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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
7
The Western Yearly Meeting of the Friends gathered at Carmel on August 14. Thomes C. Brown of Mooresville led the assembly sermon while Miss Irena B. Trueblood of Salem directed the junior exercise. Willard Q. Trueblood of Poughkeepsie remarked that children do not abandon parents but parents leave them.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago Record Herald features a child and parent debating promises and the notion of being good, with the parent noting repeated requests and the child insisting on time to think between asks.
About 20 boys, average 13, marched through Trafalgar Ave 14 toward a canning factory from Greensburg after rubber slings shattered 200 factory windows days earlier. The odd sight showed youths carrying a dozen panes of window glass as part of the event.
Maude Emerson, a 16 year old resident of Helmsburg Brown county, sues the Indianapolis Southern railroad for 25000 dollars claiming injuries from October 9 1907. She alleges the defendant’s left leg is two inches shorter than the right due to the accident.
Logansport reports two severe storms wrecking telephone and telegraph lines and plunging hundreds of homes into darkness. Streetcar and interurban services halted, Vandalia north wires down and freight trains halted. Bell River rose four feet in hours. Crop damage estimated at 12000 dollars.
In Evansville on August 14 a gasoline launch carrying John Schnake and ten others struck a gravel barge and overturned. All occupants, including six children, were thrown into the river. John West, a barge watchman, rescued everyone with a skiff and ropes. Schnake narrowly escaped drowning.
Deputy Game and Fish Warden J. Giles Hadley and assistants raided areas near Danville on August 14 to enforce game and fish laws. Several individuals who fled were frightened, while nine seines reportedly burned by violators disappeared.
In Hartford City on August 14 the saloon element celebrated as county commissioners issued three liquor licenses to Fourth Ward applicants following a three day trial ending the drought concerns in the city.
Bondsmen for Kosciusko County bank, closed by state order, were told to appear in court to resolve the withdrawal of 27000 dollars of county funds tied up by the failure.
Richmond on August 14 reports Walter Williams an upholsterer has disappeared and is alleged to have written three worthless checks on local business men. The checks were drawn on the First National Bank and signed under the fictitious name J. M. Miller.
Evansville reports at the third annual convention of the Young People's Union of the German Evangelical Synod of North America permanent committees were named. Interest centers on chemistry as many seek roles on pure food commissions. Druggists-turned-chemists prepare for federal expert posts, though only a fraction will attain the coveted positions.
Bloomington resident Miss Maud Emmerson sues a local traction company for 25000 claiming lifetime injuries from a car collision. She files in district court seeking damages and medical costs.
A panic aftermath in New York as John Hambleton & company falls, leaving a gentler note from a friend and two violets. The distraught financier laments ruin yet clings to a memory of spring flowers and a hopeful message from A. J. It ends with him weeping at his desk.
John Hambleton, ruined financier, contemplates drastic action after a final attempt to salvage his fortune. He discharges Miss Jarrett with two weeks’ pay and keeps a secret note, hints at a perilous choice, and imagines an irreversible step as colleagues label him a thief.
Omaha August 14 William H Hayward of Nebraska City is the newly elected secretary of the Republican national committee the youngest to hold the post at 31. Known as Bull he led Nebraska GOP as aggressive state chairman and has a record of early public service including Spanish American War service and a historic but narrow bid for Congress.
The notice advertises one and a half fare round trip to Toledo Ohio for the National Encampment of the G A R from August 28 to 31. It mentions low rate round trip tickets to summer tourist points and homeseeker excursions to the west and southwest on sale the first and third Tuesdays each month. For details contact Wabash ticket office phone 158. M Burke, Ticket Agent.
An early 20th century critique reports a Detroit firm developing powerful white lead production machinery that could replace dozens of workers. The piece argues the old Dutch process poisons workers and calls for humane reduction of labor while warning displaced laborers.
An 1890s style testimonial advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. Endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and others claim CHENEY firm reliability. Internal remedy delivers blood and mucous surface action. price 75 cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills advised for constipation.
Raised biscuits from Gold Medal Flour praised for quality by Samantha in an editor note. Eda Komp comments on the product and its texture, noting best use in home baking.
A brief Chicago News exchange notes the paradox that truth is powerful yet scarce as explained by a moral izer and a demoralizer in a concise commentary.
John H. Zirkle of Philippi West Virginia reports his father suffered eighteen months with diarrhoea. After trying many methods he used Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and was cured by one bottle. At sixty he works as well as a young man. Sold by W H Porter, druggist.
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