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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
7
A reflective poem by F. L. Stanton discusses economic hardship and doubt, contrasting daily bills with the urge to stop worrying. It imagines a spring and desert tree as symbols while noting friends urge brighter times and resignation.
John Conard owner of Lone Elm ranch returns west after loving Mary Morgana though she is married. A chance reunion reveals the pair’s past, while the cook reveals Mary’s status and a past lover’s struggle. The cook dies and Conard learns Mary’s husband is dead, leaving a somber prairie vigil.
The National Magazine warns that unchecked forest destruction may strip continents like the Mediterranean region. The piece cites Brazil’s $25 million Rio de Janeiro harbor improvement as a stabilizing force for commerce, while noting Russia’s 90 battleships in Chinese waters and implying Japan’s rising potential.
The piece defends free public schools as the core of American democracy teaching citizens to work for liberty. It warns against wealth-driven inequality and ornamental higher learning, urging education to remain a steadying force supporting national foundations and united, enlightened citizenship.
The New York Sun notes two color maps show wind and water power use across Germany. Wind power concentrates in northern plains. water power rises along the southern highlands and near streams. Steam dominates overall, powering 38 percent of factories, with wind 12 and water 36 percent.
A British Association committee traces great earthquakes to eight districts, seven oceanic and five coastal, with one in the Indian Ocean, one in the West Indies, and one in the Caucasian Himalayan region. Each quake shook the globe, with aftershocks from broken strata. Seismic waves travel about two miles per second on the surface and accelerate to around seven miles per second with depth.
A Kansas girl found a rabbit nest unearthed by a plow and brought the young rabbits home. She planned to feed the survivors to the family cat, but the cat instead bonds with the rabbits and the girl now raises them alongside the cat’s own kittens.
The Mississippi teems with scenic curves and river towns as houseboats abound from La Crosse to St. Louis. Boats moor in bays beside launches, occupants greet steamers, and high water reveals submerged islands. New houseboats rise for use on visits to the St. Louis exposition next year.
A Raleigh News and Observer writer describes a drive to Linville Falls where a disguised log fortification labeled Watts's Saloon offered liquor for a quarter. Inside the tiger, hidden occupants released bottles through a hole, revealing barrels, bottles, weapons, and a bunk room.
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts the legend of Crocodilopolis in Fayum Egypt, later Arsinoe, capital Medinet. The region lies in a circle of hills with a sacred crocodile cult and the Lake Moeris labyrinth tombs for crocodiles and Pharaohs.
A London Tit-Lits joke has a husband telling his wife he dreamed he caught a man running away with her. She asks what he said, and he replies TJ wanted to know what he was running for.
A pneumatic engine driven lumbering method spreads through Shasta County forests, replacing 25 woodsmen with a seven man crew. One traction engine with compressed air powers pneumatic crosscut saws that cut 5 foot pines in five minutes, and can log 75,000 feet per day.
Sulphur consumption in Mexico exceeds 1,000,000 kilograms annually with more than half imported. Large guizair deposits exist in various parts of the country but remain unworked.
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