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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1904
Page
6
The issue cites California orange and gold export values, Russia’s literacy gap, rising German medical competition, a rubber estate in Nicaragua, Denmark’s 1993 agricultural exports to England, Smyrna’s dry winds affecting the sultana raisin crop, and a pessimistic outlook for this year’s harvest with late-season signs.
A report from Tzarifyn on the Volga notes frog spawn used to create caviar with taste and appearance similar to sturgeon caviar. A large inland trade is developing and exports are anticipated to rise as the product reaches markets abroad.
The plan to connect Singapore with Penang by railroad advances after overcoming the sultan of Johore’s objections. Construction has progressed “part by part” through the Federated Malay States, and the route is expected to be finished within four to five years.
Burnwood, Pa., farmer Charlies Ross has produced crowless roosters. He shows two full grown silent birds that make no crowing noise though otherwise like ordinary roosters. The hybrids’ deafness or muteness is undetermined.
Dogs trained to catch fish work along the barren Labrador shores extending 1,100 miles. The region yields about one fifth of Newfoundland’s total catch and employs thousands of people annually. Boats crewed by two men use two hand lines with capelin as bait. when fish are plentiful it is quick to boat with cod.
Goshen Ind Oct 15 Rollin Ellison banker of La Grange and Topeka was acquitted of embezzlement but jailed after a Friday verdict. He faces a Tuesday hearing on a prior embezzlement charge as Judge Dausman weighs a guilty plea and Ellison reportedly planned to flee the country.
A Rome cable announces Father Dominick Reuter as general of the Franciscan Order of the World, the first American to hold the post since the order began 700 years ago. He studied at Terre Haute theological preparatory academy, one of six Albany youths sent there, and in months he and two peers will mark their silver jubilees in Terre Haute where Fathers Lehner and Zoller serve parishes.
Edward Donohue, suspected of killing A. M. Northrop of Benton Harbor, reportedly spent Wednesday night in Kalamazoo after driving Northrop's horse into town and selling it. He checked into a hotel, then left as authorities were alerted. He is said to be cornered in woods near Grand Junction, Michigan.
Hammond Indiana October 13 Mrs Warren Renne wife of a Whiting businessman received a telegram reporting the death of her sister Mrs Hickey in Lagrange Illinois. Early morning she was told to go when a messenger boy brought another telegram announcing the sudden death of her brother Andrew Schwartz in Denver Colorado.
A major blaze in Frankton Indiana demolished seven businesses on Friday morning. L A Wills and Son drugs suffered a 5000 loss with no insurance. The opera house also estimated at 5000, partly insured. George C Noland undertaker incurred total loss partly insured, while George Jones grocery lost 1000 and A Wise and Son hardware 3000 with limited coverage. Total estimated damage near 40000. In Red Key two miles north Towers Station Prohibition meeting was interrupted by a window shot hitting fingers. two quartette members escaped. Police made no arrest.
Newcastle Indiana reports Bert Hamilton 25 married missing from home west of the city. He recently sold property for 300 dollars and traveled to Knightstown to deposit cash, then boarded an interurban to Indianapolis and vanished.
J Levering Jones president of Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Co will host Randall Morgan a director and stockholder as eastern financiers return to push consolidation of the Wabash Valley and Fort Wayne Southwestern systems. Details were settled months ago but litigation delayed sale. now Southwestern may pass with clear title and full merger could occur within weeks.
North Vernon Indiana reports two more women attempting suicide in October, bringing four crisis cases in a month. Mrs Geo Kelly survived a laudanum attempt after a troubled marriage, while 20 year old Bessie King tried to end her life with strychnine prompted by a jealous lover Patrick Manax and was saved by a physician.
Jeffersonville reports the American Car and Foundry Co plant will suspend operations indefinitely on November 1 after months with only 400 workers. Lack of demand cited as the reason for the shutdown. Insurance leaders gather in Indianapolis as life underwriters hold their 15th convention with delegates from across the nation.
On an inspection tour in Indianapolis on October 13, W. K. Vanderbilt of the New York Central and Lake Shore lines, with Newman, president of the same line, and Mn W Rossiter, first vice president, arrived to review the Big Four line from Cleveland to Indianapolis.
William Chapman, 23, who killed John Stelzer in a timber camp drunken fight a week earlier, is reported to be dying from lung hemorrhage due to choking and beating by Stelzer.
The Iron Hand of the World in Bedford Indiana aims to protect women from crime and advocate harsher penalties including death for criminal assault. It will dispatch lecturers nationwide to recruit support and push for a new law.
At the Prairie switch between Huntington and Fort Wayne an east-bound passenger train No. 2 and a west-bound mail train No. 9 collided in dense fog Friday morning. Both engines were damaged but no one was hurt.
Rev. L. M. Hughes, moderator of the Presbyterian synod of Indiana, announced his retirement in Richmond Indiana. He had served as pastor of the First Presbyterian church for 35 years.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal churches in Indiana will hold its 15th annual convention in Greensburg on October 20 and 21. The Shelbyville branch announced dates and venue for the statewide gathering.
A Mishawaka resident named McNary died in a Northern Indiana hospital. Autopsy reports reveal his brain, not diseased, is the heaviest ever recorded by medical men in world history. Separately, Indianapolis reports three Indiana railroads have begun testing a new uniform bill of lading per the Indiana Shippers' Association.
A Sunday Bible School lesson on Naaman, a great Syrian general who is a leper. A Hebrew maid points to Elisha, Naaman seeks healing, but pride nearly blocks deliverance until obedience. The tale emphasizes simple faith and God’s power to save beyond human merit.
Medical Talk for the Home notes a surgeon preparing for a grave operation spends minutes alone in a dark room reviewing every detail and praying for steady nerves and clear sight. The piece argues such calm deliberation is wiser than alcohol or morphine and likens the surgeon to a holy function needing divine guidance.
The piece contrasts German bath etiquette with British seaside bathing, noting Germans treat daily baths as a solemn medical ritual. It describes prebath preparations, sanitary rules, and a strict schedule, with a scene of German modesty clashing with English schoolgirls washing more than faces and hands.
The Kennebec Journal describes how a lobster’s claws differ in function and form. One claw acts as scissors or cutter while the other acts as a mill or cracker. The right claw is usually slimmer and toothed. the left is stronger for crushing.
A New Yorker brief quotes a cartoonish exchange about gender and relationships focusing on a manly man who won’t linger. The fragment hints at social expectations and humor over dating dynamics.
The article highlights women inscribed as hearers at Bonn and Innsbruck, a German countess earning a Paris Academy prize, the first German female professor at Kiel, and two western women excelling in zoology and mineral mining. It also mentions Ella Mench of Darmstadt and a Missouri physician linked to Maples zoological work and the Texas mining exhibit at St Louis.
A Town Topics item asks readers about the noblest profession with a witty exchange on love as a reply. The brief dialogue reflects social mores and conversational irony in a midcentury column.
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