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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
4
A writer advises readers how to find boarding without door knocking or street crisscrossing. The Gazette classifieds offer Munimakers listings, and placing a small ad in The Gazette Classified Columns can yield quick results, as the author did with a typewriter sale.
Brown fails to halt bribery case in which he allegedly paid a legislator to back William Lorimer for US senator. Judge Scanlon denies habeas relief, refuses to shield him, and Judge McSurely orders immediate arrest and bond forfeiture. Deputy sheriffs escort Brown to court.
New York June 8 At the Press club dinner honoring Glenn Curtiss J Bernard Walker announced Edwin H Gould offers 15000 to the first aeroplane that flies with two motors and two propellers or with either configuration The aircraft should have reserve power similar to a steamship or train Curtiss declined to speak preferring others to talk to the gathering.
William Slash, a Black man held on horse theft charges, escaped Butler County jail by blinding the turnkey with weak acid. He dashed the solution into the keeper’s face and fled a mile along the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad before being recaptured after a stout pursuit by Sheriff John B. Cauldwell and seven deputies.
In Columbus on June 8 Harry Stone a young farmer was killed when a Weat erville streetcar struck him as he rode a work horse toward his Nelds near Minerva park. The horse shied and backed onto the track, throwing Stone under the wheels before the motorman could stop. Stone was married and left one child.
In West Mary at Montclair Mineral Water Works a highly charged soda water tank exploded and instantly killed the new owner David Katz. His head was blown off in the blast near Asbury Park in June.
A vintage sales pitch touts a complete Hyomei outfit with Hyomel bottle and pocket inhaler for $1.00, claiming it heals inflamed membranes and cures catarrh, croup, asthma, and sore throat with a money back guarantee. An extra Hyomel bottle is offered for 60 cents at druggists and T. E. Hildebrand's.
Excerpt from Life and Art of Richard Mansfield recounts William Winter’s final hours with Richard Mansfield in May 1907. Mansfield, weakened and emaciated, expresses fond memories of Jefferson paintings, vows he has not lived a bad life, and foresees their permanent parting. Winter records the farewell and Mansfield’s grave fate.
President Brown of the New York Central, impressed by President Watt’s stance on railroad rates, plans to resume suspended Central work costing about 5 million dollars. Projects include station improvements, new facilities, track and yard upgrades. The Central will also halt orders for 3,000 freight cars valued around 1,000 dollars each.
Westminster Gazette recalls Xavier Bichat, renowned physician and anatomist who opened 625 bodies in one winter. On his deathbed he reveals one regret that haunts him after death, wishing he could dissect his own body to make further scientific discoveries.
A testimonial style ad promises a money back guarantee after two thirds of a bottle if not satisfied. The pills cleanse the stomach invigorate digestion and regulate the bowels with a trial to get well. Sold by all druggists.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report recounts a traffic incident where a driver claimed fault and explained dodging a baby carriage and twins in front of a streetcar. The punch line reveals the injured "victim" was only a dressmaker's dummy fallen from a delivery wagon.
The pearl hunters of Borneo and nearby islands practice a superstition in which every ninth pearl found is kept in a corked bottle with a dead man's finger. Seeds pearls are believed to reproduce, with two grains of rice fed to each pearl. Whites along the coast share this belief, keeping many “dead finger” bottles with nine to sixty pearls and double that rice.
Early writers attribute wondrous powers to toads and their bodies. Pliny claimed a small bone on the right side of toads could quell crowds and alter elements. He describes a method using boiling water and ants to reveal the bone for discovery.
Rheumatism in the shoulder muscles often triggers lama shoulder and responds quickly to the free application of Chamberlain's Liniment. The liniment is prompt, effective, and not disagreeable to use. Sold by all druggists.
A vintage drug advertisement claims Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets brace up the nerves banish sick headache prevent despondency and invigorate the whole system sold by all druggists centered on health tonics and patent medicine common in era newspapers.
A histology professor at an eastern college privately amuses himself with a pocket deck of red, white, and blue disks to illustrate blood cells. The red disks show white and red corpuscles, while the blue disks stand for venous corpuscles, eliciting his wife’s amused questioning of his habits.
A woman in police court pleaded for relief claiming she is mother of six. She said her husband returned home last week with no pay and has since refused to work, instead drinking heavily. She sought a remedy from the court.
New York June 8. President E P Ripley of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe rail road told a Washington conference with President Taft that the present situation justifies no investor in railroad securities He said the bill would terrorize railroads by removing ownership while giving the interstate commerce commission control He urged that if the bill passes the commission be given full power to set all rates The roads will cut expenses wherever possible to save money and freight schedules should not be allowed to increase beyond reason.
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University in a ceremony at the Sheldonian Theater on June 8. His lecture on Biological Analogies in History drew wide praise, touching on life, death, birth and change among species, races, and nations.
In New York June, last day of evidence in the sugar fraud case saw defense teams push a disputed cargo weight tabulation. Government objections led the court to bar the exhibit as prosecutors warned it could show fraud in sugar cargo dealings. Auditor Forster testified annual sugar sales near 150 million dollars and duties between 25 and 40 million. In Cleveland, a separate vagrancy case ended with Philip Smith sentenced to workhouse costs after a youth incident.
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