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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
2
A Denver woman wed a Pueblo chief who cannot speak English, sparking talk of titles and new status among the tribe. The brief notes contrast their union with unusual odds and cultural quirks from the era.
An Englishman has been whipped for insulting the Star Spangled Banner in New York. In parts of the city the sentiment remains strongly American.
A wary view notes ongoing money scarcity in Germany could push policymakers toward drastic measures. The commentary warns against inflationary cures and calls for prudent fiscal steps to prevent destabilizing the economy and eroding trust in the currency.
A convention of scientists displays a peculiar approach to hosting. The piece notes you need not collect funds to defray expenses to attract the event, suggesting a different method or incentive for attendance.
Dr Siebel asserts that the human body can generate its own electricity and can act as a living patent medicine to bring happiness to all. The statement frames biological energy as a universal cure and implies a self sustaining vitality.
The remark suggests possible graft in the New York fire department hose procurement. No specific individuals or outcomes are named in the fragment.
Sentences totaling 1461 years in jail were imposed on a German lottery swindler. Authorities note that good behavior could reduce the term by a few centuries, potentially trimming the total by about two to three hundred years.
The London Outlook claims the 1907 panic cost the United States more than the Civil War. It marvels at the nation’s resilience as it grew large and robust.
Professor Starr laments failing to find a serious audience as he claims the nation remains a theater of jesters. He notes his long, vain search for listeners who take his ideas seriously.
Hetty Green suggests the New York Central could help stockholders by cutting pensioners tied to Chauncey M Depew. The remark implies potential cost reductions amid financial pressures and long standing labor obligations.
A German racer in the New York to Paris motor race claims Siberia would be easier than the roads between New York and Albany. He notes Siberia’s roads seem smooth by the feet of exiles who traveled them.
Montreal reports the Grand Trunk Railway approves a surprisingly liberal pension scheme pleasing workers. The plan also triggers the immediate retirement of 200 veteran employees who can now spend their remaining years without work.
The Hartford Courant notes storms arrive with unclear origins and paths. Experts say depressions converge and barometers wobble, but no one explains why storms start or where they go. The piece contrasts minor local storms with harsher weather in less favored regions.
The New York World asks what would happen if every price drop led to universal nonpurchase. It imagines tailors out of work unable to buy farm and factory products, shoemakers unable to buy clothes, and a chain reaction ending in reduced demand for clothes and shoes.
Reports from Milwaukee indicate the white pine weevil is damaging Wisconsin forests by feeding on new terminal shoots, causing trees to sprout many branches and become unsuitable for commerce. The Bureau of Entomology is preparing control directions, while lumber prices may rise a few cents per thousand board feet.
Richmond plans a new vaudeville theater costing about 75 000 dollars. Evansville grows into a metropolis with eight ity thousand residents per the newly issued directory. A Watson and Goodwine Club with 100 members forms at Matthews. Marion begins work on a federal building after a 100 000 dollar congressional appropriation. Waynetown resident unearths a teakettle full of gold while raking the dooryard.
Samuel Cade, the wealthiest landowner in Fountain county, died last week leaving a vast property portfolio and notable influence in the region. The deceased surpassed peers in holdings and wealth, marking a significant local loss.
Four thousand pounds of nitroglycerin detonated at the Millers powder mill causing a large blast. No fatalities reported though several buildings and surrounding property were damaged. Local authorities opened an investigation into the incident and the plant was shut pending inspection.
Noblesville business men form a league to enforce liquor laws and elect honest men to office.
A Shelburn blaze destroyed the Taylor hotel causing an estimated $10,000 loss. Twenty guests fled the building in their nighties to safety as flames swept through the premises.
Governor Hanly vows to curb Night Rider depredations in Southern Indiana by authorizing sheriffs to swear in deputies and organize county patrols. The move signals a statewide response to the era’s rural crime wave.
Several tobacco raisers in the Hanover neighborhood have received letters warning them to plant no tobacco this year. The notices urge immediate compliance and specify penalties for violation.
Herschell age 9 and Shirley age 11, children of William Spurgeon of Lawrenceburg, drowned in Newton pond about fifty yards from their home.
Russell Lewis, 15, of Metamora, caught a large fish causing excitement. He suffered an epileptic fit and rolled into the water, drowning.
Mrs Edward Rea aged 54 poured kerosene on a coal fire. An explosion followed fatally burning her and setting the house ablaze.
Milton resident Harry Hunt asserts championship status by smoking eighty two cigars and three ten cent cans of tobacco within three days.
Two young daughters of William M. Watts of Worthington perished when a blaze they started while playing consumed a barn. Ages were 7 and 3. Authorities note the incident was accidental and occurred on the Watts property.
A gas well near Oakland City drilled by Pure Oil Company at 1,180 feet promises to eclipse any gasser in the state, marking a notable oil industry milestone for the region.
Judge McClure of Elwood sustained remonstrators from the Second Ward leading to the closing of nineteen of the twenty three saloons in the city.
The mayor orders police to purge Boonville of all gambling as the revived Blue Hour laws take effect amid widespread gambler activity in the city.
Members of the Richmond Ministe rial Association issue an appeal urging church members to influence officials to keep Richmond a closed town. The aim is tighter control over who may enter or reside in the city.
John W. Call is named postmaster of Gary and on the same day the office is advanced to third class with a salary of 5600 dollars a year plus expenses. The previous postmaster Knotts earned 75 dollars a month and paid his own expenses, totaling nearly 300 dollars monthly.
One hundred Logansport fishermen establish a protective association to shield members from deputy fish and game wardens actions. The conflict centers on Deputy Warden Fred Gallion, whose recent arrests for illegal fishing have led to acquittals for the defendants.
The Grand Central Traction Company files an $8,000,000 mortgage in Bloomington to cover a statewide electric railroad project. The line will run from Indianapolis to Trafalgar Nashville Bloomington Bedford West Baden French Lick Mitchell Jasper and Evansville with a branch Bloomington to Terre Haute, and the mortgage is to be filed in 12 counties with Chicago Title and Trust Company.
February bulletin shows the southern sanitary section had the highest death rate, 3.9 above state total. Northern section with 899,960 people logged 1,076 deaths, central 1,118,576 recorded 1,337, and southern 675,649 had 981 deaths. Overall 3,096 deaths.
Announcement that Thomas Taggart will build a second hotel at French Lick costing $350000. Architect W H Floyd of Terre Haute holds the contract. The 200 room hotel will be elaborately furnished and equipped.
Reports compiled by the Indiana bureau of statistics show an increase in 1907 in personal crisis reports as well as homicides and deaths by accident.
The fashion editor lists Paris pattern numbers for ladies and misses shirt waists and jumpers in multiple fabrics and sizes. Nutting details include 2323 2327 2315 2319 2310 with fabric notes and size ranges, plus a request for purchaser name address and ten cents.
Reports to the Board of State Charities from 92 county auditors show county poor asylums with farms of varying size, most not self supporting. In 1907 Jasper and Warren counties’ farm receipts exceeded expenses by 100 to 300 dollars while about a dozen other counties had receipts at least half the maintenance costs. Ripley Jennings Soone Hamilton Clinton Tipton Steuben Jay Daviess Gibson and Spencer counties are noted in this finding.
A May Delineator feature notes the cost of preparing an American beauty from infancy. A financier quotes about two hundred thousand dollars to raise a girl to “come out” with schooling, travel, and a full household of German, French, English, and Italian staff to maintain nerves, health, and poise.
Joseph Burns of Warrick county wrote his name on an egg sold locally in May 1907. Seven months later a letter from Nellie Briscoe of Bower Mass. led him to travel to Bower where he returned with a bride. He is twenty two and a son of a prominent farmer.
The Hammond Baptist church faces a split as Dan Shannon known as the Irish whirlwind evangelist delivers sensational sermons. Some parishioners support him while about a dozen young women have left mid sermon amid his attacks. He accuses Hammond of moral decay and Presbyterians dancing in the world.
A 1907 bulletin from Indiana State Bureau of Statistics details minister wages averaging 11.30 weekly and 588.39 annually with Swedenborgian highest at 1350. It lists denomination salaries from Greek Catholic 1200 to Methodist Episcopal 935 and Presbyterian 1038, totaling 1 657 975.71 paid to ministers and 2 288 466.29 for church support. Indiana churches grew to 1 003 145 members with Roman Catholic at 210 438.
A New York observer writes from Panama describing Colon as a vast saloon with 800 bars for 12 000 residents. He reports 300 drunken workers on a Sunday and widespread debased women, robberies, and moral decline, urging teetotalers for the isthmus.
A Chicago woman fishing on the Kankakee river during the opening of the season caught fourteen pickerel in one hour, weighing a total of seventy two pounds eight ounces.
Albert Beck of Morocco reports his dog earned an average $70 per month from November to March by killing fur bearing animals. The five month total reached $350 for the dog’s work.
A New York City window display in a small bookstore on Eighth Avenue featured a large pile of Bibles marked at unprecedented low prices with the boast Satan trembles when he sees Bibles sold as low as these. The ad highlights bold advertising as a modern craft.
The article presents a Bible lesson on humility from John 13 34 and 18 1 15 detailing Jesus washing the disciples feet at the Last Supper. It outlines teaching sections Expository Preliminary and Teaching notes plus color hints for a classroom display and a practical follow up.
A light exchange between Cillman and a neighbor jokes about suburban life and dog freedom, noting blame as the neighborhood dogs. The line hints at themes of home and liberty in the suburbs.
Towne explains his wife’s severe nightly insomnia causes trouble when he returns late. Browne notes the problem is familiar and recurring, and Towne confirms the pattern as a recurring disturbance in their marriage.
A rural wife witnessed her husband’s fierce bare knuckle fight with a bear and said it was the only fight she ever saw where she didn’t care who won. The remark underscored the rarity and danger of the encounter.
In a brief exchange, MacPherson and O’Rafferty discuss an Italian bank breakin in New York with a joke about a single cent left behind, reflecting casual attitudes toward crime and ethnicity.
A concise aphorism notes that when pay sets the value of the job, the actual work becomes undervalued. It frames compensation as the chief factor in assessing labor's true worth.
A collection of curious notes from a bygone era: Newfoundland's lakes are vast with thousands of unnamed ones and extensive coastline. a Berlin wine dealer convicted for selling 33 000 gallons of fake Rhine wine. Michael Streckendorfer travels with a large family across Kansas to Oklahoma. English lozenges with chloroform pose risk. a village wedding in Novery ends with a cow stealing the bride and the groom finding her bruised in a field.
A Oswego Montana woman reports eye weakness and flashing lights from coffee use. After switching to Postum Food Coffee her vision improved in three months with no medicines, and her nursing baby stayed healthy. A friend also improved from dyspepsia and headaches after stopping coffee. There is a reason, says Postum.
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