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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
3
Police seek Charles Franklin of West Hammond after warrants sworn for cutting off a cow tail as a prank. Fort Wayne opens its first public playground drawing thousands of children. A Wyoming like round of accidents, insect bites, hospital stitches, and local civic efforts fill the region’s news.
The Rev Hiram W Thomas a leading Chicago clergyman died in De Funiak Springs Florida after years of ill health. He was expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1875 for heresy and later founded Peoples Church in Chicago. He was born in 1832 and survived by one son Dr Homer W Thomas of Chicago.
Two armed youths robed the Valley Hank bank in Santa Chira California taking 87000 from the cashier and tellers. They fled in a waiting car but were captured hours later seven miles away without resistance. Police describe them as well dressed and likely from good families.
A Georgia act bans Negro secret societies from using insignia and ritual work, including grips, in orders formed with whites. It effectively suppresses the organization of Elks and Knights of Pythias, while Black Masonic and Odd-Fellow groups may continue by altering their budgets and names to avoid similarity with white groups.
English merchants fear a boycott may harm imports and threaten profits. They warn a drop in English goods into India could shift gains to American, German, and Japanese merchants, risking annual losses around large monetary amounts.
A fragmentary verse passage speaks of silent watchers by a bed as night falls. It longs for no vocal prayers and a peaceful end, describing music as a guiding stream and a desire to lay down to die without further words. It references Maurier and ends with scattered letters.
Hartley Dale returns to his study after a revelatory night at Sherry's where his play’s triumph is echoed by an unseen admirer. A pale, undersized man confronts him with a revolver claiming to seek revenge over the actress Dorothy Barnes and Dale’s moral guilt, forcing a tense, rain-soaked confrontation that ends with a gunshot and a shadowy exit into the storm.
The honorable corps of centlemenat ares preserves a ring around the King of England, with scarlet coats and white plumed helmets. They attend levees at St James and Buckingham, keep passage to the royal presence, and have duties at court and Parliament openings. Their battleaxes trace back to the Spanish Armada.
A reflective poem fragment speaks of seeking no fortune’s smile yet desiring life’s golden gain while prayer guides every voyage. A stray observation notes a man with curly hair wearing his hat toward the back of his head in a casual portrait of everyday life.
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