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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
6
A sweeping roundup highlights key domestic and international happenings across continents. Political shifts, economic developments, and regional crises shape headlines as nations navigate change, cooperation, and tension affecting global audiences.
Petrograd reports Russians recaptured most of the fortress triangle including Dubno Rovno and Lutsk. French and British say they broke through 20 miles of German trenches gaining two and a half miles depth. They took 20 000 prisoners and many guns. Souchez and Loos fell. Also reported sinking of the Chancellor with missing crew including G W King of New Orleans. Berlin notes big war loan oversubscribed at 3 0075 billion. Greece mobilizes. Mackensen retreating. Lutsk battle cited as Russian victory with 4000 prisoners.
Leo F. Troy known as Hard Luck Troy builds a 2 by 2 by 5 foot glass tank in his home parlor and learns that bass strike minnows mid body, not tail first. He trials minnow placement and improves his catch rate on fishing trips, sharing his findings with peers.
Arthur J. Reed of Denver reports a bizarre adventure after a jungle film left him shaken. He claimed an elephant attack in a dream but doctors diagnosed a flea bite on his shoulder, explaining the frightful encounter as a comic misperception at a Los Angeles hospital.
Oliver Hopps eight years old trades a bicycle worth twelve dollars for a goat harness and wagon. The goat William drags a lawn mower and cultivator across a five acre tract, keeping one and one quarter acres of garden in excellent shape after hours. Mr Hopps plans more work for William next year.
A New York animal pawnbroker programs pets for loans with care charges and no interest. Trainers like D Potter operate the shop offering dogs monkeys bears and other animals, including camels and lions, and have faced incidents where animals escaped their enclosures.
News reports describe a massive Allied breakout across the western front with 20 miles of trenches breached and more than 20 000 prisoners taken. German losses are estimated at 60 000 as French forces surge in Champagne and Artois amid heavy shelling and bayonet attacks.
Harry Gordon Sel Fridge, a former Chicagoan now a London merchant, predicts the European war will halt within a year if no decisive victory arises. He cites exhaustion of men finances and supplies as the major pressure on both sides.
Fred Saylor of Indianapolis was elected president of the Indiana Building Trades council during a Hammond gathering. New officers include B F Horton secretary treasurer Ray Abbott first vice president Thomas Joak second vice president E H Large third vice president W V Kelley fifth vice president C Kriden and others. The 1916 meeting will be in Gary per state federation choice. Resolutions urge amendments to the workmen’s compensation law a plumbing law and a broader state building inspection department.
Fort Wayne reports Frank Dawkins proprietor of Dawkins store shot an unidentified man trying to force entry. The body, found on Nickel Plate railroad right of way, appeared thirty five. A bullet entered an inch below the left collarbone, killing the intruder. Dawkins, a crippled bachelor, awakened by a raised window then fired. The victim remains unidentified.
A stranger used forged checks in Noblesville, forged to the Noblesville Milling Co and Union Sanitary Manufacturing Co names, for 7.50 to 10 dollars each. He bought groceries at a local store, took the bill cash, and had groceries delivered to 519 South Tenth Street where a vacant lot stands, aided by a man posing as his daughter.
Evansville on September 27 reports local Boy Scout officials presented to Mayor Bosse a plan giving selected members of the Boy Scout court of honor police power to assist the board of health in cleaning unsightly areas and aiding in accidents. The plan excludes arrest authority and will be reviewed by the city attorney for legality.
Sullivan, Sept 27. Miners with the Chicago Coal company strike after the mine superintendent refuses to remove pit boss George Houden. Workers cite incompetence and unsafe conditions, sparked when gas was detected and orders to leave the mine were given.
Evansville residents report John Riley twenty three formerly of the city has enlisted in the Canadian contingent and serves somewhere in France. He moved to northwestern Canada after leaving Evansville where he naturalized and took up government land. Born in Paoli.
Hiram Kindle aged seventy eight died of heart disease while seated in a buggy at Pioneer in southern Wabash County. He had accompanied relative William Shallhammer to Pioneer and collapsed as Shallhammer went into a store.
Miss Florence McCombs of Charlestown, a housekeeper for Charles Dorsey five miles north of New Albany, was struck by a Monon freight train while walking along the track near his home and was instantly killed. She was forty five years old.
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