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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
7
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Harry B. Darling issued the official call for a state convention to be held in Indianapolis on September 9 to perfect a permanent organization. A temporary organization was formed at Lafayette with Mayor George R. Durgan elected temporary president and Jarry B. Darling of Laporte chosen temporary secretary.
Matt OBrien, a three month suitor, outpaces a pasteboard fiancé for Nellie Wadson. Nellie finally confesses she has waited for Matt’s real proposal, delivering a life change in three weeks as Broadway chatter and a stray joke fade. The piece closes with a bite of humor about German science and Broadway dining.
Frederick Adrian a farmer southeast of Newcastle will take his theft case to Ohio courts to recover possession of a horse. The horse he located is with Merrick in Columbus after being sold by the dealer to the thief.
Newcastle Aug 26 James Bouslog and Thomas Meutre, quitting local saloon business due to a blanket remonstrance, have bought 33 acres south of Metamora to develop as a pleasure resort next year.
Shelbyville residents learn a modern hotel is planned for the ground where the Bay hotel stands within the year. Ground owners Harry Whitcomb Charles L. Davis and Charles Birley also own the center table factory in the city.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed the saw and planing mill at Mohawk. The mills were owned by Greenfield Banking Company and leased to Arch Newman. Loss on building and contents will reach 5000 dollars with no insurance as policies expired recently.
The Newcastle Fair Association reports a record fair with a profit of fifteen thousand dollars. The proceeds will go toward paying down the association's remaining debt, which has seen little prior payment.
John Jackson sells a 222 acre Washington township farm to Henry Bertsch for 23130 dollars averaging 105 dollars per acre. The parcel is regarded as one of the county’s best farming tracts and signals a major local real estate transaction in Richmond.
The Presbyterian church of Laporte celebrated its diamond jubilee with a detailed program. Rev. Ezra Butler Newcome of Keokuk Iowa, a former pastor, delivered the principal address.
In Laporte on August 25 Rev. N. L. Stambaugh of the United Brethren church baptized 219 people. He remained in the water for two hours and was exhausted by the effort.
The Townsend bottle factory in East Greenfield resumes operations after a two month shutdown for repairs and a paid vacation. An independent plant, it employs over 100 men for ten months each year.
South Bend August 25 Mrs Fannie Utley Hunt Pine former wife of Dr Milton B Pine has signed a contract to sing in grand opera on a European tour beginning next month Her husband was a leading dentist.
Shelbyville reports the Lexington Conference of Methodist Episcopal churches will meet in North Vernon next August. The current gathering closed with services in all churches led by visiting ministers.
Greenfield on August 25 reports the remonstrance case for the Second ward, decided in favor of the saloons by county commissioners, has been appealed to the circuit court by the remonstrators who filed their appeal bond.
William Toms aged 70, longtime Blue River township resident, dies of pneumonia. He served as a director of Capital State Bank and was a farmer and stock raiser. Nearby garbled text mentions a Coast incident and a Rising Sea resident, and a claim that a skull found in the Ohio River may be Pearl Bryan's head.
London August 25 This five year old will be Earl Cadogan with a vast income from the Chelsea rent roll He is Edward George Humphrey John son of Viscount Chelsea who died recently He will inherit Viscount Chelsea title and hold a Cadogan estates vast holdings including Chelsea and Culford Hall Suffolk over 16000 acres
A discussion on how a healthy mother influences a newborn, contrasting healthy and sickly states. It stresses the mother’s physical condition and the need to restore her feminine system to a normal health level after childbirth, noting the responsibility placed on the infant.
Letters from Mrs Rag Mass and Mrs Paul Oliver praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health and aiding successful pregnancies. The ad claims thirty years of use as a standard female remedy curing various ailments and encouraging others to try it.
An 1880s ad claims one hundred dollar reward for an uncured catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. Claims internal action and 75 cents per bottle with free testimonials. Also promotes Hal's Family Pills for constipation.
India reports Punjab irrigated area at 4,835,947 acres, up 453,561 in a year. Rops focus on wheat sugar cane grain and winter oil seeds across the province.
A. J. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold with hay fever symptoms improved quickly by Foley's Honey and Tar after doctors prescriptions failed. His wife also benefited. Sold by W. H. Porter druggist.
From Diana's Diary the scene shows a $349 imported sheath gown on a blonde dummy in Bastingthread's window. An usher questions sales while staff insist the display aims to attract attention and boost foot traffic amid competing stores. The period piece notes persistent crowds and waning impact as the show is deemed stale.
The report notes Jefferson born and died on July 4. It also mentions weekly lottery spending in Mexico City near one hundred thousand dollars with only seventy thousand returned as premiums. The text includes scattered remarks on cooking less relevant to a single clear event.
Rail service lists times such as 7 00 a.m 11 08 a.m 6 46 p.m and 7 20 p.m. with limited trains. Connect at Tipton for Indianapolis routes and direct connections to M wood Alexandria Fairmount Anderson Middletown Muncie and other stations except the 11 09 p.m. run.
Mrs. Margaret Flynn of Peru Indiana describes a long battle with back pain followed by urinary issues and progressive kidney illness. After using five boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills she reports complete relief, regained strength, and two years without headaches or pain. Foster Milburn Co New York sells Doan’s nationwide. Remember the name Doan’s.
Listing detailed daily departures for interurban trains from Fort Wayne to Peru Wabash Huntington and other points with times for mornings afternoons and late evenings. Includes limiteds Lafayette Royd Park and freight services between Fort Wayne Logansport and Lafayette.
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