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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
8
Chester Ward, a dedicated angler, visits a lakeside village each vacation. He playfully alters a cottage blackboard notices to include fish and flowers, while a group of schoolteachers secretly occupy the residence. He encounters a pretty cottage resident who reveals the mutual prank and invites him to dine that evening.
In early California mining camps a lone emigrant wagon with a woman sparked a massive crowd. Senator William M. Stewart recalls the scene as miners gathered on Buckeye hills to watch the sight. Gold dust offerings from the camp totaled between two and three thousand dollars as a ceremonial salute. The woman revealed herself briefly, then fled with the wagon the next morning, leaving no further trace.
An Albany newspaper extract notes that in 1826 the African Baptist church trustees sought permission from the common council to circulate a public subscription paper to aid the church funds. The motion proceeded in the Common Council.
The excerpt discusses laying a petition aside pending investigation into funds from a previous African church subscription used by trustees for personal meals. It then outlines the Forty-ninth Congress era presidential succession rules starting with the secretary of state if the president and vice president are disabled. The quote closes with a motivational line from Phillips Brooks about cultivating power and miracles through duty.
Faded and Jess discuss a claim that Tess says her husband married her for her beauty. Jess suspects the husband now feels like a widower, reflecting on the irony of appearances in marriage.
Tired Tatters laments lack of funds to patent an idea. Wearr Walker claims the concept is an automatic tire for police clubs. Chicago News notes millennium ideals and the spread of Sons of the Revolution branches worldwide.
A condensed Elkhart Indiana directory style listing shows physicians dentists lawyers insurers and real estate firms with office addresses and phone numbers. It includes names such as Charles B Potter A E Schuler and Hughes Arnold plus insurers Metropolitan Life Prudential and Queen Insurance Co and firms like F T Simpson and The Lamb Abstract Office.
The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company offers a booklet detailing the complete fish and game laws for the D. and C. Coast Line to Mackinac. The north’s lakes brim with sport and forests with game. request by sending a two cent stamp to Detroit, Michigan.
Travel magazine announces Waterway Tales a 250 page book from D and C Navigation Co offering three stories with half tone illustrations of D C coast line to Mackinac. Sent free with ten cents prepaid postage to D and C Navigation Co 6 Wayne Street Detroit Mich. Also large field stone wanted for dam at Hikhart Indiana and Michigan Electric Co office.
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