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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
1
A humorous note from Puck mocks chicken-keeping as elusive and tricky. It jokes that all sizes of chickens know little, with larger birds learning less, and warns that a pen’s wire partition can lure birds to escape by thrusting through the wire rather than using the door.
Compact advertisement for canning factory guidance promising cash gains and time efficiency. Mentions rates from 85 to 98 percent, targets farms or large communities, and directs readers to write for a booklet from THOS AL BROWN in Springfield Missouri.
An OCR fragment advertises Single Binder cigars asserting high tobacco quality. It mentions foot care and domestic life snippets with stray phrases about payment and home arrangements, reflecting an incomplete old ad voice.
The Supreme Court rules a planned disposal of Union Pacific stock to Southern Pacific stockholders would not end the merger per the dissolution decree. The decision leaves the Patten et al. conspiracy case to trial while upholding disputed Sherman counts. Judges narrow focus on whether a cotton corner violates interstate commerce laws.
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, urged the Clayton anti injunction and contempt bills before a Senate judiciary subcommittee. He warned against government by dynamite and condemned injunctions as a tool of personal government. He defended organized labor and the Structural Iron Workers union amid dynamite conviction fallout.
Washington reports say Representative William W. Wedemeyer of Ann Arbor Michigan suddenly fell ill and leaped overboard from a Colon Panama bound ship while on a congressional party voyage tied to President Tafts visit. His body was not recovered and friends attribute the breakdown to last falls brutal campaign and career pressures rather than a recent Washington fall.
President Taft, at a luncheon and Republican dinner in New York, declares support for arbitration if US Britain talks fail on Panama canal tolls. He notes Henry Clews's call for arbitration and contests the idea of not arbitrate, signaling a shift toward settlement as a goal amid tensions with Roosevelt.
Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor filed an appeal with the District of Columbia court of appeals over their contempt conviction in the Buck Stove and Range case. They allege the verdict reflected a lack of respect for judicial authority and cite seventeen alleged errors charged against Justice Wright. The prosecutors committee plans a reply brief before February 5.
James R. Keene dies in Aia Fork Ireland with few details available. The obituary notes his passing and identifies his name in this brief notice.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt condemns the jailing of Capital News publishers R. B. Sheridan, C. O. Broxon and A. R. Cruzen after publishing his criticism of the Idaho Supreme Court. He asks Progressive senators to act in the U.S. Senate and defends free expression amid alleged court intimidation.
De Whiz Say shifts from festive gifts to a lighter topic as a playful conversation pivots toward holiday spending and planning.
The passage recalls roses valued in old medicine with 32 remedies from rose leaves and petals and rose pillows for nervous patients. It notes Helogabalus drinking rosé, roses as garnish and salad, rose water for flavor, and that Western nations cooled on roses while Chinese cuisine still uses rose fritters.
The Bank of England in London suffered a fire in its southeastern section. Flooring and joisting were damaged. The outbreak was found by bank authorities and controlled in about 30 minutes with help from Irish Guards on duty and police guarding the crowd.
Fragmentary phrasing suggests a tribute to experience as a reliable guide. The text emphasizes practical reliability and the value of seasoned know how to bear heavy loads without swaying, framed as a proverb like endorsement.
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