republican papers as brilliant. Critics note the speech rambled with theatrical imagery and historical inaccuracies, arguing the speaker ignored past flag lowering events in Cuba China and Mexico. The Wabash Times letter scorches the rhetoric as sentimental rot.
A Fort Wayne News item recalls Captain James B. White’s insistence that the proper royal title is King of Great Britain and Ireland, not King of England, even as President Roosevelt used Eng lish king to refer to Edward VII during his lifetime.
A young man insured 2000 fine cigars he smoked and claimed they burned in a fire. After winning the insured value in court, the insurer had him arrested for starting the fire and the judge fined him and sentenced him to three months in jail.
Charles Merrill, a colored porter from Chicago who had been in town three weeks, robbed a local gambling house early Sunday of roulette and craps proceeds kept in a canvas bag. He hid several hundred dollars in an ash heap and was arrested after confessing.
A review of the fifty seventh congress highlights far reaching laws and major finances. Key measures include isthmian canal funding, Philippine civil government and tariff acts, oleomargarine ban and irrigation funding.
About midnight Sunday two masked men entered Hi ram Griffon’s Benton road home north of Syracuse. They bound him, robbed $10, a revolver, a silver watch, and tobacco, then drenched him with water for attempted resistance. Griffon escaped through a window and alerted neighbor George W. Carr. One suspect sighted. others guarding. Officers scour the community amid similar recent robberies.
E H Beach editor of the Book keeper in Detroit offers 25 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Jack K Littleton an imposter operating in northern Indiana under the name Nye He peddles a year long subscription mix for 1 paid in advance including Ladies Home Journal Bookkeeper and Saturday Evening Post.
Rev. iliam in Trinity and Cora E Wert wed Sunday night at Goshen. Cora is daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin F Wert of South Bend. ceremony linked the Lutheran church communities of South Bend Mishawaka and Goshen.
The remains of Jacob Oberholtzer, an elderly man, were found following a fatal interurban car collision near Yellow Creek. Investigations noted the victim's age and the tragic nature of the accident.
State statistician B. F. Johnson urges farmers in the storm district to plant second crops. Potatoes offer steady demand and late-season planting remains possible through September. Millet can provide hay and feed, while corn replanting with a ninety day variety could yield a good crop if conditions improve.
William Edson the Vincennes prisoner accused of attacking a girl escapes from Knox County jail with two companions. They slipped from cells and pried open a stone ceiling, escaping with him to liberty.
In Peru Indiana on July 2 a Wabash Railway flagman, Charles Moren aged 50, was on duty and speaking with a fellow employee when an engine struck a fractious team. The resulting accident left Moren dead but reportedly had no prior casualty record during his twenty years of service.
Local readers report Dr. A W Chase's Nerve Pills restore nerve force and ease nervousness. Mrs E Koontz of Jefferson Street describes years of distress relieved after using the product from Houseworth drug. The advertisement touts the pills as effective and widely sold by Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo New York.
In Steubenville Ohio on July 2 a quarrel over chewing tobacco at a railroad worksite in Mingo Junction led to a fatal stabbing. Two laborers clashed with a man identified as Pana Senin fatally wounded.
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