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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
3
In the Paris region, few affordable family holidays exist as country milk and produce are scarce to towns. A Barbizon butcher stands alone within five miles, boasting a retort to complaints that if meals disappoint, customers can ride the tram to another town or seek forest meat.
Mr Meekins notes the baby smiles when he looks at him. His wife adds that the baby’s grin may not be polite but shows a sense of humor. The brief exchange highlights a playful domestic moment.
A brief column notes a widow claiming forty and a bachelor replying that she is younger while denying rumors, highlighting light social chatter and playful banter in a dated tone. The exchange playful and tongue in cheek with no broader event.
A court row features a zinger about reckless driving after a man asks about his wife with a sling on her hand. The exchange is noted as a witty remark rather than a formal accusation.
Taft nominates Horace Harmon Lurton a 65 year old ex Confederate soldier and Democrat to replace Rufus Peckham on the U S Supreme Court. Lurton served 16 years as a U S circuit judge and 7 years on Tennessee's supreme bench, with prior ties to Judge Taft and notable public roles. The move preserves court balance and may affect upcoming trust cases including tobacco and Standard Oil disputes.
Confederate partisan John Mosby denounces football as more deadly than war citing a student murder during a Washington game with Georgetown. He argues university officials must regulate the sport or abandon it, claims athletes are often sons of peace while war looms in sports.
T P OConnor, visiting the United States, predicts an uprising of the masses after the Lords rejected the budget amendment. He says the Lords’ doom is near, that the entire Liberal and Irish Nationalist cause has suffered under Lords rule, and that England and Ireland will gain emancipation from feudal governance. The impending fight, he says, will strip Lords of power within years.
A committee is formed to secure national parks modeled after Yellowstone across German speaking countries. Parks are planned in the Austrian Alps, in south Germany, in north Germany and in central Germany. They will be open to the public at no charge.
A shoe company representative N. L. K. Smith completed a 1200 mile round trip by touring car from Atlanta to Richmond and back, illustrating the growing use of automobiles as travel work vehicles.
A brief note from the Detroit Free Press records a timely warning about approaching Christmas season. A janitor greets the morning, underscoring ordinary daily life amid looming holiday preparations.
An Indianapolis advertisement promotes Dr Emmons Throat and Lung Healer as a cure for consumption also claimed to prevent and heal the disease. It offers two months treatment for five dollars with a 15 day money back guarantee and directs readers to 209 Saks Building.
In a Pittsburg Dispatch summary, the piece notes how a pin near the eye can appear transparent, how dark room viewing with a candle shows a nebula-like retina shadow, and how indirect starlight can brighten stars due to the yellow spot of keen vision, seen best from the side.
The Badrinath shrine in the Himalayas sits 22,901 feet high with a Vishnu temple above a sacred tank fed by a hot spring. About 15,000 pilgrims climb to the site annually, swelling to over 50,000 during the Kumbh Melah every twelfth year. Pilgrims bathe nude in the sacred pool amid horned Brahman priests and a frenzied crowd.
A prospector encamped on Bear River in eastern Utah halts a passerby asking distances to Salt Lake. He reveals a severe toothache and plans a 500 mile ride to pull it. The crowd helps with a string to pull the tooth, and he quips that he had no string before starting out.
Goron, Paris police chief, sent portraits of alleged women criminals to Lombroso in 1888. A misfiled set showed women with bucksters licenses, not criminals, forcing a new edition to correct the police blunder and satisfy the author.
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