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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
5
John D. Wells notes in the Buffalo News the nostalgia for songs sung by a kettle. He laments the hearth’s chill and the fading of old tunes that once told stories of sea voyages and distant wars.
In southern California a silent cowboy Dan Millar is bucked from a horse and wounded. He threads a granite shelf to a lookout, then fights off a blood scent driven cattle stampede and a fatal charge from a cow, using a last shot to halt the ascent and survive the peril.
Millar battles a raging herd on a jagged ledge then calls for water as cowboys from a nearby ranch help him to safety. The stampede calms after reinforcements arrive, and the injured cowboy is carried to a valley ranch for aid.
The article examines the Hudson Bay Company's trading stance with North Woods Indians, praising its truthfulness and announcing strict ethics. It describes offering credit to August arrivals who supply eight months of winter needs, expecting repayment with furs in summer. debt is canceled upon the Indian's death.
In a lively quote from Puck, modern education is praised for Johnny’s progress as he nears high school. The dialogue notes his fine marks in crafts like whittling and beadwork, baking powder biscuit, and sewing, with hopeful assurances about his future success.
The Bureau of Labor reports wholesale prices for 1906 rose overall 5.6 percent from 1905 with rises in metals and implements and lumber. Food and clothes also climbed, while drugs and chemicals fell. The report notes price highs in December 1906 and outlines factors influencing price changes.
The article traces bread’s dawn from Sarah baking flour and water paste for Abraham to early public bakehouses in Rome by 680 B.C. It cites Pan as bread guide, Ceres guiding Greeks, and Megalarte Megalomaze teaching kneading, noting Romans’ gruel diet before baking evolved. Despite centuries of progress, bread shows little overall improvement.
A short exchange from Illustrated Bits features a magistrate questioning a prisoner after an alleged theft. The prisoner denies stealing the watch and explains he won it, claiming the bet involved taking it from a man when the thief was robbed.
Auditors detail 638,879.01 spent to furnish 63 basement rooms of the capitol with metal furniture, thermostats, and chandeliers. Of the total, 614,365.18 was paid to Pennsylvania Construction Co. for metallic furniture, 5,700 for 38 trolley ladders, and contractors John H. Sanderson supplied the fixtures.
Pennsylvania boards receive circular urging accuracy in May enrollment counts under Carroll law. The act requires using 6 to 16 year old enrollment returns for one third of state school appropriation, replacing fall counts.
J. W. Thompson sold 1000 acres of coal land on Muddy Creek Cumberland Township Greene county to Gilmore Coal and Coke Company at 2400 an acre. W. H. Bailey of Waynesburg sold 10 acres to the same company at the same price. The new block adjoins 1350 acres recently bought by Hitchcock and Andrews Steel Co. and Youngstown Iron and Tube Co. of Youngstown Ohio.
Thomas W. Harvey, teller at Enterprise National Bank of Alle gh eny, was convicted in United States District Court on 38 counts accusing him of falsifying bank entries. He was acquitted on three counts of abstracting money and misapplying funds. Harvey was not in court.
The Fayette County Bar Association unanimously endorsed Attorney James Clark for the new orphans' court judgeship and urged Governor Stuart to appoint him. Also notes pension for retired teachers and various state measures including meat inspection and freight rate reforms.
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