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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1908
Page
2
A vivid, florid description extols a grand amusement complex with vast gates, white masonry, and a city within offering theaters, rides, water features, animal acts, and spectacular shows. It promises a dazzling, immersive experience led by music, lights, and exotic pavilions.
The Lebanon Daily Reporter prints a miscellany of short items and quips including commentary on medicine using snake venom, price rises in jewelry duties, new gas illumination, and observations on lectures, aviation, and politics. It also notes Finland women’s suffrage claims, a joke about blondes in sun, and a remark about German postage and language.
The funeral for James Green 62 longtime Big Four railway engineer was held yesterday at 2 pm from Flanner Buchanan chapel on North Minors street Indianapolis. A Mason member he retired at 57 after 35 years in rail service on routes including Cincinnati to Chicago. He formerly lived in Cincinnati and later in Indianapolis with care from Little Sisters of the Poor. Many older railway friends attended.
The Indianapolis Independent notes editors face daily fringes of fame and fault as readers bait them for every misstep. It cites Hillsboro satire on social women and a revivalist editor who apologizes by claiming hypocrisy among Hillsboro’s ladies and their clubs and Bible talks.
MECHANICSBURG Ano Virtue sold his farm to John H Caldwell Everett Rogers works for George Stern. Leslie Good transacted business at Kirklin Saturday Mr Wanamaker and wife and Mise bva Sims of Indianapolis and George Davis and family of Pike visited James M Davis Sunday. Sunday School officers met Wednesday night to plan the annual picnic. J N Cason and family spent Sunday with A L Shepherd near Brown’s Wonder. The local ball team will play Thornstown next Sunday at one o'clock Chas W Rogers and wife visited L M Cline south of Lebanon Sunday. J S Moore attended a lecture at Lebanon Sunday night.
A neighbor recounts watching a man across the street and noticing the front door knob and keyhole repeatedly vanish and reappear. Detective help reveals an inventor’s device that shows a knob above a hidden keyhole, eliminating the need for a keyhole in the door.
Transfer records show Jerome Rader deed to John G. Dicket for 23 acres centered on Center with a price of 2760 dollars. Clyde B and Leah G Walker sell to Central Indiana By Co an in lot 29 in Reston Thomas and Bettie MeIntire acquire in lot 11 Cochran subdivision, Div 0 Ly 57 and 58 Sp and McL addition Lebanon.
A vintage recipe describes boiling a chocolate batter in a water pan until thick with one egg yolk, sugar, milk and cake chocolate. It then outlines creaming sugar and butter, adding eggs and sour milk, soda, flour and vanilla, folding in chocolate, baking in loaf layers and icing with a white cream, confectioners sugar and lemon extract.
The Jorges family in Paris has eight sons and five daughters living and three children dead. The eldest son recently applied for exemption from military service. Authorities urged him to aid his father in rearing such a numerous progeny.
A local debate centers on food grade grains used for human breakfasts versus cheaper feeds for poultry. Farmers and consumers clash over price, quality, and regulations, highlighting supply chain tensions and dietary choices.
Lebanon resident William N. Hooper testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills eased long standing kidney and bladder trouble. He describes severe back pain fatigue and impaired work ability before trying the remedy and reports near immediate relief after starting treatment. He now works daily and recommends the medicine. Finale, price uses unclear.
Ready-to-wear specials feature linene shirt waist suits with embroidered panels and long sleeves priced at four dollars, with sizes 34 38 and 40. Also offered are white cadet blue and pongee shirt waist suits with embroidery, regular four and five dollar values, plus lace trimmed embroidery waist and white linene wash skirts in regular and extra sizes at one fifty.
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