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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
2
President Roosevelt enforces a strict cabinet news policy with Loeb as the sole conduit for public releases. The move provokes protests from cabinet members and correspondents, while a separate report urges a uniform boundary system for the US Canada line amid smuggling and marker damage.
President Roosevelt sought to quell misinterpretation of his cabinet memo by explaining to correspondents that the order aimed to shield cabinet proceedings from misrepresentation. He stressed no intent to form a news trust and defended the idea of reporters' scoops as a questioned right.
The piece notes 7CONOMY as a governing aim urged by Speaker Cannon and President Roosevelt. It cites a government printing office saving of about 1 million dollars annually and investigations by a congressional committee led by Landis into waste. It mentions Secretary of War Taft trimming his department by 10 million dollars and broad cabinet cooperation to curb spending.
Gunner laments Rounder’s disappearance from social life as Guyer reveals a month of remorse and home confinement. Rounder reportedly let his wife cut his hair, and his public appearances have ceased in this period reported by the Chicago Daily News.
An aged excerpt explains Scottish superstition about spinning on Christmas or Yeal day and the Calvinist clergy suppressing such customs. It notes Presbyterian church government spreading from John Knox, reducing Christmas celebrations in lowlands and Anglian regions, while Hogmanay becomes New Year festivity. In some Highlands and Forfar areas Christmas remains a day of general merriment.
Miss Artie Griner former Portland schoolteacher told how she witnessed horrific sights that shattered her mind while in Cincinnati and Minnesota. After three days she fled to Bemidji where she attempted suicide twice and was later found to be of unsound mind. She is sister to former State's Attorney Daniel E. Griner.
Charles B. Terry sues the state of Indiana and officials for 100000 damages over alleged unlawful confinement after a reform school sentence. Trial set for December 5 in Fort Wayne. deputy sheriff Mike A. Wall begins summoning witnesses. Terry had served three years on a grand larceny conviction.
The Blair-Baker sale at Union stockyards featured King Baron a 5 year old trotter sold to R J McIntyre of Sandy Lake Pa for 2050 dollars matching the Tuesday price for Dieresta. Twenty four horses brought in total 10065 dollars. The next day Tip Top and Strathore bay geldings aged 5 and 4 consigned by J J Mooney Toledo sold to John Tarpey Norristown Pa for 1025 dollars.
At the Indiana state fair grounds W L Clemens of Indianapolis broke the 150 mile stock car mark in a 24 hour race with Charley Merz the two drivers in 40 horsepower cars The record time for 150 miles was 2 hours 52 minutes 32 4 5 seconds besting the old mark by 13 5 seconds Clemens crashed into a fence Thursday night and after a lunch break continued the race in Merz's car with Merz retiring.
Mae Nichols of Williamsport obtained a clerkship on the Indiana state board of pardons at 1000 dollars a year after calling on Governor Hanly to apply. The governor recalled that his own penniless days were aided 35 years ago by Nichols’s father, and he promptly awarded the job, expressing pleasure to repay the favor.
Rudolph Kohlermann 47 a member of Louis Kohlermann & Sons undertakers died at his Walnut street home after a brief illness. His wife had filed suit for divorce alimony and child custody. she reportedly dismissed the suit after his illness worsened and he grew suddenly ill. Authorities suspect worry contributed to his death.
Dayton detectives allege Dr Oliver C Haugh now suspected in the 1904 murder of Bedford schoolteacher Miss Sarah Schafer. Evidence shows Haugh was in Bedford when the Schafer body was found and photographs have been sent to Dayton authorities.
The Heavenly Recruit convention in Elwood Indiana closed Friday night with J W Davis re elected bishop J S Morris named treasurer and J J Blackburn chosen secretary. About 330 churches were enrolled across four states Indiana Pennsylvania Ohio and Illinois.
A traveler recounts meeting a man named Stefan riding to Reykjavik to prison for sheep theft. The sheriff issued a warrant, but the man was turned away when the warrant was lost, prompting a comical tale of long delays and misplaced justice.
A period piece urges that most hospital patients are women awaiting or recovering from operations due to neglect. It cites common symptoms and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure, sharing a testimonial from Miss Luella Adams of Seattle and inviting letters for free advice from Lynn Mass.
A Yonkers Statesman quip describes a trial where a red-faced man loses and a judge quips that if a man dances he must pay the fiddler. The florid defendant blames his lawyer, lamenting the costly fate of paying a fiddler.
At the head of the bed of Miss Mary Houser a venerable milliner and spinster who died at Baroda near South Bend deposits slips for over $4 600 were found in an old stocking. Despite her possessions she died in apparent poverty.
Goshen Indiana November 18 detectives search for Mrs Lydia Anna Hoover 27 mother of two who left without explanation for Petoskey Michigan and a schoolboy Irvin Sala also missing Her father a wealthy Elkhart county farmer has hired detectives to locate them and bring them back.
Mrs Hix storms home claiming she saw a kiss with Miss Pinkleight in the conservatory. Hix explains it was brotherly as she would be like a sister before engagement.
A long discussed boulevard between Jeffersonville and New Albany is now practically assured as a petition was filed in Clark county auditor George B. Parks's office in Jeffersonville.
State Fish and Game Commissioner Zack Sweeney and chief deputy E B Earle issued instructions to deputy game wardens across Indiana to prevent hunting on Sundays.
In Logansport Indiana on November 18 350 proxies were signed at a meeting of local policy holders of Mutual and New York Life Insurance Cos in favor of Thomas W Lawson.
Greece claims the planet’s largest sun dial with a vast promontory rising 3,000 feet above sea level in the Aegean. As the sun moves eastward its shadow sweeps across a circle of islands that serve as hour marks.
A wealthy Brazilian banker saved his personal property during the sinking of the Booth liner Cyril in the River Amazon. He preserved a small handbag containing $30,000 in banknotes.
Miss Ellen Stone plans to open a female college in Monastir based on American ideas. Rhodes scholars at Oxford are called Rhodesters with notable success. Ramsbottom grants a half holiday for circus visitors. Germany runs a plant culture push in public schools with prizes for caring for potted plants. 133 Wuerzburg children won prizes.
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