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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
5
Chicago August 7 advertisements describe a distressed man with eight children who is owed $500 and fears death by his own hand. Two donors already provided half the sum, with hope others will come forward to cover the rest at $5 weekly. The man awaits repayment and vows to repay once the loan is secured.
Will Elliott plans a copper front for the 419 Broadway business block with an artistic design. He will also add a stairway from the front to improve access to the upstairs, previously reached only from Pearl street.
Herbert Quick surveys North American inland waterways from Puget Sound and Alaska to the Columbia and Sacramento valleys. He envisions Chehalis canal linking Alaska Puget Sound to the Columbia system, river improvements, and multi state connections enabling coast to Missouri and beyond.
Treasurer J. T. Elliott presented the school board report for the year ending August 2 1908. Beginning cash on hand last report 8 482 25. Amount on hand current year 36 985 97.
Edward Arbell awoke to a loud noise and bright flash to find his home on the A. P. Michaels farm in Harrison township damaged only by a torn kitchen linoleum and scattered dishpans. The lightning traveled the chimney and stove pipe, wrecking tin ware after a prior barn fire from last week.
Thomas A. Edison plans to devote his remaining years to chemistry and scientific inquiry rather than wealth. He will substantially ease lab work at Llewellyn New Jersey and travel. Frank L. Dyer becomes president of the Edison companies as Edison shifts focus from commercial ventures to pure science.
Local uniform rank of Knights of Pythias at the national encampment in Boston was cheered in a drill contest but won no honors. Henry Parish Brown of Claybourne Texas was elected supreme chancellor George M Hanson of Cadlais Maine vice chancellor Major General Arthur J Stobart of Minnesota head of the Uniform Bank. Mrs Nellie B Merriam of Muskogee was elected chief of the 156000 Pythian Sisters. The local party left for New York this morning.
The Vandalia picnic appears unlikely this year as no steps have begun toward holding the annual employee fair. Historically a petition to grant a day off and a special train prompts company approval, but no employees have signified interest yet.
A letter excerpt quotes a brutal murder plan from Mrs. N. A. Jackson’s favorite recipes, criticizing barbaric acts while pondering civilization. It then exposes inhumane treatment of live chickens in a train shed, describing crates dumped from wagons, resulting in injured birds and neglected care.
The piece recounts a cruel act as a chicken is pursued and injured in front of a crowd while calves are pinned and strained in loading at a depot. It contrasts humane lessons from school and church with ongoing harshness in daily labor and transport, questioning societal savagery beneath polish.
Nellie Jackson tells reporters in the Harlem jail she killed John Jackson during a confrontation at their East Eighty-ninth Street flat after he forced entry following a three day absence. She describes the incident as a private family matter and notes the event occurred after a night at Persbyterian hospital with a neck wound.
A witness recounts a fracas where a man named Jackson fires a shot after a disturbance over damages. The scene involves Ruuckert and Nellie, with a tense exchange and a decision not to press charges as the woman retreats inside to prepare lunch.
A goat milk cheese named Cheese-Altenburg is produced in Germany where it is called Aitenburger’s Ziegenkase. The cheese measures eight inches across, one to two inches thick, and weighs about two pounds.
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