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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
8
Monrovia residents travel to Indianapolis and Richmond while others stay local visiting family. The community reports baseball results, church activities, and thanks to Edison era social events. Commemoration plans and health updates appear among daily happenings.
Mr and Mrs B F Wing visited Mr and Mrs Chas Reed in Indianapolis. Daisy and Hazel Thompson and Effie Keys visited Miss Minnie Griffith. T P Griffith stayed with son Charles in Richwood Ohio. D H Lindley and L C Hadley hosted at Plainfield. Ann Robertson of Mooresville visited. Revs Stout and Wright of Plainfield will preach. Christian Endeavor and Missionary Society hosted a social at Laura Hadley’s. Many will attend county commencement at Bethany Park. Graduates are Daisy Thompson Hazel Thompson and Edna Cooper.
Old Mr. Ely improves as Miss Louisa Rains grows sick with heart trouble. Madison township remains dry with residents determined to keep it so. Community gatherings include dinners at J A Carter's and a Sunday school program at Mt Gilead. Fringe remarks about local politics and harvest outlook mention Ben Carter and neighbors wheat fields.
The article notes a commencement day at De Pauw University with Pastor L. E. Markin concluding his college course and planning more local work. It details the Seventh Annual Morgan County common schools commencement at Bethany Park on Thursday June 11 1908 with B F Clay Orchestra and an Indianapolis quartet providing music. Bishop W A Quayle presents the class address Shylock versus David. Monroe township leads with 176 in the class, one township closely matched.
A naturalist in Somaliland found cone shaped mud hills built by termites reaching up to eighteen feet, with others ten to fifteen feet tall. The article notes the ants’ tiny height of half an inch and compares hill sizes to human scale, illustrating astonishing termite builders.
A Seattle resident, drunk and unsure of his path home, encounters an iron tree guard. He grips the bars and circles the obstacle twice before crying out curse and despair, feeling locked in amid the forestlike streets in a Liverybody's Magazine vignette.
In a humorous exchange Mr. Winkles warns his wife about crowds and pickpockets. She retorts that she has no pockets to pick, proudly declaring she cannot be robbed. The punchline underlines gendered parodies of risk and savvy in public spaces.
The passage extols the dog’s unfailing sympathy and joy in companionship. It notes the dog’s attachment to man surpasses ties to its own species and observes the stark honesty in sniffing a dead comrade, yet the dog will follow its master to the grave and sometimes die beside him.
A Sydney hanging survivor tale is recounted as a widow visits a wax figure of her husband for six months each Sunday in mourning. She dressed the figure in a clean shirt before her visits end, leaving readers with an eerie final note.
Lafcadio Hearn notes that Japanese smile naturally yet suppress sorrow as a silent etiquette. A Japanese can smile even in death, signaling not to share pain but to bear sorrow alone, a centuries forged social language of restraint.
A compilation of speeches and opinions from W C T U members and supporters. Prohibition advocates urge stronger action against saloons, citing Dunkirk Ohio’s 1905 dry status and economic gains. Quotes criticize brewers, defend Lincoln era morality, and urge local option battles.
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