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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1921
Page
15
A hunter visits a poul terer shop and asks for a pheasant but is told none available. The shopkeeper offers sausages instead, prompting the hunter to exclaim the joke line. The passage shifts to advice on proper outfitting for hunting and other tasks, touting quality tools, grades, and fair prices.
An Italian specialist, reputed as the most dangerous man in Europe, opens jammed safes by touch with a wire. He runs a small shop near Springna Lane and has been summoned by diplomats, physicians, and kings, including King Victor Emmanuel, to open prized safes without damage. He claims to diagnose lock troubles by feel, much like finding illness by touch.
J J Ruttedge, a farmer from Tonesfall, confessed with police that he and his wife doused their four children's beds with gasoline and set fire to their home in Calgary Alberta to kill all six in fear of a children's aid society taking the kids. He survived. a child was knocked unconscious and burned. The couple were charged with murder.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a disillusioned worker, a suicide after failure, and later mentions Villa in Mexico City with a company and a $200,000 diversion in Laguna region. Details are incomplete and names are garbled.
In Topeka three Kansas men find leisure in later life. Dr. A L N Lee, 80, retired Methodist preacher, wrote a 200 page history of the northwest Kansas conference, printed and bound it himself. Karl Stecher, 20, an artist, collects and mounts insects from six countries, his display shown in a Wichita bank window. Charles DeLeye of Emmet crafts stone decorations for his home, including a 12 foot long decorative wall mosaic of varied stones.
In Yosemite National Park a visitor named Keegan from Butte Montana attempted a death defying stunt by climbing over a rock ledge at Glacier Point. Superintendent Lowry summoned him to park headquarters and warned that such acts risked others' lives and could lead to arrest. The ranger stressed there is no difference between bravery and foolishness.
Lynchburg reports a father, Shuner, seeking ideas for the unnamed eighteenth child born to his family. He notes two years ago former President Woodrow Wilson named the seventeenth child Thomas Jefferson at Sielmer’s request.
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