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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
7
Mickey Flynt loses ground to Charlie Hastings in school leadership after Charlie earns praise from Kid Evans. A fourth alarm fire changes the tale as Mickey is saved by Truck 4 firefighters and rides to the blaze on the big rig, propelling him to hero status.
In this Houston Post piece, J. M. Lewis recalls country joys and dreamlike escapes from city life. The narrator longs for fields, woods, and a sweetheart, urging a return to childhood innocence, with vivid images of herbs, daisies, and a sprawling dreamland.
A boy minded sheep and cried Wolf as a prank. When a real wolf arrived, neighbors ignored him and the sheep suffered. The tale warns that habitual liars lose all trust and credibility.
Fort Leavenworth reports expose of officers who married Filipino women then left them. The piece recalls pre Civil War patterns of officers in Oregon Washington Territory forming unions with Native or local women, noting a Tacoma Puyallup general and his mixed family while the officer maintained ties with his American wife and supported his Indian wife in old age.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt notes the Sisters south of New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego as perpetually rainy. It mentions a global belt where rain rarely stops, called the zone of constant precipitation, with pockets of low rainfall within it.
A chapter describes Hood seals from Greenland as ferocious beasts weighing 400 to 500 pounds and able to confront attackers. Hunters use rope, knives, skin boots, and goggles, dragging 300 pounds of skins back to ship after 16 to 18 hour open air days.
A brief Chicago Daily News item notes a baby taking its first steps as a trial balance of new beginnings. The excerpt uses playfully cautious language to relate a milestone in a domestic setting.
Gen Jose Manuel Hernandez known as El Mocho arrives as Venezuela's minister to the United States. A stormy revolutionary figure, he is joined by a marine band linked to his personal pay and private engagements amid distrust from unions and routine discipline within the corps.
The widow of Cushman K. Davis, long a Washington social figure, marries the late chairman of the foreign relations committee. Her Paris mission prominence during the peace conference era drew international notice and crowded receptions, making the marriage a major social event in the capital.
The oldest U S maritime musical organization marks a century plus five years of service to American culture, praised for shaping popular taste despite enduring great disadvantages. The report notes Langley’s airship from a press boat near the houseboat, describing its four winged aeroplane design, dual propellers, and a modest two horsepower engine, with secrecy surrounding Langley’s experiments.
The Potomac contest between newspapers and scientists over Langley’s aerodrome ends with a dramatic clash at the Mount Vernon Ducking Club. Beale and reporters force entry, while Langley’s team remains guarded as the machine’s fate and the scientist’s efforts draw to a dramatic, unresolved close.
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