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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1904
Page
7
Washington writer notes Redfield Proctor, 73, leads Vermont GOP and shapes national campaign strategy. He mobilizes big-name speakers including Cannon and Taft, leverages state hospitality, and maintains a rugged, humorous persona despite advancing age.
A nursery verse by Edmund Vance Cooke describes a caregiver corralling playful pink pigs into a sock and shoe pen before eight o'clock. The owner macrowatches with a gown and smiles as five and ten pigs are captured in sequence. The playful cadence and imagery evoke a domestic bedtime scene.
In a Chicago Record-Herald tale Pearl Howard Campbell recounts a Maltese cat named Lady Gray who loves rabbits but learns a lesson after attempting to steal two fat quarry from Tommy Jones. Myrtle returns, scolds the cat, and Lady Gray ends up soaked and chastened, never again touching the game.
The article explains a classic air pressure trick using a filled glass, a card, and careful sealing to lift water without spilling. It describes how air pressure supports the card and water, and suggests a modification with a string and pendulum to prolong motion.
The article describes thin paper kettles used by Japanese soldiers to boil water. Filled with water and suspended over a fire, they boil in about ten minutes and can be reused eight to ten times at a cost of about two cents.
The baya, or weaver-bird of India, uses fireflies affixed with moist clay to its nest. On dark nights the nest glows with a brightness resembling a small electric lamp.
A mother's prayer for her child and the flock includes a playful line from Small Harry. He prays to bless the lambs and then requests the Lord to keep an eye on the old sheep as well, blending innocence with a touch of humor.
Over 40 000 cattle in Russia wear spectacles to prevent snow blindness. They are fed on grass tufts amid snowy plips as sunlight dazzling the snow could blind them. The glasses are fitted over their eyes to shield them from the glare and protect their vision.
Indianapolis Sept 2 An unusual case of paroling William P Keller who confessed to embezzling funds from A Burdsal Co and was sentenced to one to three years in July but paroled six weeks later without state prison records. Neighbors say he and Gov Durbin were longtime friends and Keller promised to leave the state.
Indianapolis on West Washington street an unknown man slashed Police Sergeant Hagerman with a razor Friday night. Hagerman fired, mortally wounding the assailant who collapsed on the sidewalk and was held by passersby. Hagerman hospitalized with serious injuries.
In Peru Indiana on September 2 officials of the Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville railroad fear a shakeup after the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Co. took control. Word has it most officials will be replaced to make room for new men. George Dickson from an eastern line will replace Fred Smith as general foreman at the shops.
Frank E. Herring of South Bend said he would accept the Democratic nomination for the 13th district only if former Congressman B F Shively personally declines. Shively is in Maine giving speeches and won’t return for several days. Gen Elliott Returns To Newcastle After Five Years Away.
Citizens of Elwood protest the plan to install a private corporation's steam heating system in the new city building worth 35000 dollars. The gas heating apparatus had been built for gas use and the issue prompts local opposition.
George Baldwin, 55, hanged himself Friday at a small building on his farm near Marion after years of nervous trouble. Guards were posted but he escaped and was found dead from hanging. Baldwin, from a prominent local family, owned the adjacent property amid an oil field with twenty wells and had planned private sanitarium treatment.
Mrs. Fred Vorhes and Mrs. Henry Schroeder, wives of Laporte businessmen, were arrested in Wabash by Special Detective Gowing on charges they eloped with William Cosley of Omaha and Emil Kneiss of Pittsburgh. They were escorted to Laporte for trial after a pursuit through South Bend Elkhart and Goshen.
Judge Morris ruled that Lewis Wales George Wales and William Lockridge were restrained without due process. They will be released immediately. Haley Gipe remains jailed after arrest near the July 9 death of Mrs Starbuck and her baby found in an abandoned well.
The Indiana Populists at their state convention in Indianapolis on September 1 nominated Leroy Templeton for governor and W B Gill for lieutenant governor with O P Hanna for secretary of state and Allen Jennings for state auditor. W B Wolff was named treasurer, N Holcomb attorney general, E A Wadsworth reporter of the supreme court, and W E Hurley for superintendent of public instruction. Two supreme court judge candidates were left to the state committee.
Harry Snyder a Cincinnati youth was arrested by Officer Enoch Check of Washington Indiana for beating H N Hicks of that city out of a fifty dollar board bill. He pleaded guilty in Washington and was jailed after a two dollar fine plus costs.
In federal court Indianapolis Sept 3 Tefft Weller Co Einstein Wolff Co and Shoninger Bros of New York filed suit against L B Root Co owner of a large Terre Haute department store asking that it be declared involuntarily bankrupt.
Nashville and Bedford dispatches report two incidents in Indiana. Sandy More, 25, was whipped near Elkinsville by about 10 masked assailants who he could not identify. In Bedford, aeronaut S. E. Thompson of Indianapolis fell a quarter mile in a parachute mishap and sustained serious injuries.
Francis Hampton of Jasonville writes Terre Haute police seeking his wife who has left with five or six children. He states she is addicted to running away.
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