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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1904
Page
7
A child narrator recalls his mother calling him from the door while playing outside. The piece reflects a mother’s concern as she calls “Come in Joe” and searches for her son Joseph Henry Green, ending with the line “Have I got to come after you.”
A narrator recalls a brilliant woman whose life blends genius and suffering. From a glamorous youth to a fragile later marriage, her loves and travail unfold across a Southern landscape, ending with her death after a life of longing and renunciation.
A group of women discuss charm as the natural blossoming of womanhood across ages. The talk includes anecdotes of shy or plain women becoming most charming late in life, averaging around fifty nine, and defines charm as a soul quality beyond mind or body.
Congressman John Sharp Williams recalls a Mississippi hypochondriac whose bragging about health records amuses neighbors. A friend quips that the sick man has faith in doctors and wonders why clinicians would let a good customer die, per a New York Tribune anecdote.
Indiana prohibitionists met in convention naming Felix T. McWhirter of Indianapolis as their gubernatorial candidate. They elected delegates and alternates to the national convention while delaying any president nominee. The platform, discussed for over six hours, spans about 500 words and retains a plank for equal suffrage.
Hammond Indiana reports nipped in the bud a plan to blow up the Lake county treasury in Crown Point and steal tax money. George Linton Ray Knight James Hahn and Albert Scone aged 16 to 21 are under arrest for allegedly forming the plot and planning to use dynamite to fund the robbery.
Prohibitionists of Indiana seek a repeal of current liquor laws at the St Louis Exposition. They push a legislative proposal to ban manufacturing sale importation exportation and transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage use nationwide and abroad. Sheriff Daugherty and Marshal Young disrupted an act, Hahn and Scone were captured, Crown Point youths fled to the fair ground, Remington boys betrayed partners by revealing a plot to blow up the treasurer vault.
John Cleves Harrison, son of Benjamin Harrison and grandson of President William Henry Harrison, died in Los Angeles after paralysis. Born May 7, 1829 in Vincennes, he served eight years as a Union Pacific director, two political posts, and moved to California in 1891. He will be buried in Indianapolis.
A Friday night wind storm in Frankfort and Hillsburg toppled a brick church and damaged several barns. No injuries were reported.
Miss Anna Martin filed a $2000 suit in Fort Wayne Indiana against the parents of her intended husband Harry Co Puhlmeyer alleging they persuaded their son to elope and not marry her after she had sought a license to wed. The action follows a surprise request made to Deputy County Clerk Walsh.
Indianapolis April 9 Taggart and his organization swept the state party primaries to choose delegates for the state convention. Taggart reports 118 delegates for Judge Parker and none for Hearst, reflecting a decisive outcome in his favor.
The national convention in Indianapolis elected Bram Baker of Boston as president Rev. W. C. Alexander of Washington D C as vice president Ora E Monnette of Toledo as secretary and Lincoln M Corey of Chicago as treasurer on Friday.
Adolph Philliphard filed suit for legal separation in Marion Indiana claiming his wife obtained a divorce from him in Detroit last September. He forgot she had procured the divorce, prompting the legal action.
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