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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1906
Page
2
A digest highlights the ongoing Russian revolt with leaders, casualties, and executions. reports of fires, bank crashes, and mine disasters in the United States. political shifts in Japan and Europe. and industry and finance notes including currency needs, insurance probes, and new schedules cutting transcontinental mail times.
R M La Follette reappears in the senate after recess to take his Wisconsin seat with an oath from Vice President Fairbanks. Cullom calls a foreign relations committee meeting on Cuba isle sale treaty. Foraker report denies U S claim. Michalek ineligibility charges rise via Rainey. Tariff war with Germany eyed post March 1. Watson reports enough support to pass statehood for four territories as two states, while Republicans and Democrats oppose the measure and the Philippine tariff bill.
Trade between the United States and Germany in 1905 totaled 300 million dollars. A Detroit woman feared her husband would kill her and a search found his dead body at the Palmer House in Chicago. Earthquake shocks touched Missouri Kansas and Nebraska with limited damage. The battleship Alabama rammed the Kentucky in New York harbor but the fleet avoided wreck. A Kentucky court spared the life of Sarah Williams who killed Carrie Taylor citing public outcry risks. Indiana Governor Hanly filed to remove Secretary of State Storms for dereliction. Henry H Rogers refused to reveal Standard Oil trust secrets in Missouri suit in New York. Midshipman Stephen Decatur Jr was acquitted of hazing at Annapolis. Russia claims 1906 finances strained by 941.5 million rubles in Paris.
A large dry kiln belonging to the William Ritter Lumber Co. in Panther WV containing 4,000,000 feet of dressed oak and poplar lumber was totally destroyed by fire with a loss estimated at $100,000.
A major landslide on Rockland Street in Haverstraw New York toppled two blocks of wooden houses, buried debris into a 100 foot pit, and cut water mains hindering firefighting. At least 15 people including several named residents are reported dead or missing as a brickyard clay pit collapsed.
John M. Pattison of Cincinnati was inaugurated in Columbus in the rotunda, the first Democrat elected in years. He reviewed the parade from a ten by twelve foot glass cage to guard against his cold, drawing thousands despite wintry weather. A public reception and Memorial Hall ball followed the ceremony.
President Roosevelt issues a powerful letter to Congress defending the Panama Canal workers. He cancels charges of immorality and inefficiency as baseless, saying critics are sore heads or weak-brained sensation mongers. He also opposes salary reductions for canal engineers.
New Haven detectives report Charles A. Edwards of New York died at the Abigail Hiller homestead on Tuesday night. Coroner Eli Mix cites preliminary findings, noting morphine in the body as investigators and Medical Examiner Bartlett confirmed after the autopsy.
A New England college mathematics professor enforces a strict policy that students must bring both their work and textbooks to class or receive a zero. The professor’s son is the first called, prompting a quip that his father borrowed the book and did not return it.
Mrs W F Griess of Clay Center Nebraska reports long hair after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment weekly for scalp disease dandruff and hair shedding. She shampooed with Soap and applied Ointment twice weekly, cutting hair initially, then two months to grow French twist length.
A Chicago Record Herald quote contrasts a trade with a profession. It notes a trader stops after eight hours while a professional must persist until the work is finished.
An advertisement extols Mull's Grape Tonic as a passive cure for constipation and stomach trouble. It warns against laxatives and minerals and claims the tonic, a Concord grape juice compound, strengthens intestines and prevents disease. It promises a free bottle to new users and notes availability from druggists.
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An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a positive cure for womans ailments. It claims to treat female complaints inflammation and ulceration falling and displacements spinal weakness and is suited to the change of life with a sure remedy.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound as curing female weakness and dissolving early tumors. It promises relief from bearing down pain irregular menstruation stomach issues headaches and nervous debility and invites readers to write Mrs Pinkham in confidence.
A quoted exchange shows Sharpe asked to borrow a pistol with the reply noting it would be used to end life, describing the method with a grim analogy. The source presents the dialogue as a sensational line from a New York News item.
Advertisement touts Laxative Brown Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if the cold is not cured. Druggists refund the purchase price and E W Grove signs each box. The Globe-Democrat notes this claim about longevity for octogenarian uncles.
An 1900 promotional snippet from Ocean Grove New Jersey cites Piso’s Care for Consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. A separate quote from the Philadelphia Bulletin notes a woman’s belief in a man’s attentive personality when she loves him.
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