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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1904
Page
7
Readable excerpts reveal a reflective narrator in an English household as two couples face love obligation and tension. Margaret confesses love for Eustace while Arthur contemplates upheaval and plans a Paris escape, testing loyalty, secrecy, and the bounds of romance.
The speaker recalls Margaret Ridley and Eustace Conroy first wed, a union of promise and wealth, now strained by ambition and nerves. Friends hear confidences with care as London life and marital strain unfold, hinting at broken trust and distant paths.
In London Sketch a narrator details a staged deception to separate a couple, Eustace and Margaret, at Charing Cross. Aiding disguise, he delays rivals, retrieves a valuable dressing case, and ensures the pair depart, later discovering the bag was misassigned. The incident ends with a Paris escape and grateful thanks.
A home health note praises salt to prevent festering in scratches and cuts and promotes foot care. It urges daily foot bathing, vigorous rubbing, fresh stockings, rotating pairs, and airing. It also advises ventilated shoes, cold water baths, and powdering with arms root and starch for sweaty feet.
The piece explains physical jaundice causing yellow eyes and aqueous humor, then argues mental jaundice where a person sees everything as yellow. It notes no cure or rational treatment for mental jaundice and describes how the afflicted person cannot see the flaw, while others recognize it.
Wash cans and fit rubbers, fill with cleaned fruit without crushing. Prepare syrup by dissolving two tea cups of sugar in one pint of water per quart can, boil to honey consistency, wrap cans in hot cloth, pour hot syrup, fill to overflow, seal tops, invert and cool. Store in a cool dark place.
A Glasgow Evening Times witty exchange recalls a past quarrel between a husband and wife. The wife laments the husband’s sharp tongue while he fondly recalls their younger, sharper jibes.
Daily washing of kitchen towels is advised after dinner cleanup. Towels should be boiled at least once a week to ensure sanitation.
In Muncie Indiana a woman once Miss Alice Frazee is found to have two living husbands after successive marriages to William Studebaker and Joseph Miller. Studebaker returns with a Missouri wife while Miller and the original wife separate. A deed signed by Miller’s wife lacked Studebaker’s signature, creating a land handover dispute over a Delaware county farm valued at about 50 000 dollars. Minnich holds the land awaiting deed correction as both men and women navigate disputed marriages.
A carriage horse owned by Taylor of Kentucky was held at a local livery stable for 36 hours until a 50 cent charge is paid. The horse wandered from its stable into a neighbor's yard, prompting police intervention and transfer to a North Alabama street stable. A Taylor family boy was sent for the animal but did not return after being informed of the fee.
A Che Foo cablegram says Hector Fuller staff correspondent for the Indianapolis News was seized by four Russian soldiers and taken to Port Arthur. He landed near Port Arthur around June 12 after leaving Che Foo in an open boat with two Chinese oarsmen.
In Bloomington Indiana on Friday a riot at the McCann railroad camp left a colored teamster named Stephens mortally wounded and another Black man shot. The sheriff arrived with a posse and dispersed the rioters. No further trouble is anticipated after an altercation between Stephens and a colored stable boss.
Evansville Indiana report states that three youths built a fire near Coal Mine hill while Tobe Ostean and Edward Wood slept. Wood woke to flames on his clothing and the youths had fled. One limb severely burned and toes to be amputated.
Newcastle Indiana June 17 Mrs Anna Albertson is in critical condition after leaping from a second story window at a relative’s home. She struck her head and it is believed she is fatally injured with police and doctors detailing injuries and prognosis.
The Home Bank in Goodlands Indiana closed its doors on Thursday. President and cashier F D Gilman is missing with whereabouts unknown. Gilman left town Monday claiming to seek funds.
The Indiana G A R held its annual parade in Warran with 3000 participants and 20000 spectators as Gen John C Black and Gov Durbin attended. Warsaw closed the encampment at Winona Lake with new state officers elected for both G A R and Ladies of the G A R and Clara Hess named president of the W R C Indiana.
Anderson Indiana June 18 passengers on an electric car returning from Fairmount reported that Senator A J Beveridge was roughly handled in the motorman vestibule. A man and a woman followed and profanity near the woman led the motorman and another man to arrest Beveridge for the alleged offender. Beveridge was rammed through a car door and fell among trunks and seats and was bruised and disheveled but ready to fight when arising.
Lawrenceburg Indiana June 16 A six year old boy James Liddle son of Thomas Liddle fell from a stepladder at home injuring his tongue. The end was bitten off and hung by a shred. Physicians could not repair the tongue.
The residence of Mrs. Mattie Conner in Bluffton Indiana was partially wrecked by dynamite. The attackers likely believed the family slept in the rear where the charge lay, but warm weather had forced a change of quarters. No arrests have been made.
Addison Parkison, president of the First National Bank in Rensselaer Indiana, received an anonymous letter demanding he place 5 000 dollars on a farm spot or be killed in an ambush. He has hired detectives for protection. Parkison is brother in law of A Mc Coy of the McCoy bank that recently failed.
Information from South Bend Indiana reports Lieut. Col. Bowman of Waterloo plans to resign his commission in the Indiana national guard following the removal of Col. G M Studebaker by Governor Durbin.
Rushville Ind June 18 The Sterling Buggy Co went into the hands of a receiver Oscar M Thomas of Muncie appointed receiver Liabilities are about 75000 with assets near 75000
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