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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
5
Pemberton, seated with a stranger in a theater, receives a note asking to marry. After a dramatic chase to the registrar, they wed in a courthouse, only to learn the bride's fortune hinges on one year of matrimony. The hidden motive unravels as a long-lost photograph confirms love.
In St. Louis Miss Clara Ranke almost wed Charles L. Reid when an organ stoppage misled officiant Rev T L Mueller about the bride. Real bride Miss Caroline Loheide arrived, the ceremony resumed, and the poem of mistaken vows ended with merriment as Miss Kanke served as bridesmaid and the couple wed properly.
Leicester merchant and Sunday school teacher John Spencer, famed as a model youth, is unmasked as a prolific burglar. He used drugs to stupefy occupants, with over 40 burglaries traced but no valuables recovered, including a $25,000 jewel theft from Capt. Beattie's wife.
A visitor asks the sculptor about the rejected male figure and proposes buying it to display a spring suit line. The sculptor, lip tightening, tries to refuse, but words fail as he confronts the visitor’s blunt practicality and disregard for art.
Richmond, Va. Andrew Bazzle a 55 year old patient at St. Luke's hospital underwent surgery to remove nearly 100 pounds of excess flesh from his abdomen. Dr. Stuart McGuire performed the operation and Bazzle felt great relief after the tissue was removed. He is expected to return home in a few days. He weighed 400 pounds before the operation and said the weight had tired him and he could no longer stand it. He is married with a large family.
Kate Gorham, a cashier at a Williamsburg department store, lies in a New York hospital in critical condition after a wire parcel basket attached to a ceiling cable snagged in her hair, tearing nearly all of her scalp. Doctors fear for her life.
Twenty two poker players hid as if dead during a police raid on the Norwalk Social Club in South Norwalk Connecticut. Some leaped from a window to a pile of ashes while others sealed themselves in coffins and an attic to escape.
A gray-bearded rat at the Aiken lumber yard in Perth Amboy New Jersey nibbles tobacco from a guard named Ed Thompson who leaves a daily chew for the rat. The watchman and the rat have formed an unlikely friendship as the creature develops a habit of seeking its chew.
William Miller aged 65 of Loganville near York Pa lies in critical condition after being gored by a wild bull on his farm. The bull chased him around the barn yard and would have trampled him when his straw hat blew off. He crawled under a fence as the animal headed for the hat, but the injury includes torn neck muscles and ligaments and several broken ribs.
A writer in Engineering World notes marine borers teredos and limnoria ravage wooden piles in San Francisco Oakland and Seattle. Creosote offers little protection, with piles lasting eight months to fifteen years depending on treatment. Concrete piles and reinforced concrete foundations are urged.
Howard W. Dubois warns that mining fraud through salting can occur inside mines or in engineers samples. He notes costly preexamination salting, but emphasizes saltings of engineer reports and altered mine books to show fake profits.
A curious phosphorescent larva from British Guiana near the Brazilian border, called Macadoubd by natives, was exhibited dead in England. Believed to be the larva of a beetle, it glowed with a ruby light from its head and a double row of continuous phosphorescent spots along its body.
The instructions describe making barium paste pills from barley meal and precipitated carbonate of barium in specified ratios. The mixture is formed into hazelnut sized pills and inserted deeply into mouse holes while still soft.
A Norwegian inventor Bjarne Cramer has patented an automatic coin sorting device described by La Nature. The inclined conduit guides coins by weight through varying aperture heights to separate them into receptacles, with a vibratory motion inside the column and centrifugal ejection at different openings. The device is already in use in Paris mercantile houses on Rue de Grammont and is expected to aid any business handling large coin volumes.
A new churn invention mounts a cream receptacle on a spring arm. The arm oscillates to move the can in a figure eight path, churning by vertical motion and friction on butter corpuscles, with a wall bracket allowing placement and a half turn for frame alignment.
A naval officer argues accidents among nations' ships are tied to high efficiency and disciplined training. He cites English maneuvers in fog and weather as highlighting the inevitability of risk, asserting chalked-Up inevitabilities are price of keeping a modern navy at peak readiness.
Prof T D A Cockere of Colorado University describes a well preserved Miocene wasp from Florissant Colorado. It belongs to genus Paratiphia and shows wing venation identical to the modern form. The most striking feature is an imperfect vein that persists in the present insect.
A New York area bishop visits a city family and their Irish nurse Mary. As the child nears bedtime the nurse, unaware of the bishop present, blurts a line about the dark and the Protestant bishop. Laughter follows as the clergyman admits the joke.
In some regions a fetid ordol revival appears on cars as guardian figures. Owners customize the front with grotesque imagery to deter accidents, featuring styles like a police officer with watch, a barking car, and a crowing rooster.
A brief comic exchange between Mr Crabbe and another speaker explores ideas of perfection in men and the roles of Eve and Adam in a light humorous vignette. The dialogue hints at a playful debate about ideal partners and the nature of flaw.
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