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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
1
Fashion notes discuss lengthening elbow sleeves to seven-eighths by smaller puff and added insertion strips. Owl beads are favored hatpin decorations and can trim the hat in varied positions. Mageriec waists, ruffled sleeves, lace cuffs, and a tall lace yoke update the waist. A blue serge seven gore skirt with box and side plaits is described.
Taft travels forty miles over mountain roads to Greenbrier county Virginia and West Virginia for a first horse show. He makes no speeches, tours White Sulphur Springs, lunches en route, and attends the hotel events with Judge Taft, Forbes, Edwards, and other aides.
Democratic National Committee chairman Mack denounces railroad plans to offer no reduced fares for the Brean notification meeting in Lincoln. He cites Nebraska 2-cent fare law and compares Cincinnati Taft event treatment, noting Central Passenger Association members in Western Passenger ties while railway officials cite existing policy.
Lincoln Aug 8 The main question is how to fund the Democratic campaign with an estimated 500000 needed for legitimate expenses. Bryan, Pettigrew and Governor Haskell discussed finance and planned a Chicago meeting to organize fund raising. Bryan will speak at Topeka Mitchell Sioux Falls St Paul and the Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln with about 19000 left to raise.
Elections Commissioner Hmerson told Sherman Jerome he knows nothing of an Independence party and would not place it on the Erie county ballot without a court order. The official law lists Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, and Prohibitionists and the Independence League, with no documented party existence or votes. Independent Bryan Ticket forms in Pennsylvania amid party quarrels. John W. Kern visits Chicago. Mile End parish officials convicted in grifting case in London.
National League standings show Pittsburg New York Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn St Louis with varied runs and hits. American details include Cleveland Washington Detroit Philadelphia and Boston with weather notes and fine details on hits errors and batteries. Also reports on Fairbanks Pure Food talk and Vilas condition in Madison with brief health notes.
A fashion note highlights summer dress trends with deep hems in taffeta or silk, rose colored frocks, foulard with pongee and linen, trimmed silk dresses using cloth braids, bedtick tub suits in gray and white, circular gore skirts with bra straps, a semicomfy Prince coat, and a stout-friendly corset cover illustrated by Judic Chollet.
A small vignette of Little Margaret during a family visit as cousins ask about heaven after prayers. On being told they would go there, she responds with poignant sympathy, saying Poor Dad. The tale is framed as a brief, gentle moral from New York Life.
A fragment from a court or library scene shows a suitor asking a maid to attend a lecture on women's rights. She counters that she would marry only if the traditional vow of obedience is removed. The dialogue hints at evolving views of gender roles.
Bucklen theatre management reveals a slate of entertainments for the upcoming season including The Cow-Puncher Meadow Brook Farm Thorns and Orange Bossonis The Girl Over There Hi Henry's Minstrels Morgan's Comedians Repertoire Child of the Pit Partello Stock Company Miss Petticoats Henderson Repertoire Company and a premiere of Tempest and Sunshine. The article details renovations to the lobby and entrance and notes the opening night next Wednesday with Tempest and Sunshine a Mary J Holmes adaptation starring Gertrude Ritchie and Gertrude Holland. Western drama The Cow-Puncher by Hal Reid arrives August 19 featuring Geraldine Graham and Tom Lawton with a capable company led by Eugene Walter and Thomas Finlay.
Cardinal Gibbons is reported to have intestinal trouble and was rushed to Rome for treatment where his condition is improving. In Persia, 800 casualties occur after a 35 day street fighting in Tabriz. Major Turkish cabinet reforms include two Christian ministers. First National Bank of Belle Plaine, Minnesota closed by OCC. Missouri Pacific orders the reopening of locomotive shops in several cities. Nicaragua funds priced in Mexico to aid students fleeing Guatemala amid persecutions. S. C. Watts fined $800 and Gertie Williams $100 in Helena federal court for anti pass law violations.
The Republicans of Osolo Township and other GOP voters are asked to meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday August 11 1908 at the Johnson school house to nominate the township ticket for the November election. The convention will elect its chairman who will supervise the polls to remain open for thirty minutes after opening and close promptly at the end. Charles Dill Ephraim Bird Precinct Committeemen.
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