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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
4
Inez M. Sutton trustee issues the Logansport Daily and Weekly editions with full delivery rates and options. The paper emphasizes carrier delivery, advance payments, post office status, and direct reporting of address changes to the office for subscriber protection.
The piece argues that the new primary system shifts candidate selection from back-room bosses to the people. Critics label it expensive and destabilizing to parties, but supporters praise independence and larger voter control. The editorial urges continuing reform and notes near-misses like Senator Albert J. Hopkins.
A public letter urges the American Bar Association to take a firm stand on judicial ethics after a Grosecup case in which a judge accepted special favors from corporations. The piece criticizes the court’s rulings and calls for visible action to restore trust in the legal profession.
In New York August 27 lawyers for Capt. Peter Hains Jr. and T. Jenkins Hains prepared to call a key witness in the murder case of William E Annis at the Bay Side Yacht Club. The witness describes Annis boasting of intimate relations with Mrs. Hains and naming army posts as rife with immorality. The testimony covers alleged debauchery and attacks on army officers wives while detailing Annis dreamt of shooting Hains on sight.
A. J. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a summer cold and hay fever relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar. He states a doctor's prescription failed to help and several medicines aggravated symptoms before the remedy cured him and his wife also benefited. For sale by W. H. Porter druggist.
Visitor and attendant clash over a dog inside a venue with the visitor insisting the dog is not his while the attendant notes the animal followed him in, in a Harper's Weekly style exchange.
Mr A Robinson of Drumquin Ontario recommends Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for years of indigestion. He calls them the best medicine ever used and says they ease digestion and are pleasant to take. Sample free at W H Yorter's drug store.
In Constantinople August report on rising Turkish women and the veil's abolition. Women read Western novels and classics, chafing under harems and seeking greater daily freedom. Countess de Rohozinski and sister, noted figures, flee to Paris and gain attention for Turkish life stories and composing work.
Congressman Charles B. Landis and Martin A. Morrison will speak at the thirty fourth annual meeting of Carroll Clinton and Howard counties old settlers in Burlington on Saturday. The event combines bands glee clubs talks and games with prizes for the oldest lady and gentleman present.
Washington notes report that Grand Army of the Republic posts protest wholesale dismissals of veterans from the post office and other government posts. Captains Brooks and White among those removed, with critics saying politics drives the culls.
The given phonetic rendering for Japanese readers is Gah shu koku.
An article touts Marmola Prescription Tablets as a safe quick weight loss aid for women. It claims dieting and exercise can be replaced, promising about a pound per day with a simple at home regimen. The ad-style piece notes the product is an exact duplicate of a famous recipe from Marmola Co. Detroit.
Mrs C B Foster of Butte Montana reports relief from dandruff and thinning hair after a month using Newbro's Herpicide. She notes new hair growth and fuller results and sends 16 cents for a sample to the Detroit company agent H C Tritt.
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