15 May 1911
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1911
Page
1
The item lists subscription rates by mail for one year and one month and cites the Belo office and printing plant in the Masette Building, Carpenter Ave, Indians, Pa. It notes the Indiana Post Office entry as second-class mail matter and names Huaity and HL Jackson as editor and manager.
Editorial notes a three day national conference in Philadelphia with mayors engineers and civic leaders from major cities. Topics include park improvements artificial waterways street widths public buildings in parks and related planning issues. The piece warns against scoffers who view regulation as only for business and urges broader government roles.
Classified note seeks nine boys to work in a Dugan Glass factory and a carvada of wheat and oats straw for J L Orr at 215 31. A Romian-Gold cuff link with a diamond is lost. reward offered by S W Rose at the Bon Ton Store.
President Taft told a Harrisburg convention that government employees may organize but should be restricted from private union affiliations and political activity. He defended labor rights to strike yet condemned indirect boycotts and warned that government service may limit rights to petition and assemble. He urged balance with public interests.
A brief dialogue from Boston Tran features a young cynic and Jack betting on beauty. The quip asks if every woman is beautiful to someone and the reply affirms, counting herself among the admired.
Public notice touts a tablet pile remedy claiming to cure the inner cause without ointments or surgery. It cites Tom E. Hildebrand and druggists nationwide and offers a large bottle at 14 days’ treatment from Leonerdt Co. Station B, Buffalo.
A large crowd attended Lafayette's funeral in Edinburgh on May 15 as his ashes were interred between the paws of Beauty, the embalmed dog. Lafayette himself acted as chief mourner, seated in a curtained auto beside the coffin. In Akron Ohio the same day farmer Newman Adair died after heat exertion while plowing.
May 15 in Groonskig Pennsylvania Francli oon nae aged twenty five died by suicide. Police report says the deceased blew his head with a saboteua device. Investigating officials withheld further details pending autopsy findings.
Washington May 15 Postmaster General Hitchcock has designated forty seven additional postal savings banks depositories bringing the total to 176. The offices named will be ready to receive deposits June 12 including Homestead Pennsylvania. The Burglar's Umbrella item describes a disguised entry aid used by burglars: an umbrella housing a rope ladder grafted to a telescoping stick with hooks to seize window sills.
A recruiting sergeant converts a curious idle youth by showing a house advertised for sale “To Be Sold by Private Treaty.” The youth asks how a private could own a house, ponders over a pint, and the idea of joining the army solidifies as the shilling passes, per London Tit-Bits.
Tiny invisible creatures in stagnant water grow rapidly. Paramecium could, if surviving 850 to 900 generations, crowd all life from Earth and even push the moon and stars out of space. The text notes readers learned about this from Scientific American.
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