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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1903
Page
7
Ex Senator Drummond of South Bend visits on legal business. Several local residents travel for work and family events, including Ketchum moving to Eau Claire and Wood resigning from Lowenstine’s for a New York firm. A baby’s brief life ends, revival services planned, and town updates span illness, anniversaries, marriages, and county projects.
Brooklyn Standard Union notes a San Francisco ruling fining and jailing a man who violated an injunction against handling round trip tickets. The piece praises the court action as a major step to curb scalping and counterfeiting in long distance travel.
Travelers gain premier train comfort on semi weekly Trans Continental tours with berth rates under half the Pullman price. For details contact nearest agent or C A Asterlin T P A Ft Wayne Ind.
Gertrude Cutchin of Lebanon Missouri, 18, has copyrighted her solution to the trisection of the angle. Visiting her aunt in St Louis, she credits a Lebanon high school teacher for the problem and says the trisection is the key to perpetual motion. She hopes soon to complete a machine.
The Women’s University club debated inviting men as guests and feared spoon theft. A guard against pilfering was agreed while a lone diner watched, and a playful mouse appeared on the back room floor before retreating to the kitchen, restoring decorum.
A New York Sun description details hundreds of canal boats moored at Coenties Slip near the Battery forming floating villages for five months each year. Families live in cabins with lace curtains plants and smoke from miniature chimneys while women work ashore hanging washing peeling potatoes and minding children.
Miss Waterbury daughter of John L. Waterbury president of the Manhattan Trust in New York underwent a trephining operation at her Morristown home after a private consultation with Drs McBurney Janeway and four others. A Lackawanna special train carried the specialists and 12 nurses arriving at 11 10 from Hoboken to perform the proceedure. The patient endured the procedure bravely and showed no fear. Miss Waterbury is a Morristown and New York society figure.
New South Wales state astronomer connects Australia’s wet and dry periods to the moon’s position in a 19 year cycle of 6,939.69 days. Observations over three cycles show rain when the moon’s motion is south and drought when it turns north, with 25 million sheep dying from 1895 to 1900 as droughts intensified.
In a printed tirade from an American Medicine piece the dangers of eating raw pork are linked to international trade frictions between Germany and the United States. The author mocks German consumption, cites trichinosis cases, and urges more government and professional push to educate the public. A quoted Atlanta Constitution funeral anecdote follows about a parson and biblical humor.
A girl goes to great lengths to capture a husband but after the capture she does not aid him as much. The note reflects a witty social observation from the Chicago Daily News.
Recruitment notice seeks a loyal traveler to represent a well established house across several counties. Salary around 1024 dollars yearly plus expenses advances of 19.70 dollars weekly. position listed as permanent with travel to merchants and agents. Standard House at 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Train schedule details describe solid through sleepers from Chicago via Monon and D Bus to Cincinnati with a 9 00 pm departure and connections to Pensylvania and Son Railway routes. Florida 7 offers through sleepers via New Orleans and Lexington to St Ang, with routes through Chattanooga and Atlanta. Printed info lists offices and contact lines for travel agents Becker Brow and Ant.
Two automobile gun carriages from Northwestern Military academy started from Chicago toward Washington. They reached Hudson Lake Indiana after leaving Laporte and South Bend leg was not completed. Maj. Davidson with Capt. Ridgway and six cadets are in temporary headquarters. The journey will resume once the school opens.
Heat waves in western towns caused bricks to spout into the air. In Kansas City, near 103.3 degrees, sidewalks expanded and bricks bulged upward several feet, a phenomenon not seen by the oldest inhabitants.
A Home Remedy note advises using the same method as for spiced currants with one extra ounce of allspice. It suggests adding one ounce of allspice to the cloves and cinnamon and replacing fruit juice with an extra cup of vinegar for spiced blackberries.
At the Nebraska school for the deaf and dumb in Omaha a sign language production of Cinderella wowed a large out of town audience. Fifteen pupils acted with Miss Kittie Peterson as Cinderella and Earl Haller as the prince, drawing standing room only and hearty applause despite the silent performance.
The latest census reports 420 274 horses in Denmark with 188 per 100 acres and 195 per 1 000 inhabitants. Sheep total 1 058 656, equating to 281 per 106 acres and 456 per 1 000 inhabitants.
London residents are now using more than 4,000 tons of ice each day as demand surges for cooling and preservation. The figure reflects a rapid rise in consumption amid growing urban activity and hot weather.
In Stray Stories, the dogs Weary and Shiny Patches rest and discuss a birthday milestone. Shiny Patches proclaims relief at turning 35, believing men do their best work between 20 and 35, and feeling out of danger now.
Yonkers Statesman recounts a playful exchange at a dance with a woman refusing to sit out and a man asking if he may sit, highlighting social etiquette and humor in a silent moment.
A fragmented Pearson’s advertisement outlines a new Indiana history volume with illustrations and serialized works. It mentions stories by Cyrus Townsend Brady and other authors, noting serials and various features to captivate readers, with publishing details for Pearson Publishing Co. on Acorn Street New York.
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