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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
1
A fragment recalls talking animals and rustic labor as a cow, hen, parrot, and hired man debate daily work and wages. The tone fits a joking rural scene with characters questioning value and utility, ending with a quip on art versus labor.
Miss Callonby and Bennie Purvis argue over a proposed engagement. She refuses marriage, declares no future, and Bennie insists he will not be pestered again while professing his own resolve. The exchange centers on which suitor she prefers and his demand for finality.
Bennie tells Miss Callonby he plans to sail for the Philippines, hoping for a better position. She pleads for him to stay, questions whether a second request would change his mind, and watches him depart with a heavy, unresolved tension.
A New York Sun excerpt recounts Judge Tom of Wayne County Pa narrating a tale about a harsh, curiously mixed character who fished Lake Lahore. The story blends humor and rough-fiber anecdotes of a man who curses, wrecks a night of fishing, and treats bait and minnows as dramatic theatre.
T B Sweet, a Topeka capitalist, stopped in Abilene for breakfast at the best hotel. He ordered eggs and was served a bowl containing a dozen hard boiled eyes. He protested the quantity, while the waitress explained that it was "a regular cowboy's breakfast."
A Baltimore American verse recalls a proud observer watching Billy march in a parade. The speaker describes his tall, erect bearing and the crowd’s cheer as he passes, outshining others and bringing pride to the admirer. The piece centers on admiration and communal celebration of a local figure.
A collage of witty lines and quotes from older papers including Philadelphia Record Chicago Daily News Cleveland Plain Dealer Punch Washington Evening Star Chicago Daily News alt formats and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Notable exchanges feature debates on ignorance versus happiness and future ambitions like becoming an aeronaut.
A Bowen News reflection defines home as a blend of shelter and family love. It urges making children feel a joyful, loving home beyond brick and furniture, a center of care that shapes character and guides toward a heavenly home after life ends.
A local prophet tired of being ignored at home pivots to profit by predicting a surge in Agitated Copper. He insists his warning will trigger a rush to buy, and the crowd responds, buying up the metal and boosting his own fortune.
The Parla bureau unveils a lumber-piling device akin to ice hoists. Dr George L Adams is named geologist for the Philippine Mines Bureau, while a Western Nebraska expedition studies three toed Miocene horses led by Albert Thomson and including Dr W D Matthews of the American Museum. Dr Dinger of Amsterdam reports radium treatment for trachoma. A meteor crater near Meteor Arkansas is linked to a meteor, with Dr George P Merrill confirming via deep boreholes. Wind power remains a focal for lighting. England studies average winds to show feasibility with backup gasoline motors for calm periods.
The Chicago Tribune notes odd telegraph lines including adobe pillars near La Paz to Oruro in Bolivia and a growing bark cloth tree pole system in Uganda. It mentions 156 mile line length and insulator setups in Indonesia style roads, with poles clearing llamas and donkeys.
A Kansas country school board writes on a blackboard a clever mnemonic rule to recall colors of the rainbow by Vibgydor and to remember presidential cabinet ranks using St Wapnia, listing the first letters of state treason war attorneys scherff postmaster general navy interior agriculture.
A preliminary injunction prevented Punxsutawney Water Co from turning off service or collecting from customers until a pure supply is provided. Judge John W. Reed served the order on Charles H. Ratz in Brookville amid a petition signed by 166 residents. At Brookville next Thursday witnesses will testify as the court weighs continuing restraints.
American Steel and Wire Company takes over Carnegie Steel plant at Donora Washington Pa. and will run it jointly. Carnegie furnaces and blooming mills to reopen with over one thousand workers soon. The American plant has operated since built while Carnegie mills have been idle for months.
In Erie a wall toppled while site cleanup after a major fire, killing three workers. John Degman, 30, Almond G. Aubrey, 29, and Thomas Carroll, 26, died. Several others were injured but expected to recover. Mayor Block had overseen the site.
John Myer, a prominent Italian resident in Zollarsville, was stabbed with a butcher knife at an Italian restaurant after a loan refusal. He died almost instantly. The town lies 12 miles from the nearest city.
A $25,000,000 mortgage from the Consolidated Springfield Water Company to the Columbia Avenue Trust Company was recorded here. It secures an issue of 6 percent gold bonds and transfers to the trust company all the water company stock plus the capital stock of four absorbed firms.
New Castle negro Charles Wier tried death by hanging in a lockup cell after fearing he killed his wife. He was cut down by Sergeant Patrick Farrell and charged with felonious assault with intent to kill. The wife has a bullet wound and is hospitalized. Washington reports Rev. Dr. W A McConnell resigns after 43 years as pastor of Mt Pleasant United Presbyterian church Hickory due to ill health.
Bethlehem Manley EB Cutter resigns after a decade as general manager to take a similar post with the Minneapolis St. Louis Iowa Central Railroad. The move surprised Cutter’s friends and colleagues.
A 10 year old boy, John Galéecka, was struck and killed while trying to save three cows from an Erie railroad locomotive. The cows escaped unharmed.
George S. Young was appointed burgess of Parnassus to fill the unexpired term of John C. Orr who resigned to move to Denver, subject to approval by Westmoreland County courts.
Revised returns from all Lackawanna County districts show Hon. TP Pat Nicholls, Democrat, reelected to Congress. Farr received 15,858 votes while Nicholls garnered 16,652, giving Nicholls a 764 vote plurality.
A special election will be held in Ward City on December 17 to vote on a proposed bond issue of 16.06 dollars for a municipal electric light plant.
McKeesport police and residents seek a stranger calling himself Professor who posed as an eye specialist. For 1 dollar sixty cents he sold prescriptions and urged five cents worth of diluted witch hazel. No remarkable cures were reported, but many locals claim the treatment opened their eyes.
At the instance of District Attorney J P Culbertson quo warranto proceedings were begun to revoke the charter of the North Side Rifle and Gun Club of Parks township. Three alleged stewards were convicted for selling liquor without a license, and authorities assert liquor continued to be sold illegally.
Frank D. Roberts was arrested at the instance of Superintendent J. Bell of the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in Pittsburgh on a charge of embezzlement. He reportedly collected fines totaling 120 dollars from the society and failed to turn the money over after losing his commission.
The State Health Department plans new tuberculosis dispensaries in the coal region and western Pennsylvania. This adds to the nine existing county seat dispensaries with nine more to be opened.
I V Thompson touring car struck and killed Lorna Lannon the child of Mrs Mary Lannon a widow as she crossed the street. The vehicle carried a group of women and a chauffeur and was moving slowly at the time of impact.
Rev. Father Bernard Hehl of St. Paul of the Cross monastery South Side collapsed with paralysis during funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Greenewald at St George's Roman Catholic church and died moments later before a physician could arrive.
In the Florence mine blaze at Jon Wargd's home Sunday morning a 38-year-old daughter sleeping behind the kitchen stove was overlooked during rescues and died from burn injuries. The fire drew excitement as family members escaped and others were rescued.
George Shenberger aged 65 was killed at Lander's stock yards when a drove of mules stampeded. He was knocked down and severely injured by the animals' hooves as he crossed the yard.
Frantic barking from a small dog aroused Mrs. Hannnan Kruger's daughter at her home near here. The girl woke in night clothes to find the house in flames and escaped unharmed thanks to the dog's warning.
Delegates from 30 counties gathered in Harrisburg for a conference on proposed fish laws. The Lancaster County Fish and Protective association organized the meeting under the state fisheries department. Commissioner Meehan urged changes to the Ash laws, noting the 1901 act contains absurd items but also beneficial features.
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