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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
6
A wide range of early war reports detail naval losses and attacks. Gulflight and Europe torpedoed. Cushing reports air attack with no damage. Dun kirk bombardment and Ipswich bombing casualties noted. Armies clash around the Dardanelles and Sochaczew with ships sunk and positions captured. Civil and domestic items include dry laws, strikes, and trials.
Postmaster General Burleson announced in Washington that mail facilities would be extended to one million new rural patrons by July 1 through readjustment without increasing current service costs. Motor vehicle service will be inaugurated at postal centers.
The article notes the fast pace in New York dining venues with waiters urging quick turnover. Diners are rushed from tables after meals and coffee, while staff sweep away cloths and push for the next party. It describes crowded table d hote settings and watchers urging rapid departure.
In Boston at the Parker House the Mustache Club of America held its first annual banquet with 19 charter members from around the world. Guests included Beverly Mayor Herman A. MacDonald and toastmaster David Black of Glasgow.
The palace of the governors in Santa Fe, enduring center of Southwest history, housed 100 NM executives under varied regimes. It now houses the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Archaeology, and the Historical Society of New Mexico, with multiple libraries and archeological collections.
A mother asks how to cure her four year old son Charles from smoking. The doctor says essence of hickory applied on a switch is the only medicine, revealing the father taught the child to smoke at a year old. The mother withdraws.
Miss Bessie Byfield of Indianapolis a 1729 North Illinois street resident killed herself with cyanide of potassium in a Park Avenue hotel room while visiting New York. Farewell letters to her mother and sister expressed fear of losing her mind and asked not to mourn, signed Bessie.
At the eighth annual Indiana commandery meeting of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War at the Hotel English, Capt. Williams F. Ranke of Fort Wayne was elected commander along with officers and delegates to the Chicago national meeting. Delegates include Capt. William E. English and Maj. M. R. Doyon. Editorial men return home after Bloomington conference praised program. next meeting may be at Indiana University.
Specifications for a proposed public library were reviewed by the Indianapolis board of school commissioners in executive session. The library will occupy ground on St. Clair street near St. Clair square, with work to start in months. Estimated cost about 500000, ground partly donated by James Whitcomb Riley. Bond sales to follow bid advertisements.
Shelbyville May 3 three young men held here as suspects in a post office robbery are being detained as investigations proceed. They claim Louisville Kentucky roots and names Bryan Davis Will Davis and Charles Davidson. They sold 140 one cent stamps for one dollar to James Gatewood and say they bought the stamps in a Louisville drug store while en route to Mudlavia to visit their mother.
Kasota Minnesota tale praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for weakness and pains. Mrs Clara Franks from Maplecrest Farm credits the remedy after consulting a physician, urging others to try it. The advertisement invites letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice.
An advertisement urges parents to inspect Castoria bottles for the SV SEE signature and notes the product has been in use for over 30 years. The snippet also oddly juxtaposes a marriage guessing contest reference with the Castoria message.
An old advertisement promotes Marine Eye Remedy Co. in Chicago claiming relief for watery eyes granulated lids and eye irritation. The copy urges readers to "talk less and think more" and offers a free book of the eye.
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