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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
7
A poem praising pastoral landscapes and accessible rail travel as soothing remedies for city blues, noting cows, trees, hills, and uncut grass as elements of rural charm. The verse frames nature as a restorative escape supported by rail access, as discussed in the New York Sun.
Nettie Plunkett faces pressure from her sister in law Mrs Grantham to curb her husband John as rumors of drinking and infidelity surface. Mrs Grantham, newly separated, argues men conceal truth and even hires a detective to spy on John, but Jo hn’s eventual return and Nettie’s stubborn trust shift the moral angle.
A New York Sun item describes a summer job, the fly charmer, offering five dollars a day to men with high class clients. The method uses a large canvas fan to drive flies from attics through homes, then the insects are smoked away in a sealed room. The piece notes the plan may not work in New York due to city layouts.
The piece outlines a U S Department of Agriculture report by David E Lantz on the coyote problem across the western plains. It notes coyotes abundant in many areas despite civilization with large numbers killed in Kansas and the animals prey on livestock, game birds and deer. It discusses hunting packs strategies and ineffective poisons, and promotes sturdy elevated fences as the best defense, noting coyotes resist jumping 30 inch fences and may crawl through barbed wire.
Deshler Welch recalls the Simplon Pass in Century as a grand historical road that symbolized Europe’s drama. He traces its journey from Rhone valley castles to Iselle gorge, noting its awe inspiring defiles, monastery hospice hospitality, and the lure for thoughtful travelers.
The Formosan government display in the Forestry building showcased camphor and its by products from Japan and Formosa. The exhibit details the camphor monopoly law, tree sources, distillation products, and by products including saffrol and insecticide. The annual camphor export from Japan totals about 6 million pounds, with three fourths from Formosa and one fourth from Japan proper. The exhibit earned a grand gold medal from the St. Louis fair.
A detailed feature on the electric magnet crane for factories. It explains direct current magnets suspend from cranes, lifting loads up to 100 pounds per magnet and potentially one ton every three minutes. The system reduces labor by allowing one operator to attach and release loads via a switch. The piece notes 40 magnet varieties and uses such as skwll cracking, where a ball of up to six tons is dropped onto iron to break it.
The Groix island near Lorient shows extreme coffee consumption with about 90,000 pounds used yearly for a population of 5,300. With most men at sea, roughly 3,000 women children and old men consume about 30 pounds per person annually.
A fragment quotes the Pittsburg Post describing Klosefist as usually tight in manner but loosening when he happens to get tight, offering a colorful characterization in a terse dialogue.
Diagram shows a novel automatic egg cooker using a beam scale. An egg in a wire holder hangs from one end while sand floods into the opposite end, tipping the beam as water boils. When the egg finishes, the sand weight drops the beam onto a push pin and rings an electric bell.
An Australian notes column reports Miss Bage drawing attention to phosphorescence in butcher’s meat. She notes a recent rise in Melbourne and that, so far, no cultures have been taken from phosphorescent meat.
A recently deceased justice of the peace in northern England left King Edward a Breeches Bible that once belonged to Prince Henry of Wales. The bequest was intended to pass to Queen Victoria or another sovereign upon the testator’s death, linking royal lineages and a historic Bible.
A historical timetable from a major 19th century railroad claimed the locomotive would depart the depot daily at ten o'clock if the weather was fair. The note reflects period railway humor and operational caveats in early American railroading.
A historical tally notes 337 killed and 17 325 injured in U S railway disasters during the last three months of 1904 reflecting a warlike toll on the nation’s rail network.
Switzerland leads the old world in railway infrastructure with more tunnels ducts and railroad bridges than any other country. The emphasis on extensive rail routes highlights the nation's engineering prominence.
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