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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1908
Page
5
Brief mentions of local business moves Beyer Bros plan a $50 000 Fort Wayne building and a Wabash branch. Alfred West commits suicide in Whitley county. Mrs Jacob Frank dies in Ligonier. The Aubrey Stock Co visits Elkhart. Cutter Stock arrives from Logansport. Job ads seek steady work and a young man to learn a trade. A LaPorte bid for a public park system raises municipal reform interests.
An autopsy in New York City on Daniel Lyons, a Pennsylvania tunnel watchman, found a brain weighing 24 ounces, about half the normal size. Doctors say brain size does not determine intellect, noting Lyons appeared intelligent despite the diminutive brain.
A wife and skilled cook laments the loss of genuine dark-brown sugar used for molasses cookies, gingerbread, and brown bread. She recalls older grades of sugar being darker and sweeter, noting younger generations cannot share the old flavor, while storeowners tempt with light brown sugar claiming it is the sought dark variety.
In a New York City outpost, over a hundred military prisoners on Governors Island keep time by brooms rather than days or months. Short-term detainees police the grounds, sweeping monthly. They do not salute officers, fold arms, and are referred to by numbers stenciled on their clothing rather than by name.
Gyer cautions Myer to visit a bottling shop to bottle up his wrath. The exchange plays on a pun as the odd conversation unfolds with light humor.
The Irwin in Goshen announces a strong Mar 2 program headlined by Seymour and Dupree with singing and comedy, Dailey and Dailey on rollers and dancers, Massoney and Wilson, Leonard Kane the dancing Adonis, Forest City Quartet, and Harry Dudley in illustrated songs. New moving pictures close the show with matinees at 2:30 and evening seats 10, 10, and 20 cents.
The Cutter Stock company presents Thorns and Orange Blossoms as the opening bill at New Jefferson Theatre with Norman Hilyard Alicia Bertenu Nellie Hopper Myrtle Bigden Cato S. Keith and William G. Rozell in the cast. Manager Cutter promises a near complete production and Raymond R. Raymond will be featured as dancing pianist. Tonight free admission for ladies under the usual conditions. Tomorrow features The Cowboy Sheriff along with Danglet's offering of Redland oranges Malaga grapes and Idaho eating apples.
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