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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
3
Dunham escorts a frightened young woman to a dinner hosted by a friend, while a judge reveals a troubling incident from his office. The tale unfolds with music, social intrigue, and a hint of a missing girl linked to an elevator and a confidential affair.
A refined young pianist enthralls a crowd including Mr. Bowman and Tryon Dunham. The girl’s performance draws rapt attention as she masterfully executes Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody with dazzling technique and expressive nuance.
A weary young musician, pursued by fear, nears departure after an intimate evening. Tryon Dunham offers aid at every turn, arranging train plans and funds while safeguarding her anonymity from curious guests. She hesitates, clutches a ring, and seeks Pittsburgh or Chicago as a distant refuge.
Dunham and the girl flee in a dim carriage after a tense goodbye. She fears discovery and contemplates solitude, while he urges cooperation and offers help, insisting the ride was not an imposition and seeking more details to aid her.
Dunham helps a frightened woman by arranging a suitcase and a private drawing room on the train. He enlists the conductor to guard her, promises to monitor her via telegraph, and parts with a light farewell as the journey proceeds, with the tale to be continued.
In a western town two farmers discuss after a cyclone hits the area. One asks about a pew baron’s injury rumored from the storm while the other jokes he has not found it yet.
The Baltimore Sun notes Maryland oyster farming could greatly expand. Leased holdings rose from 1,200 acres to about 30,000 in 12 months, with more applications on file. If trends continue, cultivated oyster areas may double next year, with 309,000 acres available and potential annual income near 20.97 million dollars.
A fragmented line contemplates future state funding and its impact on roads schools and taxes with a questioning pause. The text hints at expectations of improved infrastructure and public services once revenue grows, contrasting with potential tax implications.
The article recalls Mrs A Alexander MacLachlan, former president of the Women s College club, arriving late to meetings. On a tardy afternoon she found her seat taken and others presiding. The acting leader then introduced the late Mr MacLachlan to take the chair.
Grant county seeks parole for Frank alias Fanny Brown a black man imprisoned since October 8 1909 for arson after long pursuit and murder charges. Brown faced two trials with evolving charges and a 2 to 21 year indeterminate sentence served partly in a reform school and state prison with attorney T B Wheeler backing the case.
Walter Kinder, whose son was found in St. Louis with a note claiming the father had no home and could not care for the child, returned to Bedford today. He faces a desertion charge by his wife and is held in default of a $500 bond. Kinder and his wife divorced last September. the two younger children were given to their grandfather, George Kinder.
Peter Kotomo and friend Kotomo broke a scarlet fever quarantine in South Bend on November 28. They occupied a house with Joseph Hordach, later tied to exposure of thirty to forty people. Kotomo’s wife and baby were in critical condition from exposure as authorities investigate.
Joseph P. Hayes and Edward Miller beat Thomas J. Fitzpatrick in a ten hour corn husking contest on the Great Miami river bottoms. Hayes and Miller husked 197 bushels to Fitzpatrick 192 bushels as a $100 wager tested endurance with no meals.
Edward Morton in Clark county jail broke out of the Indiana reformatory where he was serving a life term for the murder of Charles Bartle on August 21 1913. He fled when Sheriff John B Carr entered to assist a drunken inmate, and was at large for more than an hour before recaptured.
Henry Witts, a farmer near Edinburg, was attacked by two men while husking corn on Saturday. He identified the assailants after they refused to leave, and the sheriff was notified but could not locate the attackers.
Charles A. Davey, jailed for obstructing justice, was sentenced to one year at Fort Leavenworth and then to serve the remainder in St. Joseph County Jail. He has begun serving the sentence in South Bend.
Morton Dailey of Orange county, known for hickory bottomed rustic chairs, shipped fifty fat possums from near Paoli on November 28.
The Frank Middleton bakery in Marion Indiana a large central city facility was practically destroyed by fire causing an estimated loss of eight thousand dollars. The blaze was attributed to spontaneous combustion.
Tipton November 28. John D. Hollowell sixty nine and Susan Nunemacher fifty eight were wed in October. A divorce complaint followed only six weeks of married life as details emerge from the court filing.
Emil Weisman fourteen testifies he and his father shot a squirrel in their woods when a neighbor Genard Shipp’s farm prohibited hunting. Bufkins fired twice, wounding Emil who died from neck and heart shots. Neighbors say an agreement kept hunters off the land. About fifty more witnesses expected.
A roundup of Indiana items notes Newbern and Hartsville to form a chicken thief detective association amid rising poultry thefts. Other briefs report involve arrests for petit larceny in Shelbyville, a death by carbolic acid tied to a theft arrest in Syracuse, and a series of court actions across Warsaw Gary Elkhart Princeton Rensselaer Fort Wayne Evansville Anderson Kendallville Newcastle Jeffersonville.
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