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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
3
A farm boy Billy Mudge unarmed and cautious observes a thief break into a house. A girl on horseback appears with the robber, a posse pursues, and Billy finds a stocking full of paper and stones in the house. The scene shifts to a moving picture set revealing the comic prank.
The New York Sun recounts a Tudor era fable where an abbot hides royal deeds in a pie. Jack Horner steals the parchments, wastes them in a brook, and the king orders the abbot hanged for contumacy, illustrating a grim legend in a children’s rhyme context.
A London Tatler excerpt describes Emperor Charles VI’s daily meals from a dawn breakfast to a midnight supper. He began with milk infused dishes, dined at noon on twenty dishes, and had two later suppers, each followed by heavy pastry and alcohol, shaping a forty year shift from appetite to taste.
Copper sheathing covers the hull to defend against wood-boring worms in tropical seas and against decay. It is especially important for iron ships where seawater causes rapid oxidation and brittleness.
The book asks what civil service is and the cheerful narrator explains that civil service jobs offer protection from firing, unlike non civil service posts where dismissal is at the employer's whim. The exchange reflects a view of the civil service system as safeguarding tenure.
The girl greets George and explains her father is excited and disturbed after she told him George wants to marry her. George agrees to enter and calm him, asking what is the matter. The girl confirms his desire to wed.
A sharp critique voices that some actors are shameless and shiftless. The Woman with the angular jaw notes the irony of a man advertising on a billboard that his wife supports him. The husband questions the claim, highlighting gendered labor norms.
A brief Birmingham Age-Herald exchange hints at romantic disappointment and a decisive win in love as Wy asks who secured the girl and the answer is He.
The note cites a humorous exchange about hat decorations from Woman's Home Companion and a remark from Lubbock about idle people who complain they cannot find time to do what they wish. It blends light domestic wit with an observation on motivation and leisure.
In a Wilkinson's store turmoil over love leads Henry McCoy to reveal he is a girl named Helen. Bookkeeper Tom Arnold declares himself to be Bettie Leslie, and in a turn of events Helen and Bettie both wed their respective bosses, Arnold and Wilkinson.
The flood relief committee reports $8,076 handled with $32 spent on printing and stationery. Most funds went to food and furniture for 3500 families. Ota McKay fined $10 for breaking quarantine after exposure to small pox. he testified food supplies were provided per the sanitary officer.
Richmond relatives of farmer Frank Bourne in Camden report anonymous letters claiming Bourne was murdered three months ago in Mississippi. Bourne last went to Jackson, Mississippi, on business and has not been heard from for over three months.
In the circuit court Peru-Frank Hall the farmer is in trial on perjury charges linked to a barn fire years ago. Investigators say thieves stole $600 worth of clover seed, seed recovered, and Hall allegedly gave false testimony at the thieves’ trials.
The Paoli A Woman's Improvement Society has formed to promote public improvements including restoring the old cemetery where graves exceed a century in age. The group plans other community projects to enhance the town environment.
A collection of aphorisms and quotes evaluates patience liberty power habit love and self. It contrasts discipline with despair, labor with joy, and self-worth with public virtue through writers like Enctetus Jerrold Shakespeare and Ovid.
Readers in rural districts are urged to write to the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Co or Nashville for details on obtaining telephone service. The ad highlights low cost and great advantages, claiming it modernizes farms by placing them in direct contact with key points.
Two exhibitions contrast the Wild West and Far East in a spectacular double bill headlined by Buffalo Hill. The event showcases a greatest on earth style spectacle with dramatic acts and a vast audience reaction anticipated.
James G. Hill advertises plenty of money available for farm mortgage loans at a low interest rate.
Effective July 1 1912 trains leave Rockport daily No 41 730 am No 201 600 pm except Sunday No 54 625 pm Sunday only Arrive Daily No 200 130 pm No 42 940 pm No 4 connects for Louisville and French Lick Nos 201 and 45 connect for French Lick and Monon Nos 200 and 42 connect at Lincoln City with trains from Louisville and French Lick W E Young Local Ticket Agent
The West and Pawnee Bill's Far East tour comes Friday June 20 in Owensboro with Buffalo Bill in a new intimate role. Three epoch program spans pyramids to prairies featuring cavalry displays and bucking buffalo, Auto-Polo, baremen, and boy scouts. Rail lines offer excursion rates. Hall’s Catarrh Cure cited in an oath claim by F J Cheney & Co.
A notarized affirmation dated December 6 1886 introduces Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and claims it acts on blood and mucous surfaces. The notice directs readers to send for testimonials and lists F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio selling at 75 cents. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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