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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1903
Page
7
Poem reflects harsh winter imagery with bare forests and frozen rivers but finds life and renewal in spring buds and warmth. It contrasts silent thrushes and rills with winds and distant paeans in a global, musical embrace. Dallas Lore Sharp in Youth's Companion.
In a December gale on the Mississippi batture Delphine, sheltered by Jean-Pierre, saves a drenched stranger, Hugh Compton, from drowning after a perilous crossing. He later finds himself drawn to her quiet strength while Dorothy, his fiancée, frets over his absence and destiny.
In Dover the Delaware legislature ended a senatorial deadlock by choosing State Senator J Frank Allee for the long term ending 1907 and Congressman Louis Heisler Ball for the short term ending 1905. The vote occurred amid a crowded, chaotic assembly, celebrated by supporters including Mr Addicks, with Ball in Washington. Ball born 1861 near Wilmington, a Delaware College OK graduate, former state treasurer, and ex lower house member, was defeated for renomination last year by Henry A Houston.
Ithaca New York voters approve municipal ownership of the waterworks following a typhoid fever outbreak that has killed several and sickened Cornell University students. Investigations fault streams Six Mile Creek and Buttermilk Creek for pollution, with most cases in the Six Mile Creek district.
In Olympia Washington March 3 Chris T Benson a grand larceny prisoner felled Jailer David Morrell and fled after leaving jail doors ajar. Mrs Jesse Mills wife of the sheriff arrived with a revolver halting seven inmates from escaping.
A bright 14 year old applies to multiple places and finally asks a shipping house boss if they want a boss. The proprietor is amused but impressed, and the boy vows to work up to the job. He now works packing and aims to become boss before his side whiskers gray.
A child friendly feature describes the giraffe as Africa's tallest wild animal reaching 18 to 20 feet. It notes its long neck, pale fawn color with darker spots, slender legs, and cloven hooves. The piece covers feeding, pace, habits, and notes gardens keep giraffes, with a remark on their flesh and marrow valued by Africans.
Five year old Bessie visited her father at work and showed curiosity about a typewriter. On the way home she exclaimed that she had seen papa’s dress maker writing him a letter on her sewing machine, a remark that amused the family.
A Brooklyn Eagle item describes building a tubephone from eight pasteboard tubes cut to lengths 18 16 14 3 13 12 10 9 inches. By binding tubes and handles with cords a two handed instrument is made to play simple tunes with octaves and possible accidentals. A separate brief reports a New Britain boy, four, defeated by a rooster that attacked his face with spurs after chasing him with a stick.
The South American ant eater is described as toothless. The creature, known for insect eating, has no teeth.
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