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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1913
Page
5
The capital area will see razing of condemned structures near the Capitol and Union Station to create a new park. The Washington residence built from two 1789-99 houses will be removed as part of the project.
Eight persons die in a Sunday automobile toll dispute US toll stats noted as New York auctions tax delinquency include Duchess de Talley rand and heirs. Diggs obscured cases linked to Maury Diggs and Harris. Damages target Atlantic and Hot Springs incidents. Police, finance and court moves thread through a chaotic national scene.
A 15 000 strong crowd seized Hablya park in Tokyo and marched on the foreign office demanding action against the United States over Japanese treatment of its citizens while a Rome police guard protected routes from St. John Lateran to St. Peter’s and the pope.
Several hundred delegates attended the tenth national encampment of United Spanish American War Veterans, relying on a three day session conducted in Buffalo New York.
Reports indicate Juarez quiets outward hostility to Americans after the El Paso shooting of Lieut. Francisco Acosta by government officers. Yaqui threats surface in Sonora while desertions from state troops continue. Insurgents retreat as federal forces advance north of Guaymas and Trevino nears the capital. Huerta may quit presidency to run as Trevino’s successor in October elections. Also, the American Bar Association meets in Montreal endorsing Wilson’s Mexico policy and Taft urges judiciary independence.
Interior department delay keeps Harry K Thaw from Montreal for September 15 hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. James W Gerard of New York is his counsel. Provisional Quebec authorities regret Thaw's arrest in Coaticook while Willam Travers Jerome learns of possible government apology for arrest. George M Cohan and daughter Georgetta injured in Hartford auto crash. Albert Trost dies after road race injuries in Mo. Harry Orchard seeks October pardon with Metropolitan church aid. Ella H Larkles and Ida H Bartel plead guilty in New York for amuggling and are fined.
Worthing Indiana reports a 30 minute death battle when a rooster attacked a two foot snake in a poultry yard. C B Corbin and Hamilton Welton witnessed the clash as hens cheered. The rooster seized the snake with its beak and wings, killed it, and the flock devoured the remains.
In Petersburg on September 3 a man named Norman Selby, while reseeding a field for Clint Malotte, recovered a valuable watch dropped a year earlier. The drought burned the grass. a horse had damaged a lid, but the watch still wound and ran, with only a broken crystal.
A 110 acre Lucas farm once linked to a brutal murder sold at public auction for 29 dollars per acre, far below typical Wayne county prices of 75 to 100 dollars. Seth Lucas remains jailed in Michigan City hospital for the crime.
A historic road south of Connersville across the Whitewater River will be abandoned. The nearly impassable strip previously served pioneers entering Connersville from the east and south and was once the route of Indian chief Ben Davis during the annual tribal gathering near Liberty.
The city council forbids kissing in Lovers' Lane by ordering electric lights after residents requested patrols failed. In Lawrenceburg, teacher John H Roudebush captured four young monkey faced owls near his home, nest in an attic barrel. The owls, rare to the area, will be sent to the Cincinnati zoological garden.
Mrs. Christine Unger died at the 41y Family Hospital from a bullet wound after a quarrel with her husband over neglect. Police report she brooded over the dispute before taking her own life.
Petersburg September 6. Pike county farmer Charley McAfee acquitted after a third trial on charges of maliciously killing a neighbor's brindle dog. The case, cost about $650 in legal expenses, began last winter when McAtee and employer Young killed two dogs under the mad dog fear claim. Previously fined $25 each for the Waltz dog, a circuit court appeal ended with a jury disagreement before final acquittal.
Tipton appoints Frank Russell as court reporter replacing L W Nicholson who resigns after 1897 tenure. Evansville reports multiple fatal and near fatal accidents including a sixteen year old killed by acetylene explosion, a man dying en route to hospital from heart disease, and a train worker injured. Jeffersonville and surrounding towns note layoffs at the Indiana reformatory and a car fire destroying a Stevens Auto Company vehicle. Other items include a false marriage rumor denied, a teen’s motorcycle theft scam, a boy badly injured after a horse kick, and county measures for pulmotors and aid to drownings. a Wat son case involves fraud in tomato acreage solicitation.
In Victoria era etiquette dictated a morning letter of thanks to entertainers after a private command performance. Sir Henry Ponsonby, the queen's secretary, sent uniform notes to all recipients, including a Windsor garden party troupe whose owner received a message of gratitude and best wishes for the performers' safe return to London in good health.
A playful reflection notes how cinema eclipsed stage as the world increasingly embraces moving pictures. The line suggests Shakespearean scale but modern culture shifts toward film driven spectacle, performance, and mass entertainment.
In Cleveland two cars collided on Clifton boulevard and Marlow avenue injuring six occupants. Mrs W J Palmer suffered serious injuries and a nurse tended her at home. The other occupants, William Golson J A Baldwin W J Burger and R Wiggers, were all cut and bruised. Nearby in Norwalk a New York New Haven Hartford train struck painter Addison Millar and his wife Janie Craft Millar killing them instantly. their daughter Dorothy 16 and friend Jessie Guthrie were seriously injured with Guthrie suffering a fractured skull and internal injuries.
Albany N Y Supreme Court Justice Rudd issued a stay restraining the court of appeals and the state senate from impeachment trial proceedings against Governor Sulzer. The stay was requested by James Farrell and Frederick Draper Jr for Samuel Fowler of Rensselaer, to be heard before Justice Chester. No comment was made.
In Asheville area near Marshall, Deputy Sheriff H B Barnes shot and killed T B Curry after Curry wounded George Keykendell with a razor and resisted arrest. Barnes faced a preliminary hearing in Marshall and was released on $2500 bond.
Market report lists corn prices No 2 white 80 cents a bushel, No 3 white 79 cents, rye and oats figures, timothy hay values, clover hay, various mixed grasses, eggs at 24 26 cents, poultry and ducks prices, cattle and hogs bid ranges, calves, bulls, sheep and lambs prices, with multiple grade and weight categories for sellers and buyers.
Richmond Texas authorities and state officials opened an inquiry into the suffocation of eight black convicts in an underground cell at the state prison farm. The 12 men had been placed there for alleged laziness in the cotton fields. Four survivors reported crying out through the night as guards carried out the punishment.
A mixed passage presents kitchen recipes and moral counsel. It describes browning onion with rice, eggs and ham for a dish, making a peach flavored cream cake, a coffee junket dessert, a macaroon and sponge cake treat, all accompanied by a poetic prayer urging generosity. The text blends practical cooking steps with reflective moral verse.
A guide to colorful salads using cucumber as a centerpiece. Includes forming a cucumber dish, blooming rose shapes with yellow dressing, cheese and tomato stacks, green pepper filled with seasoned cream cheese, tomato and pineapple centerpiece, and radish onion with French dressing on lettuce.
Miss Hallie M. Daggett as the first woman in the United States to hold a forest reserve lookout post is placed in charge of Eddy's Gulch lookout on a Salmon Alps peak about 6000 feet high in Siskiyou County California. She will watch for fires and report to the nearest forest station.
A lighthearted note explains Tuesday papers seem brighter than Mondays due to fewer casualties. A store cashier is urged in the book department to speed exchanges as readers wait for change, reducing frustration over returns.
Mrs. Howitzer questioned if the recipient honored a note given that morning. Mr. Howitzer confirmed with a blunt reply, causing the parrot to drop from its perch in astonishment.
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