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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
6
Henry Haake notes the New York Batavia state school for the blind uses eight classes from kindergarten to senior girls with physical culture training. The program aims to build self reliance and bodily improvement through marching, dumbbells, barbells, and running.
A digest of global items from presidents proclamations to aerial feats. Roosevelt sets Thanksgiving, Wrights leave hospital, trials verdicts, embezzlement cases, naval retirements, royal visits, kidnappings, crimes, accidents, and international developments across the year.
British coverage mocks Chancellor von Buelow amid talk of resignation. Venezuela blocks Curacao shipments as Netherlands pressure grows. Rome asylum fire rescues about 150 feeble minded women. A Ky man killed and another wounded in a Lee county fight. Belton cotton plant destroyed, losses exceed 250000. Catholic diocese centenary parade in Boston draws 40000. Russia mobilizes as ultimatum rumors surface. Accidents injure aviator Julian Thomas and Hamilton College president Stryker.
Neighbors found Mack Devore 60, wife Sarah, and 13 year old Charles dead in their Milo cottage. Coroner investigates whether deaths were accidental after a gas jet was left on full. Wife possibly turned it on or slept with it on. husband worked for the Pennsylvania railroad. boy had epilepsy.
A spectacular blaze destroyed the R. G. and J. J. Williams lumber yards in northwest Philadelphia near the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, causing $750,000 in damage and delaying southern and western train traffic as a warped bridge sparked by the heat raised rail concerns. Incendiary origin suspected. Also reports Ambassador White in New York says Balkans will not trigger war, and a Chicago murder mystery where Barbara Yonaspip was found shot in bed.
In Rocky Mount Virginia a pistol duel at the Norfolk and Western depot leaves Robert Smithers mortally wounded likely to die while Dr J Semple Cahill sustains a bad flesh wound. A bystander H by Davis is shot in the ankle amid the melee. Strikes continue as paper makers resist return in Glens Falls New York. Harry Sampson nephew of Admiral Sampson is found shot to death in Palmyra New York. relatives doubt suicide.
Killed by a propeller during test runs at Girard Kansas H W Struble an employee of the Call airship struck in the head and died instantly. In Alameda California Miss Ida Beamer an actress died in a sanitarium from morphine overdose police believe a suicide tied to a love affair.
The London Standard describes a cavernous precursor to a medieval jail beneath the Wellclose square roadway. Once part of the high court of Liberty now a German Oak club, two rear cells hold manacles and a straight jacket. Inscriptions record names and dates from 1751 to 1758 and a carved chessboard floor marks the cell.
A Philadelphia woman who brought a spy window mirror to her Brooklyn apartment attached it to a window sill to view callers. Within a week the building owner asked her to remove it, saying neighbors complain she is peering into their rooms.
The British admiralty consulted Prof. Ayrton on trouble with searchlights. He passed the problem to his wife Bertha Ayrton, the sole woman member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and a Royal Society medal recipient for original unaided work.
Letter to the editor notes strong grain yields in Western Canada with wheat averaging about 20 bushels per acre and some fields yielding 60 to 86 bushels. It highlights profits, cattle feed, new homestead rules, and Ontario farmers joining emigrants, as described by Canadian and American observers.
The only iron foundry in Colombia operates at Bogota under the name La Paradera. It smelts native ores on a small scale and remelts iron for casting. Interior deposits exist and a coastal ore body is being drilled by American engineers.
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