Danville Commercial News
April 23, 1958
GE Employees Get Pay Raise
Eleven hundred employees in the hourly and non-exempt categories at the General Electric plant in Danville will receive a 1 1/2 per cent pay increase as a result of the hike in the cost of living index.
Salaries of exempt employees at the plant are adjusted at various times throughout the year in relation to the index and other factors.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Georgia, worth $3,590,000 take the water at Bath, ME 1904
Danville Commercial News
Oct. 11, 1904
The Georgia, worth $3,590,000 take the water at Bath, ME
(by Associated Press)
Bath, Me., Oct. 11 - The battleship Georgia was successfully launched at the shipyards of the Bath Iron works this afternoon before a large concourse of people. Miss Stella Tate, sister of Congressman Tate of Georgia, christened the vessel. The Georgia, which is a sistership of the Nebraska, Virginia, Rhode Island and New Jersey, belongs to the most powerful type and largest class of battleships. Her contract price was $3,590,000.
(by Associated Press)
New York, Oct. 11- The gunboat Paducah was launched at Morris Heights without a hitch or mishap today. The cost of the Paducah, when competed, will be about $675,000.
Oct. 11, 1904
The Georgia, worth $3,590,000 take the water at Bath, ME
(by Associated Press)
Bath, Me., Oct. 11 - The battleship Georgia was successfully launched at the shipyards of the Bath Iron works this afternoon before a large concourse of people. Miss Stella Tate, sister of Congressman Tate of Georgia, christened the vessel. The Georgia, which is a sistership of the Nebraska, Virginia, Rhode Island and New Jersey, belongs to the most powerful type and largest class of battleships. Her contract price was $3,590,000.
(by Associated Press)
New York, Oct. 11- The gunboat Paducah was launched at Morris Heights without a hitch or mishap today. The cost of the Paducah, when competed, will be about $675,000.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Buries Hands to End Pain Oct. 11, 1904
I love this story. Found just the other day.
Buries Hands to End Pain
Danville Commercial News
Oct. 11, 1904
Operator in Agony Until Amputated Members Are Interred.
Hagerstown, Ind. Oct. 11 - Old Union Cemetery, near here, was the scene of an internment of an unusual character Sunday. The amputated hands of Glen Bacheler, a telegraph operator, were given solemn and careful burial. This was done at his own request, to relieve cramping pains that became intolerable from day to day.
Three weeks ago Mr. Bacheler, who was acting as telegraph operator at a station on the Big Four west of Indianapolis, fell under a freight train during a fainting spell. His hands clutched the rail and the wheels cut them off at the wrists. A surgeon placed the hands in a jar of alcohol and Mr. Bacheler went to his father's home, in Carlos City, Randolph county.
Bacheler claimed he suffered in his body because of the crowded condition of his hands in the jar. He believed that if the hands were buried his pains would cease. The hands were expressed to Carlos City, where they were straightened out and placed carefully in clean wrappers of linen and securely packed in a wooden box for interment. As soon as they were straightened out Mr. Bacheler expressed great relief.
Buries Hands to End Pain
Danville Commercial News
Oct. 11, 1904
Operator in Agony Until Amputated Members Are Interred.
Hagerstown, Ind. Oct. 11 - Old Union Cemetery, near here, was the scene of an internment of an unusual character Sunday. The amputated hands of Glen Bacheler, a telegraph operator, were given solemn and careful burial. This was done at his own request, to relieve cramping pains that became intolerable from day to day.
Three weeks ago Mr. Bacheler, who was acting as telegraph operator at a station on the Big Four west of Indianapolis, fell under a freight train during a fainting spell. His hands clutched the rail and the wheels cut them off at the wrists. A surgeon placed the hands in a jar of alcohol and Mr. Bacheler went to his father's home, in Carlos City, Randolph county.
Bacheler claimed he suffered in his body because of the crowded condition of his hands in the jar. He believed that if the hands were buried his pains would cease. The hands were expressed to Carlos City, where they were straightened out and placed carefully in clean wrappers of linen and securely packed in a wooden box for interment. As soon as they were straightened out Mr. Bacheler expressed great relief.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Moonshine Still at Soldiers' Home...1914
Danville Commercial News
Feb. 18, 1914
Moonshine Still at the Soldiers' Home...1914
Levenworth, Kansas, Feb 17 - A moonshine still that had been providing liquor for members of Co. M for several weeks, was discovered in the basement of the company barracks at the National Soldiers Home today. James Brister, a veteran, was arrested adn held as the owner of the still. The liquor was being made with drugs and powders and already had made a public of the old soldiers ill.
Feb. 18, 1914
Moonshine Still at the Soldiers' Home...1914
Levenworth, Kansas, Feb 17 - A moonshine still that had been providing liquor for members of Co. M for several weeks, was discovered in the basement of the company barracks at the National Soldiers Home today. James Brister, a veteran, was arrested adn held as the owner of the still. The liquor was being made with drugs and powders and already had made a public of the old soldiers ill.
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