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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
6
A humor column notes the United States Senate has ninety two members while musing on topics from Japan’s taxes and oats to the idle rich, gas pipes, and European car prices. It jokes about mince pies sparking juvenile crime and mockingly suggests a Mexican volcano for sale to boost Congressional rhetoric.
A New York man suicide follows his wife’s late night absence. The report notes such responses as a troubling example of perceived threats to household order, reflecting era attitudes toward women and morality. A separate opinion cites India seeking home rule and suggests British rulers delay transfer of power to colonial subjects.
A California judge held that a man is not obliged to move aside for an automobile, though the decision implies the man may be considered foolish for insisting on his legal right in such a situation.
A young man told a girl about drying wet shoes with oats and sparked interest. When she said she had no oats, he erred by sending her a bushel of oats the next day.
Catherine Waugh McCulloch denounces a jury show for women as biased and unfair, arguing that slander targets all the girls and that they are all deemed pretty, provoking strong public scorn.
French military experts contend Japan would likely defeat the United States if war occurred. They also note a past belief from 1570 that France could whip Germany with minimal effort and time, reflecting historical overconfidence.
Public school teachers in New York press for reinstating corporal punishment for flagrant offenders after advocating moral suasion. They argue Solomon’s old-fashioned philosophy proved effective.
The mayor asserts that George Washington authored the idea that victors claim spoils, challenging reverence for the Father of His Country and suggesting Washington could be seen as an Ananias Club candidate of his era.
The passage argues science will prove the body acts as a battery generating subtle fluids from foods taken at banquets or free lunches. It suggests future times may see electricians consulted for illness instead of physicians, describing the current stage as transitional.
Rabbi Hirsch speaks in New York about how the modern telephone erodes private life, calling it an insolent machine that makes owners belong to all others with one. He notes the device is a nuisance yet its benefits outweigh drawbacks since many keep it in their homes. No law forces anyone to own one for friends.
Hoosierisms notes a 1910 population forecast for Linton of 25 000 amid a housing boom. 187 000 trees are planted on the state forestry reserve near Henryville. Eight year old Dewey Miles and his pit team were killed by lightning. A 96 foot Tippecanoe Monument shaft costing 24 000 will mark the Lafayette battleground. Mayor Heinzle orders temperance measures. Mrs Meglemer of Bedford injures her shoulder amid an abnormal cat incident.
The Gas City Commercial Club plans an appeal to Andrew Carnegie to assist in funding a new opera house for the city. The proposal aims to attract cultural investment and boost local prominence through a major philanthropic contribution.
The rattlesnake bluff near Poseyville was dynamited and sixty nine rattlers were killed. They had been biting and killing livestock, prompting action by local authorities.
The city council orders the one mile distant circus site annexed into the city limits to address license avoidance concerns and bring operations under municipal control.
Charlies Hillman and John Hillman, brothers, drowned while rafting logs on the Wabash River near Petersburg when the raft parted and the current pulled them under.
State Senator John Benz of Leavenworth, representing Perry Crawford and Harrison counties, dies at his Evansville home from carbuncle complications. The veteran lawmaker served in the Senate and was known for regional service across multiple counties.
Susan J. Smith, a wealthy widow, sued John Vaughan of Richmond for breach of promise seeking 10000 dollars and the jury awarded her 2590 dollars in damages.
Herbert H. Edwards a prominent Mason and Bedford politician died after falling from a second story window at his home. He passed away shortly after admission to the hospital.
While plowing a farm near Arlington, Robert H. Jordan unearthed a quantity of jewelry including watch chains earrings brooches breastpins and various other articles.
Within weeks the White and Wabash rivers will be crowded with mussel diggers seeking shells for profit and hoping to strike peaks that could bring small fortunes to hundreds of laborers.
Dr. J. C. Gaskill of Bourbon who claimed to have found a cancer cure died last week before traveling to London to demonstrate his treatment to the medical fraternity. His secret died with him.
Col. Benjamin E. Wallace, Peru showman, receives a record express shipment totaling twelve elephants weighing forty tons. The elephants, part of two herds that performed in New York all winter at the Hippodrome, incurred express charges exceeding $1,000.
Harvey Hinkle, a Bloomington man, was arraigned after shooting rival John McClintock. The defense plans to prove insanity at the time of the shooting while claiming his mind is normal now, a case likened to the Thaw incident.
Newton Parsley, a well known farmer near Nashville, was killed in a runaway accident while driving two young horses hitched to a corn-stalk cutter. He fell onto the moving knives and was terribly mangled, dying almost instantly.
A Norfolk area note reports Abner Sipes in Princeton Kosciusko County trimming his hair on the first Friday after a full moon for nearly fifty years. The column praises his long standing superstition and claims his hair shows the results of this routine.
Crop expert John Inglis wires from southern Indiana that wheat prospects are good with acreage about the same as last year. He notes excessive rain in the lowlands but says current weather conditions are favorable.
L. H. McGhee a Pur due University freshman was killed when he was struck by a Monon freight train. He reportedly boarded the train to ride to Bloomington for a university dance.
A filing with county commissioners seeks to establish a department for curing the liquor habit at the Marion county workhouse. Miss Alma Smith, Toch School teacher near Union City, saw the roof shake in a wind storm and, after calling fire drills, evacuated thirty pupils before the roof tore off and collapsed near them. No injuries occurred.
South Bend clubs hurried to ship liquor stock last week as officers closed in, amid a sweeping moral wave fueled by a fifty member committee formed to purge gambling and undesirable resorts from the city.
W. P. Lennartz of Notre Dame University won first place at the State Intercollegiate Peace Association contest held in the Indiana University student building. Oliver Wees ner of Earlham took second, with Curtis Shake of Indiana, Clarence Flynn of De Pauw, and Joseph W. Shank of Goshen College following in order.
James Huckins sixty seven died after a copper cent swallowed six decades earlier lodged in his stomach lining. An abscess formed recently and stomach acids dissolved the coin, poisoning ensued.
The temperance movement won a council fight to close saloons in the Fourth ward, the last dry ward after May. The council adopted an ordinance designating business and residence districts. Despite a petition of 246 Third ward residents opposing saloon closures, saloonkeepers were defeated by a unanimous vote.
A Hammond venture plans a $150 000 capitalization with Hammond businessmen subscribing all stock. It will soon build a Nevada laboratory to extract potash from sage brush, hoping government rights to sage brush on public land. The process needs heat water and gas, and aims to distill the liquid into vapor for production.
James Bingham will file suits within ten days against over twenty brewing firms in the state. The action seeks charter revocation and receivership to end brewery operated saloons and remove brewery ownership from about 3,500 of the state’s 5,000 saloons.
The March bulletin reports 3,201 deaths in Indiana this month versus 3,502 in March 1907. The death rate fell to 13.8 from 15.3 the previous March, reflecting a notable year to year decrease.
The president nominated Robert H. Bryson to be postmaster at Indianapolis. Bryson will succeed Henry W. Bennett, who recently resigned.
A fashion page showcases several dainty waist designs suited for morning and afternoon wear. It lists Ladies and Misses tucked shirt waists in varieties of lawn, batiste, linen, and silk from sizes 14 to 44, with materials like Valenciennes lace and piping, and notes a Paris pattern request with ten cents.
A collection of pithy observations from the Atchison Globe on manners, aging, social vanity, and human foibles. The writer notes that impolite people burden communities more than burglars and lampoons marriage labels, courtesy, and public behavior in comic, reflective prose.
A religious lesson on John 14 outlines Jesus’ promise of a Father’s house with many mansions. It covers the Way, Truth, and Life, and explains Jesus as Comforter and guide who abides in the Father, with prayers offered in his name and the invitation to join the heavenly dwelling.
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life after months of feminine illnesses. The letter promotes the tonic as a standard 30 year remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and other female ailments and invites women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
A New York Press quip notes that a person has two parts the body and the soul and that after death cremation leaves about three pounds of ashes while the soul departs. The remark reflects a humorous take on mortality and the afterlife.
A brief verse mirrors a sparrow shot in the air with a quail on toast as a playful, ghostly resolution. The retired New York Sun line frames the paradox of hunted bird and edible toast as a wry comment on memory and appetite.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages claiming a constitutional approach. The advertisement notes a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and promotes internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co as sellers and urges readers to try Hull's Family Pills for constipation.
A Yonkers Statesman exchange notes a case in which a man writes in his sleep, suggesting absence of responsibility. The dialogue contrasts Gotham and Yonkers views on accountability when a writer is unconscious.
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