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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
2
A collection of pithy quips and wry observations about society, fashion, sports, and culture. Jokes touch on politicians, suffrage, cinema, aviation, and daily life with a light tone. The notes poke fun at fashion trends, clean living, and curious modern inventions.
The Houston Post and the Toledo Blade quarrel over whether a hen sets or sits. They note the practical point is the outcome rather than terminology, while a side claim about teaching left handed people to use their right hands as a cure for stammering claims some success.
A Russian girl in Kiel hospital is reported with a fever of 122 but is not considered in critical condition. The item then notes a separate plan to wage another war against the drug habit, cautioning not to confuse the two conflicts and to remember the distinction between the drug habit and the bug.
Reports allege Private Samuel Parks of the Twenty‑eighth Infantry was executed by Huerta troops near Vera Cruz. Washington presses Huerta for confirmation and terms a possible end to mediation if the claim is proven.
A bomb was thrown into a Kingston, New York bedroom occupied by Mrs. Darwin Hinckley and her two daughters. The device exploded and seriously injured two of the women, while the third escaped harm.
In Oxford Louisiana on Thursday Thomas J. Steele a local merchant shot and killed Hattie Boyleston a store clerk then died by suicide. Steele left a widow and six children.
New Westminster British Columbia on May 8 hanged Herman Behrens of San Bernardino California and Frank Davis of New Westminster for the murder of police officer James Archibald in Vancouver on May 23 1918.
John Graham Jr of the Royal Liverpool Golf club captured the St George's cup at Sandwich defeating top players from England and America.
Detroit May 18 Ten men were killed and another dying as a blast wrecked the Mexican Crude Rubber plant in the city’s west end. Four of the injured are in serious condition. Officials fear the exact cause may never be known with early reports faulting gasoline then sulphuric acid as likely causes. The coroner will conduct a rigid investigation.
The hospital ship Solace carried 101 patients to the Brooklyn navy yard after action in Vera Cruz. Among the wounded, 32 were sniper victims with four amputations, 28 with tropical fever, and three sailors died from battle wounds. Details include Robert Emmet Lee recalling a night assault and the loss of comrade George Kinsman.
In San Francisco a young unknown woman in a fine gown and jewels leaped from a 175 foot cliff at Baker's Beach into the ocean. The incident is reported from the bay area with no further identifying details provided.
Washington May 16. A supplemental appropriation of 50 000 for army medical and hospital supplies was asked in an estimate to the house by the war department. Secretary Garrison said the funds are needed to cover extraordinary expenditures tied to the occupation of Vera Cruz and mobilization of troops for service abroad.
Washington May 18 Dr Beverly T Galloway assistant secretary of agriculture resigns from government service to become dean of the agricultural college at Cornell University.
London May 18 Lieutenant Empson and his mechanic Cudmore were killed when their aeroplane struck a hedge during a flight over the Seaton golf course and overturned.
Augusta Ga May 18 Thomas E Watson longtime Populist presidential candidate was indicted by the grand jury on Friday charged with sending obscene material through the mails.
Harry A. Wheeler vice-president of the Union Trust Company declined a membership on the federal reserve board. President Wilson received Wheeler's resignation at Washington.
The writer reports from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta that crop conditions are excellent with spring wheat well above ground by May 10. Farmers are busy with seeding nearly finished, shifting toward mixed farming with cattle, hogs and sheep. New settlers from eastern states surge in, and Panama Exposition travelers may reach Canada via three transcontinental lines offering prime prairie and mountain scenery.
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