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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
3
A poetic column by Eothar McKinsey in the Baltimore Sun voices a group calling themselves idle singers and mathematic dreamers. They describe weaving silver and gold, dreaming beauty, and facing the world with creative labor as thunder and waves loom.
Arthur Gordon, arriving from Lusitania, travels with a nurse and a maid in Clifton. A phaeton crash injures a child but Arthur rescues it and, thanks to police help, ensures medical care. He discovers the maid is a local, ready to accompany him to a formal function and to explain American customs.
Fragmented verse fragment speaks of not failing to answer in time and reaching a hand to share strength, with hints of a shared source and a distant trial. The lines evoke a personal plea to connect, find support, and endure a looming challenge together.
A tense scene unfolds where Arthur Gordon detains a driver after a chaotic escape. A nurse, Dr Armitage, and a maid move a familiar stranger through a house as questions arise about a beautiful woman and her link to Milly's friend Anna Tinsedall. The puzzle deepens at the doorway.
Arthur Gordon meets Althea Ames at a party and learns his presence is a planned misdirection. Althea, daughter of Columbia Bridge Co. executive, reveals a staged притуп and invites him to meet her father at the company's office, promising a dinner that evening. Arthur expresses astonished delight.
An editorial in the December issue of the Mont hly Cyclopedia and Medical Bulletin argues child labor harms the nation. Dr John V Shoemaker notes adolescence spans ages twelve to eighteen and stresses exercise and proper nutrition to avoid physical and mental decline.
A humorous scene unfolds as Guzzle wakes his wife and faces a sentry. Mrs. Guzzle peers from a second story window asking if he is sober. He affirms and instructs her to say reciprocity.
A Cleveland Leader brief notes a landlord threatening to evict a hotel guest who cannot pay the bill. The guest asks if the demand can be put in writing. The terse exchange highlights pressure to settle debts in lodging disputes.
The article discusses the push for uniform municipal accounting across U S cities, citingWilliam Allen White on the need to reveal waste and corruption. It notes adoption in New York Boston Baltimore and Chicago, and state laws in Ohio Massachusetts Iowa and Wyoming. It highlights findings from New York’s Commission of Accounts and Boston Good Government League reports on coal contracts, water mains loans, and bid practices, and celebrates Massachusetts as a pioneer in municipal accounts with statewide leagues pressing for reform.
A Utica Observer Denmark correspondence reports several flying squirrels spotted in the central town woods. The creature uses a thin skin sail to glide between trees, a behavior once common in northern New York but now rare, as with other squirrels.
A beautiful young woman meets a real hermit at a cave mouth. She speculates on his past loves and wealth while the hermit explains his bond investments and why he moves on. The exchange ends as he notes crowds are coming and staying isn’t safe.
A humorous exchange shows a parent asking if poultry-keeping pays. The reply suggests it does not pay the keeper directly but benefits his son Jim, who benefits from selling eggs while the parent covers costs. The vignette highlights economic frictions in a household poultry venture.
A light exchange between Mrs Hoyle and Mrs Doyle reveals a domestic scene about smoking habits after meals. Honie Readlig notes the husband’s post meal habit while the sisters discuss home smoking.
Pennsylvania brief reports coke production in Connellsville and Lower Connellsville regions reaching record levels. Weekly output about 286000 tons, up 600 tons from the prior week, with two thousand cars shipped and ovens firing at higher rates. Labor supply tight as foreigners return and brokers offer $1.75 per ton. Appraisal work on 60 plants begun, with John M. Rayburn, J B Hogg, and John W. Graham appointed as appraisers.
Harrisburg reports that state funds for hospital and private charity building projects will stop unless a binding contract ensures the erected or enlarged facility benefits the public. Legislation contemplates bonds requiring signatures of directors or trustees for all private charities funded this year. State money would be a noninterest bearing lien on the property with recovery rights if the property is diverted from public use.
Irwin report states Mrs. Michael Braita was arrested after harming neighbor Mrs. John Petay and her two year old baby in a quarrel over a visit. The mother was knocked down and boiled water poured over her. the child was badly burned and may not survive. Braita held without bail.
Pennsylvania railroad officials announce the cresote plant for treating cross ties and timbers will start around July 1. Located on the Eastern division, it will process timber from Mt. Morris and other forests, costing over 2 million dollars with more than 300 new jobs. Open Shop notices posted by American Sheet and Tin Plate Co surprise workers at Shenango and Greer plants, wage scales due June 30, open shop in effect July 2.
Dilmon Prouty of Ruffsdale seeks to prove mental competency to manage his affairs after being adjudged lunatic. He presents about five hundred witnesses to the jury asserting his sanity following years of deprivation of an estate that would have made him independent since his majority.
Mrs William Roth on Malin street identified a thief who snatched her pocketbook. She demanded the return of the purse and the man surrendered it with contents intact. He then boarded a passing street car.
In Cambria Steel Company works Johnstown a converter dropped causing molten metal burns to six men. Joe Farleigh, 54, died. Dantel Patten and John Mehock severely burned but may recover. Three others suffered lesser injuries and went home. Also in Washington county a coal land deal filed transfers a 10-180 interest to Isaac W Lemans from John H Donnan and wife covering 95 tracts in East and West Finley townships for 468000 dollars. back taxes not included. Philadelphia reports the first conviction under buck shop prohibition with John A Boardman as the defendant.
Charles Bebout, 84, long kept in two upstairs rooms near Wheatland, was described as mentally deficient. His mother Mrs HE D Mathews and stepfather E B D Mathews faced neglect charges in South Sharon, posted $200 bail, and he is to be transferred to Mercer poor farm after a cleansing transformation.
Elden physician Dr D J Thayer of Elk county who vanished from home was found by four search parties in a Crenshaw woods. Suffering from cocaine effects he revived enough to swallow tablets from a watch charm before dying amid brush under a fallen tree. Authorities believe suicide was the intent. Thayer had a history of drug addiction.
Washington reports mixed postmaster pay changes with raises in Harrisburg Spartansburg Union City Vendergrift Warriors Mark White Haven and declines in Amblr Ambridge Diwood City Emporium Leetsdale Trafford City and Arnold.
Conditions in Westmoreland county show improvement for the first time in years. In the coke region about 2,000 ovens were fired last week with as many more to start in ten days. At Scottdale Meadow Mills began operations, employing 400 men, and coal mines largely operated full time for the first time in months. Operators expect all collieries in the area to run full time by mid June.
Kittanning and Leechburg Railway president F A Moesta offered a 100 dollar reward for arrests after a rock wired to a rail on a steep grade aimed to derail a street car with passengers last Saturday night. A work car crew spotted the obstruction and prevented disaster. Titusville high seniors refuse exam, parade through town. police guard school property following walkout by students. Alexander Brown dies at 80 in Bellairmon. once rejected by U S army medical inspectors at Civil War outbreak. Gaylord Church of Meadville is Navy Academy honor student from Annapolis Maryland Meade.
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