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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
2
A public notice invites readers to review an advertisement titled laane ws calles or gece. It requests attention from the Maltese community and outlines a forthcoming perusal for reader awareness.
Description of the Navajo sweat house bath method as a necessity born cleanse in the desert. Heated stones placed inside a clay and wood hut create a steam bath with head outside and blankets sealing the air. Participants perspire for hours then dry with desert sand. The piece contrasts this with other tribes who never bathe.
In Windy Gap Jim Hicks recalls quitting trading with Simmons at Beaver Dam after being dunned for meat bought last spring. Wade offers little help as Hicks laments the mean treatment and vows never to trade there again.
An essay likens the brain to a power house where thought is electric and sanity rises with mental voltage. It condemns laziness as a drag on progress and praises imagination as earned through useful work. Inspiration follows labor and leads to meaningful achievement.
Mount Whitney stands at 14 501 feet and anchors the Sierra Nevada crest. Nearby peaks include Mount Russell 14 190 feet Mount Williamson 14 384 feet Mount Muir 14 025 feet Mount Langley 14 042 feet Mount Barnard 14 003 feet Mount Tyndall 14 025 feet. Death Valley lies about eighty miles away as the lowest dry land point, 276 feet below sea level. On clear days Whitney is visible from the valley rim.
Crowds watch a dramatic seabird encounter near Dublin as a lobster clings to a cormorant and enters its beak. The bird dives, rises, and fights ashore with the lobster embedded in its tongue, leading to the cormorant's death by suffocation.
In Delhi ancient Mogul capital two famed halls survive the Diwan i Am and Diwan i Khas. The Peacock throne, six by four feet, stood in a back wall recess and was gold and gem encrusted with a canopy of 12 pearl-dusted gold columns. It valued at 30 million dollars and was seized by Nadir Shah in 1739, likely built in Shah Jahan's era.
George, newlywed, eats four biscuits to satisfy his wife after she bakes her first batch. His refusal to eat earlier turns into a bold act as he finally samples the goods, yet the dinner leaves him feeling as if he might die that night.
An unusual duel in Malaga between Ve reretto and Martorelli, both in love with the same girl, ended with both wounded. They fired revolvers, then fought with knives after locking in a room. Neighbors broke in to find one dead and the other gravely wounded.
Dr. Gaaron draws attention to a service that may aid chronic chest pain from violent coughs. The note appears in a medical journal discussing hiccoughs and tobacco use in treatment.
A crowded room erupts with cries of Waiter as guests confront the hotel keeper. The wife storms in to banish the banker’s entourage while the husband stays outside. The Austrian banker is described as a welcome arrival despite the uproar.
The text traces evolving views of a universal medium from the Alexandrian fire sphere to Descartes whirlpools, through Young Fresnel Stokes and Kelvin, to Maxwell's electromagnetic ether. It notes competing theories incompressible medium, particle-based, or nonexistence, with a rise of emission over undulation and a renewed sense of space as absolute void.
A nameless theater manager faced a sagging box office as four attractions drew crowds elsewhere. Intermission revealed an empty house with the bar nearby unusually quiet, prompting the manager to note the audience may be asleep.
A reflection on portraiture notes that photography struggles to capture subtle expressions while preserving a subject’s humanity. It argues that the camera records faces faithfully but lacks mercy, and that true virtue cannot be seen through a lens.
The text argues nebulae grouped by apparent diameters and intrinsic brightness show apparent diameters shrink as distance increases while brightness diminishes with distance due to interstellar absorption. It presents a conclusion about how light behaves in interstellar space.
Percival recovers from fever aboard a vessel in Havana harbor with Penelope noting his cheerful outlook. He recalls a tale of a Delaware propeller and jokes about food while the two discuss his slow return to health and small comforts like egg water and doughnut holes.
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