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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
1
Goshen Indiana newspaper daily producer Jos A Beane serves as publisher continuing the Goshen Daily Democrat duties in the Indiana city with local edition coverage and management role.
A rich collage of ideas spans steam power and progress citing Watt and Edison, then shifts to self improvement and pseudo science. It notes demand for technically educated youth, highlights a boot black industry boom, and reports Spain’s Christmas lottery as Madrid offers prizes. An Ohio woman seeks mayoral office after divorce, while Pennsylvania students face dormitory boundaries.
Miss Maggie Caime raised a black bear named Nigger who grew temperamental and once vanished after a scuffle with her brothers. Weeks later the bear intercepted her on a forest path and kept her trapped through the night, until neighbors shot the animal to rescue her.
St Louis girl Myrtle Harris ten, daughter of Mr and Mrs E F Harris Glendale, clung to ice for 15 minutes as lake over a deep well opened beneath her. Rescued by rope, then pulled ashore by J P Evers after steady effort as crowd gathered. She remained conscious, aided by neighbors and dry clothing at the Evers home.
Chicago blasts reveal a plot to seize the Servian throne led by Dr. Ben L. Reitman and Iowa claimant Theodore Max Strew. They plan to gather 3000 unemployed men, charter a ship, and strike Belgrade to capture the throne, with Nathalie aiding finances. The scheme targets King Peter Karageorgeevitch amid Servia’s volatile royal intrigues.
Horace Duncan of Rapid City South Dakota pursued Laura Jurd Shaw through a string of refusals as they planned a wedding at the Hotel Vendome. She repeatedly balked at key moments including the county clerk and the justice office, finally agreeing to marry after much pleading. Duncan, a ranch owner, endured the comic obstinacy amid wartime global unrest.
Two rogues mocked a poultry shop by inserting a whistle bulb into geese. A buyer, a learned professor, paid a large sum for a supposed rare whistling goose. The trick expanded to a dozen fowls before the hoax was uncovered.
A New York child’s tale of grief follows Mary whose neighbor boy is killed when a trolley car rounds the corner. Mary mourns deeply, then asks if she must die from disease rather than a “damage.” The item also notes a six-year-old’s school composition about animals and a set of light vignettes on wit and law.
A Philadelphia doctor recalls two Irish domestic workers chatting on an Atlantic City boardwalk about modern diseases and a liver medicine ad. Norah asks how slugs get inside the liver, the other retorts liver trouble is ancient, in a humorous Irish-American dialogue from Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
A collection of brief, humorous vignettes and anecdotes from historical American life. Includes a Maine politician Anson Morrill, a minister who jokes about hell, Bruges churches guarding against theft with a dog, a doctor patient quip about a boy, a girl teasing about a suitor’s wealth in his teeth, and a reflection on making ideals practical by Helen Keller.
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