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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
3
Customers urged to visit for new Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing with a range of colors and eras. The ad promotes trying on the latest suits and implies easy purchase, inviting readers to come in and see the selection.
The notice lists hourly and limited trains from Elkhart Mishawaka and South Bend with specific departure times, plus freight and express trains daily except Sunday. It also details Western Division departures from South Bend to LaPorte Michigan City and intermediate points at regular intervals and a LaPorte specific train, signed by CHAS G LOHMAN General Superintendent.
In the Goshen Post Office issue the Indianapolis News discusses Roosevelt and Taft in the 1908 campaign. It notes Banker opposition to deposit guaranty laws, Bryan's business appeal, and Ridder as Democratic treasurer potential strength. It references Milwaukee banquet remarks and broader market sentiment.
The report notes Ridder accompanying William Jennings Bryan in Denver as a sign of united democracy. It highlights Ridder's past absence from Bryan campaigns and frames his current support as a hopeful omen for a democratic victory. A separate ad extols Mi-o-na for dyspepsia, claiming cure and health benefits with testimonials and agent details.
New York Oct 1 Manufacturers of railroad materials met at the Waldorf Astoria to form a group to resist legislative attacks on railroads. The group, to be named the Railway Business Association, includes 117 organizations and individuals and aims to conserve railroad and supplier interests amid industry losses. Presidents include George A. Post H H Westinghouse O H Cutler W H Marshall B E L Keith A H Milliken O P Letchworth. Charles A. Moore is treasurer.
Obituaries for Andrew J. Holmes in Portland and Mrs. Aaron Baker in Larwill. Fire gutting Mrs. Leah Johnson’s home in Tocsin from a gasoline explosion. Troy township district school destroyed by fire again. John Kime sells his Topeka store after 33 years to Dick and Frank Davidson. Van Wert county voters approve local option dry election by 894, wiping out 21 saloons. Possible identification of a deceased man near Sullivan as Cornelius Taylor from Ossian. Noble County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance reports 11725 collected to pay losses. Hubert Manor commits suicide in Redkey at 21. Russell Price, 7, killed by a 300 pound slot machine weight in Plymouth. Gordon Spell sues Huntington Light and Fuel Co. for 10000 damages over injuries at work. B R Gage and H F Flynn walk around the world on a wager offering each 500 acre farms in Chicago.
Hyderab ad faced a sudden devastating flood as a sixty foot high wall of water from the Musi river overflowed a large lake. The inundation swept through quarters, leaving thousands dead and a vast mud pool stinking with decomposing bodies, as survivors search for kin.
Marriage licenses list Albert Reith and Arvilla Blough both of Goshen aged 26 and 24, Willard Biddle and Dora Culp of Goshen and South West aged 22 and 22, Earl Sailor and Nora Cook of Elkhart aged 21 and 22. For sale items include two wood heating stoves one cook stove and one oil stove. Ed Clark offers shoe shining services.
Petersburg dispatch notes the cabinet’s economy push but reports the war budget for 1900 as submitted to the duma shows a $20,000,000 increase in current expenditures.
Judge Vanfleet of the Elkhart Superior Court grants divorce in the case Hazel Fern Graham versus Donald Graham on unusual grounds. He states a husband must protect his wife and failing to do so when her husband’s father roughs her constitutes cruelty. H. A. Graham, a former Elkhart councilman, is noted in Masonite circles.
The South Bend group led by Geo W Goetz of the Typographical Union travels to Vincennes to press for the 1909 Indiana Federation of Labor convention. If approved, the Chamber of Commerce will assist in entertaining attendees.
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