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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1905
Page
2
A business woman writes of the Noonday Club’s growing sociability among downtown workers. The club provides affordable lunches, a wide social center, and a relaxing rest room with piano, magazines, and comfortable chairs, helping women balance work and leisure.
A compact portrait of women in business, balancing weariness with resilience. The speaker rejects over sentimentality and praises the business woman for competence, trustworthiness, and steady effort. It notes improving health awareness and describes workers discussing gymnasiums and improved posture during daily routines.
Leisure Hours extols the business woman who pursues physical culture and home life. It argues she gains vitality and value to employer and self, often bears breadwinning and housekeeping roles, and stays active in church and culture while supporting others.
Katherine Pope describes noon day clubs as clean pleasant spaces for girls, where modest meals, orderly service, and sociable atmosphere replace harsh dining rooms. Members pay 25 cents monthly, nonmembers enter with a nickel, and readers learn the routine of selecting and serving food in a tidy, cheerful setting.
A teacher prompts Robert a small boy during reading as he finally proclaims See the horse runnin. The moment shows patient guidance and a child's effort in a classroom setting featuring a forthright, memorable phrase.
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Donough complaining about sleep during sermons and Dr Fourthly replying he can repeat the same sermon without anyone noticing. The Cleveland Leader captioned the quip.
The exchange notes ironies between two speakers about a stubborn situation. The jest ends with both women talking themselves hoarse, illustrating endless chatter without resolution in a humorous Chicago Daily News style.
In Hagerstown Indiana on Oct 28 a group of about a dozen dynamited the National Bank vaults and obtained a few hundred dollars before a town posse arrived. A volley of gunfire followed but no injuries were reported, and the robbers fled as a pursuit formed. The north vault yielded only a small cash sum.
Logansport Indiana October 28 William Bryant village blacksmith at Wagon ers Miami county conducts relentless revival meetings that last until the exhorter collapses from exhaustion. He refuses rest and talks every Sunday in town halls for a year saying he has been to hell and must work his way back. For more than a week he has gone without sleep.
Webster Washburn found his wife dead on a neighbor’s porch in Mooresville Ind with a self inflicted gunshot. She clutched a revolver and wore a note asking not to telegraph her relatives. Neighbors Frank Marine and his wife heard the shot and assumed children fired it. The couple had recently moved into a new home.
Lula Fishback aged 18 pointed a loaded gun at her sister Maggie 11 in Cannelton Indiana. The weapon discharged instantly killing Maggie. The mother fainted, the killer showed remorse and attempted suicide by river. The father is jailed serving a sentence and was allowed to visit the dead child.
Paul Simmons, 13, was seized by United States Marshal Rankin in Madison Indiana for using the mails to defraud. He allegedly sent circulars about owning large dog kennels and sold dogs for cash in advance, taking payments from buyers who received no dogs. He will face a hearing before a Lawrenceburg U S commissioner.
Goshen Indiana October 26 Victims of escaping coal gas from a stove were found dead at their Walcottville home. Mr and Mrs David Lower aged 86 and 88 reportedly kept large sums of money causing initial murder and robbery fears. Physicians ruled coal gas as the cause of death.
Terre Haute Oct 27 The wedding of Frederick Risenman from New York City and Miss Hermine Withen drew strong society attention with guests from multiple cities among them Miss Ethel Foraker of Cincinnati, making it a premier social affair of the season.
Ephraim Ramsey and his nephew Thomas Ridley fought a shotgun duel on a Posey county public road near Oliver's Station. Ramsey was killed after several shots. The coroner is expected to rule justifiable homicide. Ramsey previously served time in Jeffersonville state prison for killing a man. Ridley’s neighbors petition officials not to arrest him.
Indianapolis reports that James Herdic and Mary Armstrong, two of eight charged with professional shoplifting, are wanted by Cincinnati police and in multiple other locations.
In Petersburg Indiana on October 26 Edward Boger of this city was buried after being killed in the Big Muddy coal mine at Bicknell. At the graveside a telegram announced George Moore of Linton also suffocated by foul air in the same mine.
Covington Kentucky October 28 F G Creech of Greensburg Indiana and Della M Lane of Clifty Indiana applied for a marriage license. Creech stated he is 21 and Lane 15 though she looked older. License denied due to the girl's age.
Terre Haute Indiana October 26 Mrs Emeline Seeman called it a nice way to die after watching a neighbor woman sleep in morphine haze. She went indoors took a dose and died before aid could reach her. Authorities think she may have been temporarily insane.
Isaac Mc Quirkin of Anderson resigns as controller of the Indiana Union Traction Co and will leave in November to become auditor of the Clinchfield Corp with coal interests in Virginia.
Thomas L. Knight, who ran a model blacksmith shop with a waiting room and patron library at Vesta in Jefferson County, has been appointed an instructor at a trade school within the Indiana reformatory.
Lawrenceburg Indiana October 28 Edward Fagaly practiced football in the schoolyard with companions. In a rush he fell to the bottom of the heap. When pulled out his left arm was broken.
Indianapolis man E Lung grand master of Chinese Masons to marry Soo See of Chicago on October 30. He has never seen the bride and will wed by proxy.
The Indiana grain crops report by state statistician Joseph Stubbs shows the total value at current market prices at 122 million dollars acting as 53 dollars per person for every man, woman and child in the state.
New York November 7 elections set for seven states and six major cities. Governors to be chosen in Massachusetts Rhode Island Virginia Ohio with minor state officers in Pennsylvania Maryland Nebraska. City races include New York Indianapolis Louisville Salt Lake City and San Francisco with multiple mayoral candidates and various party fusions and third parties noted.
A Shanghai dispatch reports Rear Admiral Train commander in chief of the American Asiatic squadron and his son Lieut. Train were attacked outside Nanking after an incident in which the admiral accidentally shot a Chinese woman. Villagers seized guns, beat the admiral, and held Lieut. Train. marines who arrived were forced to fire. Chinese officials refused to return arms.
A head on collision between freight trains Nos 85 and 96 at Casey Iowa kills six people including Fireman Ed Nelson Engineer Bert Shields and Rev F W Caldwell. Four trainmen injured. The crash occurs as 85 pulls out while 96 section two exits Casey yards. Engines wrecked and stock special rider Caldwell aboard 85.
Thirteen people died and 30 were injured when the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe California Express ditched five cars near Blue River, Kansas City. The train from Chicago to San Francisco was traveling 35 mph, ahead of its schedule after a loose rail caused the derailment.
Dr George F Butler medical superintendent of Alma Springs Sanitarium urges wholesome eating and careful digestion. He warns against overindulgence and emphasizes appetite control, regular elimination, water intake, and exercise. He outlines three health functions and urges optimism kindness and action now.
A playful line likens the summer girl to a mosquito of the heart, using a light metaphor to describe flirtation and seasonal charm in breezy verse. The item reads as a fragmentary poem or caption reflecting romantic imagery.
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