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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
1
A playful essay in Seeing Life lampoons vanity as a disease that mutates into diamond rings flashy clothes political ambition and extreme dieting. Hep Hardy and Peaches are mocked for vanity’s fallout including drinking overreactions to praise and a comical obsession with thinness and beauty books.
The narrator recalls Peaches’s comic misadventures with cages, chairs, and a rowing machine as she pursues weight loss. A broken strap sends Peaches overboard and furniture crashes, followed by rug pulling antics and an electric blanket fiasco that ends with a humorous near disaster and a vow to stop treatments.
A wealthy retired hardware dealer recalls his unlikely rise from selling nails and shovels to owning a hardware firm. He chased writing in youth, saved stamp money for five years, then bought into a hardware store after a partner’s death, saying his success stems from that early ambition.
Indiana Elks choose Marion as next reunion host and elect officers for the ensuing year led by President Joseph E. Hennings of Anderson lodge. Other roles go to Robert A. Scott Linton. Thomas G. Hedian Indianapolis. Frank E. Bougher Fort Wayne. J. C. Sawyer Michigan City. H. S. Miller South Bend. David R. Carleton Elwood. Marion won on central-location appeal after Gary excursion.
The Indiana state fair premium list shows total prizes and purses of 71507.25 with 18000 regular speed purses and 4000 and 8000 stake races by the Western Horseman. Draft horses harness and saddle horse contests add substantial prizes, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and other departments supplementing the large overall purse. About 15000 copies of the premium list будут mailed soon.
The Inns of Court Officers Training corps proud of the Devil's Own name linking it to four Inns patriots from the Napoleonic era. George III, reviewing volunteers, asked their identity and was told lawyers. He repeated The Devil's Own, inspiring the lawyers to adopt the moniker with humor.
Senator John W. Kern praised patriotic sentiment at a Hammond banquet for 200 Indiana Democratic Editorial Association members. Republicans joined Democrats in welcoming the party after visits in South Bend and ahead of Chicago. Mrs. Ralston lauded the era of Wilson, and local leaders praised Lake County’s growth prospects.
Twelve inmates under instructor Oliver T. Worrall went to a farm four miles east of here to plan summer work. Produce from the reformatory farm helps feed inmates and supports training. Superintendent D G C Peyton hopes to greatly expand this program in years ahead, though a state penal farm purchase was rejected by the legislature.
Doctor Néssort urges Governor Ralston to lift Indiana livestock quarantine. Secretary of Agriculture wired to permit shipments. Governor, per Doctor Nelson, says lifting will not endanger Indiana livestock health and would allow interstate shipments into Indiana.
Indiana notes report Kelly Robinson, colored, sentenced to die by electrocution for a murder near Indianapolis, escaping briefly on a Lake Erie train before capture. Other items include a Mitchell quarry explosion killing Ernest Turpin, a Hammond car-thief gang busted by federal agents, Eva Bethell dying from fright after a burglar incident, and various civic notes in Huntington Huntington Indianapolis Paoli and Michigan City.
Johnny Potts, once welcomed at the T-5 ranch, wins a duel of wits with foreman Ben Franklin who tries to shoot him and is later killed after shells are removed from Potts revolver. Potts lies buried on a hill above the Eagle Chief in Watonga Oklahoma.
Astoria New York Mrs. Wilson was granted a year of separation from her husband John J. Wilson after he complained about her inability to make Scotch broth and Scotch stew. The dispute centered on domestic cooking duties in their home.
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