23 May 1907
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Newspaper
Greensburg New Era
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
1
The advertisement touts well-cut coats and flat collars with a call to visit for personal inspection. It promises 25 to 50 spring suit styles of extra quality worsteds and Ceviots, all tailored to hold shape and wear well at $12.50.
A fragmentary verse asserts that every aspect of life from birth to death holds no worth without a woman involved. The lines evoke universal dependence on women, praising their integral influence across earth and heaven.
An anonymous letter argues that women hold the true power to cleanse a town and drive civic reform. It urges unity among women to boycott vice and urges ministers to provide space for a Social Purity meeting, ending with Another Woman.
The approaching wedding of Archie Dudley and Miss Sadie Cathern of Hope is announced for May 21 at the bride’s sister Mrs Frank Fisher’s home. The couple and their friends look forward to the ceremony with congratulations from the community.
Wools arrive from loads this week and prices reach 25 cents a pound as farmers begin clipping despite cool weather. The heavy clip limits and upcoming spring lamb benefits prompt faster fattening and better stock. A Cincinnati trip by Charlies Yauger is noted.
A bantam hen owned by Mrs. Thomas Allen on South Michigan Ave displays remarkable maternal instinct. She nests with four chicks and has adopted two goslings two motherless ducks and five orphaned turkeys. The devoted bird protects her diverse brood fearlessly.
Wheat futures rise as crop damage concerns drive Chicago and foreign markets higher. Local prices jump to 80 to 82 cents a bushel while flour raises 5 cents per sack. merchants with stock may weather the rise, though consumers pay the higher cost. Mrs. Charles Leonard and her children return home from Silverton after visiting George Spulipan’s family in Rusbelville.
Joe Foster, about 28, a brakeman on the Big Four work train, nearly died at a Pennsylvania street crossing in Shelbyville. At Ed Emhbolt’s house, the crossing watchman, Foster touched the wrong electrical wires while switching the automatic warning bell. Emhbolt pulled him free with his cane after being shocked, and Foster recovered enough to return home to Greensburg by noon. Foster is the son of Joseph Foster, a railroad watchman.
They make men the example of a twelve year old lad from Connersville Evans Wilson and newsboys who give seven dollars to the Carnegie library. A retort about what a boy is good for is countered with the line they make men out of such things as we are. Mrs Allan Jewell of Burney visited here Thursday while shopping. Mrs Will Logan and daughters Stella and Elizabeth Forberk visited Smyrna on Thursday.
The Grand Lodge opens a three day session in Indianapolis next Monday and will run an excursion to the city next Tuesday to visit the I O O F Home. About six hundred Odd Fellows will join the trip to this city.
The article notes a Connersville man who deserted his wife and paid only $32 for the privilege. It remarks that many men would be glad to end a marriage for a similar amount, framing the failure to pay more as a moral or social commentary.
Logansport Pharos reports township trustees are not legally bound to purchase flags for each school house though flags placed on all national or state holidays must be displayed above the building. When not in use they should be kept in a conspicuous place in the principal room or assembly hall. Ainaworth visited Indianapolis. Mira Will Ruberg shopped Thursday.
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