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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
5
A poem in dialogue form as Love passes by different life stages. A plower, a sower, and a reaper refuse Love’s summons, arguing they must finish work first. In each stanza Love offers escape to beauty, yet the speaker remains tied to labor and time until an old, weary choice prompts a final plea to follow.
A seven year old boy in a Paris hospital bed clings to a single wish Boum Boum the circus clown. His parents Jacqueline and Madeleine Legrand, torn by grief, recall his fragile joy as they seek the performer’s aid to lift the dying child’s spirits before death.
A clown named Boum Boum returns to a sick boy Francois in a hospital scene. The child, initially unsure, laughs and drinks medicine after Boum Boum’s appearance and antics. The clown claims he can aid recovery, while the doctor watches, amused and relieved. The scene ends with gratitude for Boum Boum and the family’s tears of joy.
Freight passing the canals at Sault Ste Marie and Ontario in July totaled 7,732,771 net tons with 6,273,734 eastbound and 1,459,037 westbound. Of this, 6,941,164 tons moved via the American canal and 791,607 via the Canadian canal, with 1905 and 1904 figures shown for comparison. The first four months of the current season reach 22,710,551 tons, below 1905 by about three million and well below 1904 by over thirteen million.
Zion Hill celebrates the centennial of Andover Theological Seminary with eleven students currently enrolled, an endowment of 1 million dollars, and professors outnumbering students. In 100 years 2168 graduates have entered Congregational ministry, while last year six earned degrees. The present enrollment is dubbed the sacred eleven by local town boys.
The king, delayed at the station, seized a passing cab to reach the Jockey Club rooms. Cabman William Challis of Newmarket is lauded, claiming the king rode in his cab and on his cushion, and tipped him, hailed by Pall Mall Gazette for royal recognition.
Tests in France show water can be sterilized with ozone at about a cent and a half per thousand gallons when done on a large scale. The finding highlights an inexpensive method for large scale disinfection using ozone in water treatment.
In April 1903 Miss Nelson toiled to protect her mother and two children as a vicious alligator attacked their home. She hurled a lamp, used hot coal, and finally struck the beast with an ax, saving the mother and children though she endured injuries and shock.
The New York Globe highlights Peary’s forty mile push to the high Arctic aboard the Roosevelt, detailing brutal ice, unpredictable seas, and near disaster. It notes eighty seven degrees six minutes as the record, cautioning luck and weather limited a greater achievement.
The article notes two sea riddles underpinning a story by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams in the American Magazine. It highlights the Marie Celeste disappearance of 1887 as the most copied marine event, a voyage from New York to European ports aboard a thirteen ship with thirteen souls.
A captain’s wife aboard fled in mid Atlantic and was later found deserted in perfect condition with belongings intact. No distress signs or explanations emerged. The derelict Ellen Austin retrieved, then vanished with two crews, never to be heard from again, leaving the mystery unsolved.
A blind Fort Worth man relies on a loyal dog to navigate the city and fetch The Dallas News. The dog, shielding its owner from traffic, was injured but continued guiding him until their morning rounds were done.
Thomas Dyke of Mt. Carmel Pa faced a wildcat alone on Locust Mountain after a horse mishap near Ashland left him to walk home. He wrestled the animal as it sprang at him, breaking its back with a swift swing. A physician treated scratches on his face and hands.
Independence resident William Woodburn aged 71 was fatally injured by a vicious dog. His faithful collie saved him, fighting off the attacker and keeping watch for two hours until help arrived, prompting a Washington correspondence from the Wheeling Intelligencer.
The Sangeverla calenida is praised for sunny windows and porch boxes. Its erect, swordlike leaves give a striking look amid drooping plants. Thick dark green leaves with white mottling remain decorative, and in May and June it produces tall feathery white flower spikes.
Put the young roses that have just rooted into the cellar to avoid frost. Do not keep them too warm. Start early in spring indoors for rapid spring growth, then set outdoors after frost. Rose bushes may be cut back after the ground cools and protected with straw or old bags.
Instructions on protecting garden plants before winter. Raspberries may be laid down and covered lightly with earth while strawberries receive a coarse covering. Do not cover evergreen leaves too deeply. Tender plants kept for winter should be carefully protected.
The guidance covers grape vine spacing eight feet apart and ten inches deep, pruning to two or three buds. Between-row crops like potatoes or straw berries may be grown for two years. Two canes may grow the first year, then three buds kept, two canes in subsequent years. At five to six years, three to five canes may remain. cut old wood to about a foot. The young wood bears fruit.
During a severe storm in Washington DC, about a thousand trees were badly injured. The silver maple and cottonwood suffered the greatest losses, while many other species withstood the beating. Both favored trees are rapid growers, diseased, insect attacked, water hungry, and their roots invade sewers and wells.
Practical notes from Suburban Life on bulb planting for spring, building a cold frame, cleaning and manuring asparagus beds, repotting geraniums and begonias, inspecting and feeding bees, housing pullets, feeding bone, dressing hens, protecting dahlias, careful fruit handling, storage methods, plowing for pest control, and wrapping select fruits in paper for long keeping.
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