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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1914
Page
5
A poem contrasts science and faith with lines on evolution and God the horizon autumn longing and the human drive for meaning. It cites Socrates and Jesus and ends noting a Christmas savings club advertisement urging women to save money.
A 19th or early 20th century advertisement urges readers to mail five cents to Foley & Co. Chicago with name and address to receive a free trial set including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets, advertised as remedies for coughs colds rheumatism back ache and kidney and bladder ailments. Ber Doolittle sells these in your town.
A rent plan offers a three room cottage in central Jeffersonville for $7.00 per month. It promises home ownership instead of paying $6.00 to $8.00 rent with no equity. Contact E. A. Decker at 722 Spring Street or call 836.F for details.
Indictments against George D. Metcalf an Oakland banker and David De Long a Coalinga oil producer were nolled in Athens Ohio court. They faced charges of obtaining 25000 under false pretenses by selling worthless stock to a Nelsonville banker. Metcalf announced he will make good losses.
A report notes that investors including widows and laboring men bought stock and will receive checks. Cable of Los Angeles, tied to Nelsonville banker Nelson, faces proceedings after an indictment and arrests of older men in California. He will be tried December 30 for embezzling funds from the defunct Merchants and Minen Bank of Nelsonville. Metcalf and De Long plan to return home today.
Five lions escaped inside a motion picture and vaudeville theater on Leighty Street in New York late Thursday afternoon. The animals injured several people, with Police Sergeant Samuel Glynn and Policeman James Craig among the wounded. One officer was shot by a fellow officer amid the chaos. four lions were captured, one fled into the streets.
Reuben F. McBroom, shoe store owner in Mobile and Pensacola and former Terre Haute resident, was shot yesterday by his wife Mrs Therese McBroom in the yard of their home. She surrendered to police on assault to murder charges and bond was refused. The couple had been living apart after a recent divorce suit.
Petersburg Indiana residents report a fire at the M. N. Stull residence near Littles six miles south of town. Mrs Stull reentered the burning house to save bedding and was overcome by smoke. miners entering to aid pulled her out as a stove collapsed through the ceiling narrowly missing rescuers.
Philadelphia notices Harry K. Preston a mining peer and promoter of gold mines took poison at his home last night while alone. His wife was visiting relatives and a daughter arrived home for Christmas. The coroner found no health reason for the suicide. Preston was 51.
John W. Baldwin former teller at Liberty National Bank is charged with embezzlement after a warrant by Bank Examiner Silas H. Cooper. Officials say he is short about 45,000 though alleged theft started with 1,000. Baldwin allegedly gambled on horses and bought a 6,000 foreign car. He earns 125 monthly, married with one daughter.
Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute successfully grafts a left arm onto General Trumelet Faber after his arm was lost in Belgium. The donor arm came from a similarly sized private. French war casualties show 54 percent returned to the line by December 12, with 24 percent on convalescent leave, 17 percent in hospitals, 1.5 percent discharged, and 3.5 percent dead.
Evansville Indiana December 18 Mrs W H Hadley offers fifteen square inches of her skin to save her 23 year old son after he was scalded when he overturned a pail of hot water in the kitchen. Doctors say skin grafting is the only life saving measure.
Popular Mechanics urges U S travelers to explore domestic wonders noting Americans spend about 300 million annually traveling in Europe. It extols Yellowstone Grand Canyon Yosemite Mammoth Cave Bad Lands and the Great Lakes, Pacific Coast fairs and Alaskan adventures as superior and urges taking advantage of home travel this year.
Mrs Catherine Randall testifies in Supreme Court that her husband William H Randall taught her to shoplift. He denies the charge as his father Reverend William Randall corroborates a claim of kleptomania observed after the couple's marriage.
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