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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
6
The article argues England needs skilled planners with ample means to draft imaginative schemes for city growth. It urges designs that make cities healthy dwelling and beauty spots, rather than blighted land. It emphasizes art and urban aesthetics as essential to development.
A man arrested on suspicion of fraud carried a map of England with towns marked T W K meaning Too Well Known. Detectives traced his deceit across towns and realized the initials warned others away.
The Surcouf company in Paris builds a demi rigid airship for 25 passengers with 227 500 cubic feet of lift and two 220 horsepower motors. It aims to reach 35 to 45 mph and 6 000 feet, with trials in England and a potential month stay in England for testing. Sir Arthur Du Cros touts an option to purchase for the nation.
The department of health proposes a city slaughterhouse to inspect cattle sheep and hogs before sale. Officials aim to save butchers at least 35 dollars per animal by providing free slaughter and dressing, with carcasses placed in freezing rooms and byproducts paid to the city.
Italian writer Gabriele D Annunzio works on an aeroplane romance claiming the language lacked aviation terms. He consults aviator Lieutenant Calderara to translate key Anglo French words into Italian and asserts he has created 140 new Italian words for the novel.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society will host a show in Boston from May 26 to 30 featuring rare orchids. A $1000 prize plus a gold medal will go to the best collection in flower, followed by a silver medal and $500 and a bronze medal and $250 for other top entries. Awards also cover best newly introduced orchid plant seedling and best collection of cut orchids of new varieties.
London Scraps recounts a clash between dramatic critic J Comyns Carr and manager Mr Bateman over the play Charles 7. Irving acts under Bateman at the Lyceum. A supper at Westminster Club ends with Bateman declaring he does not please Carr. A farmer’s wife mocks a servant’s blindness with meat sight joke.
Artist Gustave Doré lost his passport while touring Switzerland. In Lucerne he spoke with the mayor and by drawing a street potato sellers scene, appended his name to prove identity. The mayor confirmed the passport valid but kept it and offered an ordinary form in return.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item quotes a remark on Jack Thornley after marriage. The wife discusses the Verifast scandal while Thornley, oddly quiet, falls asleep during the tale, illustrating a striking change in demeanor.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned is appointed administrator of the estate with the will annexed of John Seger deceased, late of Spencer county, William Seger.
Notice is given that the undersigned will apply at the July term 1909 of the Spencer county Indiana board of commissioners for a license to sell Spirituous vinous and malt liquors in less than quart quantities for one year with on premises drinking privilege. The business location is the northeast room of a two story frame house on lot twenty in New Boston town Hulft township Spencer county. Detailed boundaries and room measurements are described. The applicant also seeks permission to sell cigars and tobacco and serve wine with the saloon. June 11 1909.
William Olsen applies at the July 1909 Spencer County commissioners term for a one year license to sell intoxicating liquors by the front room on the ground floor of a two story brick building on the northwest corner of a described Rockport lot. The request includes on premise drinking rights and permission to sell cigars and tobacco. The exact room and building features are described, including doorways and glass, with Elm Street frontage and a public thoroughfare nearby.
An old Cornish mine tale recalls a risk friendly claim as a miner assures an anxious elderly woman the rope will last exactly six months and renewal is due only tomorrow. The incident captures the era’s blunt humor about safety with a touch of regional grit.
A Chicago News quip notes a diminutive applicant applying to be a nursemaid for a woman’s children. The woman snubs the applicant saying she is too small, while the applicant retorts that the issue is the children are too large.
A humorous exchange from the Louisville Courier Journal features a press agent complimenting a girl with flowery language and her witty reply that she could not be swayed by such rhetoric.
A vivid line from the Atlanta Constitution portrays a father awaiting his wayward son. The prodigal motif is voiced as a dialect-rich scene with the father’s thunderous welcome anticipated.
Sealed bids to furnish 2 400 bushels of coal for delivery to Rockport cars and 1 800 bushels to the Rockport courthouse coal house are invited by the Spencer County Board of Commissioners. Bids due by 2 pm on Monday July 5th 1909. Coal weighed on agreed scales. contractor pays weighing. Deliveries required by November 1st 1909. John T. White A S C Rollie Morris deputy.
The report shows the bank's condition as of June 23 1909 with figures for loans deposits and liabilities. Total assets amount to about 118 939 90 with capital stock 25 000 00 surplus 6 250 00 and deposits around 68 656 45. Cash on hand 1 858 55 and cash items 70 20. The statement is sworn by cashier T E Snyder before Notary C Mason on June 26 1909.
The rain tree Pithe collobium Saman grows to 60 feet in drier parts of South America. Its leaves condense atmospheric moisture, causing a continual shower that floods the soil and forms a marsh. This irrigation-like effect can transform barren deserts into lush forests.
A quotation from Edwin Markham in Red Book advocates finding peace and strength through daily silence. It suggests withdrawing from daily pressures to connect with a great source of power, implying that duty itself provides a form of inner prayer.
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