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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
6
Fragmented archaic verse from New York based publication includes proverbs on prayer, time, trust, and social satire. It blends Hindu imagery with moral maxims, warning against hypocrisy and social folly. Strong, varied imagery appears with references to figures like princes and beasts, ending with a signature note from Arthur Gilterana.
Betty and roommates recount a near miss when a big red touring car and a green steamer sound off their sirens as a crash scare disrupts the Home. Mrs Dodd laments missing rides, while others seek consolation in a glib proverb and plan for safer outings. The board meeting ends with a dramatic honk from the vehicles.
A quirky reminiscence of a spent penny and a long wait ends with Mrs Wells receiving nine days later a gift of abundance. In a vivid streetcar tableau she thanks friends Sally Sloane and the Youth’s Companion circle, while Mrs Farwell looks on and the green steamer glitters nearby.
A reminiscence on the piano tuner trade notes a born talent for precise pitch and explains how hidden objects often reveal themselves through strange piano noises. An anecdote recalls finding a diamond bracelet and a Domitian coin beneath a grand piano, donated later with thanks and payment.
A collection of pithy maxims and quips on luck patience and human nature. The lines poke at money lenders weather forecasts aging dogs changing women and apartment living, ending with a sly reference to a New York Times essay.
Read in Montgomery Alabama the city’s largest electric sign dominates the skyline. Measuring seventy five by eighty five feet it is reported to contain around 2900 lights and serves as a landmark advertisement for the city.
Three men were injured when a broken rail caused a Pennsylvania Railroad freight derailment at Bentleyville on the Monongahela and Washington branch. Brakeman F. H. Tloyd Turtle Creek sustained head injuries, fireman I. H. Laighniey Monongahela arms and face, and engineer H. S. Brindle Coal Bluff suffered head and body cuts. The locomotive and three freight cars plunged into a 50-foot embankment. Liyod was trapped under wreckage and rescued unconscious.
Harrisburg report shows state receipts for the fiscal year ending soon may reach 35.5 million dollars, with last week totaling 28.73 million, up over 1908 and 1907 figures. Expenditures stand at about 29.48 million, leaving a balance over 8 million at month start, largely unreduced.
Altoona reports the most successful hunting party near Karthus in Clearfield County with a four pronged buck and four bears shot and three bear cubs captured alive in a cave. Washington notes Company HH NGP elected First Lieutenant Dulaney captain after 33 ballots with a November 30 special election planned. In Mahanoy City Arthur Kern 11 was killed by William Allman 19 during a mountain hunting trip near Gilberton. Auman discharged when Kern stepped in front of the gun.
Mrs. Mary Quinn dies from blood poisoning after a rusty nail was driven into her hand a month ago. She leaves husband and four children. Mrs. John Ferry, 38, dies from clothing catching fire on a hotplate. She is survived by husband and two children.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer aged 62 died from burns after a lamp fell on her while she sat on the floor sewing a quilt. She leaves a husband and four children. In a separate mishap Presley Hauger’s gloves were caught in a corn shredder crushing both arms.
A charter was issued to the Painters Run Railway Company to build two miles of railroad from a point in Upper St. Clair township Allegheny county to Mt Lebabon borough. The president is J J McAllister of West Deer township and the company is capitalized at $20 000.
Acquittals were returned in the Greensburg murder case of Mike Conda with Frank DeBonney and four co defendants cleared. Tocco DeMatta was acquitted in the Monessen murder case of Guinto Topuina. The Standard Steel Car Company plans to raise output to 60 cars daily starting December 1 and expand workforce as a new steel mill project is rushed.
After more than two years idle the Bray department of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company restarts operations affecting 400 skilled workers. The Bray mill is the second of its kind, the other in Pittsburg. It closed after Donner Brothers of Monessen charged patent infringements. President P. J. McArdle of the Amalgamated Association placed the mill on the unfair list, yet nearly all former employees returned to duty.
Four fatalities reported in separate incidents. Alexander Murasky, 16 months, died after being crushed beneath an electric dump at a Marianna mine. Paul Aleski Jr., from Dunkirk, drowned in Pigeon creek while attempting to retrieve a stick. Irrank Carlett, 18, a Welrpse mine driver for Monongahela Coal Co., was crushed from a car. George White, 29, killed by a freight train near California.
Water is hauled to Shamokin area collieries from a stream fifteen miles away to keep mines in operation. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company plans Susquehanna River water supply for Mahanoy and Shenandoah valleys mines, forty seven miles distant. Also notes the death of veteran editor John W. Rohrer at 86 in Kittanning, PA, longtime lawyer and public servant, former district attorney and legislator, editor of the Armstrong Democrat and Sentinel, and a Mason and church vestryman.
An auto struck the Majors buggy near Junction Park New Brighton demolishing a rear wheel and unseating J C Majors and his wife. Mrs Majors was badly bruised. Nearby Wesley H Snyder injured in a Pittsburg crash shows improvement after skull surgery. H C Chandler also injured can leave hospital.
Franklin-Edward Smith of Goat City says repeated burglaries over two years and a recent thief battle left him unable to afford staff. He announces he is quitting business after robbers hit his store multiple times.
William Addison Moyer of Beach North Dakota and Blanche B. Peal of this city married following a two day acquaintance. The pair met through a matrimonial agency and both were satisfied after their first meeting.
The Robert H. Black residence was nearly ruined by a fire of unknown origin. Son John Black woke to smoke and found the lower floor fully ablaze. He and his five sisters leaped from upstairs windows amid a loss estimated at $3,000.
Mrs. Mary Dinek, aged 73, died in McDonald four weeks after her husband. She had foretold her death to the hour, mirroring a prior prophecy, and her passing follows a family bereavement.
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