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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
4
Ice cream at the Soda Fountain is planned for next Sunday afternoon and night. An up to date line of the most stylish hats is on display at Miss Bertha Rickelmanns. A free dance occurs at Sternberg's Hall in St. Anthony Indiana next Thursday night.
On September 7 Bertha Rickelmann celebrated her tenth birthday with a surprise from her playmates. Mary Schmitt hosted a euchre gathering at Mr and Mrs Daunhauer home on Tuesday. Lucile Beckmann marked her twelfth birthday with a Thursday party. Mamie Meyer received a surprise birthday event Wednesday evening.
A critic argues for better musical education as reporters misuse terms and publish nonsensical analyses. He cites a Daily paper on a great man’s homecoming with exaggerated, irrelevant musical descriptions and urges accurate, informed writing in music journalism.
Mariah Hill reports Mr and Mrs Ed Roos of Louisville visiting his parents Mr and Mrs John Roos. Frank Jollig and family visited Evansville this week. Miss Tillie Wolf of Louisville guests her mother Mrs Elizabeth Wolf. Rev Vincent Wagner of St Meinrad spent Sunday with his brother here. Otto Spayd of Ferdinand paid a call. Sanday Bum and family of Ferdinand visited local relatives.
At Pittsburg Brunos Island track two accidents claim one life and injure three. Rex Raineston, 35, dies from a fractured skull after a tire failure rolls his car. mechanic Clarence Dastion is badly hurt. Walter Christy, 26, sustains possible internal injuries after colliding with wreckage. Barney Oldfield suffers a leg injury but continues. Police demand medical staff and ambulances for continued races.
In Carter county, mounted band attacked a passenger train on the Virginia and Southwestern after ejecting a member. Pistols were fired. Conductor Capt. Robert Carnahan and brakemen R. B. Taylor and A. D. Cross narrowly escaped. Dan Berry led the assault and was jailed in Elizabeth, Tennessee. companions beaten.
San Francisco reports two more bubonic plague deaths and three new cases. Totals show 21 cases and 10 deaths, excluding Berkeley cases which were fatal.
Dispatches from Tangier report looming clash between Mulai Hafix and the sultan as French and Spanish efforts to maintain order face strain. Europeans fear terror after a potential battle and worry coastal ports will fuel anti European sentiment, with military logistics strained by gales and ship repairs.
Francesca Levita, a track walker from Irwin, Pennsylvania, died after repairing a tampered rail joint that had been looted several nights earlier. He prevented a disaster that would have endangered about 800 passengers on a fast Pennsylvania Railroad train.
While the USS Chattanooga rested near Hakodate on its voyage from Vladivostok, four sailors faced a mob after a shopkeeper dispute over prices. One struck a shopkeeper, prompting pursuit. two sailors swam to a sampan while police rescued the rest as flames erupted at the Observer Co. plant in Charlotte.
Mr Hertzleet the British consul general protested again at the inadequate protection given British ships during the strike movement in Antwerp. The report notes foreigners suspected of fomenting disorders are being expelled from Belgium as an epidemic grows and Vienna reports no algae.
From Brala Romania reports claim at Kishineff another deadly outbreak with many Jews killed or wounded as rioters loot and attack. The piece notes past massacres in 1900 and 1902, police passivity, and the ongoing peril during Rosh Hashanah.
Jamies Strait confessed to shooting his wife on a street corner in City, Pa, stating he did so and she lay mortally wounded. He and a credn followed into the police station as officers found the injured woman. she cannot recover. Strait had lived apart from his wife and 12 year old son, supported by his wife in a restaurant.
Quebec reports seven additional bodies recovered near the bridge wreckage. Six of the recovered victims were identified.
Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Passenger Train No 12 derailed at North Junction while bound for Chicago. Engineer Parish was scalded and gravely injured and fireman Uber also hurt. Parish likely to die.
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