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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
1
Chicago faces a net gain from the Republican national convention with an outlay of 100000 dollars funded by the city’s leading citizens. The piece notes Chicago’s central location, extensive facilities, and the expectation that both parties will base campaign headquarters here, with preparations underway ahead of September.
National league standings show Chicago 02 32 20 NG Philadelphia 6 28, Boston 2 31 450. St. Louis 24 34 414. Brooklyn 21 335 380. New York 29 247. Nine box scores list hits errors and batteries for Chicago New York Pittsburg Cincinnati Boston St. Louis Philadelphia Brooklyn Detroit Cleveland and other clubs. No game scheduled in Cleveland St. Louis and Milwaukee results.
Illinois and Wisconsin markets show mixed cattle and hog receipts with varying quotes. Cattle fat steers reach 7.25, hogs strong near 6.45, sheep and lambs steady, hay prices around 11 to 12 dollars per ton, plus regional quotes from Buffalo New York and Dunning Stevens firms.
The piece recounts government suppression of news on early Australian gold finds, the 1814 Bathurst discovery by convicts, and subsequent hides of gold data. It notes 1830 blue mountains finds, the California rush sparking global prospecting, and Hammond Hargreaves teaching the Tomses and Lister, leading to Australia’s first gold rush.
The piece notes that human curiosity centers more in the eye than the tongue yet the tongue probes any mouth change. It describes how a dentist altering a tooth prompts the tongue to carefully investigate the modification, counting each adjustment in detail.
The article notes Spaniards and Porto Ricans preferring cane weapons with fine Toledo blades and ornate handles. It then describes Peruvian funeral customs where women cannot attend funerals, male relatives walk, and a processional display accompanies the coffin to the grave.
A wanderer asks at a suburban house for aid claiming to have followed the water for twenty years. The house wife slams the door, remarking he does not look as if he had ever caught it, in a brief London Answers style vignette.
Instructions warn that all communications addressed to Alexandria must include the word Egypt to prevent deliveries going to similarly named towns in Scotland Canada New South Wales Cape Colony Italy the United States and other countries. The notice from the Egyptian Gazette in Alexandria urges proper addressing.
The Berliner archetype pushes through crowded tram cars and into pedestrians with obstinate insolence. The London Outlook notes the clash between Berlin behavior and the smoother civility found in other capitals, provoking international commentary.
Daily exercises keep muscles in order and the head erect with shoulders back Carriage benefits persist into old age and help posture throughout life
A brief humor item features a waiter girl remarking that knives aren’t served with pie, and a surprised patron replies by asking for an ax. The quip relies on a sharp turn of phrase to punch up the old style dining banter.
A description of George R. Sims, dramatist and poet, praised for rapid verse work. It recounts a night when a new London theater piece premiered, Sims judged it, then wrote a long rhymed critique at his office. A boy then carried the verse to the composing room, passing between rooms for an hour.
A brief exchange unfolds as a generous daughter is praised for her large heart. The old man asserts the value of his daughter's character, and the suitor replies with warmth that she may inherit her father's generous traits. The scene centers on familial honor and mutual respect.
A fragment from Chicago News describes Edna noticing her mother's hoarse voice at breakfast. The brief scene captures a morning moment with emphasis on Edna's affectionate concern for her mother's condition.
The article explains that all longitudes meet at the north pole so it is noon everywhere in the north during their respective dates. It argues the pole experiences no single time, effectively allowing any time of day to be chosen as the right time, given the convergence of meridians and the twenty four hour cycle.
A London News excerpt discusses poets Byron and Browning shaping views on starvation and diet. It cites Byron’s extreme regimens in Athens and his fear of fatness, noting his fame for reducing himself by harsh methods while contrasting Beau Brummel’s carefree figure.
A 1734 advertisement from Fog's Journal offers ready made outfits and tailoring services at affordable prices. Men may order small and large sized suits from 3 pounds 10 shillings to 5 pounds 10 shillings, with options in serge and cloth. Livery coats, morning gowns, blue cloak bags, and black cloth at various prices are available. The shop is The Two Golden Balls in Hart Street, Bow Street, Covent Garden.
A century ago etiquette frowned on cream or sugar in tea and urged tasting with a spoon. The hostess asked if the tea was agreeable. The verse recalls Lady Betty cooling Bohea with her breath and a lady lifting the cup with a dainty finger as a world admired.
The London Outlook compares Berlin unfavorably with London New York and Paris in press influence. It argues newspapers act as city promoters yet Berlin lacks vigor enterprise and autonomy under authorities. The piece frames media as essential to urban development and civic puffery.
A wife tells her husband that she cannot bear the idea of a stepfather for their son if he dies, prompting a terse exchange about mortality and guardianship within a lighthearted domestic vignette.
A playful exchange features She noting a gift as selfless, while He replies he saves dears for friends. She commends the self sacrificing, unselfish man as a quip about borrowing trouble where interest consumes principal, attributed to the Kansas City Star.
A mother consoles her little daughter who sobs that she began to sew a dolly bonnet but the bloomers came out. The scene captures a child's curiosity and a parent’s gentle guidance in a domestic moment.
Nell asks if she could love him if he were rich and Belle responds she would try harder. The brief exchange centers on affection, money, and motivation within a domestic tease.
A humorous survey of artistic slips from Turner’s rainbow sun to Constant’s Victoria ribbon miscoloring. It notes a Lisbon Gesu Adam and Eve scene showing monks marching past, plus Antwerp old masters whose heaven and Murder of the Innocents swap contexts.
An archbishop of Bordeaux recalls a cleric who in sleep wrote sermons by night, reading each page later. Negretti the sleepwalker once carried a candle under real light is unseen with a bottle. Another sleeper dressed and drew wine in pitch dark, yet failed to find the exit when awake.
Johnny Hobbs travels from New Hampshire to Worcester to visit his grandmother. She sends him for milk, but he finds spearmint tea in the pantry instead. He explains he mistook Worcester’s milk for Hillbury milk, prompting a gentle corrective moment from his grandmother.
A Paris Revue piece recounts spiders with musical sensitivity. Pel lisson's spider allegedly perished after listening to a prisoner's groin. Gretry spoke of a spider that descended to a pianist on its thread. Rubinstein saw a spider emerge from the hall floor while he played in Brussels.
The first sailing club likely Cork Harbor Water club later Royal Cork Yacht club, founded in 1720. Vessels were small and yachting grew slowly until the 19th century. In 1812 Cowes Yacht club formed with about fifty five yachtsmen. Since then yachting associations expanded across Europe and America.
A tired but prosperous young actor returns home after a successful play's matinee and evening show. He sighs that good actors should be in bed, while Grumpy Tragedian reads his newspaper and agrees that they are.
Conversation shows Mrs Brown asking about her husband's business prosperity, Mrs Smith noting large receipts last week. The item cites Cleave Island Leader and Kartyte quotes about speaking of deeds. It also notes E B Zigler moved his law office to ground floor No 111 W Lexington Ave, 2880.
An ad touts Father William's Indian Tea as a quick relief and permanent cure for back ache and kidney ailments. The nature remedy, gathered in the Rocky Mountains, claims to treat kidneys and bladder, rheumatism, gout, jaundice, Bright's disease, with tea and tablet forms priced 20 and 35 cents. Available at B. D. Miller and F. H. Bentz & Co.
To Water Takers It is one of the conditions upon which water is furnished by the company that when an alarm of fire is sounded the consumption of water for private use shall cease during the continuance of the fire In dry hot periods it is necessary for the protection of property that this restriction be strictly observed And we respectfully request that all consumers observe it hereafter 2008 ELKHART WATER CO Start a savings account this month with the St Joseph Valley Bank Sav ings books rested and interest paid on your deposits every four months E B Zigler has moved his law office to ground floor No 111 W Lexington ave 2030
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