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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
7
A new chemical called STOVINK is presented as a paintable top coating for stoves that lasts months even with daily use. It is advertised to keep stoves in fine condition with no polishing required and is sold for twenty five cents. Available from A. Eberlin and Flanagan Hardware Co.
A fragmented Life column jokes about ordinary people and engagement routines while noting a quip about Judge Grose calling himself presidential material. The snippet references a press mention and a playful Beet joke about public life.
Warsaw Indiana August 1 Memories of college class brought about the release of Roy Masena of Indianapolis from the Kosciuko county jail. Unable to obtain a 2000 bond Massena who is charged with embezzlement of county funds had spent three weeks in a cell. He was visited by Attorney Theode Frazer of Warsaw formerly in the real estate business in Indianapolis and who was a companion of Massexa in Wabash college several years ago. An hour later Harriet Frazer an aunt of Theodore Frazer gave the bond and Massena was given his liberty.
In a braided tale of art and amour, Delia O Murphy skims time in Chesterton's studio while a painter Gilbert Maury fights dreamlike dangers. A telegram reveals Delia's elopement with Schmidt, prompting a dramatic crossroads as Maury clings to a hopeful letter from Helen and a final lyric ends the scene.
Richmond August 1 The Central Union Telephone company faces strong opposition to dropping local service for Home company The two have a working agreement yet Central Union holds contracts with many subscribers for service until 700 customers are reached at a fixed price
Covington Aug 1 Judge I E Schoonover of the Fountain circuit court began a tour of Indiana penal institutions. He drove to Indianapolis to visit the Indiana Girls school then to Plainfield for the Indiana Boys school and finally to Jeffersonville for the Indiana reformatory.
In Wabash on Aug 1 Joe Rogers, age ten, leaned over a boat and toppled both himself and his eight year old sister into the swift river. He battled the current repeatedly diving for his sister until he finally reached the bank with her, nearly exhausted but unharmed.
Noah Fisher petitions the superior court for divorce from Laura J. Fisher charging that she is addicted to cigarette use and has repeatedly promised to quit but failed. He says she told him she lived with him only to have a home.
The Wanatah Democratic convention chose John M. Benkie of Keuts Porter county as its candidate for joint representative for Laporte and Porter counties. The joint judicial convention nominated Cornelius R. Rollins of Michigan City for judge of the Laporte Porter superior court.
Bloomington Aug 1 Professor D O McGovney a Indiana University graduate and former football star and Sigma Chi has been named full professor of international law at Tulane University New Orleans La He is currently a faculty member at the University of Illinois
Karl H. Volland, the city’s youngest school board member, retires as secretary in Columbus. Frank Flanigan succeeds him. Volland remains president for life of the night school alumni and is the only alumnus ever to serve on the board.
Night watchman Henry Kuester was shot by a prowler in the rear of Keller's store in North Judson. Kuester entered the rear door after hearing movement. a shot grazed his skull and penetrated his hat. The intruder escaped.
The National Hay association ended its fiftieth annual meeting at Cedar Point. Maurice Neiser of Monroeville was elected president with B A Bean of Auburn New York as vice president. Harry L. Elliott of Minneapolis became second vice president and H E Goodrich of Winchester was named secretary treasurer.
Dr J W Harris of Worcester Mass has been elected assistant principal at the De Pauw academy and instructor in the department of education in Greencastle Aug 1. The education department has grown large enough to require an additional assistant.
Representatives of Greek letter fraternities met with President Hughes to outline fall rushing rules at DePauw. The guidelines are few and simple and mirror those used last year.
The annual commencement exercises were held in the college auditorium before about 3,000 people. President Grown conferred degrees on a class of 300 students marking the Valparaiso university graduation.
Violenta Bowen of Warsaw died suddenly after an examination revealed a small instrument followed an artery to the heart, causing her death.
An advertisement declares Hall's Catarrh Cure a universal remedy for catarrh, describing it as constitutional and effective through blood and mucous surfaces. Proprietors offer one hundred dollars for any uncured case and invite testimonials, with sales via druggists at 75 cents and Lake Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs. Raymond Conner of Shelton Washington says doctors could not help her with years of kidney trouble until Foley's Kidney Cure gave relief from the first dose and she is now cured. The testimonial notes the medicine cleanses poisons from the blood enabling health.
A vivid note envisions Bryan delivering speeches via phonographic horn to inform parlor audiences about his keynote. The passage hints that soon Teddy's hunt appears in moving pictures, signaling a shift to cinema as public spectacle.
A column opening stresses that some men always talk and never think while some women never stop to think uncovering a voice on reflection and behavior.
Berlin reports that Marie Sulzer Paris music hall star has wed Prince Joa chim Albrecht of Prussia in Zurich two years after an imperial ban. The couple allegedly plan to reside in America, drawing court scandal.
An advertisement claims germ theory proves baldness caused by a dandruff germ and promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a marvelous remedy. It is described as a non oily hair dressing sold by druggists with samples available for 10 cents and two sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar. Special agent H. C. Tritt is listed.
Daily services include No. 2 from St Louis to New York No. 28 from Kansas City to New York No. 4 from St Louis to New York and No. 6 from St Louis to Toledo detailing regular routes and frequencies.
An advertisement from Colonial Country Club Hotel West Baden Spring Indiana promotes drinking mineral water to treat kidney liver stomach ailments and nervousness. It offers five gallons shipped with physician advice for the cost of about $2 and asks for symptoms and payment if the reader cannot visit the springs.
The Wabash Railroad announces one and one half fare round trips for conventions including Supreme Judge Knights of Pythias Bosra on sale July 30 to August 4 and Knights of Columbus in St. Louis on August 1 2 and 3. National encampment G A R Toledo on sale August 28 to 31. Low rate round trips to summer points and Homeseeker excursions to west and southwest on sale first and third Tuesdays monthly. Also annual Niagara Falls low rate excursion August 5. For details contact Wabash ticket office Phone 158 M Burke Ticket Agent.
Round trip fare set at 1.25 for Logansport passengers traveling to Indianapolis on Illinois United Transport lines. Special tickets valid on trains leaving Logansport at 6 00 a m 6 45 a m and 9 00 a m with return included.
Advice suggests housewives remove clothes from the boiler on wash day and boil clothespins for a few minutes. The pins are claimed to not soil clothes and to resist breaking, improving laundry results.
After doctors cost nearly five hundred dollars for a long stomach ailment, Samuel Boyer of Folsom Iowa bought his wife one box of Chamberlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets. The tablets helped her more than all previous medicines. Sold by W H Porter druggist with free samples.
A Logansport woman reports long term kidney relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills starting in 1897. She describes backache, urinary troubles, and fatigue diminishing, appetite returning, and consistent health improvement over seven years with no relapse. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo markets the product nationally.
A partial timetable lists interurban stops and times among Fort Wayne Logansport Lafayette Huntington and nearby points. It includes morning and afternoon departures with east and west bound slots and notes car departures from Huntington and Boyd Park.
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