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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
2
A collage of quotes and snippets notes sayings about punishment revenge a meat market in Chicago a Toronto piano advert a New York claim on trillion dollars and musings on marriage travel and monarchs. It mentions Grand Duke Alexis Kaiser Wilhelm and language skills in a scattered mental snapshot.
A fragmented remark notes that soulmates can channel anger with improvised tools and strong expression, comparing modern creativity to the vivid variance of long standing marital discord.
Mr. Wu advocates a universal language while golfers and baseball fans join in building a shared system named sky ology to unify communication and culture across sports and hobbies. The playful proposal hints at future fizzgzyology as a tongue in cheek next step.
A man planning an Atlantic balloon crossing studies geography yet would benefit from swimming lessons. The quip underscores the impracticality of air travel without basic aquatic skills for such bold ventures.
It is estimated this year’s apple harvest will reach 62,500,000 bushels. The projection includes red imitation apples grown in Missouri, suggesting substantial production and market impact.
In New York an expert testifies that no lady should drink more than half a quart of wine. The proper stopping pint is now defined.
A humorous note describes fossil eggs discovered in Wyoming interpreted as breakfast offerings on the plate, claiming repeated sightings during morning meals. The line blends mock discovery with rural ironies about local diet and paleontology.
A New York police officer recounts surviving a collision in which three racing cars ran over him. He describes the incident and the aftermath, noting his injury and resilience despite the dangerous pursuit.
The Crown expresses concern over falling marriage rates in England, attributing it to suffragette agitation and urging a considered response to the social shift affecting traditional family formation.
The inventor who carries his flying machine in a suitcase can feel safer about getting over the country than he would if he depended on the machine itself.
An exhibit in Toronto features a device to harness ocean waves while critics urge inventors to test age and intensity of seas by analyzing storm teeth for real measure.
A Warwickshire farmer who worked 21 hours in a hayfield starting at 1 30 a m in a single day is receiving newspaper notice. The report asks what he did the next day while noting the commendation his long shift has attracted.
A Lady's Realm note from a wife of a parliament member jokes that balding men appear more successful in politics while well kept hair is absent among front bench leaders. It reflects satirical views on appearance and power in the House of Commons.
A New Jersey girl became stuck on the rear platform of a sleeping car but kept calm, wrote a note to a telegraph operator, and waited for a tower man who appeared ready to help. Fifteen minutes later she was rescued, provoking lament from Washington Times editors about overzealous operators watching from windows.
The Washington Star notes the lamentable effects of swift congested life in many cities and questions the economic advantages of dense urban concentration in places like New York Philadelphia Boston and Chicago. It frames this as a subject of concern to sociologists and political economists studying domestic problems.
A fragment from the New York Sun recalls a Sunday School teacher asking about the miracle where bread and fish fed many. Johnny responds that the fish grew as large as the fishermen claimed they were, illustrating a folk retelling in concise dialogue.
The Fool-killer notes business was slow after boating season but hunters helped, and people look forward to skating on frozen waters as winter settles in. The Philadelphia Ledger reports on mood in trade and leisure amid seasonal changes.
Denis Delaney meets the Duchess Norah at Kerry Castle where he learns her cousin’s identity and discusses the uneasy mood in Ireland. He explains his recent return from England to help with tenant troubles after the Meredith murder. The Duchess reveals mixed feelings as the squire vents about tenants, while a guarded attraction grows between Denis and Norah.
A fragmented dialogue scene reveals a Duchess resisting a dare to betray confidences. Denis presses, Norah remains discreet, and a squire questions loyalties as a hall invites unwinding tension. The Duchess appears torn, while a paternal lesson echoes about backing a father’s tale.
Rain glosses the world as a dawn scene unfolds at Delaney’s. Denis, in his unkempt sleepwear, is urged by a charming cousin to hurry for a beach run before breakfast. The squire’s untidy farm yard tour and a lively afternoon with the Duchess follow in a carefree, sensuous tone.
Patrons at a Grand avenue auction house bid on more than 200 unclaimed items for Kansas City Southern Railway. The lot included hand bags suitcases trunks and boxes with contents kept secret prompting risk taking and spirited bidding as buyers guessed value from small parcels amid crowd chatter and a red bandanna prize.
A dramatic Chicago Tribune excerpt recounts the story of Senora Inez Mendosa y Aquillo who charmed four young men, each urged to die for her. After their deaths she is judged by church authorities and sent to a secluded convent in Chihuahua for four years, with four hours of penance each four nights per week.
Delegates at the Middle and Western States Laundry men's Association convention in the Midland Hotel watched a salesman offer a marking machine for linen. The device teased about collar initials and sleeve cuffs while delegates debated seriousness of the laundry trade and a flood of damaged stock from a fire sale.
The Argonaut reports a tense Atlantic crossing with most ladies sick and one remaining well enough to stroke a cat. A neighbor’s voice calls for privacy as a humorous exchange interrupts the cabin scene.
A partial Detroit Free Press excerpt warns to mind your own affairs and avoid interference. The fragment reflects social admonition about privacy and neighborly conduct without full context.
A Melbourne lecturer described seances where raps appeared under a table and readings showed objects like grapes and wheat from the unseen. He claimed weight changes on scales supported by spirit forms, while doctors noted natural heartbeats and pulsations, though ink impressions failed on the form’s hand.
The old man counsels Jabez to be selective with words, stressing reticence over idle chatter. He warns that much can be learned by speaking only when needed and to avoid overtalking that reveals ignorance while building a reputation as a thoughtful, restrained speaker.
A Harper s Weekly writer notes echoes of boycotts of press in the Berlin Parliament in the British House of Commons. Daniel O Connell protested report inaccuracy while acoustic issues and conver sation buzz affected coverage. He stormed, apologized, and order restored amid similar later incidents involving Lord Lyttleton and Lord Monteagle.
A soldier, crafting his sword into a plowshare per prophecy, is warned by the Plow Trust that they own all plow related patents. He muses there is no hurry, then warns that violent persons may be needed to protect property rights.
The Sons of the Revolution reports branches now exist in France, England, Germany, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Alaska, and forty states, marking a global spread of the organization.
The fragment notes a debate on who bears duty between producer and consumer. It cites Knicker as manufacturer profit and the consumer paying the duty, quoted from the New York Sun. The readable text centers on price and burden distribution without clear events or names.
The note records Puck’s mock confession of affection and insecurity about a girl. He fears if he compliments her she will grow conceited, and if he stops she will think he no longer cares. The exchange frames romantic anxieties in light dialogue.
Christmas trees cost more this year across Indiana as forest fires shrink supply and drive prices up. Shelbyville reports widespread grippe illness with doctors noting over 4000 cases. Farmers in Carroll County pursue hog vaccination against cholera and swine plague with successful results in thousands of pigs exposed without losses. George Zaborosky ships fur worth 504 dollars from near Morocco while Newton County and Kankakee marshes yield rich fur harvests for laborers earning 4 to 8 dollars daily. Rev. E S Shumaker predicts Indiana will be dry by January 1 1912 with 40 to 50 counties without saloons in six months.
The Indiana Republican Editorial Association plans a two day meeting in Indianapolis on February 25 and 26. Delegates from member papers will discuss party platforms and editorial priorities for the upcoming campaign season.
Frank Hartrick of Hammond claimed his life would not be worth much if his spirited horse ran away. The horse did, and Hartrick was killed in the resulting incident.
In a $20 000 damage case from Princeton Noah Lucas sued William T Watson for alienation of his wife's affections. The jury returned a verdict for Lucas awarding $100. Lucas is a tenant on Watson's farm.
T F Williams fired on a seven foot seven inch eagle he spotted on his farm near Rockville. The bird was observed grasping a young pig when it was shot, ending the dramatic encounter.
J H Waterbury of New York City established a new world record for continuous piano playing at Lafayette. He sank exhausted from his stool after playing without a stop for twenty seven hours and fifteen minutes.
Burglars cut a glass pane and picked two doors to open a showcase of old coins in Logansport and fled with what appeared to be several thousand dollars of stage money and confederate bills.
President Stone reports the 1907 1908 period set the attendance record at Purdue University with 2080 students enrolled, the largest in the school's history.
David Clancy aged 58 died after he fell into an open grave while digging it in Paoli. He was preparing the grave for the body of Rev. Cyrus Jones a well known local minister.
Fred Gross and 16 year old Wilbur Taylor were pulled from the Hel river at Logansport by a human chain after they floundered for five minutes on thin ice. Onlookers formed the chain to save them from a watery grave.
George H. Shortelle aged 70 collapsed in his son's department store at Tipton amid a crowded Christmas rush. The retired millionaire, known for interests in Tipton Frankfort and Kansas City, Missouri, died at the scene.
Mrs. Belle Covey secured a divorce from Perry Covey in Bedford's Lawrence Circuit Court and quickly wed Homer Hiltenberg, both acts completed within five minutes under Judge J B Wilson.
In Rising Sun on October 10 Charles Offerfost was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of his brother Henry. The defense argued self defense after Henry allegedly drew a knife before Charles struck.
Real estate owners at Lake Wawa met in Goshen to form an organization aimed at securing General Assembly action to block the Sandusky Portland Cement Company of Syracuse from dredging the lake. They warn that dredging would ruin Wawa see as a summer resort.
In Warren-Benton Circuit Court at Williamsport a will contest over an estate valued around one million dollars proceeds. Jane Hawkins of Earl Park, reputed Indiana's wealthiest landowner, died recently leaving a large estate. Her daughters Hex seek to break the will which left them a life interest.
Frank Detrick 45 shot Arthur Miller 30 during a poker quarrel in Detrick's Hope barber shop near Columbus. Detrick says Miller owed him money from the game.
Representative Charles Gauss of Indianapolis has been homebound for nearly a month due to a severe blood poisoning in one hand. He attributes the illness to shaking hands during the campaign.
A light conversation turns on a boast about finding the deepest part of the sea as Miss Tipkins marries another man. One speaker defends the difficulty of such a feat, while the other recalls past threats and wagers.
A compact reflection on a day wasted as evening nears and Christmas tasks remain unfinished. The verse notes the missed chance to finish shopping and the fading light as time runs out.
A fragmented dialogue recalls a grandchild asking Grandma her age and Grandma replying seventy five. The exchange reflects a long-ago memory with an old judge and library as potential settings in the muddled source text.
Robert T. Winters editor of the Observer was tried in Muncie City Court on a blind tiger law charge. A six-man jury acquitted after a three minute deliberation, about 291 half-pint whisky flasks found in the basement under the Observer office from last election day.
Audit of the Bedford Building Savings and Loan Association shows a crash with the 1878 institution gone bust and 100 pages of manuscript detailing total failure. Shareholders will get no division as the once 175000 annual business faded.
Mayors of twenty Indiana cities in session at Indianapolis authorized a committee to draft a bill for the coming session of the legislature repealing the metropolitan police law and amending the cities and towns act. They argued the current act imposes expenses on smaller cities, requiring police judges, controllers, city treasurers, and police commissioners.
The sixth annual session of the State Farmers' Congress met at the State House in Indianapolis last week. The group plans to discuss topics for the next legislative session including highways drainage schools games and fisheries stream purification railroad commission and waterway improvements.
The total value of gas produced in 1907 reached a record $52,866,835 amid long term depletion in western Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. Value per thousand feet rose sharply since 1890 while output climbed to 404,441,254 thousand cubic feet up from 388,843,562 thousand in 1906.
Mrs Emma Shearer Adams Know ledge of Hobart a wealthy stock raiser hired farm laborers and paid them in love not wages. Judge H B Tuthill ruled she had made a love peon of John Knowledge. Her second husband she kicked from a buggy after Crownpoint wedding. she later married laborers who demanded pay, her third marriage venture.
Counsel cites Balaam episode while the witness recalls the beast delivering a warning. The exchange highlights an unusual causation moment in the proceeding.
A Delineator excerpt shows a child confronting a father amid constant parental arguing. The youngster bluntly states that life would differ if the father had not entered the family, illustrating tensions within the home.
A humorous exchange about gift giving features Mrs Caller asking about neckties each Christmas. Mrs Athome replies she does give the same present yearly and the husband never notices.
A short Punch joke portrays a father asking if his son cried after a fall. The son replies he did not cry, but used a single word mirroring his father. The humor hinges on a stubborn family dynamic and a wry payback line.
A fragment notes Giles reporting on a moving picture attempt featuring two men engaged in a chess match. The scene captures the clash of strategy and missteps in early film attempts, reflecting evolving media forms in Chicago.
The text notes disputes among early authors over the tower of Babel height. Some claim twelve miles high, others four miles high. Strabo is cited alleging a height of 600 feet, with the remark that there were no elevators.
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