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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
5
The Baltimore Sun reflects on motherhood and childhood in a lyrical meditation. It portrays parents rising from prayers after tucking in sleeping children, cherishing faith, comfort, and an enduring hope that love will guide their little ones through childhood’s valleys toward a serene, heavenly home.
A newly married couple invite a friend to a simple home dinner. Birdie struggles to cook, fears criticism, and insists on learning, while Willie pushes for a nice meal at home. The evening reveals burnt steak, undercooked potatoes, and a hopeful pudding finale in a modest flat.
In a humorous Chicago News item, a couple host a dinner with jelly as the centerpiece. The bachelor guest endures awkward praise and overindulgence, while Birdie gleefully defends her cooking and offers jelly to take home. The scene feigns domestic bliss amid comic tension.
A New York Sun report quotes a foreign exec from a major U.S. shoe maker on how Britain's retail shoe system has modernized with centralized multiple stores. He notes price pressure on manufacturers from big English depots, improved window displays, American styling influence, and fierce combat among large retailers after the shift from older, cramped shops.
Sir Alfred Jones argues that sending a man to Oxford or Cambridge spoils him for trade. M Paul Adam, in the Paris Revue, contends France loses in commerce as businessmen abandon classics, losing mental training central to classical education.
A Tit-Bits piece discusses judging character from outfits and gait, noting hat angles, shoe wear, and walking styles reveal traits. Mentions Baden-Powell, Nat Goodwin, and detectives, with comic observations on boots and coats as clues to honesty, imagination, or indecision.
A Philadelphia Ledger item recalls a Spring Garden family returning from Rome where lavish hospitality greeted Vatican dignitaries. The mother invites her three small daughters downstairs to greet the father, but the three blond girls hesitate at the doorway. The eldest then explains in a mortifying moment that they prefer Cardinals to meeting the father.
The anecdote recalls Elbert Hubbard delivering a near end of lecture to about a thousand inmates at a state insane asylum when an old woman screamed that she could not stand the nonsense any longer. The superintendent replied that this was the first sign of her returning sanity.
A compact collection of wry maxims on love, marriage, and female psychology. Observations mix humor and irony about men and women, fidelity, desire, and social expectations, suggesting love thrives on paradox, self interest, and miscommunication.
Berlin’s 1906 population stood at about 2,040,148 with roughly 1,125,000 taxed for income. Nearly half earned under 214 dollars yearly, rendering them exempt. Of 600,899 on rolls, 315,610 earned 214 to 286, 226,678 289 to 714, and small cohorts above 714,000. over half earned under 214 and 56,611 earned 714 or more annually.
Dr. M. R. Combs a leading Terre Haute physician recovers from pneumonia after a heroic treatment. He was immersed in a cold water bath for three hours to shock respiration, with the death rattle ceasing and breathing improving. Union Hospital staff aided, and Dr Niblack proposed the ice water bath.
A vivid, almost lyric tribute praising apples as living, tactile, compact treasures. The speaker compares the fruit to a red cheeked companion, highlighting its beauty, tactile pleasure, and vitality, even imagining it as a small, independent life.
Pennsylvania officials press conspiracy charges against Homer L. Castle and associates for false financial statements tied to the Standard Title and Trust Company plan. Indictments name Charles Hunter Arthur F Williams D C Massington H F Aspinwall and others with misrepresentations. Separately widows seek damages totaling 950000 in a Dart Mines disaster case against Pittsburg Coal Company claiming negligence caused the fatal explosion.
The Cheat Haven Coal Company mine near Point Marion resumes, employing over 1100 at one of the largest Baltimore and Ohio Railroad area plants. Echerds seek 300 acres of coal and 200 ovens. Point Marion Window Glass builds a $30,000 18 blower tank factory aiming to run by September 1. Uniontown Bottle works to enlarge, with 100 additional workers expected upon September resumption.
During a lightning storm the country residence of George W. Elkins was struck and burned to ashes. The loss is estimated at 200000 with hundreds of dollars in bric a brac saved by onlookers. Mr and Mrs Elkins were away aboard their yacht cruising in New England waters.
E T Kurtz of New Castle has taken charge as receiver of the Washington County Coal Company, replacing N F Sanford. The move follows the New Castle Savings and Trust Company receivership, which held bonds of the coal firm and led to mutual agreement among stockholders and the bank.
Harrisburg. Governor Stuart's administration advances school payments promised, with warrants totaling $2,854,453 issued so far and payments continuing as fast as presented and audited, aiming for $3,000,000 by week’s end. Treasurer Sheatz oversees rapid disbursement.
Tony Domroskey and Tony Keveakey of Monongahela were sentenced to six months in the workhouse for attempting to pass a counterfeit bill. The note was a novelty item from Cassie Chadwick’s “green back” novelty house, passed as humor.
Certificate of incorporation filed for United Bases Company of Johnstown Pennsylvania to conduct general manufacturing real estate and related business. Incorporators include Charles Moses F B Hamilton W E P Latland with capital stock listed at $74. Also notes a new medical society in Apollo Vandergrift Leechburg with officers Dr J D Orr Dr T J Henry Dr J L Stahlman Dr J P Hunter. Alleged rioters Saul Evans and George Funkhouser held in $1000 bail for riot tied to July 3 fatal shooting of J M Kelly by Officer Charles Harvey.
A Clarion county report states James Erwin was plowing when lightning killed two horses valued at 400 dollars and lightly injured him. Two Producers & Refiners Oil Company tanks near Clayaville were struck by the storm, burning through the night with 1000 barrels of oil each.
Westmoreland county suffers its severest drouth in a decade with crops dying from heat and lack of rain. Water shortages hamper coke plants in the southern end. An appeal to the Pennsylvania Railroad seeks relief, citing large existing dams as a partial water source. jattal Church Debt Wipned Out. Washington.-Though the generosity of M. C. Treat a wealthy gas man of this place the indebtedness of the Broad Street Baptist church has been wiped out. Mr Treat announced that if the congregation would raise a small part of the $2,100 needed he would give the remainder. The Rev S J Parcell is pastor of the congregation. Mr Treat is a member of the First Baptist church.
Greenville plans for higher traffic as Beach Creek road opens. Trackmen rebuild the Jamestown and Franklin branch between Stoneboro and OU City to meet demand.
Peter Rutsek a missing foreign banker who owns banks in Connellsville Uniontown and Brownsville has been located in Hungary. The first positive information came from John Bilpuk of Dawson saying Rutsek landed there on June 28. An effort will be made to have Rutsek brought back for trial.
A director of the National Deposit Bank in Philadelphia says depositors will be paid in full within a few months after the bank was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. Milton C. Elliott of Washington, D. C. was appointed receiver and has taken charge.
Washington report notes no candidate stepped forward to fill the constable post in Amwell township after 10 years of J Calvin Miller's service. Miller says arrests during his tenure caused him endless trouble and even turned some friends into enemies.
Wealthy Robinson township farmer R G Weitzel sues J A McNall for $10,000 alleging alienation of his wiferens affections. McNall is linked to a well known Robinson township family.
S H Miller president of Linesville Trust Company and longtime Crawford county resident died at his home at age 76. Miller had served a term in the Pennsylvania general assembly. Beaver Falls mentions of streetcar line land purchases for right of way and limestone extraction. Mercer Republicans organize electing J A Kerr as chairman and S Y McDowell as treasurer, with resolutions backing Roosevelt and an anti injunction bill. Monongahela reports William Kistler, fire boss at Charleroi Coal, crushed between two wagons and dying two hours later.
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