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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
2
A short, satirical note from Sidoresville China remarks that girls lose schooling after age fifteen, provoking a joke about sororities in a poor country. A scientist asserts the brain holds 300 million nerve cells while another doctor predicts universal death from Bright's disease soon and universal insanity within two centuries.
A terse remark recalls a boy from Ohio describing punishment by a teacher with a red-hot poker. The speaker notes similar pain from a hickory switch, contrasting past discipline with the reported incident.
A London barmaid wed a Tich American in a union noted by the Milwaukee Sentinel as a case of cross Atlantic marriage with disputed financial balance between partners.
In a brief bequest a Massachusetts man assigns five thousand dollars to Clark University to fund ghost hunting. The will requests anyone aware of a ghost in need of pursuit to notify the university.
Tom Lowell states the concern is not property but the people around it. He argues wealth can disappear quickly yet still invite danger and the need for friends remains essential in peril.
The Plain Dealer extols Cleveland as a great people who boast about their plans and achievements. It links civic pride to momentum, a lively cultural scene, and persistent effort that sustains the city’s energetic pace.
Figures from a skilled mathematician claim London women carry about five tons of hair in switches false fronts and frizzes. The remark highlights what collective effort can achieve in a playful tone.
The Boston Transcript reports a Providence wedding uniting two major Rhode Island manufacturing families and two of the state's three great fortunes. The bride and groom are described as incidents in a wider industrial merger shaping state industry and wealth.
The American Cultivator says a first mortgage on another farm is the best investment for a farmer or his wife. It notes that during the recent panic most common investments shrank but a farm mortgage remains worth one hundred cents on the dollar when made with care.
The Boston Post urges reducing political hysteria by having naval and military experts cease quarrelling. It argues that ongoing disputes prevent nations from forgetting the specter of war.
The canal report compares the concrete for the Panama locks to the material needed for over 22 000 eight room city houses. The remark notes the concrete quantity is more impressive than the abstract.
The report of the commissioner of internal revenue notes only ten stills exist nationwide for denatured alcohol. It emphasizes that while denatured alcohol remains a promised boon, it requires time to establish a new industry and develop a system linking consumers with producers.
In Holland a 5 000 acre public land tract is split into six model farms for applicants of relief. The pauper is trained in agriculture and then allowed to rent a small holding. A forced labor colony sends vagrants to perform farm and other work.
The movement to safeguard public health has expanded greatly in recent years with organized campaigns against preventable diseases and systematic methods. The Louisville Courier Journal argues such earnest efforts must eventually bear fruit as germs face formidable opposition.
A jumble of notes records several deaths and health claims. Charles Fisher aged 17 died of heart disease allegedly linked to cigarette use at Bedford. William Larren died at Wabash after choking on a chicken bone. Richard W. Phillips died in Princeton. he was the third brother of five to die in as many weeks. The piece also reports a revival of natural gas in Muncie with higher pressure and usage despite past factory reductions.
At a Lake Station town hall meeting the towns of Lake Station East Gary and Liverpool agreed to amalgamate and form a new community named East Gary. This decision unites the three municipalities under a single locality name.
The college in Richmond will establish a two year journalism program during the spring term to align with state institutions. The initiative aims to expand curriculum and provide students with formal training in reporting editing and media skills.
Charley Cobb an Evansville boy at a playmate’s urging threw a burning match into a powder can. The blast shattered his eye and caused severe injury.
Daniel Day, son of a local contractor, shot and killed his sweetheart Miss Madaline Phillips in a jealous rage. Day is under arrest.
It is believed that much of the rich bottom land along the Kankakee river cannot be cultivated this spring owing to high water. Hundreds of acres remain overflowed to a depth of from twelve to sixteen inches.
Will H. Craig, editor of the Noblesville Ledger, assumed management of the State Republican press bureau last week. He succeeds Geo. Lockwood, secretary to Vice-President Fairbanks.
The Standard Steel Car Company, Hammond's largest industry, has shut down completely. Earlier 600 men were laid off and 1,200 more have since been discharged, leaving the plant idle. The payroll prior to the shutdown ran to $150,000 a month.
United States Senator James A. Hemenway of Boonville flatly denies a magazine claim that his daughter Lena M. Hemenway serves as clerk for the senate committee chaired by her father. The senator asserts the charge is false.
Congressman James E. Watson of Rushville, a Republican candidate for governor, handed out 20,000 American Beauty roses at his Indianapolis headquarters before the convention last week.
Reverend William Stephens, pastor of the Baptist church in Garrett, resigned after discovering he had united in marriage a couple who had both been divorced, believing he violated a law cited in Jeremiah chapter twenty three.
Anti-Saloon forces file remonstrances in the First Second and Fourth Wards. If approved 14 saloons will close by next November. Saloon keeper Chris Bornholt of the Second Ward signs the remonstrance amid ten local saloons in that ward.
Mrs. Fred Bell of Moran died from burns after trying to start a fire with coal oil in a stove. The blaze engulfed the home, a neighbor arrived in time to save her infant, and the woman's father had died earlier in a runaway accident.
Mrs Grace Joyce of Vevay through her attorneys recovered a judgment for 2000 upon a jury verdict against Hugh Brown a Vevay saloon keeper for selling liquor to her husband James Joyce causing intoxication which led to Joyce shooting and killing Jesse Harper Joyce was convicted and is serving a life sentence
Rev. F. C. McCormick of the Hartford City Christian Church issues a five inch single column advertisement urging readers to attend the revival meetings now in progress at the church.
Indiana and Purdue announced a football series revival for this fall ending a three year hiatus. Athletic director Jimmy Sheldon said the two Hoosier schools will meet this season in a show of renewed rivalry.
The Good Citizens' League of Brazil filed remonstrances that will make the city dry for two years and take effect soon. The action surprised saloon operators and brewers, following a week of organizing by churches and the Anti-Saloon League.
Rev. Joseph Carter was arrested in Columbus with Mrs. Jennie Jackson and Mrs. Lizzie Guess on intoxication charges. The three pleaded guilty. Carter paid the fines. For 20 years he has conducted evangelistic work for the United Brethren church, active in preaching, Sunday schools, and organizing churches across Southern Indiana.
The Indiana Railroad Commission ruled last week to cut express company rates by 10 to 12 percent for interstate business in Indiana, totaling about 100000 dollars in annual statewide income. Companies have thirty days to implement the order, with potential court challenges if loopholes are found. The decision is described as one of the most important in the commission’s history, affecting all Indiana express firms.
John Owen, about twenty one, near Princeton, inherits two million from his Newark, New Jersey father but may not touch the principal until age sixty. His income from the estate, at four percent, would total eighty thousand dollars yearly or more than one thousand five hundred dollars weekly. He lives in Hazleton and is reportedly engaged to a Hazleton woman.
Longstanding treasure tale around Silver Creek loop east of New Albany draws many diggers. Lore says a 19th century freebooter hid over 30 000 in old Spanish silver in a forested area, with repeated searches yielding no verifiable finds.
The fragment from Harper's Weekly notes a digression on domestic life with characters Shad and Shad asking about broken housekeeping and a father who went to board.
A quirky exchange from a Chicago News item shows Little Willie asking about railroad stocks and a father’s playful reply about watering them from a pool, illustrating old stock humor.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip recalls a prisoner claiming life imprisonment twice over as a jail visitor questions his fate. The convict explains he is in for a double life because he has two wives waiting outside.
A humorous Harver's Weekly snippet has Mrs Newlywed reacting to the cook in a travel gown seen in the kitchen. The gag hinges on domestic surprise and light embarrassment.
A collection of short items spanning science, nature, and society. Topics include animal peculiarities from lobsters to rhinoceros horns, early museum claims about Cromwell, labor in dams, and quirky notes on bees, birds, and mining. Also mentions Polish women workers, Norwegian and Swiss observations, and exotic trade and fashion curios.
A Lafayette correspondent says Purdue University plans a ring for graduates to identify alumni, modeled on Princeton and other eastern universities. Alumni associations in Pittsburg New York Cleveland and Chicago have endorsed the plan. Murray Grant of Seattle president of the general Alumni Association proposed a small imitation of the Purdue seal for the ring.
Detroit Free Press quotes a verse warning flirtatious women. The poem contrasts two paths ending with later consequences. It emphasizes prudence and future focus for women who flirt versus those who wed.
A Sunday School lesson on John 11 32 to 45 presents Mary and Jesus at Bethany with Lazarus dead four days. It covers Jesus weeping, the stone removal, Lazarus revived, and lessons on faith sympathy and the work of Jesus with teaching sections and applications.
A witty professional man chats with women about a friend famed for being hen pecked. His wife makes him stay on a chalked line, and any deviation brings trouble. The group debates if he is a model husband or merely modeled in clay or putty.
Dorothea asks what her father is looking at and he replies he is looking into the future. The moment blends sentiment and irony as the girl guesses the scene might be a pasture rather than fate. Harper's Weekly contributes a humorous vignette of parental reverie.
The Louisville Courier Journal quotes a solemn citizen declaring the time has come to face a crisis, while a frivolous friend asks which magazine. The exchange suggests local concern and public discourse on urgent matters.
A Pittsburg Post note recalls that whistling girls and crowing hens, once social outcasts, have found money making venues in vaudeville, signaling changing entertainment tastes.
Walter W. Paglusch of 207 N Robey St Chicago reports a year of intense all over itching and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap Cuticura and Cuticura Resolvent Pills at a total cost of $1.25 he was completely cured. October 16 1906.
A brief Chicago News item notes Jimmy-Teacher claiming Argus once had 100 eyes. Billy-Gee is praised as a standout baseball umpire prospect.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason records the oath on December 6, 1886 in Toledo Ohio. The remedy is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists at 75 cents with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Senator Depew cites a story from Everybody's Magazine where a husband discovers his wife’s false hair and confronts her, only to be outwitted when she retorts about the skin of another calf on his feet. The quip showcases wit in domestic banter.
The passage lists regions named gardens of their respective countries and areas. It mentions England with Kent and Worcestershire, Ireland’s Carlow, Italy’s Sicily, Belgium’s Amboise, France’s Amboise in Loire, Spain’s Andalusia, and eastern regions like Ceylon Burma Oude. It also notes Glamorganshire as south Wales garden and the Mississippi region as garden of the world.
A gray headed man recalls a New York Sun observation where a shift of waiters dined together and each tipped the waiter who served them. He notes waiters routinely tip fellow staff as a gesture tied to tipping culture among service workers.
A proverb-like statement notes that the path through a challenge may be rougher but is safer than the wider route around it, emphasizing caution and resilience.
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