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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
7
The article describes a fashionable jam shade featuring pale pink tuft silk frames, handmade Trish crochet accents, and imitation filet lace. It notes high price but attractive appearance and suggests a home-made version using pink frame work and scalloped lower edges with white trims.
Huntington August 20 Mrs Edward Shearer survived a fall from a hospital second floor into Little River. She was pulled from the water and after initial danger, physicians warned of possible death from shock and exposure. Friends report her condition improving at home.
Terre Haute Aug 20 The following young women have entered the Order of the Sisters of Providence at St Marys of Wood Stella McCarthy Lillian ONeil Marie Cernon Mary Ryan Johanna Philpine Mary Kelleo all of Chicago Josephine Cullity Cecilia Fahey Nellie Cummings of Indianapolis Elizabeth Mattingly of Louisville Catherine Lynch of Terre Haute Clara Kinstle Mary Strebig of Fort Wayne Catherine Farrity and Marie Brennan of Chelsea Massachusetts.
Mrs. Eliza Bowers of Sulphur Springs failed to win $2,500 damages against Dr. B O Post for malpractice. The jury found for the doctor after the case, alleging mismanagement of a fractured arm that left it stiff. Dr. Post contended the plaster cast had been removed.
In Warsaw on Aug 20 Bert Baucess of Hammond allegedly robbed A G Regenos’s home taking $1,000 in cash and notes while fleeing with $20 and two watches. Carl Moore confessed to involvement and said Baucess fled to Chicago. warrants issued for burglary and grand larceny.
Elkhart August 20 Prosperity rises as Superintendent Hanson orders maximum work at Lake Shore car shops to meet strong demand. Storage dwindled from weeks ago and talk of a car famine grows as shops run full time, up from 18 hours weekly since last October.
Warsaw August 20 W L Bower a Kosciusko county farmer won a $50 reward as the originator of a ruse that held F A Burres of St Marys Ohio an alleged horse thief until the sheriff arrived and arrested the fugitive Bower pretended to raise money to buy back the outfit stolen from Carey Hawkins of Montpelier while notifying authorities
Granny Wilkins known as the oldest woman in the state died at her Remington home. Born in Tyrone Ireland on September 29 1799 she lived 108 years ten months and 19 days. She passed away at her daughter Mrs Robert Watson’s residence.
In a week on the Elkhart and Western line Conductor D B Carpenter was killed and Brakeman I D Mack injured when the caboose derailed and rolled down an embankment. Carpenter had served Lake Shore 43 years.
Crawfordsville Aug 20 Howard Wasson a farmer who lives near Wallace southeast of Crawfordsville was trapped by a cave in at a gravel pit. He was seriously injured and died about four hours later after remaining unconscious most of the time.
Crawfordsville August 20 Miss Helen Biggert of Berlin Wisconsin has been chosen as superintendent of the Culver Union hospital to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Sara Cook Miss Biggert is a graduate of the Illinois Training School for Nurses of Chicago
Miss Mary Laurence of Richmond elected principal of the Friends' Academy at Hughesville Maryland and will begin duties in September after graduating from Earlham College this year.
In Huntington County officials announce no school house will be abandoned this year under the state law requiring trustees to locate buildings where daily attendance falls below 12 pupils.
Simon Claeys of Mishawaka shot Mrs. Jalvis Claeys and her husband after they refused to shelter him. The wife survived while the husband is expected to die.
In New York on August 20 the question of whether marriage hinders a woman's rise in public life is explored. Hundreds of ambitious women worry over balancing marriage and a career as they strive to make a place for themselves in the world of affairs. The issue remains a bugbear for many women pursuing prominence.
A dialogue centered on a concert ending with a couple sharing thoughts on love. Phil proposes to Anna after a lyrical exchange about singing and future happiness, and she accepts the next morning. The scene explores longing and romantic hopes through music and dialogue.
The Missouri Baptist Sanatorium charity group releases a blue book of over 1 000 receipts by prominent St Louis women. The volume covers modest to luxurious dishes and supports the sanatorium fund. It features recipes for Danish soup lobster chops and potato au gratin. The feature also includes Marion Fairfax on marriage strengthening a woman’s career and independence.
A Columbus Ohio reader writes of relief from nervousness headaches and other symptoms during the Change of Life after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with restoring her ability to work and plans to tell friends about it.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is touted as a thirty year standard remedy for female ills. The advertisement claims it cures displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing down discomfort flatulency indigestion dizziness and nervous prostration and invites sick women to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
A Paris glove cutter can make as much as 50 dollars each week. The piecework rate suggests demand for fine handcrafts and steady, if modest, earnings in the Paris workshop economy.
An advertisement touts Orion Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels. It claims the product is mild, non nauseating, and does not gripe, and urges refusal of substitutes with W. H. Porter, druggist, as the seller.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by Walding Kinnan Marvin and Hall's family pills promoted for constipation. Internal cure advertised with testimonials and 75 cent price per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
First reader recalls Eucy Locket losing her pocket found by Lydie Fisher with no money inside, only binding around it. Cordelia mentions Gold Medal Flour as cheapest and best with more to the sack. Evrowemtia.
A fragment presents a mix of dialogue about actors runners and farmers. It mentions Dorondo the Marathon runner and a line about harems, plus a dairy farm joke by The Farmer and The New Hand. James Scott of Liberty county Indiana reportedly claimed a sixty foot three standing jumps record set decades ago, with trees planted where he jumped.
This piece explains kidney function and how healthy filtering prevents disease. It includes a customer testimonial from W. W. Dehaven of Logansport Indiana, praising Doan's Kidney Pills for relief and no relapse since use, with sales and agent details.
The text lists multiple times such as 6:05 a m 10:05 a m and 1:41 p m for El Trains lea Peru and 6:10 a m 8:38 a m 1:05 p m 6:05 p m 8:50 p m for Delphi. It appears as an OCR fragment with station references and invalid punctuation.
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