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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
1
Editorial urges a ban on death dealing firework sales and promotes a safe and sane Independence Day. It notes 21 state fatalities and 163 national deaths last year, plus 5 623 serious accidents, and urges authorities to curb fireworks while praising Indiana’s June beauty and civic improvements. It also critiques tariff bill influence on prices and public voice.
Forty six indictments were returned by the Nevada grand jury against officers of the Wittaburgh Silver Creek and Florence Goldfield mining companies charging false mining output reports to the state bullion tax collector.
Company F could not drill Friday due to a Pirates of Penzance performance. Drills will be held Monday and Friday evenings at o'clock.
Mr and Mrs R S Townsend of Kansas City Mo are guests at J A Klingensmith s home and are Mrs Klingensmith s parents. They lived in South Bend about 25 years before moving west and will stay in the east for several months.
Table linen costs rise with wear and washing. Easy Tank laundry soap fights dirt and stains, easing wear and holes. If unsatisfied, makers refund two five cent cakes. Also ad for diamond rings from Brilhart Jewelers. Warning about Bright's disease and Foley's Kidney Remedy promoted locally. Fishing tackle advertised at Indiana Electric Co. c.
Aspinwall resident James Gibson visits with his parents in Philadelphia street while attorney Alex Mabon of Pittsburg plans a Sabbath visit with his brother in Church street. Iowa summer plans prompt Lloyd Martin to depart with family. Shrum relatives visit S W Guthrie household as Agnes accompanies. Miss Sarah Sansom leaves for a short visit to Kiski with A W Wilson family. Sayre trio Mrs J Clement Hasinger and kin enjoy a brief sojourn. Judge S J Telford returns from Knoxville after U P General Assembly sessions. Margaret Wilson and Alice Taylor arrive from National Park Seminary near Washington. Mrs Glen Lee of Elmira arrives to spend time with George Dickie family. Mrs Linus Lewis and daughter Reujba arrive from Washington where Reujba studies at National Park Seminary. J B McDermott and son William visit daughter Mrs Richard W Clements for the Sabbath. Mrs A W Diven of Martins Ferry arrives to remain in Indiana until after Edna Wilson and John G St Clair wed next week. Mabel Irwin of Sharpsburg arrives to visit W T Wilson ahead of the St Clair Wilson nuptials.
The notice compiles multiple rental listings and sales offers across streets: West Philadelphia, Gazette building, N Sixth Street, and Philadelphia Street. Includes six room houses, small houses with good lots, daily auto rentals, rubber tired runabout, four-year-old horse, tomato plants, and two installment plan homes near the Court House. Also requests for room and board near downtown and a call for young men to learn automobile work by mail with Empire Automobile Institute in Rochester.
Rome raiders posting at Caslon outpost guard a large rice stock at a brick granary when a herd of wild elephants arrives. The animals force an entry, devouring most of the grain after overpowering guards. A volley misfires, and the herd disappears into the jungle. One sentinel signals retreat as troops return.
The piece traces how days were once numbered from one to seven and linked to lunar time, gods, and Norse figures, noting Quakers in northern England who still use the numeral system for religious reasons. It also mentions how Mon to Sun origins tied to celestial and pagan deities, with Saturday to Saturn and Sunday to resurrection. An aside covers author initials and a misattributed work by Arthur Sykes. A brief item mocks a wedding organist who bungled the procession.
Fragmentary note from Creek Magazine mentions Chloe marriage and Eileen Vaas, with references to frigid husband and washings. The text is cryptic and stylistic, echoing a historical magazine tone and unclear events. The piece centers on union and social state in a cryptic, era-tinged style.
All justices of the New York Appellate Division concur in dismissing the writ. The court upholds the life sentence after commuting the death penalty for the murder of William Marsh Live and remands Patrick to Sing Sing. Justice Jenks notes that punishment degree is not dictated by the convict's preference.
Darragh, a chauffeur, received a prison term of seven to twenty years for the March 27 auto collision that killed Revinard Trimble in Singsing. The sentence was delivered at Sing Sing prison.
Chicago June 5 angered by the acquittal of two men charged with robbery in his court Judge McEwan denounced the jurors and ordered the defendants to shake hands with their friends in the jury box before discharging them with no pay for today He also ordered the clerk to turn over two revolvers found on the defendants at arrest and told them to keep the guns for possible later use. Elsewhere El Paso Tex June 5 an attempt to wreck the west bound Golden State limited near Doran left rails and ties piled on the track but a freight train hit the obstruction. Gratton West Virginia June 5 sixty five men rushed to fill striker vacancies in local railroad shops after a strike by machinists and apprentices.
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