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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
5
The article argues for age tailored literature from childhood to mature adulthood. It urges publishers to provide varied works for young women 18 to 25 and for adults, noting the need for truthful, non indecent books. Mothers should set effective but non irksome prohibitions.
The piece compares English suffragettes to American suffragists, noting the calm, practical American approach and a New York mission as evidence. It also reports on Lafayette statue progress in Paris, Bartlett’s sculpting delays, Yale professor Seymour’s simple funeral, and Canada issuing its own mint.
The article outlines a plan to treat defective organs through medical approaches, detailing aims to repair or replace faulty systems. It emphasizes research progress and the potential for new therapies while noting ethical and technical challenges.
Telegram from Oporto reports the capture of conspirators led by key figures and seized revolvers and plans to seize the city by surprise and form a republic. Lisbon views royal victims’ bodies as thousands mourn at San Vicente Cathedral. coronation plans for King Manuel unclear amid republican tensions.
Vice President Murthy announced reductions across the Cincinnati New Orleans Texas Pacific and Alabama Great Southern railways. Beginning March 1, 2008, salaries for pressions, vice presidents and other officials earning $440 or more will be cut by ten percent as a cost saving measure.
Washington reports President Roosevelt suspended public printer Charles A. Stiklings and appointed William Hossiter to fill duties while Congress conducts a government printing sales investigation. The move is an official step to facilitate the inquiry.
Rev. Charles M Carroll of Howe Avenue Congregational church resigned Sunday to become the superintendent of the anti saloon league in the Pittsburg district with headquarters there.
Report from Lake Charles describes Albert West and Edward Williams, Black men, dying in a jailyard hanging. West died first when the rope briefly held. after a struggle the rope snapped again and West was strangled. Williams died in the related incident shortly afterward.
A Battle Creek resident died Friday night after falling from a fifth story window at a city sanatorium. The warden reports the incident as a fatal accident tied to a patient from West Virginia penitentiary who had been in the facility.
About 150 masked night riders seized Fredonia residents and seized Cumberland Telephone operator James Searberry. They opened 43 year old drug clerk Dave Potter's store and held locals prisoner. They then burned Alfred Cardin's tobacco factory and barn destroying 35 000 and 10 000 pounds of tobacco. Loss about 10000 dollars with 5000 dollars insurance. Cardin 75 year old Buckner Dunkerson buyer and former Populist gubernatorial candidate.
London—Sir Birrell Barnes granted a decree nulling the marriage of the Countess of Yarmouth Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburgh to the Earl of Yarmouth. The case, heard in private, lasted about half an hour with the Earl not in court. The judge voided the marriage and the decree will become absolute in six months. No settlement details or revisions were discussed.
Caid Sir Harry Machen commander of the sultan's bodyguard and a top Moroccon power arrived under escort from Bandit Riulenli after seven months bondage. The release follows a British government agreement with Ratsall including a payment of 100000 and guarantees of protection and safe passage.
Four men blew open the bank vault in Sulphur Springs Arkansas early Sunday securing 1300 dollars in cash. The bank was wrecked and the vault destroyed.
John W. Olivar editor and principal owner of the Yonkers Statesman died at his Yonkers home on Sunday aged 52. His brother Isaac Oliver co founded the Sense of Temperance and was mentioned in connection with Olivar's work.
Belleville court granted Federal Union Security company of Indiana an injunction to stop George Lepeich from acting as Cahokia village supervisor and from collecting rents on 600 acres. Frederick B. Morvils named receiver as Illinois courts appoint a village receiver for the first time amid reunification of village affairs after Anthony Hordeaux’s alleged failure to hand over $20,000 in rentals.
In Murphysboro Illinois W B Smith and James S Nall of Henry County Kentucky were sentenced to up to five years in the penitentiary for conspiring to defraud Elkville State Bank of five thousand one hundred ninety two dollars. Nall presided over the Mississippi Valley Banking Co Grand Tower which is under a receiver. Smith who once led the largest bank in Louisville organized the Elkville bank and with conspirators flooded it with overdrafts and false drafts. Smith also faces a $2000 fine.
Jackson Ky The son of Judge James Hargis killed his father and watched the body laid out in the family burial ground by the North Fork of the Kentucky River. He pleaded Lord have mercy then was returned to the jail following the taking of the body. Three killed by gas fumes Meveland Ohio Three people died from asphyxia in a gas leak. A chimney soot clog caused the fatalities including John Gehringer auctioneer and his wife Ida plus their niece Pansy Brockway. Elevator fire Storm Lake Iowa Wagner's elevator burned after midnight destroying grain and stock. loss around 70 000 dollars with 15 000 bushels of oats and equipment.
Forest rangers in Nevada orders to kill on sight all wild horses on Teelyabs Toquimid and Monitor reserves in Lander county. About 15000 horses roam the government domain in the area. Lone act of violence nearby as Elvin Newby shoots wife then kills himself in Valley View.
In St Louis a gathering of unemployed tramps drew national attention as hoboes who were barred from official councils held a Friday meeting. Speakers included Kansas City Kid New Haven Kid and Jersey Red with warnings against alcohol and sea labor and calls to settle, vote, and seek work.
Frank W. Gould president of the Union Malleable Iron Co and chairman of the Western Illinois hospital board killed himself in his Watertown, Illinois home. Cited pressures from heavy financial difficulties not linked to his companies or the hospital. Gould, 55, was son of Judge John M. Gould. son-in-law Joshua Hale of Newburyport, Mass.
Washington announces the approaching retirement of Frank H Hitchcock from the postal service. He will manage Secretary Taft's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination with retirement likely around February 16. Dr Charles P Grandfield to succeed him as first assistant postmaster general. Grandfield has led the bureau for over two years and served in the postal service for about 20 years.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and lawyer Daniel O'Reilly will inspect the Poughkeepsie insane asylum next Monday to seek a more congenial facility for Harry Thaw than Matteawan state hospital where he is under observation. The group met Thursday to discuss the contemplated move.
The big ship building syndicate of Sir James Laing & Son has suspended operations. Yards at Sunderland and Deptford employed about 5,000 men before the stoppage.
Count Hadik, in Vienna, tells The Zest that reports of an engagement to Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York are false and a fabrication.
The Continental Limited passenger train on the Wabash line derailed Sunday near Delhi Ontario 166 miles east of Detroit after a broken raft caused the crash. No one was seriously injured.
Retested from Panama Mr Arnold Shanklin says many men there view a wife as essential yet prefer sweethearts who are chaperoned or travel from the states. The government provides six room houses for married men and a pleasant social set forms, while Mrs Helen Varick Boswell argues that single women are needed, suggesting many men are married or about to marry before going to Panama.
A weary auditor replies in a whispered joke that they will still be waiting as the orator continues his long address. The exchange captures a tense, humorous moment amid a dreary outlook and formal gathering.
An advertisement extols Grape Nuts and potassium phosphate as essential for brain and nerve health. It features testimonials praising improved appetite, calmness, and mental focus, and cites Dr. Carey’s Biochemic system to argue phosphate of potash supports nerve fluid and gray matter.
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