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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
2
The Elkhart Daily Review notes the Independence League opens in Indianapolis to sway votes, while judges seek a re hearing in the Standard Oil case amid politics. It questions party loyalties, primary fairness, and immigration trends with data on July arrivals and debarkations, plus a Goshen area visit by George Berkey.
The LaPorte Arius-Bulletin cites unemployment driving men from families and weakening the Republican party. Goshen’s Charles W. Miller and Henry A. Barnhart of Rochester spoke at Winamac’s old settlers picnic. Elkhart County Democrats invite H B. Darling to campaign here this fall amid labor and publishing critiques.
The Rev. A B O Neil of Ave Maria reports a long term walking routine. He walks twelve miles daily and recently hit ten thousand miles in two and a half years. He credits moderate eating, three daily walks, and a daily hot bath for losing fifty two pounds in six months. He maintains weather does not deter his regimen and claims true perfect health beyond mere freedom from illness. He states he will turn fifty next month and feels ten years younger than at forty.
Dr Mary Mills Patrick, head of the American College for Girls in Constantinople, stays at Miss Helen Gould’s New York home while in America. Gould donates 10000 dollars plus more, aiding Patrick’s drive to fund a Constantinople school site secured through recent Turkish revolution. Patrick, a Canterbury, New Hampshire native, educated across Europe and the U.S., is noted as the first woman awarded a doctorate by Berne University in 1897.
A. Anderson is appointed attendant for the first annual Elkhart Poultry Association show to be held the week of January 40 next. The 48 page catalog will feature special premiums and is nearly ready for printing. The association now includes sixty two members, all breeders of thoroughbred stock. The show aims to attract fanciers from across the United States and Canada and to be a credit to the city and association.
In Boston Republican leaders from six New England states meet with Chairman Hitchcock to map the presidential campaign. Attendees include Senator W. Murray Crane and state chairmen from Maine Vermont Rhode Island and Connecticut as talks focus on Vermont Maine finances and pre election strategy.
Will iam J. Bryan arrives in Chicago and holds meetings with state and national leaders before departing for Indianapolis after a Sunday rest. A serenade with brass band and a megaphone quartet drew over 2,000 people as he spoke about organizing clubs in every precinct and potential campaign funding based on member contributions.
Taft declares if elected he will convene the sixty first Congress in extraordinary session to revise the tariff at the earliest moment permitted. He ties the move to the Republican tariff plank, while Meyer criticizes the Democratic national deposits proposal as socialism. Secretary Hitchcock names Republican national advisory committee members and hosts talks with Bonaparte and others.
The Indiana Grand Army of the Republic posts gained 128 members in the first half of the year despite wartime losses. Col J R Fessler reports the department in excellent condition with 298 deaths in six months. Total membership around 14 500 and cash on hand at year start was 65 416 with 12 365 receipts in six months.
A prominent young woman in South Bend is compiling a social register to list the city's socially prominent residents and their club memberships. The Blue Book will be issued in the next two months from the local press and describe social contests and prominent figures.
More than 40,000 attend the Bible conference at Winona Lake where Gipsy Smith of England contrasts American and British clergy. He accuses U S ministers of swelling church rolls with members who do not belong and warns against lowering standards to boost numbers. He says British preachers return to the Lord's wording and insist on true commitment.
Beautifully located lots for sale on East Jackson street inquire at 704 East Jackson street. Home phone 595. Alice L. Howland wife of Milton B. Pine of South Bend manager of Singer sewing machine plant will sing in grand opera on a European tour beginning next month.
Thomas L Its Zen and John Temple Araves, both Independence party nominees for president and vice president, will be notified of their nominations on Saturday at the rooms of the National Independence Club in New York. The five men who conferred stayed about an hour but said nothing about the conference.
Representative McKinley of Illinois arrives in New York to assume duties as chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, succeeding Representative Sherman in the post.
Baltimore August 24 The marriage plan of Rev George B Fitzhugh aged 67 and Lula Virginia Wrazier aged 10 a license issued at Ellicott City Md will not occur. The license is with Fitzhugh’s son and will be returned. Fitzhugh remains ill from a recent heart attack and has been moved to a sanitarium doctors say he needs treatment for mental troubles. Frasier will be taken back to her Albemarle County Virginia home.
Chicago date Aug 24 standings for National American Association Western leagues and Saturday scores across major clubs. Highlights include Philadelphia and Cincinnati results in the National, St Louis heavy totals, and Brooklyn Chicago games. Also lists minor standings from Kansas City Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis and Des Moines Sioux City with several extra innings noted.
Reported method adds 2 to 4 percent powdered althea root to plaster of Paris to retard hardening and allow cutting and shaping. An 8 percent addition further delays setting by about an hour, keeping the mass plastic for use in shaping before final hardening.
Russia endures famine on roughly a ten to twelve year cycle. A simple fire alarm idea uses two spring brass pieces in a circuit kept apart by beeswax that melts as temperatures rise, allowing the ends to touch and trigger the alarm.
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