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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1904
Page
2
Historical text notes miners die more from lung diseases than workers in other occupations. It also cites Germany's public debt at 3.75 billion and annual interest of over 45 million dollars, and reports Herreran townspeople in Herrera Spain hanged a tax collector after seizing him.
A Munich barber reportedly cut sun moon and stars on a customer's head to settle a grudge and then faced a charge of 19, a minor payment noted in the report.
A report notes mosquitoes arriving in London and spreading to rural areas. The piece highlights the persistence of the nuisance and its reach into country places, signaling a growing public health concern for residents and officials.
In a brief dispatch the paper states England shows interest in the Russian cruiser Lena as a matter of commercial concern amid ongoing hostilities.
Robbers who halted a train bound for the St Louis fair chose not to target a return trip, showing cunning by avoiding a second strike on the opposite route.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a discussion on cotton supply and pest impact with mentions of the boll weevil and regional figures. The text hints at a call for more manpower to protect or harvest cotton and references Leona Warse and Potharpks as related names in a chaotic context.
A fragmentary report notes a man’s effort to balance fiscal concerns with reviving his garden project amid a season of difficulty. The piece emphasizes strain and an earnest attempt to restore his thematic plan despite challenges.
Fragmentary note discusses winds and minstrels, mentions King Edward and a ritual to stifle live shows. Claims the aim is to measure how much modern monarchs have lost real power.
Newly disclosed remarks show General Whuropatkin acknowledging a near victory and describing his retreat as the sterivy one. He labels it part of his official report.
The note argues that avoiding belligerent rights and neutral ports favors Hong Kong remaining in San Francisco, implying strategic caution amid tensions. It repeats fragmented terms suggesting maritime or wartime considerations.
Ernesto Bondi, the Italian sculptor, sues the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York seeking 200000 dollars after the museum refuses to exhibit his work Saturmaha. He pursues the legal action seriously, signaling a high-stakes dispute over exhibition rights.
A Connecticut minister who missed his horse discovered it in the church study after the animal wandered down the aisle during the exploring annual event. No damage was reported as the horse returned to its owner.
A Philadelphia man risked his life to halt a runaway horse. The driver rewarded the rescuer with a small gratuity, highlighting the modest value placed on human life in the incident.
A foreign dispatch notes a German professor riding horseback from Berlin to Bayreuth. A six horse thirty four passenger tally ho coach arrives at the World's Fair from Yellowstone National Park to convey distinguished guests, with veteran driver John Heynolds in charge.
A mail bag captured by the Boers in M¢9 has been recovered. It contained forty seven registered letters with about $350 in cash, several postal orders, a draft for $1,000, documents totaling $25,000, checks, official papers and two wills.
The Agricultural Department reports no imported insect can eat potato bugs. Guatemala's temalan ant failed to conquer the pest in Texas cotton patches, leaving farmers to rely on old fashioned methods to battles potato bugs, the Southern farmer’s chief enemy after the boll weevil.
The passage argues intuition may never surpass human error in investments. It calls for no relaxation of the law and even stricter rules to curb unworthy schemes, acknowledging the public remains vulnerable to foolish investment decisions despite legal protections.
The passage argues that wealthy individuals fund intellectual and societal improvement, despite socialistic critique. It contends many see these benefactions as self-glorification, yet many beneficiaries seize the opportunities and the intent to do good is largely genuine.
The English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals lauds universal humane momentum and notes a Spanish town staged a bull fight to raise funds for the SPCA.
The Massachusetts Ploughman notes lower prices will aid the poor who have forgotten potato taste and may allow town and city horses to receive substantial rations, offering comfort from the consumer's perspective.
The season’s drownings renew the aid question of whether swimmers are safer than non-swimmers. With prudent care, a swimmer is far more secure, and learning to swim should not negate established safety principles.
The New York Press warns that building large sailing ships faces two main dangers: difficulty securing cargo for profit and a shortage of skilled crew. It notes that able seamen are scarce and that steam ships are now handled by long shoremen and stevedores.
Fragmentary text notes an epigram about German language and a reconcession by a named person. It references three K's and Geene and kirche. Details are incomplete and uncertain.
From the composing room standpoint the war presents a joke about spellings with many names rendered as jsk l or v endings and endings like itch vitch or ski. This reflects the era's uncertain transliterations and typographic adjustments.
Three Kokomo jewelry stores were burglarized recently with minimal losses. Five Lafayette boys embarked on a houseboat voyage down the Wa bash Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Charles L Baker near Richmond showed exceptional skill with a twenty two caliber rifle hitting 2 024 targets without a miss in a recent contest. witnesses filed a didavit.
Andrew Horsackle fell into a fly wheel at the Whiting Standard Oil plant. He suffered severe facial injuries with lips torn and jaws broken.
David Deprez's car was completely burned near Shelbyville as gasoline ignited the vehicle, resulting in a $700 loss.
B. M. Hutchins, a Columbus elderly veteran, held a picnic for the Christian Sunday school and served only hard tack and bean soup to attendees.
The Lafayette carnival struggles to secure a show site as residents oppose the event. The carnival is scheduled for next week despite community opposition and uncertain venue availability.
Mont Baily of Hagerstown threw a teacup at his wife striking her in the head with serious injury. He claims the intent was to throw it over her head.
John S S Fitzgibbons assumes leadership of the Richmond Palladium and plans a morning edition starting October 1. The city has lacked a morning paper for years.
The season sees 12 percent of mussel shells shipped from Cannelton to Muscatine factories in Indiana. Shells are sourced from the Ohio River.
In compliance with the dying request of Mrs. Perry Vance Washington, the surviving husband wed the nurse who cared for Mrs. Vance during her last illness.
Henry county recorder Adam V. Klarter plans to become a large scale ginseng farmer with a farm near Sulphur Springs. He has planted 1,000 ginseng plants and expects substantial profits from the venture.
Oil discovery at Windfall draws prospectors in large numbers with Standard Oil Company representatives on site monitoring activities.
A blaze in the Swindell & Bros cold storage plant at Plymouth wiped out the entire structure. One million eggs were burned along with 200,000 more reportedly destroyed. Building loss estimated at $15,000.
J. C. Sharp a well known Ellensville resident collapsed and died of heart disease in the presence of his wife while he was cutting wool. He was an old soldier.
Secretary Downing estimates the Indiana State Fair Association will have at least 6000 in credit after canceling 1904 exhibit expenses. An official statement will come around October 1 once final bills are paid. High attendance but heavy costs, notably 600 in straw, reduce net proceeds.
Advices to oil headquarters from Indiana fields spark excitement as gushers appear in the deep sand near Muncie and Parker City. Regal Gas and Oil Co reports a 500 barrel wild cat well near the last hamlet. Delaware county tests yield 40 barrels from Levellan farm and 4150 barrels from Producers' Oil Co No. 4. Linden Oil Co posts 250 barrels and Ohio Oil Co reports a test unspecified in the fragment.
Four Misses Worden Hester and Elsie Boland Conners raided a gambling room in Rolling Prairie to reform the village’s young men. The women paid the damages and vow to continue the crusade against gambling and drinking.
A brief quip from a New Yorker and a Chicagoan sketches fashion quirks. The New Yorker jokes about mustache cups while the Chicagoan retorts that Chicago uses a mustache saucer, signaling regional humor and style comparisons.
A Washington Star dialogue features Mr. Corntessel musing that farmers may be the only group with money to buy, suggesting a satire on economic conditions and consumer buying power. The quip explores who can still purchase valuables like gold bricks in a shifting market.
Mrs. C. B. Earnest of Jersey Shore Pa. credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with her recovery from five weeks bedridden illness. She says the remedy let her work and go to town without pain and urges other women to treat kidney trouble. The article promotes the Great American Kidney Remedy as a cure for kidney-related suffering and claims reliable results.
A satirical note features Nebuchadnezzar proclaiming calm certainty as he vows to win the hayseed vote, signaling a political mood of strength and dominance in a public contest.
Fred Hermann of 209 Box Avenue Buffalo New York testifies that two bottles of Piso's Cure for Consumption cured his terrible cough. The endorsement is dated September 24 1901.
Travel ad touts Colorado Midland Railway as the highest standard gauge line offering summer round trip rates to interior Colorado Utah California and the Northwest. Information via Mr. C. H. Speers General Passenger Agent Denver Colorado.
One way second class colonist tickets at very low rates for travel to Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Indian Territory Kansas and Texas via the Big Four route go on sale Tuesdays October 4 and 18 1904. For full information on rates tickets limits etc contact Big Four Route agents or the undersigned Warren J. Lynch G P T A Cincinnati Ohio or H M Bronson A G P A Indianapolis.
A couple debates a quiet separation versus formal divorce as she reveals an existing engagement to another, highlighting a clash of plans and emotions within their society.
Frank J. Cheney and Parrene Carrere swear Cheney is senior partner of F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio and that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice, dated December 6 1886, promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by druggists for 75 cents and Hall's Family Pills as best.
Miss Cora B. Moore of Duplin marries Simon Waltzen of Benson after a unique courtship sparked by her name on a tomato box. A year earlier she and other workers in the Spiceland tomato canning plant left their addresses on packing boxes, leading to a box found at Benson where Waltzen’s father works, triggering photographs and a marriage.
In Lafayette the Purdue cadet corps encounters opposition from Friend students who refuse firearm handling arguing it conflicts with their religious beliefs. The dispute centers on obedience to commandment and the corps efforts to assign cadets while respecting conscience exemptions.
Herman Loveless aged 18 of Pike county was killed when a suckling mule colt kicked him in the stomach as he tried to move it from his path. The incident occurred shortly after he attempted to move the animal and the mule reacted with a fatal blow.
Miss Nellie Kroh a 29 year old woman died in an auto accident described as death by own action. Dr Martin of Kokare stated he noticed nothing unusual until she drank from a bottle and attempted to share from his hand. He struggled to take the wheel but could not prevent the fatal act.
Spectator Mrs. Brutus C. Marshall fainted with excitement at a melodrama titled Why Girls Leave Home and leaped from her seat to aid the heroine. She collapsed and died, prompting officers to investigate the theater incident.
Activity in Elwood sees four more mills of the hot mill department at the Unplate plants go on line, bringing total in operation to sixteen. Additional mills are expected to resume soon.
A new effort forms in La Porte County to establish tent colonies for tuberculosis cure. The report notes 7 deaths from consumption in Indiana during July.
In Terre Haute two thousand people received a red box with three color buttons and a request to remit 25 cents to a South Bend orphan asylum for building purposes. Recipients may return the buttons if they do not wish to pay. authorities are reportedly sending boxes to cities across the country.
A playful verse passage recounts a flirtatious scene where a woman asks for advice on a gift and the speaker demonstrates a bold gesture, framed as a cheeky teaching moment about affection. The tone is sly and humorous with social enticement implied.
The couple wed but separated as the husband faced stigma. When unwell, physicians treated him as if intoxicated, causing strain and public embarrassment.
Lieutenant George G. Warren of Washington reports Dean's Kidney Pills cured his back strain from heavy lifting. He says five to six years of kidney trouble ended after using the pills and that he can lift six hundred pounds with no return of trouble. Sold by all dealers 5 cents Foster Milburn Company Buffalo NY.
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