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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
3
The Houston Post prints a verse by J. M. Lewis from Westville Indiana that laments loneliness and waiting pain. It reflects on love by day and night with imagery of dewdrops moonlight daisies autumn gold and a cherished lock of hair. The speaker asks for comfort and bids farewell to a beloved as the lonely afterwhile endures.
Sophie Meadows laments a broken engagement with David Trotter after he flirts with Faith Duker and denies the charges. She contemplates her future, notes how the gifts will be returned, and watches sadness settle over the village back parlor scene.
In a London Black and White scene, Sophie refuses to see David after a rift but the two reconnect as he returns gifts she had sent back. He embarrassingly shows worn items including braces and socks he mended, provoking Sophie’s first genuine laughter and a cautious softening of her stance.
A Chicago physician and Solon Robinson's daughter visits a northern Wisconsin camp near Pelican Lake. Two men bring the Indian Billy to a saloon, where she uses anesthesia and a farmer to reset a dislocated arm, then the patient asks for a kiss for the pretty lady.
A Yukon election story from Sunday Magazine describes Chief Isaac of the Moosehide Indians near Dawson. He hears campaign use of job and jobbery, asks for the meaning, and then proclaims his desire to get rich quickly by a government job, not ordinary work.
A light exchange in the Detroit Free Press a spectator and another remark on how the sword swallower performs his stunt. The second speaker jokes that perhaps his ancestors are with their knives.
Indiana legislators debated elections rules and railroad issues as Beveridge and Hemenway formalized their commissions. The senate approved funding to separate the industrial school for girls from the women’s prison and discussed bonds for the state agriculture board. A Sunday baseball bill and a public whipping post proposal drew attention.
Indianapolis, Ind. Jan 20 Edward Shumm the Indianapolis boy who inherits seventy thousand dollars from Denver Colorado’s Robert Royerdon who he saved in a poker game has been found after Denver lawyers completed estate steps He returns from a business trip and will travel to Denver to take possession of his legacy
Petersburg Indiana January 19. William Brewis arrested after swapping a stolen bill book for a meal and burning mortgages and notes totaling 16900. He confesses to the robbery of the Farmers Milling Co office in town. The burned papers belonged to Elijah Whitlock.
The National Association of Cement Users met in Indianapolis on January 19 and elected officers including President John P. Givens Circleville Ohio Vice President A M Goetz man Chicago second vice president John H Fellows Pennsylvania third vice president A Manstead Milwaukee secretary Carroll C Brown Indianapolis.
James A. Hemenway, elected U S Senator, arrived in Boonville Indiana greeted by about 1000 people and a band. He was driven to his home and spoke from the porch as Boonville businessmen hosted a smoker in his honor.
Terre Haute Indiana January 20 Conductor Lewis Adams of the Vandalia road reports his wife and their four year old daughter are missing. The wife left a note saying she would not return except in a coffin. Mrs Adams sister is also missing.
Mrs. Mary Inman of Bedford Indiana fired at a seven foot wingspan eagle perched near her house after hearing noises from her chickens. She first shot but it did not fly, then failed to reload, and finally fired a revolver causing the bird to fall dead at a short distance. Her husband later confirmed the eagle lay dead.
Purdue University faculty decide to abolish the annual Thanksgiving day football game and President Stone announces the season will end on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The school aims to respect the traditional meaning of the holiday.
Portland Ind Jan 21 A petition to declare Oliver P Gibbs local grocer bankrupt was filed He lists liabilities of 5000 with creditors including W H Hood Co Portland Perfect Sons Ft Wayne National Candy Co Indianapolis William Fockes Sons Dayton and Hall Hastings Co Richmond
Edward Cruise was killed by a mule named Maud while he watered it in Terre Haute Indiana. The incident coincides with reports of bad city water due to lack of air in the river which is frozen over according to the waterworks company.
Through a act of friendship and quick action in an emergency C. Shumm an Indianapolis insurance man saved the life of a Colorado miner and is left between sixty thousand and seventy thousand dollars in inheritance.
Indianapolis January 20. Representative Edward Gough introduced a bill to make it a misdemeanor for any public official to accept a railway pass or a free telephone telegraph or express frank.
Indianapolis January 20 Speaker Cantwell warned that any clerk found incompetent would be discharged regardless of politics. He emphasized clerks must be efficient and capable.
A fire at the Terre Haute Traction and Power Co. plant damaged the power plant equipment including boiler room dynamos and engines. Loss estimated at $150,000 with street cars halted and horse cars brought into service. The fire started in the boiler room.
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