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Newspaper
North Judson News
Location
North Judson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
6
In a library, Rourke reads a sealed will revealing Lucilla Vere inherits the uncle’s estate while Athol and Lorraine face ruin. The sign and seal were cut away, provoking a moral crisis and a turning courtship as Lorain and Rourke confront love and duty.
Lorraine Gaveston faces a coming storm as Rourke Trenham confronts her about a rejected bill and their forbidden bond. Athol Vere steps forward offering steady, patient support while Lorraine weighs love, duty, and truth in a tense, emotional exchange in the library.
Circle Magazine discusses early hoisting tech from Assyria to Mevpt over 6000 years ago. It describes shear legs and A frame derricks lifting stones for pyramid building, with crowds and oxen aiding the rope system, advancing to larger hoists as pyramids grew.
A quarrel over meat pricing and trust emerges as a shop keeper dismisses a beef trust claim. The exchange centers on cash terms and the fear of price gouging, capturing a brief snapshot of vendor buyer tension.
In a Pittsburg Post item a tenant of a new skyscraper complains the city air and clouds block daylight, asking for the clouds to be pushed back from his windows as the janitor questions the excessive heat and fuss.
A Jewish Ledger quote ponders whether the greater can come from the loss and notes a near approach when the freshman’s conceit is removed. It presents a concise reflection on humility in learning and growth.
After thirteen hours of deliberation the jury found Charles E. Davis not guilty of murder in the death of Dr. Frederick T. Austin on Sept. 2 in Omaha. The trial drew attention for Davis family ties to First National Bank leaders and prominent financial figures.
President Roosevelt transmitted a War Department investigation report on the Brownsville Texas shooting by colored troops Aug 16 1908. The document aims to establish findings and basis for further action or policy as stated by the President.
A Washington correspondent reports Japan will halt all emigration to the United States after a set date. Baron Komura will announce the policy when the Diet meets, marking a major U.S. Japan policy resolution driven by Elihu Root’s diplomacy. Travel for merchants students and tourists remains allowed under passport agreements.
Thornton Jenkins Sfains and his brother face trial in the Supreme Court at Flushing for being accessories in the murder of William E Annis, editor of an outing periodical, shot at Bayside Yacht Club after Captain Hains, an army officer, allegedly sought revenge in a divorce suit. The case, expected to draw strong interest and sensational features, centers on the motive and sequence of events surrounding the shooting.
The text states that all members of the involved companies were dishonorably discharged though many were veterans with solid records. The President proposes restoring those not in the raid but who concealed it, if they reveal what they know to identify culprits. He attaches documents accusing the black soldiers of murders in the raid on white residents of a Texas town.
Miss Mary Goodwin Pinkney, once among the world’s wealthiest women, died in New York at 99. Her vast estate, largely real estate in Harlem, was estimated between 10 and 50 million dollars. Her death will free a large amount of property.
Witnesses recount tense moments as Phoraton brandished a revolver to disperse club members. Mrs Hains claims a false confession was coerced from her amid the incident.
In New York Dr Woods Hutchinson warned at a tuberculosis exhibit that one-fourth of the city’s spending could curb TB. He said overwork underfeeding and overcrowding drive deaths and that underpaid workers suffer most, urging restraint rather than charity.
Three wealthy Black residents were arrested in Muskogee Oklahoma for violating the Jim Crow street car law. A large colored mass meeting followed with plans to take the case to the Supreme Court to challenge the law as unconstitutional.
Paton Iowa suffered a major blaze destroying eleven buildings with no fire protection. The loss is estimated at 25000 dollars with firefighters unable to stop the flames overnight. Local authorities report the town of Nowa suffered extensive damage from the fire.
The Boston Post describes a float dessert made with scalded milk and a custard mix of egg yolks sugar and cornstarch, thickened and flavored, then folded with stiffly beaten egg whites formed into islands and boiled briefly, with a dot of bright jelly for garnish.
A recipe for bran muffins claims they are non fattening and tasty. Ingredients include bran flour sour milk butter molasses and soda. Dry mix then molasses with sour milk, cream butter and beat, bake in small rings in a slow oven and serve hot.
A Victorian style cookie recipe outlines making sand tarts with butter sugar eggs water and creamers. The dough uses soda sifted flour and a thin roll out with white of egg brushed on top then cinnamon and sugar sprinkled for finishing.
A New York Tribune recipe describes a crisp gingerbread baked in a hot oven, cooled wound around eighteen inch broomstick sections, using butter molasses flour brown sugar and ginger. The result is a decorative very crisp confection.
A New York Tribune recipe for nut wafers describes delicate crisp cakes flavored with butter milk sugar and flour. It suggests shaping with pastry cutters or dropping batter into a buttered pan and removing wafers quickly while hot to cool on a platter.
Practical tips on dusting linoleum to ease mopping. Make kitchen aprons double layered for neat repairs by using extra fabric, keep right sides together, and mend with existing pieces. Relief for bites with baking soda ammonia and damp cloth, notes on machine sewing speed and sewing back seams on children's sleeved aprons for hot weather.
There is no important seaport between Portland Maine and Portland Oregon that lacks one or more through railway passenger trains from Chicago daily.
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