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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
4
A discussion argues current road methods incur high initial costs and future burdens. It compares masonry options with stone or brick alternatives, suggesting durable yet cheaper builds reduce long term expenses. The piece urges a shift toward less profligate systems to avoid bankruptcy in Laporte County.
The late Judge William B. Biddle’s funeral occurred at the Masonic temple in Laporte on Friday afternoon. He was born in Bourbon county Kentucky in 1830 and moved to Indiana with his family in 1831. A veteran of the Civil War he commanded Co I Indiana volunteers and fought in the Chicamauga battle the Atlanta campaign and Shermans march to the sea. He later served as superintendent of schools deputy county treasurer prosecuting attorney and circuit court judge in Laporte County. He married a second wife in 1803 and survived by relatives.
The event in Lacrosse featured Warren Cook winning first prize in oratory and Pam Carson taking second. In reading, Violet Phegley and Jane Mitchell won, with other participants including John Liegeslund Grace Austin Alga Porter Helen Wilson Neva Nolan and more. Local choirs and school groups provided music from Lacrosse Union Mills Balling Prairie Wanatah and Rolling Prairie.
After six years in court the Burns ditch case ends with petitioners prevailing. Porter and Lake counties back the massive drain reversing the Little Calumet’s flow from Dune Park to a point east of Broadway in Gary, draining swamp lands along the route. The ditch would carry five feet of water in dry seasons and ten to twelve in wet. Commissioner S. P. Corboy of Valparaiso appointed. work expected soon despite railroad opposition from Lake Shore.
A Breton priest, Le Jeune, created a shorthand Indian vocabulary and trained about 500 locals in the system 300 miles northeast of Victoria. He published Bible portions in tribal languages and printed a shorthand newspaper Kamloops Wanda reporting on tribal news.
The text outlines ancient attempts at agrarian reform in Rome, citing Spurius Cassius in 486 B C and 485 murder, Licinius Stolo in 376, and Tiberius and Caius Gracchus in 138 and 121, with Dru tus in 91, plus Julius Caesar in 59. It tracks repeated clashes over land distribution and political peril.
A reflective piece arguing that moral reform requires true wakefulness beyond physical labor. The author claims most are only awake for routine work while genuine intellectual and spiritual life is rare, and questions how anyone can claim to be fully awake.
A young businesswoman who works downtown stays at her routine, leaving at four each afternoon to visit the public library from four to six. She reads current magazines and keeps others informed, insisting nothing disrupts this regular engagement. Her dedication to reading is notable in the account.
The passage explains opium production from scraping to drying. Workers spread the resin, exposed surfaces to heat and sun, and the material is processed into dough like lumps weighed one pound. Molders press into forms, dried, rolled in red China paper, packed in tin lined cases with poppy stem chaff, and shipped in two cases per mule load. Morphia content ranges nine to twelve percent.
In Mandalay Burmah a palace elephant displays a remarkable pair of tusks claimed to be the world’s largest. The tusks measure about seven feet nine inches along the curve with a circumference of at least seventeen inches and almost touch the ground while the animal remains active. The owner reports no hindrance in movement and reports offers have been made for the tusks after the elephant’s death.
A Swiss clergyman Rev. H. Heuger organizes a society to instruct Gypsies in the Christian faith amid ongoing nomadic migrations from east to west and back. Frontiers arrest and imprison wanderers as vagrants, but authorities release them, while efforts aim to protect and evangelize the travelers.
A Bengal tiger snarled when a bone lodged between its molars but relaxed fully as doctors removed the object with forceps. The Zoological Society Bulletin notes other animals making better patients than humans, especially apes, while deer prove the hardest to treat due to their high-strung nature.
A brief meditation urges choosing the sunny side in life to find peace. It contrasts daylight with damp undergrowth and invites seeing the world as radiant and open rather than dim and gloomy. The piece links cheerful living to brighter outlooks and open skies.
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