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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1908
Page
3
Poetic fragment recalling old mothers with white eyes and tender, Sabbathlike calm. Narrator notes their sagacity and comforting touch as they cradle youth, evoking memories of garden walks, aged roses, and long-ago springs.
In a Torbolton Home for Indigent Females Mrs Serena Dodd and her niece Lydia Barnum organize a charity drive for The Ye Clothed Me Society. Gifts, from handkerchiefs to stockings, pour in as barbs of pride and generosity clash with vanity. A moment of moral reckoning comes when a Bible-reading aside reveals hidden items. Both women confess and vow to do right, ending with renewed resolve to complete the charitable effort.
A dialogue from the Washington Star questions the value of discovering the North Pole. The inquisitive person asks what benefit to humanity would result, and the traveler replies that it would prove there is a spot where no one asks if it is hot enough for you.
A holdup on the Dunbar road ended in death and severe injury. Mike Lemick of Dunbar, a Baltimore & Ohio railroad construction worker, died after being struck and left unconscious during the robbery. His companion, Mike Bogavitch, suffered a fractured skull and remained unconscious until morning, then was moved to Connorsville Hospital. The robbers escaped with $ fifty dollars and a $22.25 check.
A powerful detonation at the Pittsburg Illuminating Powder Company's mill near Fombell, two miles west of Zelionople, destroyed the building. Foreman Frank Stewart, 33, of Pittsburg, suffered severe burns while Samuel McDevitt broke his right leg. A prior blast damaged part of the plant about two months earlier.
A vigorous inspection program will scrutinize doubtful mines across Fayette Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. The mine inspectors led by Chief James F Rodderick will review Banning No 1 and Darr mine areas and have finished Naomi mine inquiries with recommendations to Naomi Coal Company forthcoming.
Coroner and borough authorities plan two investigations into the Berks county theater fire deaths. Coroner Strasser forecasts at least four arrests as he vows a rigorous inquiry into the blaze. Ticket taker Warren Jones confirms doors were halted and one exit bolted during the rush, noting collapsible chairs left in aisles may have worsened the fatalities.
Five men were injured and $12,090 in damage caused by an ammonia explosion in the private refrigerating plant of the Hotel Rappe. A five inch concrete sidewalk along 100 feet of Pennsylvania avenue was blown apart and one man was buried under debris. The incident prompted broad fear in Greensburg as rescuers worked the site.
In Wilkes Barre the pump house at Fernwood colliery near Yatesville, run by Hillside Coal and Iron, was blown up with dynamite. Officials and State Constabulary suspect Black Hand activity in a nearby dense settlement.
The President nominated Pennsylvania postmasters Jenny M. Smith of Coal Center J I Mie fit of West Brownsville GA Stoup of Oakmont for federal office in a series of nominations affecting local postal districts.
State Board of Pardons refused pardons for James Newton Hill and Howard Hall of Allegheny for murder and entering a building with intent to commit a felony. Isadore Cutler and Rocca Cirullo, both of Allegheny, were denied for robbery and receiving stolen goods and murder respectively. T L McMahon of Fayette, assault and battery. Barney Levinson of Allegheny, larceny. James Lemon of Westmoreland, felonious shooting. Rehearing denied for Stephen Rawley of Allegheny, voluntary manslaughter.
Two explosions rocked the home of Mrs Virginia Dillon injuring nobody inside when the house was wrecked by dynamite. R T Hickman a Black man was arrested after a revolver duel with officers and is hospitalized with two chest wounds. Police pursued him as he fled a field after an attempted escape. He is not expected to live and has refused to speak.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on January 19 Samuel Walker a miner from Beaverdale was burned to death when a shanty burned containing him and Walter Stonebraker who was arrested on murder charges. It is said the men quarreled and Stonebraker bore head wounds believed to be from Walker. In Corry the body of Piero Vandazza 22 was found in the Allegheny river near Salamanca with the throat cut and mutilated. Vandazza had been robbed of 40 dollars and murdered. two foreigners were arrested and confessed the crime.
Latrobe reports a temperance mass meeting in Derry where resolutions urge elimination of liquor among Pennsylvania Railroad employees. Committees to discourage drinking at end runs. more meetings planned at Pittsburg division terminals. Canonsburg board of health ordered to inspect seven acre pond fed by Chartiers creek after gravel filtration. creek serves Washington sewage at Arden, five miles away.
Under the will of John F Betz the wealthy Philadelphia brewer each employee receives a sum equal to a weeks salary. The estate also provides gifts to a church. A Greensburg laborer Frank W Howell 28 shot himself, leaving a note asking a former sweetheart be notified. West Virginia Connecting Railroad aims to build from Belington to Pittsburgh. landowners seek solid proof the road will be built. New railroad commissioners take oath February 8. Todd declines to comment on rate decision.
Mrs Merritt of Anoka Minnesota writes that she suffered back pain dizziness and worn feeling due to kidney trouble. After using one box of Dean's Kidney Pills she felt relief and believes they would help other women with similar symptoms. Sold by dealers for 60 cents a bottle by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger letter denounces sensational anti-Japan rhetoric in American papers. The writer asserts no sane person believes either government seeks war and that normal developments between the nations render such hostilities unlikely.
Mrs. Lillie Wilcher of 770 Eleventh St Chattanooga Tenn reports Cuticura cured her skin itch burning rash and tetter and also helped three babies with skin troubles. She notes a running neck gore on one baby and an avres covered head cleared by two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment, Feb 16 1907.
The tiny two room dwelling in Conway claims Britain’s smallest house status. The 300 year old cottage has two rooms of two yards square, a ladder to the loft with a four foot bed and washstand, and walls adorned by visitor names. The occupant pays seven and sixpence weekly rent and has lived there seven years, proud to inhabit the tiniest house in Great Britain.
Telephone communication has been established between several Australian stations via wire fences. It proves easy to converse with a station eight miles away using instruments connected along the fence lines.
A New York Mail item describes a honey tea with a clover centerpiece and place cards adorned with lovers and bees. Guests enjoyed honey sweetened tea milk and hot biscuits muffins on the porch while invitations echoed thimbles and the sentiment sweeter than honey.
A Wichita beacon item notes that table manners test real culture beyond appearance. In a dinner the host laid thirteen pears for twelve guests and after each had eaten the last one was offered. When lights failed twelve hands reached for the final pear, each too well bred to take it.
Gertrude Atherton asserts that any woman can marry any man she wants. The Washington Post laments daily changes giving men new worries.
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