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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1905
Page
2
A housekeeper urged to use Royal Baking Powder for cakes and pastries to ensure purity and healthfulness. The note claims it yields lightness sweetness and flavor in cake biscuits doughnuts crusts and other foods while making them wholesome for children and adults. Royal Baking Powder Co New York is cited.
A spring appearance of the Citizens hand at the canal commission appointments signals improving signs for city leadership. The street railway job on East 2 Fifth Street progresses with weather allowing. optimism grows as plans unfold. A brewer sued for alienation of affections is highlighted by a satirical defense about his large abdomen. The Veale township telephone line construction nears completion with farmer participation praised as work surges into the busy season.
Local interest notes farmers join in public works to improve the community. An organization in Reeve township is involved in road dragging to better conditions. A Connecticut judge’s decision on drunkenness is misquoted and sections of the text discuss social scandals and sensational crime headlines from various papers.
Advertisements offer nurse trained services at 713 South West First Street with moderate charges. Resolutions of respect honor James R. Arthur of Star Lodge No 236 I O O F Glen dale Indiana, praising him as a husband father and citizen and outlining mournful rites and badges of mourning. Also notice urging readers to view the new map of Daviess County at The Gazette Office and promoting Burdock Blood Bitters and Dr Thorpe’s Electric Oil.
In Trafalgar Indiana on April 1 burglars blasted the Pitcher and Bridges drug store safe with nitroglycerin. Four shots were fired at Dr RJ Williams who fired back. three bullets hit the doctor’s wall as four men fled west and escaped. Burglars left only a few dollars.
Report of a 2 am explosion near Cynthiana indicates safe blowers rifled Yeager and Marshall general store taking 500 stamps and 35 in cash. In Muncie two robbers under police pursuit opened a Cincinnati and Louisville passenger station safe, netting 76.41 but leaving equal amount behind. Shots were fired at a witness. suspects fled toward Waldrond as authorities searched the wrecked stations and discarded envelopes.
Politicians in Indianapolis discuss possible reappointment of Adjutant General John Ward of Monticello whose term ends in April. Rumors name Oran Perry of Tyla, H. C. Starr of Richmond backing him, and Captain Anderson plus E. F. Branch as potential contenders. The hospital site dispute for the insane hospital centers on Columbus versus Seymour with rail access and cost cited. Meanwhile state appellate judges face renomination debates as salary increases fuel tensions.
Indianapolis April 1. At the close of one of the greatest days in the history of the Southern Indiana Teachers association officers were elected President E B Bryan Bloomington first vice president Wm Baker Martinsville second vice president J S Shool Rushville secretary Anna King Connersville treasurer wy D Kerlin Knightstown executive committee H Lester Smith Brookville H H Clark Bloomington Fiske Allen Indianapolis Willa MeMahon Huntington Ryland Ratliff Danville Over 3500 teachers enrolled attendance a record breaker.
Mrs Roosevelt and three children Miss Ethel Kermit and Archie left Washington for Jacksonville to board the yacht Sylph for a coastal cruise. They plan to stay at sea most of the time near Jacksonville and expect to return to Washington in about ten days.
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