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Newspaper
Daily Logansport Pharos
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1875
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows a city rail timetable listing routes via Loganport and Indianapolis, with going east and west times around 40 a.m. and 29 p.m. and mentions the W. & W. Railway and a lightning express. Entries are incomplete and names unclear.
County offices listed with names for commissioners clerk sheriff treasurer recorder surveyor coroner and school superintendent. Court meets on first Mondays in February September and November and fourth Monday in March and third Friday in November with named officials Dudley Chase and others.
A long list of Masonic lodges and fraternal groups with meeting nights and hall locations. Includes Orient Lodge No. 272 Tagun Chapter No. 2 Logan s council and other bodies with officers and meeting schedules in Loganport area.
The group holds its monthly meeting on the last Monday evening in their Hall at the corner of Bridgs and Market streets over M. Frank & Bro. Michael Wagner serves as President with Adam Weehkt as Vice President Conrad Gross as Secretary and John Wolf as Treasurer.
Meets every Thursday evening at their Hall 72 Marketseed with officers led by Wm Shanthan and Thomas Malloy. Onward Lodge No 201 meets Fridays at Odd Fellows Hall and alternate Saturdays in Onward Hall Shultzown with officers including Rev M Robertson and W G T r DB Graham. Rooms above Loganport National Bank host Sabbath services at 4 pm with Superintendent G G Shepard and Secretary Sammis.
Fragmentary railway timetable notes show multiple departure and arrival stamps such as 200 am 3 20 pm 0 pm 12 10 pan 2am 6 30 pum. The text lacks full context but indicates schedule references for trains or mail express services.
A US East River steamer struck a scow carrying Captain Costa and family. four children drowned. Oshkosh fire relief appeals seek funds via Nelson Gill, Esq. Englishman Richard Conn rett fatally poisoned by misread prescription. Montpelier VT fire losses reach 140000 with rebuilding underway. Crawfordsville aims to secure a new rail line through Indiana, bringing growth. Local crime reports and civic notices mix with business, politics, and social updates.
A mix of political, civic, and social items from Indiana papers. Mentions include editor changes at South Bend University, a proposed new mint site to be chosen by Dr. Lindeman, state prison warrant disputes led by Henderson, and local political contests in Lafayette Richmond and Anderson. Also notes on farmers reporting wheat and fruit damage and a high profile blackmail case nearing trial.
Police trace recovery of three hundred dollars in goods from the Panhandle company at Cambridge City. Earlier arrests included Clay Fowler and John Martin for whisky theft from a track. Weidner fled. Loy overheard plans about hidden goods under Mrs. Mazara’s floor and agreed to help move the plunder with Oscar Wood and Andy Hood. They planned to visit Mrs. Mazara’s residence on Saturday.
The piece surveys heated word battles in journalism and politics, quoting a fiery Milwaukee editor’s polemic on water and apathy, a monarch’s Venice rationale to Austria, Michigan’s repeal of a personal liberty law, and Davenport’s account of a tar and feathering incident.
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