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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1912
Page
1
Upper Sandusky Ohio resident Mrs Benj H Stansberry credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with restoring her health after years of fatigue backache and nervous strain. She urges others to try the remedy, noting its thirty year reputation and reliability for female ills.
An OCR fragment mentions The Erapion items offered for free booklet to Dr Leclerc in London and Connecticut, with garbled lists of conditions including kidney disease and skin eruptions. It shifts to a short Indianapolis News piece about a child named Harold seeking warmth from his mother, who tucks him in with blankets and a hot water bottle.
A quotation from Uncle Abraham prompts a back pew discussion on paths to salvation and damnation. Sister Eliza suggests choosing the safer road, while the dialogue hints at dignity and disgrace in public life.
Floods in the Mississippi valley drown thirty people leave 30 000 homeless and 2 000 square miles inundated with 10 million dollars in losses. Levees tested at Cairo and Tremphis and vandals loot flooded districts as refugees seek shelter in Kentucky Missouri and Illinois.
Judge A Le Sanborn named two receivers for Allis-Chalmers after creditors petitioned in Wisconsin National City. D W Call serves as company president and General Otto H Falk of this city, a noted manufacturer and Merchants and Manufacturers association president, are the named receivers.
Washington hearings examine Agriculture Secretary conduct amid disputes over Everglades drainage reports. Critics allege published departmental material boosted Florida land interests, while Wilson defends actions and claims incomplete investigations into the project.
General Emilio Campa attacks Parral but retreats toward the liberal base leaving a small force near Parral. Federals under Tellez reach the city, raising defending garrison to about 2000. Campa loses a field piece and retires north while forces under Quevedo harass the retreating rebels. Inez Salazar and Luis Fernandez head toward Parral as a larger battle looms between the area and Parral.
Washington reports the Lodge resolution urged the president to inform the senate on Mexico naval basing at Magdalena Bay. Huntington Wilson and Rep Sulzer told Taft they believe United States will not intervene in Mexico and that reports of Japanese colonization there are absurd and groundless.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers, famed for crossing the United States by air, was killed when his biplane plunged into the surf at Long Beach California during an exhibition. He rose to 400 feet, then the craft tilted and crashed, breaking his neck instantly amid wreckage and tangled wire.
Fearing violence from foreigners and workers during a textile strike in Utica New York Sheriff Becker called in the national guard. Three militia companies arrived unexpectedly to guard closed suburban mills while arrests occurred including a woman charged after peppering a deputy with pepper spray. In Passaic New Jersey riot act read at a silk mill prompted police and deputies to clear a 400-strong crowd.
The coastwise Ontario carrying 30 passengers from Baltimore to Boston caught fire in the hold and ran aground off Montauk Point. Life savers and tugs evacuated passengers while crew and captain Bond fought the blaze. The vessel, 1987 tons, 290 feet, built 1904, is at risk as seas rise.
Over a hundred people were saved in the south Memphis area as a levee failure sent a flood twenty feet deep into Modoc Arkansas, depopulating the valley town and washing away sturdy homes. A lake formed, hemmed by hills on three sides and the river on the fourth, while the steamer Kate Adams stood by. Rescue crews aided survivors and looked after the needy.
Fragmentary OCR notes show Senator Young discussed amid a senate debate with references to grades or votes. The readable items hint at possible committee roles or policy positions, but details remain unclear in the damaged text.
Fragmentary OCR text references a senator named Sanders and a person or topic labeled Anders. No clear event, date, or location is discernible. The readable phrases hint at a political figure but lack concrete details to form a full report.
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