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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
2
A humorous lament on tracking daily expenses from car fares to snacks and pensioning a missing thirty cents. The speaker lists purchases from hats to gum and bleachers, ending with a stray entry for foreign missions. The Louisville Courier Journal item plays as a light treasury quip.
A Dayton inventor Mr Petgreave famed for quirky devices like a 21 day clock and a horse powered washing machine wins public joy with a locomotorator at Oak Hill race track on Washington’s Birthday. The crowd cheers as the giant vehicle moves eight miles an hour powered by a treadmill driven by his horse Nance.
The speaker attributes national success to two moral forces God and man. He argues every child has a divine right at birth and society must preserve this in citizens, urging good government to safeguard justice, purity, and temperance. He cites Jerome on raising good boys and virtuous marriages and asserts progress comes from divine and human elements.
Mother Earth shows a sequence of tremors across Italy Cuba Jamaica and other Atlantic regions. Scientists study the pattern of shakes to understand a possible connection between distant seismic events.
There are two sides to every question and the most profitable side of the insurance issue lies inside.
A domestic piece by Dr David H Reeder extols bread making as a core skill. It offers a milk yeast loaf method with potatoes and mush, plus variations Currant Bread Brown flour bread and a Perfect Bread method. It adds caution about overnight rising and shares reader letters on home remedies.
Readers may inquire about health topics by writing to the Home Health Club or Dr. David H. Reeder in Laporte Indiana with full name address and at least four cents in postage.
A clipped exchange shows a job seeker asking for references and the reply naming Mrs. Lippy, a former neighbor, as difficult. The Chicago Tribune snippet hints at social tension and employment trust in informal hiring.
A London paper touts Old Moore the almanac oracle, predicting 1906 events by month. January hints naval news from the Mediterranean and German plots. February may see anarchists in London. March foresees post office pay boosts and Morocco tensions. April warns of American sailors desertions. May anticipates a religious revival and prison crowding. June expects the horse to yield to the motor car. August hints at intrigue in Ispia and September and a European war cloud looming over Britain and Europe.
Capt. Thomas Flahive recalls a late night encounter on a Wrest side beat when a man sprinted from a fine house with a box of perfectos cigars and offered it in exchange to rush inside and ask who was being murdered. The tale centers on an unusual bribe in a residential district.
The Chicago Tribune shares a playful exchange where Shadbolt-I recalls dreaming about being repaid a debt by Dinguss, highlighting a humorous alter ego scenario about money owed.
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