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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1910
Page
8
A narrator recalls a needle and six inch thread taken from a girl’s dress, noting the needle is black from sulfur reaction and suggesting it did not fall from the dress. The incident occurred during a visit at a house, with the thread attached and the needle measured at about one and a half inches.
Zanzibar suns, rare in captivity, are shown in the British Agency gardens in Zanzibar. The species typically inhabits wild scrub across the island and on the African mainland. the captive does have each produced a young one, indicating thriving conditions.
A fifty year old woman left a London hospital with a new nose crafted from a flap of skin taken from her forehead. The procedure covered a denuded area after years of tissue loss due to a growing growth and used grafts to restore the forehead skin.
In Peekskill New York a small chapel named Gates of Heaven displays a sign at the front. During the pastor’s vacation a second sign was placed beneath the first for passers by to read.
Local temple announces seasonal closure as authorities confirm gates shut during summer. Staff plan maintenance and outreach to worshippers, with reopening anticipated in early autumn.
Julius Weinstein a Roxbury Mass farmer watched his sixteen head cabbage crop as some heads grew with a Siamese twin appearance breaking through soil on Blue Hill avenue. He described an unusual clustering where several cabbage heads formed two merged units.
A Scotsman correspondent relates an odd incident about a needle and thread found inside a hen’s egg. A servant girl broke an egg and began beating it when a needle appeared. The tale notes how sharp objects can wander inside the body and surprises readers with the egg discovery.
A rare gold dollar by American engraver A. W. Overbaugh was discovered in a Staten Island town. The coin bears a small circular area containing the Lord's Prayer and the artist's name beneath it, engraved on a piece marked A. Wager. The relic is destined for a New York museum.
Richard Diener, a Colma California gardener, has developed a six inch diameter geranium praised as extraordinary. He also cross bred carnations with the Prosperity pink to create larger blooms, and has produced fifty seven dahlia varieties while pursuing a blue dahlia.
An American expedition led by Prof. H. C. Butler from Princeton uncovers one of the largest Greek temples and early civilization remains near Sardis in Asia Minor. The dig near Mount Tolmus reveals columns, statues, and inscriptions that shed light on Croesus era wealth and the ages before and after his reign.
On a bank holiday a man, under the influence, rode a horse that had no control over him and steered it into the central police station yard. He asked the sergeant to kill the horse. The chairman noted the animal's intelligence and fined the defendant five shillings plus costs.
A three month old flock of fourteen young guinea is tended by Morris L. P. Leases in Morris. A full grown partridge joined the group weeks ago and now roams tame with the guineas. The birds gather near the hen at night and respond to whistles when the guinea flock calls.
A lyrical dialogue depicts a patient pleading for understanding and a doctor delivering a cryptic prescription. The piece contrasts medical authority with patient distress and ends with the patient drifting to sleep as the talking nurse and drug disperse.
In 1910 fiction, John Markham plans to spend three months in Europe with Miss Spencer to manage Markham & Markham after his father's illness. He overhears his parents scheming to marry him, aiming to place Margaret Lavery in the match, prompting his resolve to choose his own bride.
A businessman notices his orderly, quiet stenographer Margaret Stone Savery, who keeps professional distance and avoids flirtation. He falls for her after observing her reading habits and restraint. She challenges his proposal, asking about her father and business experience before a potential refusal or acceptance.
The narrator muses on look alikes in the crowd, noting how strangers resemble friends. He recalls spotting near doubles of Tom Dick and Harry, each with distinct quirks, and wonders why he has never met his own double. The piece reflects on the strange, expansive variety of humanity.
A man contemplates giving gifts to many household workers and service staff but confesses he cannot afford presents for his wife and children. He lists cooks, maids, furnace men, janitors, engineers, elevator staff, club waiters, milk deliverers, garbage collectors, and others, then laments the Christmas bill.
An anecdote recalls Bishop Burgess of Long Island dining at a press club where a head waiter misreads him as an admiral and then a colonel before correcting himself. The exchange highlights humor around titles and social personas during the meal.
The article notes ship stamps as numerous and powered by poles. It mentions a back-wheeler and a companion piece to the Congo Free States stamps, illustrating the maritime theme on postage issues.
A dialogue recalls a man promoting a bore under the river and a partner denying ever receiving dividends. The tunnel was never constructed, only an air shaft, a hot air idea.
A dialog about perceptions of crowd size. The man with thoughtful eyes asks if fat women in crowds are noticeable, while another man with uncertain whiskers counters that two or three together simply appear like a crowd to observers.
A brief exchange imagines Christmas remembrances between Captain Cook and Admiral Peary. One man laughs at the idea of Peary sending Cook a note, while another suggests Cook might send instructions on how to play Copenhagen.
A caroling critic deems a Longfellow poem fairly good though heavily padded. The counterpart argues there are no superfluous words and questions the charge of padding, noting the text is expanded with Excelsior as a stylistic device.
A friend demonstrates a peculiar Back fugue on a pianola, insisting it sounds distinct from Back. He explains it as his own idea, echoing porous plaster through the instrument to produce the effect.
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