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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
6
John Summers perilously travels through southern Utah toward Escalante. He hides, captures three pursuing outlaws at gunpoint, and retrieves their horses before reaching town eight hours ahead. Deputy marshal later pursues the Robbers Roost gang after a fierce encounter.
In a comic tale Levinsky, despondent, seeks a famed specialist only to discover the heavy costs of treatment. He doubts whether to proceed but the moment he is called in, he declares himself back again, offering a humorous misreading of the fees.
The tarantula, described as nonaggressive to humans, hides deep underground, emerging at sundown to wait near its burrow opening. It hunts caterpillars and other small prey but stays largely inactive, surviving months without food if water is available, then digs out in spring.
A party of young men serenaded Jefferson Davis on August 2, 1870. After the band played Dixie and My Maryland, Davis expressed gratitude and Virginia hospitality, noting his enduring affection for Virginians and praying for their prosperity and peace.
The Sunday Magazine notes a glass pane in an old London house once tied to Jack Sheppard bears an inscription by a painter and glazier named John Woolley Brand. Dated March 12, 1706, the mark predates Sheppard’s residence by nine years, over two centuries ago.
Mrs Nuvoe Reeshe asks for samples of visiting cards from Filppany's. The secretary reports about 100 cards in various shapes and sizes. Reeshe orders all the cards dumped into the gold card receiver on the parlor table.
A Sunday night scene in a boarding house parlor features a boarder singing of taking their love to the sky and a playful remark from young Tommie Smith about buying an airship.
In Flemington New Jersey seven year old Johnnie Mathews was rescued from a wagon stranded in the swollen South Branch river. Frederick Rowe and Arthur Marshall rode to summon help as ice and flood surged. A rowboat finally reached the wagon at dawn, and Johnnie was pulled aboard and brought to his mother.
In Leysin Sepey corridor a dead man, Derchen, steered a bob sleigh with four Swiss tourists aboard. After rapid climbs and a fainting death from heart disease, the sled crashed into a fountain near Sepey, leaving the others seriously hurt.
George Schmidt a 50 year old Newark New Jersey man was found after five days imprisoned in a box car with no food or drink and frozen extremities. He crawled into shelter during a heavy snowstorm and survived only to be treated at the county almshouse as doctors fear for his life. A nearby Philadelphia freight yard and York bound train delayed discovery until a passerby alerted police. The man’s feet were swollen and he could barely speak.
The piece profiles Representative Ernest F. Acheson of Pennsylvania using the water wagon as a campaign tool. It contrasts his push for local option and liquor tax bills with opponent John Tener, notes Tener’s Be nevolent and Protective Order of Elks ties, and claims Acheson’s long tenure and Quay-Penrose backing make him formidable in the race.
The Information Bureau notes the U S Bureau of Standards handles wide inquiries. It describes tests on a celluloid collar and false teeth for flammability and pressure, confirms the durability-testing machine for paper, and explains the scientific folding test to measure paper strength.
Washington society recounts a comic dinner scene where two Paris gowns caused embarrassment among Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs. Perry Belmont. Each believed their white satin silver-draped gown was one‑of‑a‑kind in the United States, and both gowns were rumored to be sold to a second‑hand dealer. Belmont’s slender figure and pearl tiara drew praise, while Vanderbilt’s size and pink rose accents drew less favor.
Mystery over scarce White House cameras ends as reporters learn officials enter through secret passages. Frank H Hitchcock seen leaving via rear door while politicians are guided through hidden routes to meet the president, avoiding press scrutiny.
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