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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1908
Page
4
The Logansport Daily announces terms for home delivery by carrier at ten cents weekly and forty cents monthly, with Sunday distribution not shown. Weekly editions publish Tuesdays and Fridays at $1.26 per year, advance. address changes and complaints go through the office, with a carrier reporting restriction.
A reflection on the stock market power shift as Harriman gains control over major railroads, including Union and Southern Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Illinois Central, and Erie, while Gould’s railroad-building influence wanes. It notes the old adage against fretting and urges steady effort after each attempt.
On Wall Street era figures George Gould and E H Harriman discuss rail consolidation and control. Harriman deflects plans to buy all railroads while acknowledging the need for better laws and improved management. Gould signals possible benefits from consolidations but remains noncommittal.
The Rev Edward E Planett a Presbyterian minister in Marion Indiana was declared insane today after visiting homes promising to end lives through prayer He formerly preached in Los Angeles and Hanover College where he earned oratorical honors Four months earlier he showed mental collapse and returned to his parents home for rest Officials consider placing him in a private sanatorium pending legal action
The Reporter is available for purchase at Porter's cigar store located at 324 Market Street.
Washington August 4 – The tar attack on F. E. Bliss Jr. unfolds with sensational hints of hidden disclosures. Accused are Charles Marthinson Henry Cole and James L. White all with $1,000 bonds. Bliss alleges romantic entanglements and telepathic influence as motives while Marthinson’s wife and Bliss’s partners figure in the lurid account. The trio allegedly ambushed Bliss, rubbed tar over him, and forced him from the house, leaving him scarred but alive.
County Attorney Q A Myers says Deer Creek and Bethlehem township machines are sized for thirty electors but thirty eight names will be voted. Machines may be sent back and replacements secured.
The Logansport Daily Reporter advertises a family hotel for rent at 525-527 Broad Street Indiana. It includes a large office and twenty-two bedrooms and bathrooms with convenient access. For information call or write the reporter at 625 Broad. Indiana.
Logansport residents can take a round trip to Indianapolis via I U T company lines next Sunday. Tickets cost $1.25 for the round trip. Special tickets are valid on trains leaving Logansport at 6 00, 6 45 and 9 00 a.m.
A brief Life magazine quoting a saying about a man who nearly reached the top of a ladder but fell when two women crowded at the base. The wry remark reflects on risk, crowding, and misfortune.
The ad promotes STOVINK as a single application remedy to keep a red stove top black for over a month with no burning, peeling, or rubbing required. It claims a weekly cost of one cent, no odor, and non explosive safety with simple child friendly use, offered by A. Eberlein and Flanegin Hardware Co.
Batesville Indiana resident A J Nusbaum reports a three month summer cold and hay fever relief after Foley's Honey and Tar. He states his doctor’s prescription and other medicines failed but the Foley product cured him and his wife has used it with similar success. Sold by W H Porter druggist.
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