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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1908
Page
9
Astronomical notes report sun set at 7 29 pm and rise at 4 24 am with moon rising 8 55 pm. The moon is 17 days old, at far southern declination, at a descending node crossing sun’s path and passing from west to east of Uranus at 10 04 pm.
Local republicans announce Harrison W. Godfrey and C. E. VanAlstine as township trustee hopefuls, with E. Darling Jr as a trustee candidate and William J. Sigerfoos also listed as a trustee candidate. Includes community notices, a Bucklen's Arnica Salve testimonial, a Fort Wayne excursion train for a baseball game, and real estate and banking ads.
The document lists several honors and appointments: William Charles Reich of the New York Times receives the Order of the Crown of Prussia from Emperor William. Baron Albert A. Schlippenbach becomes consul general in New York after years as Russian consul general in Chicago. Louis Klein is named commercial agent in Philadelphia for the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system. Admiral Richard Moorman, famed as the father of the fleet, marks his ninety eighth birthday. Thomas Kalends, a bootblack at an Alton barber shop, is named critic of Greek classes at Shurtleff College. President Roosevelt reappoints Straus to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague for six more years. General Porfirio Diaz has led Mexico for twenty seven years, with retirement anticipated at eighty.
A collage of quotes lampooning public affairs and human foibles. It mocks weather forecasts pressed by editors, gambling notes, road safety, con artists, name changes, and philosophical questions on life and mind.
English Etchings reports London hosts 81 daily papers and 375 periodicals. A colossal Liverpool port dredger, 478 feet long, will lift 10,000 tons of sand in fifty minutes. Peak hours surge from 8 to 9 AM and around 6:30 PM with 164,000 entering and 175,000 leaving during those windows. Tintern Abbey ruins in Monmouthshire are being restored, with excavations around the four arches seeking additional structures.
The New York Herald notes daily post office receipts reach 54 370 dollars as open days occur. Over six months the city consumed 10 285 000 tons of coal. It quotes extensive water resources, the most rowing clubs, and milk and farm supply reach from 400 miles away across 86 000 farms to meet daily needs.
Abridged editorial note from the Atchison Globe notes few dare to publicly oppose a majority and critiques how praise can sour friendship. It observes slowness of action on needed reforms and hints at excuses hinder progress, with a reflection on parental influence when money is involved.
The piece reflects on a bore who loves, adding remorse to pain, noting the true bore is seldom stupid yet clever, while a diet of pearls becomes intensely dull to the swine.
A fragmented quote line appears to reference cleverness and boredom with a cryptic tag indicating Bag and a comment about a shot. The readable text offers no clear event, people, or location to anchor a full news item.
Beatrice Grimshaw notes Tahitians split young coconuts with a twin-ended stick to reveal white ivory-like kernels. A large knife cracks the top around like an eggshell, releasing a refreshing sweet water drink. Native use avoids old nuts due to illness, preferring milk from half grown coconuts for nourishment and thirst.
An Odessa corre spondent notes Russia as the origin of the cigarette, with a British merchant marveling at bankers smoking while tea circulates among clerks. A calm, institutional ritual unfolds at a Moscow like bank and post office where smoking is forbidden to the public but common behind counters, and tea is widely served.
The Massachusetts General Court granted a fourteen year monopoly to Joseph Jenks for water powered engines. Jenks, a Lynn blacksmith from Hammersmith England, built the first fire engine in America and coined Pine Tree money dies. He died in 1682 aged eighty one and left descendants who continued mills in Rhode Island.
The passage posits that myths arise from the human mind's need to explain natural phenomena before science. It argues both savage and civilized minds are thinking machines driven by a craving to know the reason why. Citing anthropologist Tylor, it claims myths are invented when phenomena invite explanation.
In a satirical sketch, a foreman describes a factory where plots are punched in at machines, descriptions stitched in, dialogue added by hand, then the work moves to finishing before being sawn into chapters. The piece mocks the mechanization of novel writing and the assembly line of literature.
A Maine magistrate famed for a quirky ruling determines ownership of a pullet between two women. He questions each claimant about the bird and declares the pullet belongs to him, ordering the janitor to deliver it to his cook at the house.
A witty exchange unfolds between the First and Second Gentlemen as the First reveals a change of heart about risking life after marriage. The Marching confrontation shifts from bravado to a softened stance, framing the contrast between public bravado and private commitments.
Concord township Republicans and other voters are urged to meet at 7:30 p m on Tuesday May 19 1908 in precincts designated by the county committee to select delegates for the township convention at Island Park Elkhart June 19 1908 at 7:30 p m to nominate officers for the November 1908 election including township trustee and assessor.
After fifteen years of chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, B F Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina declares Dr King s New Life Pills the best pills ever sold. Sold under guarantee at Houseworth Bros drug store for 25 cents.
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