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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1912
Page
2
A notice from editor 5 E Martin advertising weekly publication details for Westville Indiana The Indicator is published every Thursday in Westville Ind with annual rates for advertising and obituary notices for over ten lines. Articles and ads must reach the office by Wednesday for publication consideration.
The item compiles brief local notices about travel observations in Europe, a fatal cabin fire near the river, and electoral friction as Valparaiso considers a new power franchise. It also notes Elmer Bannell’s death in Indianapolis, his burial in Laporte, and outlines his life from farm roots to county superintendent and assistant state superintendent.
A trader offers to satisfy buyers with competitive rates and invites inquiries. The note provides a contact address at 429 Willard Ave Michigan City and signatures Libkie, an exporter, and a date range 28-31 W. DD.
The article predicts a future where each larger Arrai community hosts agricultural specialists offering advisory services for a fee. These experts analyze soil chemistry, plant growth, and diseases, with labs and labs for soil analysis. They become valued figures in a new age of farming.
A traveler in Africa describes a dramatic encounter from Das Buch fur Alle where a leopard attacks a troop of baboons by a watercourse. The mother baboon leads a fierce counterattack that overwhelms the leopard, ending with the predator finally defeated and the baby baboon avenged in a vivid natural drama.
The article notes platinum is a natural alloy of iridium rhodium palladium and often osmium with traces of iron copper and gold. It occurs as small nuggets or grains and has a steel gray color with high density. Its production in the U S is mainly in California and Oregon and it is valued for laboratory utensils chemical analysis and jewelry settings.
In the St Simes Gazette a writer describes Theophil as a man lost in his own scenes and mental pictures. He claimed a grand life immersed in art and ritual while enforcing strict control over servants whom he dismissed with harsh signs. The piece quotes his vow to discipline workers and his belief the street itself became a Bosphorus.
Ada Lewis, a frugal actress and owner of a New Rochelle apartment building, tells the chamber of commerce she will offer a month's free rent to parents of any baby born in the building. She adds the project is to be a bachelor apartment, prompting amused responses from the committee.
A woman recalls ending a relationship by avoiding a direct rejection. She says she never learned to love the man but valued his kindness. To spare his feelings she decorated the house with golden red decorations whenever he announced a visit, exploiting his hay fever.
During a Dallas skirmish, an Irish member of the Thirty-sixth Indiana captured a Confederate and, while escorting the prisoner, declined a comrade's offer to hand him to General Gross. He said the brigade had more men back over the hill and told the other to fetch a lad to deliver the prisoner himself.
The London Chronicle reports that in Palermo Sicily ice is a universal indulgence enjoyed by all ranks from morning to night. Cafes fill between 3 and 4 o’clock with officers merchants and both sexes savoring diverse cheap ices as carriages line the streets and locals declare this pleasant duty irresistible.
Fossay, a town between Paris and Arles, is described as the sole highly civilized community governed entirely by women. The mayor, railway station staff, mail carriers, and even the town drummer and barber are female. Notable figures include Mme Legeboro the telegraph messenger and Mme DrubowMarchardin the octogenarian drummer.
The text reports that as early as 1647 efforts occurred to build a pneumatic tire and cites a patent granted in the United States to an English inventor for a tire kept distended by air.
Parisian editors demand removal of oversized bill boards disfiguring landmarks. They urge the city to tax advertisers at high rates to deter use. In France a law already taxes such boards to protect the landscape.
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