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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
5
Washington reports detail shifting dates for inauguration and elections, graft probes into shoe contracts for the army and navy, and anti trust inquiries into Steel, Woolen, and Shoe Machine firms. Congress weighs Lorimer case funding, and a mass New York peace rally promotes international dispute settlement.
Personal Mre Medill McCormitk of Chicago daughter of the late Senator Mark A Hanna has opened her imodel lodging house for working women in Washing ton. The mother heart of Mrs. George Gould is being torn asunder by illness of her two eldest daughters and Lady Decies, Vivien Gould, suffers appendicitis in London. Former United States Senator Alfred Beard Kittredge died at Hot Springs Arkansas after two terms in the Senate.
Geneva newspapers report Andrew Carnegie has donated 126000 to the Swiss government to establish a hero fund modeled on similar funds in other nations. The pledge aims to support national heroes and related programs.
Lafayette hosts the Uniformed Bank Jubilee with about 100 000 visitors expected. Officials announce a 500 tent, 2 000 Knights camp at Columbian park with drills by units from Indiana Michigan and Kentucky. The event features a bronze statue of General Taines Ro Carnahan, unveiled on the court house square, and cash prizes for best drill formations and attendance. A family reunion story reports Mrs. Merriot reconnecting with her Cincinnati daughter after fifteen years.
A Clover Seal church class in Columbus reports the marriage of Miss Tenore Sinitha to Fred Ho Dioup as the ninth marriage among Clover Seal class members since the group formed about a year ago. The note suggests the class debates teachability of matrimony and mentions other local incidents including a cat raising young rats and a woman Elin Crawford harming herself after her baby’s death.
The body of Mrs. Be atrice Cunningham age 36 was found in the lake at Oak Hill cemetery with two notes indicating self inflicted death. One note on a visiting card read Among the gold finches. Miss Cunningham a writer of verse and author was daughter of Alexander Cunningham a known citizen. Family had feared for some time she might commit suicide. Melancholia from speculation on mystery of He is believed to have caused her to drown herself.
Reports describe insurgent meetings in Madero and fierce fighting along river banks as nations seek to deescalate. Washington officials, including Keaganteres and Ald Gow, push for ceasefire while emergency measures and cabinet reshuffles unfold in China and Maryland.
A blaze killed sixteen people and destroyed a family as forest fires stretched ninety miles, endangering villages and farmland. Firefighters fought lines of fire across the district, with weather and terrain complicating efforts. Casualty details and exact locations are unclear in the fragmented report.
A New York remark contrasts grand imperial rhetoric with a homely scene. An English speaker mocks empire chatter while a wife multitasks peeling vegetables and caring for a squawking baby as a husband returns from a meeting.
A newspaper asked readers to define the most beautiful thing in the world. The winning entry described a son carrying his mother across a river without dropping her. A runner up praised the eyes of the mother as “the cream of what we know to be impossible.”
A garbled fragment mentions a mother, a daughter, and trust within a family. The text references a person named Owens and a general sense of ensuring welfare and guidance, but specifics and context are unclear.
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