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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
2
A column from the Lebanon Daily Reporter compiles varied odds and insights. It touches on local rates, fruit land profits, and oddities about Chinese paper, milk prices, and a motor roller skate. It also discusses John Hay and a trolley death near Philadelphia, plus a note on United States Steel earnings and wage share debates.
In Noblesville Indiana Judge Ira W Christian upheld the new gravel road law as constitutional in Samuel M Smith versus the county commissioners. He said the Supreme Court has ruled on most issues and the three mile limit is legal. The decision frees $275000 in gravel road contracts while the case may go to the Supreme Court.
Commissioners Court approved the fee reports of county officers for the quarter ending May 31. It also approved and ordered to be spread the receipts and expenditures report of W H Hostetter superintendent in the Nora C Lane et al versus Ad viade M Cragundite case. The bond of William H Campbell as superintendent of the Campbell gravel road was approved.
Fire in the Bank Hotel interior at 7 20 last night leveled a half block in Scottsburg Indiana within two and a half hours destroying the hotel the post office building a barber shop and a new barn. Loss is about 20000 dollars. Ralph Whitaker was in Shelbyville on Sunday.
A newspaper column muses on heat increasing irritability and the harm of worry. It contrasts the fretful with the calm, urging men to mend estrangements with their fathers before it is too late. It speaks to boys and young men living apart from their fathers yet under the same roof, urging reconciliation.
A visiting observer notes the decline of traditional country girls as visitors with powerful cars reshape rural life. Damsels imitate fashion magazines wearing beaded, elbow length gloves and pompadour hair, while rural towns feel overrun and adapt to modern trends.
City news items list visits from Nora Rodman and John Richardson, new arrivals in town, guests of local families, and social engagements. Electric bills due by the 15th with service cut off possible. Lost catarrh remedy advertised. Doctors attending an American Medical Association session. Local wood deliveries by Wilcox Bros. Epworth League to meet at Methodist church with program and social hour.
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney Co in Toledo Ohio promising to pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public A N Senl verifies on December 4 1858. Cure taken internally and claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sentimentals offered free. Pills for constipation promoted.
A Roach’s Financial Facts excerpt from May 16 notes brewing stocks collapsed as prohibition pressures rise. It recalls how consolidation spread across major cities, then beer’s demand faded, with breweries closing, distillers hit, and markets tightening for investments once seen as lucrative.
A Lebanon resident reports long standing kidney and bladder trouble improved by Dean's Kidney Pills after trying plasters and other remedies. He describes relief after three boxes and now works daily without pain, praising the product and noting availability from Foster-Milburn Co. through local dealers.
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