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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
9
An advertisement touts PISD S TABLETS for diseases of women promising quick relief. It offers a free one week sample upon request and provides a postal address with a state designation for sending details.
A mangled passage recalls after dinner remarks and local quips about towns, men, and enterprise. The fragment hints at social vibrancy and competing crowds, with names and places obscured in OCR garble.
The article profiles James Bailey near Regina who turned 640 acres bought at $18 an acre into 19,875 bushels of wheat and 4,750 bushels of oats in two years. Land value rose to $35 per acre, yielding total crop earnings of $17,550 plus land value increases to $28,440.
A noon Sunday tornado tore through Terre Haute causing more than 20900 in damage. J W Chatteller's young daughter was seriously injured when their buggy overturned. Goldsmith's wholesale commission house lost its roof, Hulman and Company grocery roof collapsed, and Wabash distillery walls caved in, with many store fronts shattered.
The reading of bloodthirsty dime novels is blamed for a 16 year old boy's fatal shot of a playmate in Reading. Claude Williams, aged 16, allegedly shot and killed something unknown, then fled toward Kentucky shores. Neighbors note a troubled temperament after a quarrel over a minor issue.
A Pennsytvania Rail line flyer crashed a deflected switch near Lewsville causing the depot to be demolished. Otto Schoon the mail clerk was seriously injured but no passengers were hurt. Six people were injured and one probably fatally. The engine and first car passed the switch while the other cars derailed.
Clarence Liehty, 14, shot two playmates south of South Bend after they laughed at his threats to shoot them with birdshot. Victims Carl McCormick and Donald Foster, both 13, were wounded. they hid the incident until McCormick learned Foster was in critical condition. The boys had been forced to promise not to blame Lieh ay.
Etta Burha aged 20 of Vincennes was murdered by knife thrust to the heart from Fred Savage her fiancee who was arrested at the scene. The crime occurred as she tried to separate Savage and her father Jasper Burba during a quarrel while Nelle O Neal, a cousin, fled and may testify.
Father and son Stephen and Charles Cole were arrested in Washington on murder charges for the 1908 shooting of George Cole as he husked corn in a river field. They were released and later sued Abner Brown and John Allen for damages seeking $19,000.
Mayor-Elect W F Spooner distributed three tons of candy to 2500 school children at OKeefe s cigar store in Valparaiso to celebrate his win. Over 2000 adults saw the event as his friendship with children is credited to his election. Scott County voted dry by 375 in a local option election, with Scottsburg also voting dry after expectations of wets. Amanda Godsey of Terre Haute seeks 10000 from Robert Thompson for breach of promise after 16 years of engagement and housebuilding prior to their separation.
A patient from Little Rock Arkansas relates a year of itching and skin disease that resisted hospital care and home remedies until Cuticura Ointment, Soap, and Pills provided relief after two to three applications. The ad cites Henry Searle’s testimonial dated October 8 and 10, 1907.
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