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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
7
The piece contrasts city and country living noting the lack of worry in rural faces and detailing a farm life plan. It recounts a 160 acre setup with $11 monthly rent including a five room house, garden, and fuel while groceries and meat were cheaper locally.
Ernest McGaffey extols country living near large cities, arguing five acres can sustain a family with crops, livestock, and a simple, leisurely rhythm. He contrasts city costs with rural self-sufficiency and praises independent farming over urban grind and industrial woes.
Lambroas A Coromilas, Greece s first minister to the United States, ranks as a notable figure in Washington s diplomatic circles. A great grandson of the famed Greek patriot, he has wartime exploits including capture by the Turks during the eastern Roumelian troubles in 1886 and speaks Haglish with a keen interest in history.
Brig. Gen. Roger Williams is sent to Murray Calloway County to command guards on active duty. Gov. Willson pledges full militia support to stop night riding, protect witnesses, and secure fair trials with aims to curb the lawless activity in Western Kentucky.
In Memphis on April 21 a race clash near Jeanette Place left Selah Gordon dead and a white woman, Mrs. James Wright, wounded. Wright is held by police after surrendering with a loaded double barrel shotgun claiming self defense. Mrs. Gordon’s sister escaped as hundreds of black women gathered. peace was restored.
Beeston on April 21 reports Wh Crallasher aged 64 of Mallen killed almost instantly. Joseph Shine 22 suffered brain concussion and may die. Wim Flynn 26 injured. Gallagher the driver lost control on a down grade and rammed a telegraph pole throwing out the occupants.
Washington reports an alarming spread of a suspected bubonic plague continues to be observed unofficially from Lagualra and other places in Venezuela.
Thousands of workers for the Pennsylvania Railroad have been discharged in recent weeks and by May the count is reported to reach 25000. The layoffs reflect a broad cutback in railroad employment across the system.
Two excursion trains collided at Braybrook Junction seven miles west of Melbourne on April 21. Dozens of carriages telescoped and about 87 people are believed dead.
Indiana thieves target the statehouse stealing hinges faucets nickel plated railing and aluminum door numbers from third floor rooms. Property losses exceed 100 dollars with a go cart taken from Gov Hanly s office prompting possible rewards and police appeal.
Rushville Indiana marshal William Price cracked a long running horse theft ring that spanned Indiana and Ohio. Ambrose Hecker of Lewisburg Ohio confessed gang ties and implicated Clyde Armstrong a 20 year old farmer's son. Hecker led authorities to stolen horses and named additional gang members.
John Crabtree, 20, refused to be arrested on Massey Coal Co. property and swam across the wide Patoka River when pursued. After multiple escapes the officers gave up at dusk, finding him naked on a log, grinning despite the freezing conditions.
In Tipton Indiana a boiler array at the ice plant exploded heard miles away. Engineer Charles Covert was blown but unhurt. Debris smashed houses and hundreds of bricks and timbers fell through roofs. A 500 pound piece pierced a roof and lodged in a bed. Many windows were demolished. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars. The engineer cannot explain the blast.
In Newcastle Indiana a gasoline blast in the cleaning and dye room of Locker and Keesling in the Redding building badly burned four men. Injured are Carl Locker Verne Keesling Clarence Anderson of Newcastle and W H Gardner of Wartford City.
In Crawfordsville Indiana Harriet Pittman long admired as a post office general delivery clerk is revealed to have been the wife of Blarry Pabst for four years. Government rules barred married women from postal service. The same Old Story unfolds in Muncie Indiana where Mrs Edward Rea 54 died after kerosene caught fire on a coal blaze. She crawled to a hydrant but could not reach water.
A 67 year old farmer James Huckins of Laporte Indiana died after a copper cent swallowed sixty years earlier formed an abscess. The coin became embedded in his stomach lining and remained there until the recent infection proved fatal.
Danville Indiana professor Jonathan Rigdon formerly of Clark University Worcester Mass has been elected president and general director of the New Winona normal school. He is organizing a faculty of 25 instructors.
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Monks, wife of Indiana Supreme Court Judge Leander J. Monks, died at her Winchester home after an extended illness. Survived by husband and four children.
Worley Osborn returned from Logansport and confessed to police that on April 7 he shot and killed his sweetheart Fairy Mc Clain Miller in Kokomo Indiana during a jealous rage.
Rear Adm. James H. Dayton, in South Hend, Ind, attended his mother Anna M. Dayton’s funeral and will depart for Beattle, Washington, to rejoin the Pacific squadron.
Vice President Fairbanks telegraphed regrets at missing the dedication of the soldiers and sailors monument in Madison Indiana, citing inability to attend the event at the end of May.
In Indianapolis an inbound Greensburg car on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction line derailed on a Prospect street curve. Motorman John Tower said brakes failed. Sid Conger suffered a severe forehead gash and sprained arm. Twenty five passengers were aboard with non fatal injuries. Goodrich Bassett and Eck were hospitalized with minor injuries.
In Delphi Indiana sheriff and deputies seized bootleg liquor at Ockley in a raid on illegal joints. Judge Wason ordered destruction of 720 bottles. The bottles were carted to the Hamilton street bridge over Deer Creek where each bottle was broken and the contents dumped into the stream.
King of Gasser in Princeton Indiana reports a monster gas well drilled by Pure 641 Co near Oakland City at 1180 feet. The blowout hurled the drill high into the air and nearly demolished the derrick as crews could not cap the cratered well.
In Knightstown Indiana Charles Davis his wife and child escaped a blaze that destroyed their eight room cottage after an overheated gas stove sparked the fire. They woke just in time and fled in night clothes as flames neared the beds. The building and contents were completely destroyed.
Ann E. Sanborn philanthropy left nearly 100000 to three churches. Washington Culver nephew signs statement agreeing to will terms and receiving five dollars monthly. In Wabash creditors name Isaac Beitman Harmon Wolf as receivers for the Pioneer hat factory liabilities 162000 assets 325000
In Ft Wayne Indiana a fireman Charles Winkelmeyer from the Fifth Ward engine team died instantly when he fell from his seat during an eight run to a fire as both wheels passed over him. He leaves a widow and three children.
Madison Ind June 9 timing for formal inauguration of Hanover College president W A Millin. Commencement on June 10 will feature principal address by James E K Wasson, marking the college leadership change.
In Greenfield Indiana Mabel Irene Lowe a 10 year old minor by her next friend Sarah Alice Lowe sues John Mannen a postman for slander seeking sixteen thousand dollars in Hancock circuit court The case arises amid a separate drowning report near Newtown pond involving 12 year old Brown Ween and 10 year old Joba goon with school reference and a raft incident described in fragmented detail
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