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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
7
A fragmentary collection of humorous observations and adages from The News-Eagle in Van Buren Indiana. The notes touch on fashion costs leisure and social quirks with pithy sayings about honesty wealth and entertainment. The tone mirrors a local newspaper humor column of the era.
A dated column muses on youth style and odd rulings, noting a Gotham magistrate’s unusual decision that a pigeon is not a fowl. It wades through fashion, ambition, and the hopeful scramble of daily life before noon giving way to nighttime plans.
A female doctor claims infants can be trained to enjoy facial washing while pondering if older boys can recall the area behind their ears. The wartime powder use is noted and a stock exchange seat last sold for 49,500 dollars shows market interest.
One of England's popular seaside resorts will this summer deploy women police in dark blue uniforms with helmets. They are expected to draw attention and prove effective in maintaining order.
A Berlin telegram says Germany favors a settlement over the Lusitania sinking by agreeing to stop submarine warfare on passenger ships if the United States ensures passenger vessels do not carry arms or munitions. Washington sources say Holland Denmark Sweden Norway and Spain may follow the U S lead. Counter proposals are discussed in hopes of a diplomatic basis acceptable to both sides.
Surgeon General Gorgas predicted typhus will disappear from armies as typhoid has. He noted the final step is determining the correct antitoxin dose by actual experience. He has been offered the post of commander in chief of sanitary forces in Serbia under the Rockefeller foundation.
Fifty British and French nationals deported from Constantinople to Gallipoli by Turkish authorities have been brought back to the capital through the efforts of United States Ambassador Morgenthau, according to a Reuters dispatch from Athens.
The United States cruiser Des Moines has passed Cadiz on its way to Syria, signaling movements in the Mediterranean theater as it proceeds toward the Middle East.
Riots target German owned businesses across London and other areas as newspapers urge confiscation of property valued over a billion dollars. Internment of Germans and Austrians proceeds with some arrests and ongoing public unrest.
The American liner New York departed Liverpool for New York carrying a number of Lusitania victim bodies. Among the passengers were two Lusitania survivors eager to leave the war zone. Bodies shipped include Charles Frohman, Mr and Mrs Charles Plamondon of Chicago, Miss Ellis, T B King of New York, A R Foley, C T Broderick of Boston, R F Trumbull and Miss Me Bright.
The French war office reports a 500 meter advance north of Arras toward Souchez in a sector where an intense artillery duel is ongoing. The push targets a German fortified sugar mill seven miles from Arras as both sides unleash heavy artillery.
Reports indicate outbreaks in Lisbon and Porto Portugal with revolutionary activity. Former Premier Costa a founder of the Portuguese republic is said to have been assassinated during the unrest.
The Pocket Publishers League met at the Knights of Pythias hall in Boonville with seventeen members. C T Miller opened the session. Judge Roscoe Kiper gave an welcome, followed by remarks from Senator J Aem enway and S B Hatfield. A dinner at the St Charles hotel preceded an auto tour and a program on country newspapers with several discussions. A motion to abstain from further clubbing rates was adopted, and the next meeting is set for Cannelton on August 1.
More than 125 Knights of Columbus attended the annual state convention at Notre Dame where J Madison Walsh of Washington was elected gray state deputy succeeding Charles M Nieger of Fort Wayne. Officers named include Charles F Cannon Joseph Hirsh Dr Schmidt and J P Donnell. Delegates to the supreme convention in Seattle include Earl S Dickens Thomas I McKee Edward Remmart and Rev M W Lyons. The gathering discussed plans for a children's home and began with mass at Sacred Heart Church Notre Dame followed by an evening ball hosted by the South Bend council.
A Terre Haute delegation including R Voorhees Newton city judge James Gossom mayor Sylvester Doyle chief of police Judge D W Henry Ira D Andrews Earl K Houck and local press toured the state penal farm in Putnam County by automobile Their tour covered the 1600 acre farm guards showed the barber shop mess hall and sleeping quarters Judge Newton who had sent prisoners there voiced strong support for the farm methods.
Ward West age twenty one was sentenced to state prison for one to seven years on a charge of issuing worthless checks. He had a prior similar conviction three months earlier and was paroled after a previous sentence. He passed more fraudulent checks including a $17 saloon check. his parents made the check good. He had worked in local stores and at railroad stations.
In Greenfield workers removing a floor in the old Masonic lodge room uncovered hickory nuts buried in oak tanbark used as sound deadening. The nuts remained sound with good kernels, having been in the bark since the building was erected sixty three years ago.
Clarence Hufford twenty employed at Schlosser creamery died after being crushed between an elevator and the third floor wall in a Frankfort building.
Roy Richey aged twenty five was killed and A H Haas and Edward Hutchinson injured when a Pennsylvania train struck an automobile truck at a grade crossing near Fort Wayne.
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