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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
5
W. H. Blodgett reports Clinton Indiana, home to 41 saloons and about 6,200 residents, spends roughly 547 200 annually on beer. The article estimates beer total, miners pay loss, and city costs, arguing a shift away from saloons could benefit public order and finances.
Mrs Elizabeth Ford aged seventy six died at her son Frank Ford’s home after a short illness Friday night. A lifelong city resident she was beloved by many with sympathy extended to her sons Frank and Ed Ford. Funeral services were held at the Ford home Monday morning with burial at South Park cemetery.
A statewide health claim touts Root Juice as a miracle cure for indigestion constipation nervous weakness rheumatism and other stomach liver kidney and bowel ailments. The article notes crowds gather at Batterton's drug store where Root Juice is sold at 1 per bottle or three for 2 50.
Pearl Butler Prof Ewing Supt Schools Clarence Johnson Bert Larison Samuel Lutz Culver Songer Hache Carper Mrs Anna Thompson Miss Anna Dierks Elizabeth Elinor Gray Miss Dollie Taylor Mary Walterman CARDS Wayde Curry Estel Hancock H L Mitchell R R Rapley Foley Rigby Mrs Lennie Brunter Miss Olga Beeches These letters and cards will be sent to the dead letter office on September 1st if not claimed before that time. L. D. BRADEN P. M.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans retires after forty eight years of active service. He earned fame commanding the battleship Iowa at Santiago and the Connecticut during the celebrated Atlantic voyage from Cape to San Francisco. He is sixty two years old today.
The article criticizes Bryan’s defense of his Gompers and injunction plank as weak and discriminatory. It argues the clause favors neither labor nor capital, calls for equal rights in petitions for injunctions, and cites Judge Taft on equal access to writs, concluding the plank is obscure and unlikely to attract thoughtful workers.
H S Nichols of Oakland Indian Territory endorses Chamberlains Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a dependable cure. A commercial traveler for eighteen years, he never starts a trip without it. Sold at Batterton's drug store.
Fragmentary notes show W and M Branch service heading north with No 2 and No 3 accommodations. Mentions 5 06pm 49 38 Express and 21 Express, Greensbury starts Nos 2 and 3, with most land 3 percent running to Greensbury except Sunday.
The I. C. Traction line timetable notes departures and arrivals with limited service to Shelbyville. Greensburg express stops include Shelbyville only.
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