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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
1
A wide mix of quirky observations and brief notes from Goshen Indiana discusses morals, industry, theater, and current topics. Items range from a timber famine prediction and a professor of morals to a sensational trolley accident and claims of turning bodies into metal, reflecting a lively but miscellaneous page.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer comic scene on a back platform features a philosopher and a stout critic trading quips about misfortunes. The talk turns to stock and a Nevada mine named Honeycomb, with jokes about laughing at others and a wary tale of a widow hat causing chaos on a streetcar.
A Washington dinner tale recounts the late duke of Devonshire who trusted a racing prophets paper. At Goodwood the winner defied six predicted horses, and the duke quipped there is room for another prophet on that paper.
An instrument for testing street cars in operation records amperes volts speed and location on moving paper every five seconds. The device provides a graphical record of each car trip, more accurate than observer notes.
The Transvaal government plans to loan about 12 million dollars via a land bank that is opening to assist farmers in purchasing machinery. This move aims to boost agricultural productivity and modernize farming practices across the country.
Federal state and railroad interests clash over 38 000 acres in western Utah containing a pure salt bed up to six feet deep valued at about 400 million dollars. Claims were filed under 1901 law to seize saline lands. Utah may gain university and agricultural land, with Senate and Garfield urged to act on Southerland bill.
A Caldwell New Jersey grocer’s old gray horse Sam, once sober and trusted, has fallen on hard times after a colic episode and repeated drugstore prescriptions. Once a safe companion for children, Sam now wanders wayward, peevish and losing flesh, prompting worried questions at parlor and porch gatherings.
Victoria Peterson, once an aeronaut who fell from a parachute at North Park last summer, has undergone major surgery and rehabilitation. She is learning stenography with a loaned typewriter and received her first funds from Grand Rapids citizens. Artificial feet are being crafted, and she plans a public stenography office once stronger.
The Coolgardie gold discoveries of 1892 began with Bayley and Ford after three tries and water trials. They found a natural well, then a reef that yielded hundreds of ounces, driving a rush that produced 134,000 ounces worth £530,000 in nine years. Similar finds at Londonderry and Wealth of Nations followed, yielding thousands of ounces in short spans.
A Los Angeles Times essay extols California praising its climate fruits and plants noting Luther Burbank's work to grow potatoes and cure ills. It claims large flowers birds and a moral atmosphere with sunlight sea air improving mental and moral health. It contrasts Southern California churchgoing with New York and cites no rat restaurants or roof gardens.
A man on trial denies stealing a woman's pocket book claiming poverty and hunger. He questions why he would want car tickets a rag gum and a dressmaker's address. The jury or judge weighs the suspect's honesty as the evidence sticks.
Elbert Hubbard spoke to about 1,000 inmates at a state insane asylum when an elderly woman rushed the aisle shouting that she can’t endure the nonsense. The superintendent replied the outburst signals her first sign of returning sanity.
James Armstrong Chanier, kin of John Jacob Astor and brother of New York’s lieutenant governor, faces legal battles to reclaim control of a New York million dollar estate. He claims sanity and fights Bloomingdale asylum restraint while challenging Virginia decree recognition. His marriage to Amelie Rives ended amid subsequent nuptials and scandal.
Rudolph M. Hunter of Philadelphia claims to have discovered the secret to transmuting base metals into gold. He says he will keep the method within his family and may produce gold at 100 million dollars yearly, potentially destabilizing global currencies. Hunter, age 54, is noted for electric innovations including trolley, smokeless powder, and many patents.
Senator Samuel H. Piles of Washington is a staunch Roosevelt ally who imagines Japan threatening the Pacific coast. He advocates building more battleships to defend the white population and prevent a war with Japan, tracing his life from Kentucky slaveholding roots to becoming a leading Washington lawyer.
Augustus Thomas, famed American playwright, enters politics as a Bryan supporter and serves as president of the Bryan Progressive League. Born in 1859 in St. Louis, he pursued law briefly before a varied career in the arts and public life, writing for Nat Goodwin and Dustin Farnum among others and advocating education through his work.
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