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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
4
A fragment from Francia Garvie in Youth's Companion reflects a family’s grief for a lost child. Lines express sorrow as they describe little footprints in snow leading to an unknown destination. The speaker pleads for guidance to find the child at journey’s end.
An 1906 San Francisco earthquake fire tale recounts how a house on Taylor Street survived while nearly twenty eight blocks burned. Mr Dakin raised the Stars and Stripes from the roof to salute the advancing ruin as a company of Twentieth United States Infantry observed from nearby Vallejo and Montgomery.
Twentieth United States Infantry on the northern slope of Russian Hill battle a fire at a row of houses. They break open doors and flood bath tubs with water then flood the site with carbonic acid gas to douse flames. A brave team lowers from the roof to direct a stream and extinguish the blaze, saving the old house at the end.
The new Texas onion industry, now worth about 2 million dollars annually from 2500 acres, has transformed land values. Land once considered nearly worthless near the Rio Grande now nets 300 to 500 dollars per acre, with owners asking 1000 to 2600 dollars per acre and average annual returns near twenty five percent.
A U S traveler offers a high price for a British collie owned by an old Scottish shepherd. The shepherd declines, insisting he cannot part with Jock, and warns the dog will not cross the Atlantic. A buyer returns later to find the bid failed as the dog stays with Scotland.
Turpentine production and resin work grew rapidly in Naini Pal Forest Division, India, during 1906 07. Profits reached 11333 dollars. Government declares industry profitable and will transfer the venture to private individuals, while tree tapping remains under government control.
A claim that the twenty-first verse of Ezra VII contains every English letter is cited, with the verse paraphrased as a decree by Artaxerxes to financial officers beyond the River and Ezra the priest seeking swift compliance from the people.
A collection notes military procurement 750000 yards of khaki for soldiers. Mentions Genesis 1 4004 B C. Reports disease pivot potato from Uruguay to France. Ships through Soo Canal total 16000000 this year. Kobe Japan grows from 190000 to 360000 in ten years. German army buys aerial torpedo rejected by Britain. Horne Bay England fogs rarely clear. Two big whales killed on Eden coast New South Wales. Mammoth Cave Kentucky found while seeking saltpeter in 1807. Congress barred ships sailing to Europe and foreign vessels landing cargoes. saltpeter for gunpowder.
Robbers looted Morris Sevicoss and a baldly described room, then set ablaze two store buildings and a residence owned by John Day in Wils county. Samuel Caplin, 35, perished in the fire while Sevicoss and family escaped by sheet rope. Water scarcity hindered efforts to check the flames. Deborah Belles, 80, living near Harmony, was drugged and robbed of 900 dollars and clothing after she slept through the intrusion.
Mrs Samuel Fitzpatrick of Colorado Springs Colorado claims land in Monongahela as an heir of Colonel Henry Baker a Revolutionary War officer. She sues the city asserting title to property valued at about 120000000 dollars.
In Schuylkill county the planned stop of Speaker Cannon is cancelled due to labor hostility and Alfred B. Garner's repudiation. Garner vows not to share a platform with Cannon and to vote against his re election if he returns to Congress. The Sharon W C T U adjourned with Emma Cover named national delegate and votes favoring local option and an anti cigaret bill. New Kensington doctors form the New Kensington Academy of Medicine with officers and post graduate study plans.
Pierre, a French peasant, reports yearly income around 1500 dollars from wheat sales and livestock. Expenses for a family of seven, labor, feed, and upkeep total about 978 dollars, leaving a profit of 521 dollars for the year.
Ebensburg Cambria county suffered a 75000 dollar fire on the 5th starting at 3 in O R Jones grocery wiping out several dwellings and two hotels the Central and Hair houses. The Griffith residence was dynamited to halt the flames. Carreltown fire company arrived but outside steamers were halted by word fire under control. Washington veteran receives 2 days pay plus clothing allowance in 1865 certificate worth 2.58 dollars. may have framed.
B C Laston, a 23 year old memory prodigy, claims to have memorized 40000 dates of world history since creation. An army officer hopeful, rheumatic fever redirected him after a meeting with the Zancigs in India. He practiced by copying dates from Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and reciting them until mastery.
At the National Barbers Association second day session officials backed a sanitary measure to be presented to the legislature. The group voted to discontinue annual meetings, choosing biennial gatherings with the next at Atlantic City from August 26 to 28, 1910. The article also notes a resolved strike risk at Lackawanna, reinstating two discharged switchmen on company conditions, and Washington residents planning permanent settlement in Vermilion Alberta with a Washington colony.
William McCoy an 83 year old man was sentenced by the Washington county court to pay costs and a 500 fine plus three months imprisonment after pleading guilty He asked for leniency claiming feebleness as he was led from the courtroom tears streaming down his face.
Mrs Betsy Freaman of Redbank near Kittanning marked her 114th birthday on Sunday with about 40 relatives and friends present. Despite her age she remains active at home and continues to perform many duties. Williamsport Fire Destroys Nail Works Mill with losses pegged at 75 000 to 100 000 and 260 workers cut from the payroll.
Fire believed to have started from an oil lamp explosion swept several Canonsburg business houses, causing about 381000 in losses. Three people were injured including Frank Blueber unconscious from fumes Julia Duichin overcome by smoke and Fred White badly burned. Apprentice barber Jeannette Carmen Sasso, 21, died by suicide amid concerns over an experimental artificial ice method. Diphtheria closes Salisburg schools due to outbreak in borough and extension areas.
In Marysville, U1 a jury in a Justice's court found a cat not guilty of killing four chickens. The verdict rests on self-defense as the main reason for the acquittal.
French scientists study a peculiar sand movement along northern coasts of Frange Belgium and Holland. A fine sand origin on the Normandy coast has surfaced as far away as Denmark.
Greensburg reports three men Mannis Sole 21 Joseph Eakens 17 and John Nowak 20 jailed on coroner jury recommendations for the murder of Clark Random 68 found near his cabin at Rumbaugh station Mammoth. Random died after being discovered severely beaten.
The Monessen school board did not elect a new borough schools superintendent to fill the vacancy created by Prof. Himelick’s resignation. Principal W. S. Rutherford offered his resignation last week and J. B. Polit of Springdale was named to fill the vacancy. There are several applications for the post. The piece notes New York City’s population will reach 11,006,090 in 1932 due to rising population.
The New York World extols the last half century as America's golden age of steel and freedom. It lauds Bessemer’s 1856 process and calls this era the pinnacle of human progress, highlighting emancipation from slavery and newfound dignity for labor, industry, and the press. It frames citizenry as uniquely proud among nations.
The plan to operate the new 1000 mile Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line by electricity from the Pacific coast is moving forward. Water power is abundant along the route, reducing the need for coal or oil. The Hartford Times notes that railway electrification is advancing faster than commonly realized.
NSW shows a nearly 8.6 million dollar surplus for the year while Turkey imports about 2 million dollars of paper annually. A Polish firm builds the first beet sugar plant in Manchuria near Harbin. Switzerland votes to ban absinthe manufacture sale and import. Brazil shifts flour milling away from foreign production. Rome votes 67 to 0 to abolish religious teaching in elementary schools. Japan spends 7 million dollars yearly on education. Chilean nitrate experiments aim to cut production costs by 50 percent. New Zealand reports a 45 million revenue and 41 million expenditures, leaving a 4.6 million surplus. Britain imports 140 million in timber with the US supplying about 22.04 million. German naval plans spark secession hopes totaling about 149,000.
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