Northern Indiana Miscellany: Mixed Local Notes and Debates
A collage of Indiana news items covers horse thefts near Milford, a 300 volume expansion for Huntington public library, a Warsaw violin valued at 10000 dollars, and local crime cases including the Marion murder life sentence. Other notes report telephones in use, wind damage at Eagle Lake, canal survey talk, and teacher association meetings in Elkhart and Kosciusko county figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Eagle Lake
Wareaw
Ulery, Harter & Co
North Manchester
Arkansas
Northern
Evils of cheap fiction and its influence on youth
An excerpt discusses how cheap dime novels corrupt youth, citing Newport prison officials and a Milwaukee arson arrest. It links crime to reading violent stories, mentions Jesse Pomeroy’s admission, and contrasts readers with moral types while warning of broader cultural decay. A fable about a debtor editor underscores the value of paying owed subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaplin
Newport
London
America
Jesse Pomeroy
Milwaukee
Fichte
Klondike travel plans and costs attract interest
Forty Madison county residents are expected to head north for the Klondike fields this spring. Al Arnold of Burket departs for Alaska with hopes of finding gold while four barrels of vanecounty but ter ship to Dawson City. The Wabash Klondike company will send three men March 1 to Victoria and then Alaska. Travel costs shown include Seattle and Dyea passages, freight rates, and Dawson City shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County
Klondike
al Arnold
Burket
Eldorado
Vane County
Richmond
Alaska
J. H. Kroper
Dawson City
Wabash Klondike Company
Michigan Division
Big Four
Victoria
B.C
Fort Wayne
Seattle
Dyea
Traveling skillet salesman warns buyers to beware
A tongue tied young man tours the country selling a skillet by sample. He claims payment is optional and the manufacturer would pay freight. Several people paid in advance but the skillets never arrive. Look out for him.
It Makes All The Difference What Burden A Man Bears
Wondering if any man or boy in Silver Lake does not grasp the point that burdens shape complaint. A twelve pound baby tires some men quickly while a 130 pound sweetheart sits in a lap with no murmur. A long walk home after dinner becomes trivial when chatting politics on a street corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Lake
Charehi
Hints to Correspondents for Clear News Writing
Practical tips for writers urge concise facts and balanced coverage. Emphasizes naming individuals carefully, using full day names, avoiding odd typographic quirks, and signing submitted copy. Encourages economical wording and responsible capitalization.
A Story With A Moral From A Farmer And Buyers
A farmer started with eighteen hundred bushels of wheat sold each to a different dealer. Some paid in cash while many promised later payments. Months passed and the farmer’s bank balance dwindled, revealing the risk of fragmented credit.
The Time for Death and Hidden Hour
A meditation on mortality noting that death remains unseen and God has hidden its hour. The speaker reflects that this hides the final moment so people may live each day with purpose and conduct themselves as if it were their last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw News
Jasper Hatfield
Seward
Hatfield
John Haines
Tess
Christian Church At
Palestine
George E. Platt
Christian Church
Blackboard Advertising Displayed In Local Drug Store
An exchange notes a blackboard inside a leading city drug store used effectively for advertising. The board is arranged in a bold, eye catching style to attract customers.
Good School Advice
A compact exhortation urging staying in school as path to success and usefulness. The piece frames education as a safe investment, linking prolonged study with bright scholarship and entry into professions. It echoes a period emphasis on schooling as social mobility and personal development.
My Umbrella Lost Amid Borrowers Tales
A fragmented verse recalls a new umbrella lent and overheated by mistrust. The speaker laments the loss as the umbrella passes through neighbors and a wife, then a friend, with hope that it may return unseen through a maze of borrowers. The tone is rueful and comedic about misplaced trust.
Beecher and the letter about death and faith
A fragmented excerpt recounts Henry Ward Beecher receiving a letter from a boy asking about mortality and the grave. The tale references hymns and the idea of spiritual songs in the hour of death, with a note on cannibals and a mission, all conveyed in a hazy historical voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
Also Mentioned on This Page
Milford
Huntington Public Library
Hartford City
Nash Johnson
Tacie Mang
Marion
Tom
Elkhart
Warsaw
U. B
Sam Small
Laporte
County Infirmary
Bass
Lake Michigan
Wabash River
Turpie
Committee On Commerce
Wabash Knights of Pythias
Knights
E. Market St
Washington
Hawaii
State Board of Health
Wm. Sutherlin
Wm. E. B. Fetsets
Plymouth
Koschinsko
North
Manchester
Meridenhall
Wm. Hatfield
Clanette
Jackson
Mich
Charles E. Everett
Allen County
Adams
W.A. _Banks
Governor Mount
Board of Trust
Logansport
Wiggins
Liberty
North Manchester Journal
Ohio
Grosvenor
Hanna
Bushnell
James H. Wiggins
Ohio Penitential
Wooster
Mackey
Atch
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