25 May 1914
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1914
Page
1
An advertising snippet lists items from a clothing shop including Beach and Mohair Suits, Trousers with neat stripe, and Flannel Trousers. The fragment hints at mood influences on fashion, mentioning mood, gloom, and hopeful phrases framed as sales rhetoric.
London reports on Ulster protests as the Irish home rule bill inches toward its third reading in the commons. Armed resistance plans, distribution of arms, and potential callouts of volunteers loom in Londonderry and Tyrone amid nationalist and Ulster unionist tensions.
Purity Candy Company promotes LA RITA Chocolates for a dollar a pound and offers a postpaid full size box with six teaspoons upon receipt of $1 and five names. The ad promises delicious flavors and absolute purity from Middletown Ohio.
Former steamship magnate Charles W. Morse contends he will reveal a different story before the Interstate Commerce Commission than that told by Charles Mellen of the New Haven. Morse asserts Roosevelt sided with Morgan, claims Mellen concealed details about stock manipulation and watermarked capitalization, and says he may testify on the matter if summoned. Subpoenas target J Pierpont Morgan as the commission pursues Mellen testimony.
May 25 London reports say Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested again under the cat and mouse act during suffragette actions. A large procession to Victoria Park saw police break chains on Pankhurst and 15 supporters, while mobs clashed with male suffragists and Church protests followed. Also two deaths reported on the Baltimore Ohio crossing as Martin Coyne witnesses his father Patrick Coyne crushed between trains.
Wireless messages travel more easily at night than by day and in winter than in summer. Under favorable conditions at midnight in midwinter a message is said to be several hundred percent better than at noon in midsummer, a claim noted in The Barrier dialogue about tramps and a dog.
A citizen testimonial from Mrs. A M Jamison of Indiana Pa endorses Doan's Kidney Pills as effective for kidney troubles. She notes the product strengthens kidneys and acts as a system tonic, with 30 000 endorsements cited. Sold by dealers nationwide at 60 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
Timely facts on mountain artillery units and their role in campaigns against Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines. Describes mobility in hilly terrain, peacetime demonstrations, and the Mountain Battery Manual, detailing kit contents, pack transportation, and field gear for single gun sections and supply trains.
In St Louis on May 25, Rev Louis Palmant, leader of anti liquor drives at Westville, Wh, was found bound with a burlap sack over his head in an abandoned house near Columbia, Ill. He was abducted during the height of Prohibition drives. Authorities from several counties and Burns Detective Agency work the case. a car owner may be implicated. The preacher shows little flesh loss after captivity and was kept in a dark cellar with minimal food and water.
Weather everywhere remains cloudy with light winds tonight. Forecasts show muted temperatures and chances of brief showers in some areas as the evening progresses.
The text outlines mountain artillery supply in cold weather and peacetime, including rations like hard bread coffee meat and sugar, and bedding such as blankets and sacks. It lists unit organization from colonel to lieutenants, staff, and support personnel, noting wartime strength around 1,090 and mule herd growth from 980 to 1,113 with forty rounds per gun for a 36 gun regiment.
A Woodbury North Dakota initiative launches a boy’s day through the County Aenday Setloo and Gloucester County YMC A committee. Plans mirror mother’s day with a Sunday of church and Sunday school emphasis. Officials, judges, patriotic groups and granges urged to unite for boy friendly town and rural improvements. The Servant Question notes women would hire two servants if physically able, per Florida Times Union.
A healthful hair upgrade promises abundant soft fluffy hair free of dandruff with the first use. Parisian Sage is pitched as a safe scientific tonic that cleanses oil and dirt without harming the scalp. It is available from Tom E. Hildebrand or any drug store.
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