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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
3
A child named Paul imagines fairyland scenes with Princess Terrinin and the Wicked One. The princess and a kindly man discuss happiness, sacrifice, and a future with the child, who longs for bedtime closeness and a memory of love that endures beyond the story.
In the sandy deserts of Arabia whirling winds excavate pits 200 feet deep reaching the harder stratum beneath the great bed. The description notes how aeolian processes shape the landscape, revealing underlying geology.
A Birmingham Age-Herald tribute honors reporters who tell the sum of happiness sorrow and pain. The poem praises their unseen devotion and courage as they rush through storms to report human stories.
A collage of quips from various era papers highlights jokes on love, ambition, penury, and social quirks. Dialogues touch on marriage, work, mobility, and manners, with light literary sprays and punchy one liners. The snippets showcase period humor and social foibles across multiple newspaper voices.
A mixed page of translated maxims and aphorisms from various cultures and thinkers. The collection includes German, Arabian, Greek, Danish, Latin, and modern quotes on thrift, freedom from fetters, forgiveness, unity, and work. Some attributions are playful or erroneous, reflecting the era's miscellany.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item praising a wife for intellect and skill at bridge. The speaker compliments Ihaya and notes her ability to keep score and play geora at Bridge, highlighting her notable mind and strategic play.
A German inventor Gustave Grzanna demonstrates the Grzanna telephone enabling handwriting and sketches to be transmitted over ordinary wires. Messages arrive as fast as written, with live descriptions and drawings usable by reporters, militaries, and manufacturers through a light-ray system and automatic development.
A horse belonging to M. D. Swisher refused to move with the bit and halted on a ledge above Box Canon as a cloud burst caused eight feet of floodwaters to rush down the gulch. Swisher held on for an hour on the mountainside while half a mile of the Box Canon road and bridges were washed out near Florissant.
A timid man amid crowded suburban commuters asks for space. A neighbor replies to read an advertising card. The brief moment of interaction shows a simple social exchange on public transit as a sign of urban life.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a classified style notice seeking space in exchange for advertising, inviting bids from Stringers Advertising Agency for a major Philadelphia space deal. The item highlights a space recruitment and agency engagement under local newspaper terms.
Philadelphia reports a head on crash on the Southwestern Traction Company line toward Chester injuring about sixty people with several likely fatally hurt. Among the seriously harmed are Edward Smith William Mullen Philip Hanagan George A Gaffrey Harry Potter N Poscovitch Hiram Nell and John P Chambers. The Baldwin Locomotive works tripper waited for a regular Philadelphia bound car and then moved toward the same track causing the disaster.
In Judge L W Dotys court juror William Guster rose in the box declaring I am not guilty as staves and lawyers rushed to him. Physicians called the man temporarily insane amid a prolonged ejectment suit over the Covenanter church property in Greensburg. Martha Cannon claims a half interest bequeathed by an ancestor while C C Hileman holds a full warranty deed. Trial continued with 11 jurors after the outburst.
Four damage cases from the August 1907 Kel ley station railroad wreck in Armstrong County were settled. Joseph Smith and wife Minnie Gerheim and Louise Gerheim received court-ordered awards after initial disputes with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Total claims reached 15000 dollars. designated grants include Smith 2000, Mrs. Smith 6400, Minnie Gerheim 1400, and Louise Gerheim 700.
Frank Moore was shot in the arm and thigh by a guard while fleeing arrest for robbery. He escaped from the Altoona hospital under guard and was later recaptured in the mountains, exhausted after a daring escape that could end his life.
The state department lists withdrawals of nominations including John Massey Prohibition for the Tenth Philadelphia assembly district John GC Had dock Democrat for Congress Eleventh district Luzerne Howard B Arrizon D W Salmon W A M Thomas Prohibition Assembly Seventeenth Philadelphia district. Certificates for Harry J Reily Republican and Joseph J Wittman Democrat for Senator Fortieth Allegheny district have been filed.
Mahoningtown private bank closed April 8 1907 will pay 30 percent to depositors within 60 days Receiver Rufus C McKinley announced. Deposits totaled about 100000. A year ago a 10 percent payment had been made. Forty five years in pen Uniontown. Judge J Q Van Swearingen sentenced Alex Townsend for crimes against young girls to 45 years in the Western Penitentiary. Pasquale Caruso and Francis Calonic sentenced to 10 years each for highway robbery. Uniontown. Automobile crash at William sport led to S M Graham vice president of Fayette Title and Trust Company losing his right leg.
Scranton reports Constable Patrick Nolan was fatally struck by a car driven by La Latte Bella son of Henry Bella Jr president of a local DuPont Powder branch. Nolan attempted to halt a speeder, ran in front of the vehicle and was run down.
An old hen pecks carpet tacks in a back yard. Homer jokes that the hen will lay a carpet, as his companion adds the quip in a lightiterary exchange from the Christian Register.
An explosion of dynamite against the wall of grocer Joseph A. Ganster's home wrecked the front and threw the family from bed but caused no injuries. Police had the house under surveillance after an anonymous letter warned of the attack. The blast rattled houses for blocks and left no immediate clues to the perpetrators.
A Pennsylvania Railroad West Apollo station safe was blown at 2 AM using two nitroglycerin charges. The safe and contents were destroyed, tickets and minor cash torn to bits. The robbers fled before finishing, and authorities believe tenfold the needed explosive was used.
State forestry commissioner Conklin orders strict pursuit of all proven arsonists on state lands as rangers and detectives intensify efforts to curb wildfires across Commonwealth reserves. In Kittanning, J P Mobley sentences fish dynamiters Galvin and Mitchell to 100 days in jail plus fines and six months more, after guilty pleas.
Deputy Attorney General Cunningham advised Deputy State Highway Commissioner Beman that the annual $1 tax assessed by road supervisors under the April 12, 1906 act applies to residents of each township but not to non residents.
Frank Habermann foreman at Tiogarewing's brewery sues William Welsh for 10000 alleging Welsh stole his wife’s affections, seeking compensation for broken relations.
David Reilley, newcomer from Buffalo, fired four bullets at his wife wounding her in the cheek before shooting himself. He died an hour later, the result of marital strife. In Trwin a separate blaze burned Mrs William Hensel, 60, to death while rubbish burned behind her home and $500 in bills carried on her was destroyed.
Washington report notes the Phoenix glass factory ends an all summer shutdown and begins double turn work. It states the Pittsburg window plate factory will resume operations soon.
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