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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1905
Page
7
A poem from J. Bradford Sezrl published in the New York Press reflects on summer dawns and melancholic nights, arguing friendship remains a living thread beyond greetings and farewells as two lives stay intertwined despite distance.
Sim Burbank reports Roaming Pete the spike tailed bear has outsmarted locals again driving sheep toward Smuggler's Caves. Abe Winslow and others plot a hunting party using Bill Cummins' hound after Pete, famed for humor and near human intelligence, previously slipped away from capture.
In a frontier chase near Smuggler's Caves Sim and Abe pursue a bear that has driven Sim's eight pigs from a pen. The pursuit leads to a cave where Pete the mountaineer hides above a chimney and escapes as the men close in. The scene blends action with rugged dialogue and rough justice.
A Paris style head waiter argues that repeated eating of the same bread causes dyspepsia. He cites many bread varieties including corn, rye, whole wheat, graham, Boston brown, aerated, barley, Vienna and French bread as a remedy for digestive fatigue.
The article notes nine cities over one million residents with New York Chicago and Philadelphia leading the list. It compares New York and London populations, explains urban district versus municipal counts, and discusses 20th century city growth driven by electricity and transport advances.
A witness described a pure election at Norwich as impossible and estimated 3000 to 5000 corruptible electors. He said parties could ignore them, but then the body would nominate its own candidate to obtain money from someone.
Along the Columbia River a native bread is made from moss that grows on spruce fir trees. The moss is soaked and fermented in heaps, rolled into large balls the size of a man’s head, and baked in pits.
A Chicago Tribune comic snippet depicts Aunt Rachel entering a domestic dispute where she catches two people quarreling. The male participant counters that she only shows up when they argue, highlighting comic timing over family dynamics.
A clergyman's wife, stranded with two children after a misunderstanding, pawned her wedding ring at a pawnshop to obtain relief from immediate distress. The piece argues pawnbrokers are not all fences for stolen goods and can provide quiet aid in hard times.
Reports from Austin Texas describe many alleged rain cures. Patients stand in open air bare from the waist up while rain pours over them. Nervous disorders and rheumatism allegedly yield. a single downpour and rubbing down is said to cure obstinate colds and other chronic diseases.
A Chicago Tribune remark notes women honor many benefactors of their sex yet have not built a monument to the man who invented mirrors, highlighting the irony with a sharp cultural appraisal.
Dialogue from Yonkers Statesman notes a domestic moment where a husband protests his wife stepping on him, while the wife insists on dancing. The strip captures a humorous exchange about companionship and household friction.
Naval officers study fast launches and gas engines for torpedo boat use. Experiments show gas engines start quickly, run at 20 to 30 mph, and life boats with gasoline motors stay buoyant and self righting.
In Woppmannasdorf Obverpfalz a family of eight sisters and eight brothers, forming four twin pairs, counts ages totaling 620 years. They never drink coffee tea or beer, eat potatoes bread sauerkraut milk and milk puddings, and consume meat only at the village church festival. Doctors are unknown and illness is only heard of. their sole remedy is a homemade blackberry medicine.
A Dundee Advertiser note highlights the widespread habit of naming natural formations after the devil across Britain. It cites the Devil’s Kitchen on a Welsh mountain and lists examples such as the Devil’s Punch Bowl and the Devil’s Lake, amusingly pondering Satan’s ownership of global real estate.
A quip from Chicago Daily News on weddings and social expectations. It notes two women kissing may be seen as not a true kiss, reflecting playful social commentary from the era.
The Niger, Africa’s third largest river, shows continuing drying across western Sudan. Water levels fall since the last decade, hindering steamers and waterways from Lagos to Timbuktu. French posts rely on new rail links while lakes Ngami and Chad shrink, prompting geographers to question if rainfall decline is permanent.
The article discusses how a north pole resident would experience day and night at any hour if the pole were habitable. It notes that, in theory, all places along a meridian share the same time, implying the pole could adopt any time by selecting a meridian. A habitable pole would force readjustments to our time system to fit Arctic needs.
Arvine's cyclopedia recounts a battle tale where a Russian soldier says he has caught a Tartar. The captain orders bringing him along, but the Tartar has caught the soldier instead, giving rise to the saying catching a tartar.
A man attempts a quiet ascent at two in the morning but is confronted by his wife who notes he promised not to be gone long after supper. He laments returning home briefly then continues to rattle his keys.
The report notes alcohol vapor in Spanish wine cellars with as much as half an ounce of absolute alcohol detected in six cubic feet of air.
Dr. George Petit told a Paris tuberculosis conference that seventy percent of bakers’ workers are affected by tuberculosis and that bread may significantly spread the disease.
In the Philadelphia Record Nye accuses Longbow of habitual lying, comparing his honesty to a tombstone and challenging the truthfulness of his statements in a sharp critique of the journalist’s reliability.
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