09 Jun 1887
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1887
Page
1
A poem excerpt describes rain draining life from fields while breeze and ships conquer calm seas. It contrasts unquenched summer heat with crops failing for want of freshening rain and notes ships and zephyrs moving on. Edith L. Thomas.
R R Cable serves as President and General Manager of a Chicago firm, guiding executive decisions and corporate operations in the city.
A traveler describes a late night robbery aboard a Chicago bound train. A disguised stranger and two accomplices planned the theft with bold moves and a revolver, but the arrest by detectives and railroad guards recovered the wallet and jailed the two conspirators, while the traveler thanks the detective later.
Catherine Owen in Good Housekeeping notes mothers often start training after a child’s first year. She warns that cute toddler tricks become naughty by age two, and early habits are hard to unlearn for both child and caregiver.
In a Grand Hotel bar reading room scene the Colonel keeps a full hand while a barkeeper informs him his wife wants a phone call. He wins a pot with a bursted flush and explains he must leave due to his baby having fits.
A historical remedy prescribes equal parts tincture of cayenne opium rhubarb essence peppermint and camphor spirits. Dose fifteen to thirty drops in a wine glass of water and repeat every fifteen to twenty minutes until relief.
The Boston Journal reports cocoanut farming expanding in southern Florida with pineapples and cocoanuts yielding high profits. Ten thousand pineapples can grow per acre and fifty cocoanut trees per same area. Cocoanuts need little care, start bearing at nine to twelve years, and produce eighty to 350 nuts per tree sold at about five cents each. A New Jersey man is said to own 330000 trees.
Rochester Express notes a contrast as Chicago anarchists are arrested for rioting while Tennessee moonshiners are captured for keeping a still. The remark highlights oddities in enforcement and the humor some readers find in legal outcomes.
Reports from Perry county Indiana describe a mob raid after an alleged assault on Ella Flannagan. John Davis and Clay Davis were hanged near the scene while Walter Davis remains at large, with Enlow also seized as an accomplice. The White Caps are blamed for the vigilante killings.
Seymour reports gas bored. Anderson, Montpelier, Summitville and Conneraville show progress. Liberty well depth nearly 450 feet, Trenton rock hit at 934 feet, and Well No. 3 Fort Wayne yields volume five times first, enough to fuel ten boilers. Portland wells serve 600 homes and 80 stores with light and fuel.
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