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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
4
Fragmented text notes reform notions from political shifts and abolition echoes. References to Miss Sauiey of Washington, Fowle a leader, and a matron’s bedtime instruction mingle with mentions of Payne Bros and land price writings at Fairbury.
A collection of humorous maxims on marriage and money from a Frencesville Tribune column. It lampoons wedding gifts debt poverty and the idea that riches bring happiness. The piece lightly critiques vulgar language and temper while noting couples drift into double harness.
Word from Ohio shows the new two cent railroad fare law making travel cheaper and increasing ridership. It also prompts more workers to handle the extra business as railroads adjust to the lower fares.
Judge Artman of the Boone circuit court holds that A. C. Daily ex auditor owes the state 26435.50 for fees collected not lawfully due. Daily's term expired long ago and interest to date is included. Daily will appeal. The decision affects other ex state officers with large sums at stake.
Dr. T. Henry David, president of the Indiana State board of health, announced that every slaughter house in Indiana will be visited by inspectors to ensure sanitary standards. The program aims to curb disease risk and improve meat safety statewide.
Dr. David urges statewide slaughter house inspections and condemns filth in smaller plants while Dr. Hurty prepares to begin work after returning from Boston. In Indiana politics M. M. Hathaway contemplates 1907 campaign moves as Winamac backers favor Dave Bowman for sheriff and George Cox faces a county debate over restaging. A Wisconsin justice-elect Timlin calls for restricting fortunes and imprisoning millionaires who break laws in a Ripon College commencement address.
The April bulletin reports 2976 deaths in the state, up from 2639 last year, with about one sixth under one year and nearly a third over 65. Smallpox total 97 cases with no deaths. tuberculosis deaths total 411. The report notes year over year changes and age distribution.
A critic denounces the customary congressional tributes after a member or senator dies. The speechifying is called painful to families and hypocritical, suggesting the life of Representative Adams should spur reform in how dead lawmakers are honored.
Applegate receives another carload of salt described as Akron galt and the beat salt this side of Salt Lake.
In the Bronx Zoo a brown bear named Czar attacked Fred Schlesser as he cleaned a cage. Two other keepers Kruminsky and Noonan fought the bear with chains and poles for twenty minutes, freeing Schlesser who was taken to Fordham hospital with severe wounds and bruising.
John Burnett spent the day atop a 150 foot chimney at American Nickel works in Philadelphia. After a collapse in the frame scaffold, Burnett clung to the chimney top from 7 AM to 8 PM while thousands watched. Joseph Corbett, a rigger, rescued him as the crowd cheered.
The Punjab goats aboard the oriental steamer Mashona from Calcutta are described as large hump nosed savages with brick red hair. A Lascar aboard Musallee Mohammed Ali was butt by a male goat and knocked overboard but was rescued. A separate New York hospital case recounts a five year old boy with a tin disk in his windpipe removed after tracheotomy aided by X ray.
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