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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
4
Virginia City Montana faced a severe tremor series with over thirty quakes in days. The electric power plant ten miles away failed, plunging the town into darkness as telephonic links to the site broke. Cracks widened, chimneys and plaster collapsed amid continued shaking.
Sydney reports Hugh McIntosh plans to travel to the United States on January 2 with a $50 000 purse to lure James J Jeffries out of retirement for a Johnson matchup. Receipts from the Johnson Burns bout totaled about $150 000, and Johnson will perform bag punching in a Sydney music hall for five weeks at 1750 a week.
Amoy reports an anti opium decree sparked by Tun gan natives who refused to stop opium poppy cultivation. A riot killed one officer and ten civilians, prompting 500 troops to be deployed to restore order and enforce the order.
Cleveland plans outline an International Peace Centennial for 1913 to commemorate Commodore Perry's Lake Erie victory. The event would invite Canada via England to join, strengthening Anglo Canadian ties and fostering friendship between nations.
A fragmented OCR item shows dialog about a circus parade with phrases like What’s the matter now and We’re argh circus parade, an’ suggesting a chaotic scene or mistaken timing during a local event. The readable text hints at confusion rather than a full report.
Samuel L. Clemens writes that people should pledge to pay New Year bills with a Red Cross stamp, urging nationwide adoption to boost Red Cross sales during year end. The Boston committee reports strong stamp sales as support grows.
New York reports most of its 600 plus moving picture theaters operated Sundays despite Mayor McClellan revoking licenses. Supreme court injunctions barred police interference and set today as the show cause date for cancelation orders.
Twelve members of the House committee on foreign and interstate commerce will depart Charleston for Colon to study conditions in the Panama canal zone. They will investigate the judiciary issue and all phases of canal construction, reaching Colon January 2. Members include Stevens of Minnesota Esch of Wisconsin Townsend of Michigan Morse of Wisconsin and Loud of Michigan.
West and leading scientists from the American Association for the Advancement of Science gather in Baltimore for their annual session at Johns Hopkins University. Open to the public, the meetings promise popular instruction and scientific value, following Darwin centenary papers.
Council Bluffs Indiana December 28 As a result of injuries from a high school fraternity initiation Thomas Harvey sixteen years old probably will die Harvey was injured by a shotgun paddle device that fired a blank shotgun cartridge with the charge directed into his hip authorities report the instrument was applied to cause injury then hospitalized in critical condition
Ten Clarkson children show suspected foot and mouth disease. an infant dies, seemingly from brain fever symptoms, while milk from affected households is implicated.
Rome December reports in Italia claim Joan of Arc appeared to the Pope in vision during private prayer after beatification rites urging him to press his policy toward triumph. The Pope emerged pale and kept silent for several days.
In Washington Rhode Island December 28 report Ironically tangled marriages unite Henry Dillinger and his two sons with widow Maria Richmond and her daughters Lucy seventeen and Jennie nineteen. Lucy becomes wife of Henry while Jennie weds Charles Dillinger and Jennie Richmond also marries David Dillinger. The convoluted unions follow the housekeeper’s arrival after the second wife’s death two years ago.
Philadelphia delegates of the Central Labor Union condemn the Bucks Store and Range company as unfair and attack on free speech and trial by jury. They vow to face jail with Gompers Mitchell and Morrison as New York plans a 200000 strong protest and a committee prepares resolutions for Roosevelt.
San Diego reports Theodore V. Johnson traveled to Trinidad Lower California to aid William G Morse held on a Mexican arrest charge. Morse was in Taft's Yale class and is son of telegraph pioneer S F B Morse. Also notes a coal mine fire near Hastings Colorado and Niagara Falls saloon closes amid Sunday law enforcement. Contains a cocoa recipe instruction.
A column from Elkhart area papers lists local residents ill or recovering. Names include Mrs. Samuel Powden, Frank Parish, Mrs. Ella Bickel, J. C. Love, Ira Corner, Moritz Martin, and others with illnesses such as erysipelas jaundice typhoid fever or surgery. Darwin F. Coe formerly of Elkheart underwent a dangerous operation in Chicago and shows variable recovery. a box car accident victim Quincy Truex improves and may return home soon.
The city saw a flurry of social calls and family news as residents from Goshen Fort Wayne Chicago and other places visited Elkhart. Births included a son born to Mr and Mrs William Byers and a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Louis Anderson. Several residents traveled to Chicago Toledo Cleveland and Detroit for gatherings and shopping while others returned home after Christmas vacations.
Members of Frank Baldwin Circle are asked to attend a special meeting on Tuesday afternoon. The red division of the W C T U meets with Mrs Johnson at 3 o clock on West Franklin street. Mrs Smitley hosts the Social Hight at her mother Mrs Moulton's home on Marion street. Woodmen of the World initiation moves to December 29 in South Bend with a 7 o'clock Tuesday evening departure.
A Tennessee fisherman in a boat misjudges a wild cat in a creek. The animal leaps aboard, a paddle fight capsizes the boat, and the fisherman knocks it dead with blows, losing gear and clothing but surviving. A two dollar bounty was offered for the creature.
How to transfer pictures to wood by sanding smooth and varnishing with copal or mastic. Apply print face down on sticky varnish, press flat, and let dry. Next day wet paper with cold water and peel away to reveal ink.
Sonoma Girl trots to a record four times at 2.054%4. The St. Louis Americans plan a $30,000 grand stand for 2,000. James A. Rector quits athletics to study law in Virginia. Mexico may host a circuit of first class race tracks led by a principal track in Mexico City. Stockton businessmen in California raise $50,000 to secure strong players for an outlaw baseball team.
Eleanor Robson studied art and Nat C. Goodwin was a farmer boy. William Hodge worked as a mining engineer. Arnold Daly served as Charles Frohman's office boy. Walker Whiteside aspired to be a schoolteacher. Grant Stewart taught at Trinity University in Toronto. Edwin Arden held roles as a miner, cow puncher and railroad man.
Ohio lacks an executive mansion and the governor rents home from a $10,000 salary. Lime production ranks highest in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine, and Missouri. New York leads in wage earners, with Pennsylvania second. The longstanding Massachusetts New Hampshire boundary has no legal due. The Daily Review 10 cents a week.
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