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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
7
Market notes from Elkhart review show mar wheat at five halves and eggs priced at four, with other staples including oats pork and butter referenced in list form. Observed small differences in regional supply noted by local sellers.
Fire hydrants are being repainted. Two wrecked street cars were moved to South Bend repair shops Thursday night. The St. Joseph river runs low causing sand banks and snags for boating above Elkhard dam. Swedish church interior work continues and services use the basement. Judge VanFleet traveled to Chicago after adjourning the South Bend court until Monday. St Vincent's parochial school will hold commencement at Bucklen Hall at 7:30 tonight with a large audience. A brick was thrown at the gate shanty near Big Four Jackson Street crossing and a mail coach was broken into on the sidetrack. likely the work of tramps. Ida B. Denzig granted a $300 mortgage for support with a $600 bond. Delicatessen home baked goods.
Mr and Mrs W W LaRue of South Third street celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary with thirty six guests and a two course lunch Rev Mr Mosier gave the presentation speech Mrs Macy of Decatur attended as the only out of town guest Twelve Pythian Club members met at Mrs D D Schwartz Kenyon avenue for work and business followed by light refreshments The next meeting will be a picnic at Mrs Warden's county farm An ice cream social hosted by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Order of Railroad Conductors at Mr and Mrs Henry Witwer 407 Hickory street drew a large attendance and good cheer.
Rosetta Pepple seven teen month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Pepple of Harrison Center died Thursday morning Funeral to be held Sunday at 10 30 AM at Yellow Creek Mennonite church Miss Lorain Beverstock of Cassopolis died Thursday aged 74 William Leyes of Mishawaka died Wednesday night aged 87
The article rails at Independence Day excess while citing Journal of the American Medical Association figures from 1903 to 1907 showing 1,153 deaths and 22,520 injuries across five holidays. It notes the personal cost of maiming, blindness, and financial hardship, urging reflection on the true meaning of the national birthday.
The article traces war dogs from ancient times to modern days, citing Agesilaus at Mantinea, Cambyses in Egypt, and later use in towers, guarding camps, and tracking prisoners. It notes breeds like Scotch bloodhounds and battles from Murten to Athens and the Americas, ending with dogs’ shift to noncombat roles. An unrelated second item tells of a Texans governor granting an “unsought pardon” to a penitentiary agent after a boastful petition.
Threatening skies kept crowds small at Cassopolis pioneers reunion on Wednesday. Samuel Rinehart, born September 4, 1831, won the prize as the county’s oldest native attendee. Genevieve Heaton, piano teacher, led beginners’ sessions as visitors browsed the Delicatessen Store.
Albert Ping Wagner left for Lansing to join Kalamazoo of the Southern Michigan League after a spring arm injury delayed his season. Wag had a tryout with Jackson but failed to win. Kalamazoo manager promised a chance and sent a telegram to report at once. Abe Attell, US featherweight champion, passed through the city en route to New York.
Conductor J. T. Wishart is sick. Mrs. G. W. Potter of Fifth street has tonsillitis.
The article praises Roman archers noting emperors like Domitian and Commodus as skilled with the bow. It recounts Domitian’s precise arrows in the circus and Commodus boasting perfect aim killing wild beasts with a single arrow. It mentions lions released to test his skill and exotic arrowheads used for necks of ostriches.
Theodore Hook forged 4000 letters to tradesmen and others inviting them to a widow's Berners Street home in London. Guests arrived from daybreak to near midnight, with groups of chimney sweeps bakers doctors and others while rioting fear ensued. The Bank of England governor the Duke of Gloucester and the lord mayor were among the hoaxed victims. A police inquiry failed to identify the prankster. Guy Murphy of Mishawaka settled a $10 000 Lake Shore suit for $150 after losing a foot in January accident.
The fourth annual Cass county fair will take place in Cassopolis from September 22 to 24 and on the 26th featuring delicatessen offerings and home baked goods among planned exhibits and activities.
A timid man describes a mysterious resident named Evans who leaves no trace and uses a rear door placard that reads Out. A second piece recalls Japan’s four annual housecleanings with streetside drifts of furniture and disinfecting officials. The text ends with a recipe-like explanation of macaroni production from dough to dried pipes.
In a playful exchange, Bacon asks if Hubert ever wanted to go on stage. Hubert replies yes last week, mentioning an actor named Vile and how he egged him. The dialogue pivots to dismissing calumnies as either deceitful or about people not worth thinking about.
A novelist answers that the villain reflects a Man possessed of all forms of wickedness, a creation based on his wife’s perceptions when she is angry. The exchange frames the villain as a composite persona drawn from personal relations.
A Grand Magazine anecdote describes Abernethy using brusque, domineering manners to control a heated scene. He dismisses a mother’s interruptions by ordering her to put her tongue out, then insists the daughter answer after intense pressure.
In Sydney a city of 500000, some restaurants offer covert meals on Sundays amid risk of arrest. An Italian patron, trapped in a compromising room by a waitress, saw the scenario unfold when police intruded. The case progressed to breach of promise for $2500, then divorce and remarriage for the Italian.
Cleo isolates in an oasis while contemplating economic details of her predicament. A physician offers a courtesy diagnosis and seeks priority for any ideal in a vase adorned with a decorative device. The scene hints at a news report read aloud, and a doglike observer is noted. A breakfast is shared before meeting a national appendicitis expert at the funeral rites.
Peter Latouche recounts a failed plot to abduct Queen Victoria and establish a republic in England in 1888. The plan faltered as the dock strike succeeded and sympathetic support from the moneyed classes shifted public mood, reducing revolutionary momentum.
A brief dialogue frames a joke on punishment with a bride declaring the groom her lifelong prisoner and the groom replying it is capital punishment rather than mere imprisonment. The line appears in the Sydney Town and Country Journal.
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