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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1904
Page
7
A verse on a boy racing to catch the morning bus and busy antics of youth. The poem riffs on perpetual motion myths and cherishes the energy of boys, ending with a plea for patience and preparation for Heaven’s morning. Signed Griffith 13. Jones, Chicago Record-Herald.
A fin de siècle tale in New Orleans with Fergus Thornleigh and Valerie d Aurillac. He disputes noise from a piano next door but learns the music lover is his elegant neighbor. Their chance encounter leads to romance as he discovers Valerie is the sought violinist he admired from afar.
A collection of maxims on self discipline and adaptability. The quotes note that people must endure hardship to understand others and warn against overbearing parenting while emphasizing flexibility, likening wisdom to water that molds to its container.
A woman experiments with adapting very young palms to standard house air instead of hot-houses. Initial setbacks gave way to gradual growth and ongoing demand. The palms, trained over weeks, thrived in a normal drawing room, with the original plants still in her possession and many others sold to friends seeking hardy indoor greenery.
A man clings to a hot poker despite pain, illustrating how people resist pain. The tale, from Leslie's Monthly, explains clinging shorts circuits relief and worsens suffering by concentrating energy on the hurt area hindering natural healing.
Deemed by Dame Fashion, the season shows flounced slopes with modest back depth and train, surplice waistlines, delicate floral sprays and garlands of tiny roses. Larger jeweled buckles brighten girdles, sleeves gather to the elbow with vertical tucks, and black lace stores paired with baby hats forecast a chic summer look.
Cleaning method to refresh old wall hangings using a square loaf crust as a cleaning crumb. Blow dust from the paper with bellows and wipe downward in light strokes, advancing each pass higher, until the entire surface is cleaned and refreshed.
A mother reinforces boys ribbon stockings by sewing a strip of strong black cloth behind them before use, a method noted to significantly extend wear, as reported by the Chicago Daily News.
In Indianapolis on May 13 delegates at the Democratic state convention elected to vote as a unit for Parker for president and backed Thomas Taggart for national committeeman. The gathering, the largest since 1892, drew about 3,000 attendees in Tomlinson hall as banners and portraits honored party leaders. The proceedings included a strong Hearst show of force and a notable George McClellan cheer.
Bloomfield Ind May 14 David Lewis a Greene county pioneer dies at his Owensburg home at 80 Born in Woodford County Kentucky in 1823 he moved to Indiana 1830 He and his eldest son served in the Civil War He owned over 4000 acres and left 12 children 11 reaching adulthood He gave each 120 acres to 11 children and sold the remaining 3000 acres to his heirs at half value He left a widow with an estate valued at 50000
Jack Chaney of Owensville and his wife with two adult daughters have been evicted from their home in Princeton Indiana. They now live in a corn crib subsisting on charity after learning Chaney may be an heir to an $8,000,000 Cleveland estate. He is 70, his family refuses to work awaiting installments.
Indianapolis May 14 delegates and party leaders who attended the big Democratic convention have departed the city. National Committeeman Taggart stayed until Friday afternoon to speed the parting guests.
Wabash Ind May 14 Royal J Davis of this city has been appointed to the chair of English history in Sanford College North Carolina. Mr Davis is a graduate of Earlham Harvard and Haverford. Recently he has been connected with the Evanston Press.
Melville W. Miller assistant secretary of the interior said he would not run to succeed James Ware as pension commissioner. He spoke Friday in Lafayette Indiana clarifying his political stance and duties.
Mrs Katherine Bullard aged 78, sister in law of Henry Ward Beecher, died in Indianapolis. She had lived in Helena Montana for several years.
Lawrenceburg Indiana May 14 The Lawrenceburg Fair association suffered a loss of 1200 as a residence building on the fair grounds burned Friday morning with no insurance. The occupant Sexton J W Cash and his daughter were rescued from the blaze sparked by embers from Mrs Bennett s shanty boat near the tracks of the B and O S W railroad company which had just burned.
In Alexandria Indiana on May 13 ditchers four miles northeast of Fairmount uncovered an almost perfect mammoth skeleton buried under four feet of vegetable mold. The animal likely died on the spot and the find draws crowds as scientists seek to study this fine specimen, one of the best in the state.
The state case against Rufus B. Coapstick former Big Four freight office cashier was called in the circuit court. Big Four officials and local shippers attended as witnesses to prove freight charges were paid to Coapstick who allegedly failed to enter them.
Madison Moore of Anderson lost horses in a Thursday night fire including Maggie Simmons a trotter that was to ship to Cleveland. Deckers barns also burned with total losses around 3000 dollars.
The anti-narcotic branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union closed its campaign in Jeffersonville city schools securing 494 pledges from white students and 104 from colored students for abstaining from tobacco and cigarettes.
Elwood M. known as Bert Dasher, prominent in Hoyt theater ventures and a principal beneficiary of Hoyt's will, is confined in a sanitarium in Indianapolis on May 14 due to mental collapse.
A badly decomposed white man was found in the Ohio River near Evansville on Friday. The body stood about 5 feet 6 inches, weighed 175 pounds, and showed a crushed head. The left hand thumb and forefinger were missing at specified joints.
The Indiana Northwestern dual track and field event scheduled for Saturday was cancelled after Northwestern coach Delaney telegrammed that four track team members were declared ineligible for poor class averages.
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