08 Apr 1912
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1912
Page
1
The Snow Leopard of India is described as a rare, wild, and dangerous predator that roams above 11,000 feet. Native superstition surrounds it, and hunters risk entering the high ranges to pursue this elusive creature, a goal held beyond the hunt for other mountain game in the region.
Public expression of Indiana residents endorses Doan's Kidney Pills as providing relief for kidney pains and backache. Letter cites experiences from 1897 and 1904, mentions purchase at local drugstore, price six0 cents, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
A Montgomery Advertiser passage recalls old fashioned figures and memories across rural life. It highlights an elderly man with squeaky shoes in church, a cowbell listener, a bonneted girl awaiting Sunday company, a schoolboy with a slate, a housewife counting quilting holes, a trap setter, a milker, a boy carving initials on a tree, a youth bowing to elders, and a perilous Friday night hunting scene with a black companion in a cane patch.
Brantome tells of two French captains who, though close, fought in anger. One is disabled, the other suggests pretending to wound him so reconciliation is possible. The victor wears the other's blood in a sling and proclaims a minor wound. The wounded man recovers slowly, and they soon become close friends again.
A home cold treatment promotes breathing relief by steaming with HYOMET in boiling water under a towel for 5 to 10 minutes before bed. It claims to clear the head by morning and advertises HYOMET and HYOMBI products sold at local druggists for fifty cents a bottle.
English prison pits were vaults where criminals were kept chained. Bristol housed a pit as late as 1815 with eighteen steps, a seventeen by nine foot cell, and seventeen inmates nightly. Warwick’s octagonal dungeon, twenty one feet across and eighteen deep, held forty two men who drank from a cesspool stream and slept on their sides without adequate guards or protection.
The Aero Club of America and regional clubs plan an 1810 mile trans Midwest aeroplane race starting and finishing in Chicago this August. Routes include Milwaukee Cedar Rapids Des Moines Omaha St Joseph Kansas City Jefferson City St. Louis Indianapolis Cincinnati Columbus Cleveland Toledo Detroit and back to Chicago with stops at multiple cities. Prize fund totals 100000 with 25000 grand prize plus 5000 and 2500 prizes and special awards. At least twenty pilots expected to compete.
In Madrid on April 8 a Carliat demonstration in Eibar district Vergoa turned violent with knives and guns. Radicals led the attack, civil guards intervened, one man was killed, three severely wounded and many others lightly wounded. The clash ended after aides were subdued.
The French warship Firant capsized in rough seas off Tangier while carrying Russian minister M. Botkine and French charge d'affaires Beaumarchais his wife two children and two nurses to a steamer bound for Marseilles. The children and nurses and a sailor drowned. Beaumarchais is in precarious condition.
The body of Stephen Dixon, about thirty, a carpenter living with his wife and two children, was found partly in a brook on the outskirts of Brook Ossining. Police reported more than thirty stab wounds to the face neck and chest and noted his pockets had been turned inside out.
Forecaster notes a warm spell with temperatures climbing tonight and continuing Tuesday. Expect mild conditions across regions with residents advised to prepare for a gentle uptick in heat and light humidity.
Final report calls for extending Interstate Commerce Commission authority to all waterways and applying rail style rules. Proposes government share in Lake Erie Ohio River canal approaches and Army engineers at no cost. Recommends US Army survey for Lake Sarnia Lake Michigan barge canal with feasibility and cost study, funding limit of 15000 dollars.
Rain dampened an Atlantic City boardwalk parade drawing about 100000 visitors. Winds swept the esplanade as hosiery bonnets and costumes vied for notice, while heavy showers interrupted the afternoon event and steady rain lingered into the evening.
A Washington weather bulletin notes near seasonable temperatures nationwide with light rains this week. A cooler spell is forecast to spread across the eastern regions Monday, followed by rising temperatures Tuesday and through several subsequent days.
Chicago woman Louise Vermilya charged with murder of Richard T. Smith saw a hung jury and was discharged by Judge Sullivan. Vermilya said the outcome felt like a victory and she expected to be freed soon. Also reports an old coin find in Morgantown West Virginia and a fatal drilling accident in Bradford Pennsylvania.
A description of the gibbon, a small frail ape weighing about forty to fifty pounds, with square-set head and upright gaze. It praises its dexterity, grasping ability, and intelligence, noting how gibbons move like rope walkers and cross gaps by swinging between trees.
The men of the Thomson Methodist Episcopal Church in Wheeling West Virginia aim to raise eight thousand dollars on April 8 to build a modern clubhouse adjacent to the church. The facility will feature bowling alleys billiards and pool tables and other amusements previously restricted by church rules.
Coshocton Ohio April 8 The village of Adamsville declares itself the most healthful in the state. Dr W C Kinner the village physician lists thirty five residents over eighty years old among a group led by Aunt Bell who is 101.
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