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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
Fragments reflect global quirks and opinions from 1908 to modern times. Jokes on juries politics and fortune tellers mix with comments on Germany money scares the Denver Pueblo wife story and laughs at Star Spangled Banner.
Hetty Green signals trouble for New York Central noting could aid shareholders if many pensioners of Chauncey M Depew were cut loose. A Montreal report says Grand Trunk Railway plans liberal pensions and retirement for 200 aged workers. Hartford Courant says storms are mysterious but local depressions bring small wonders as the globe faces harsher weather.
The New York World asks what would happen if every price drop halted purchases. If consumers abstain, sailors and workers lose income to buy farm and factory products, and key trades like shoemaking and tailoring crumble without demand for shoes and clothes.
Reports from Milwaukee indicate the white pine weevil is damaging Wisconsin forests by feeding on new terminal shoots. The Bureau of Entomology is preparing control directions, while dealers may raise lumber prices a few cents per M as a result.
Richmond will gain a vaudeville theater costing about 75000 dollars. A fox chase will be held at the Gibson County Fair in Princeton next fall. Evansville is described as a metropolis in a new directory noting a population around 80000. Samuel Cade, Fountain County’s largest landowner and richest man, died last week. A Watson and Goodwine Club with 100 members forms at Matthews, the first in the state.
A blast of 4000 pounds of nitroglycerin wrecked a powder mill at Millers. No fatalities are reported, though the explosion caused extensive damage to the mill building and surrounding area.
Noblesville businessmen organize a civic league to push for stricter liquor enforcement and to elect trustworthy leaders. The group aims to improve local governance and public morals through coordinated civic action.
A Shelburn blaze gutted the Tay lor hotel causing about $10,000 in damages. Twenty guests fled in night attire as flames forced a rapid evacuation. The fire department reported no serious injuries.
Governor Hanly orders sheriffs to swear in deputies and organize regular patrols across counties in Southern Indiana to curb Night Rider depredations. The move aims to increase local law enforcement presence and deter criminal activity.
Mrs. Madward Rea, age 54, poured kerosene on a coal fire and an explosion fatally burned her, igniting the house. Firemen battled the blaze as investigators began inquiry into the incident.
The Marion federal building project will start immediately after Congress appropriated 100000 dollars. In another item, James Weaver of Waynetown found a teakettle partly filled with gold while raking his yard.
William Spurgeon of Lawrenceburg reports the drowning of his children Herschel aged 9 and Shirley aged 11 in Newton pond about fifty yards from their home. Local tobacco raisers in the Han over neighborhood received letters warning them not to plant tobacco this year.
Russell Lewis aged 15 in Metamora caught a large fish causing excitement. He suffered an epileptic fit and rolled into the water where he drowned.
Harry Hunt of Milton asserts he won a tobacco championship by smoking eighty two cigars and three 110 cent cans of tobacco over a three day period.
Two young Watts girls aged 7 and 3 died when a blaze started by the pair while playing engulfed a barn at their father William M. Watts residence in Worthington. Fire officials said the incident occurred during their play and was accidental in origin.
Judge McClure of Elwood sustains remonstrators from the Second Ward, leading to the closing of nineteen of the twenty three saloons in the city.
For the first time in Boonville the old Blue Hour laws are revived. The mayor orders the police to eliminate all forms of gambling as the city faces gambler problems.
Members of the Richmond Ministerial Association appeal to influence church members to enforce a stricter closed town policy in Richmond. The effort aims to restrain outward movement and enforce communal standards amid local tensions.
John W. Call is appointed postmaster of Gary and the office is advanced to third class with a $5,600 yearly salary plus expenses. The previous postmaster Knotts, first in the steel city, earned $75 monthly and paid his own expenses, totaling nearly $300 a month.
One hundred Logansport fishermen organize a fishermen's protective association to shield members from Deputy Fish and Game Warden Fred Gallion actions. Gallion has made numerous arrests for illegal fishing, but the defendants have been acquitted.
The Grand Central Traction Company filed an 8.6 million dollar mortgage in Bloomington with Chicago Title and Trust Company. The plan calls for an Indianapolis to Trafalgar Nashville Bloomington Bedford West Baden French Lick Mitchell Jasper and Evansville line with a branch from Bloomington to Terre Haute.
February bulletin shows the southern sanitary section had the highest death rate, 3.9 above the state average. Northern section with 899,960 people reported 1,076 deaths, central section 1,118,576 with 1,337 deaths, and southern section 675,649 with 981 deaths. Northern and central rates were 15, southern 15.7, total deaths 3,396.
Announcement that Thomas Taggart will build a second hotel at French Lick costing 350000 with 200 rooms. Architect W H Floyd of Terre Haute holds the contract for the elaborately furnished new building. Reports show increases in personal crisis cases, homicides, and accidental deaths in 1907.
A report to the Board of State Charities from 92 county auditors shows most county poor asylums with farms that are not self supporting. In 1907 Jasper and Warren counties yielded receipts $100 to $300 above expenses, while about a dozen other counties had receipts at least half the maintenance costs. Counties named include Ripley Jennings Boone Hamilton Clinton Tipton Steuben Jay Daviess Gibson and Spencer.
Fashion editor lists several Paris pattern numbers with Ladies and Misses shirt waists and jumpers in multiple fabrics and sizes. Readers are invited to send 10 cents and provide size name and address for pattern requests from the 400 Century Building, Indianapolis.
An article argues the modern American beauty requires about 200000 dollars from infancy to readiness for society. It details a trained household including a German nurse and international governesses to maintain nerves, temper, and ideal physique through careful supervision and staged travel.
Joseph Burns of Warrick county wrote his name and address on an egg sold locally on May 19, 1907. Months later Miss Nellie Briscoe of Bower Massachusetts sent a letter claiming possession of the egg. Burns traveled to Bower on April 1, left home for a few days, and returned with a bride. He is twenty two, son of a prominent farmer.
The Hammond Baptist church faces a possible schism as Dan Shannon the self styled Irish whirlwind evangelist delivers sensational sermons. Some parishioners defend him while about a dozen young women leave before his sermons end. Shannon claims Hammond is hell with a river running through it and Presbyterians who dance in this world are in hell with their feet dangling out of the windows.
The Indiana State Bureau of Statistics compiles church work data for 1907. Ministers' average weekly wage was 11.30 dollars and annual 588.39 dollars, with Swedenborgian highest at 1350. Total minister salaries reached 1,657,975.71 and denominational support 2,288,466.29. Indiana church membership rose by 70,490 to 1,003,145, Roman Catholic led with 210,438 members.
A New York writer describes Panama and Colon as dominated by saloons with 800 bars serving 12 000 residents. He cites 300 drunken workers on a Sunday, widespread debasement, robberies of men and women, and urges teetotalers be sent to the isthmus to resist temptations.
The Kankakee river fishing season begins with reports of large catches. A Chicago woman landed fourteen pickerel in one hour, totaling seventy two pounds eight ounces.
Albert Beck of Morocco owns a dog praised as a breadwinner. From November to March the animal earned an average $70 monthly by killing fur bearing animals, totaling $350 over the period.
A New York City window display at a small book store on Eighth Avenue showed a pile of Bibles priced unusually low with the boast Satan trembles when he sees Bibles sold as low as these. The line, quoted from Woman's Home Companion, highlights advertising boldness and the power of bargain branding.
A Sunday School lesson on Jesus humbling himself by washing the disciples feet. It cites John 13 1 15 and John 13 34 as guiding texts, outlines the upper room setting in Jerusalem on Thursday night, and presents questions on the events and meanings of the act.
Vague dialogue contrasts suburbs with city life praising freedom and neighborhood dogs, hinting at a broader theme of social life and space.
Towne is troubled by his wife’s severe insomnia each night when he returns home late. Browne- e was unaware of this issue before. Towne confirms the pattern and its impact on their home life as reported by the Philadelphia Press.
A backwoodsman fought a bear in a fierce close-quarters struggle while his wife watched. She later remarked it was the only fight she saw where she did not care who won.
In a terse dialogue, MacPherson cites a New York bank break in with a single cent left, prompting O Rafferty to ask for clarification. The remark underscores racial prejudice themes in a brief exchange.
A concise proxy quote notes that when wages fix the value of labor, the work loses its worth. The remark reflects a recurring debate on labor value and compensation in industrial societies.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a clash over trimming facial hair during a Populist gathering. Delegates insist shaving would erase distinct identity, fearing resemblance to Bryan Democrats.
A survey notes Newfoundland hosts vast lakes covering about one third of the island, with 687 named and 30 000 unnamed lakes and about 4000 miles of coast. A Berlin wine dealer was convicted for selling 33 000 gallons of artificially produced Rhine wine. A German family with Michael Streckendorfer and sixteen sons travels from Iowa toward Oklahoma. Lozenges sold in Britain and Wales labeled licorice or chloro-dyne lozenges contain chloroform or sedatives. A cow theft at Novery Savoy causes a bride to be hurled into a cow house during a wedding breakfast, leaving the bride seriously bruised.
A Oswego Mont woman’s eye trouble is linked to coffee and cured by Postum Food Coffee after three months. She reports improved vision and no further eye pain and notes no medicines were used. A friend also switches to Postum for dyspepsia and headaches with quick relief. There is a closing line “There’s a Reason.” credited to Postum Co.
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