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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
5
Browse a sale featuring ladies and gentlemen felt slippers priced at 25c 75c and 1.00. Childs wool stockings 50c. Ladies patent leather pumps hand trimmed 2.00. Ladies gun metal and patent leather shoes priced at 2.00.
At the Anti Cigarette League meeting held Sunday afternoon in the Cumberland Presbyterian church, Viva Thompson was named president and Willie Widgeon vice president. Raymond Anderson became secretary, Wilbur Custer assistant secretary, Herbert Fenwick treasurer, Martha Strong pianist, Gladys Quirt assistant pianist, Cecil Etnire chaired program, Irene Neher led the social committee, and Charley Ileck was corresponding secretary.
Advertises a Christmas shopping pitch claiming money can stretch further than rubber with a large line of hand painted plates and china. Promises cheaper grades and a profusion of items including pottery lamps and pictures at prices claimed to outpace a silver dollar. The text uses marketing flourish to entice customers.
A catalog of music rolls offered at 25 cents and up showcases a range of titles and performers. The listing highlights affordability and variety for players and collectors.
An advertisement touts a wide array of toys and goods including dolls chairs rockers beds tables wagons sleds desks blackboards velocipedes engines mechanical toys games books skates dishes drums and more at 50c and 98c. It promises free delivery and best market prices with goods put aside to win customers.
Former boxing champion John L. Sullivan testified in Chicago that he drew a lemon in the garden of love and sought a divorce after his wife left him in 1884. He cited youth and inexperience, moved from Boston to Chicago, and pledged no further drinking while asserting his financial success.
The body of Alonzo Beatty, who collapsed in the Haymarket in Indianapolis, was identified by Rollie Pickell of this city and M. H. Pickell of Marion as their father Samuel Pickell. The deceased, a Civil War veteran and former county auditor, is to be buried here. widow Josephine Pickell and son Rollie live at 510 Twelfth Street.
Murdock and Wise advertise the season's latest hosiery colors priced at 25 cents and 50 cents. They also note availability of guaranteed Never Darn hose at two dollars per box.
Grasshoppers lack lungs and gills. Air enters via breathing pores and travels through a network of tubes to reach every part of the body.
A group of Des Moines girls led by Miss Ethel Wall forms a Social Extension club aimed at guiding country youths toward a higher standard. They plan biweekly country visits to discuss domestic science, men’s roles, and marriage readiness, while courting “real workers” and “real economists.”
Orville Stevens aged seventeen fell through ice at Marion and drowned. Elia Hicks of Indianapolis stabbed Patrolman Johnson during an attempted arrest. Pearl Embree, twenty four, of Indianapolis, died after swallowing carbolic acid. Hughie Dickerson, alleged slayer of Earl Slack, captured after four months. Haliac Holland, forty, killed by a train near Winslow. William Lowe of Evansville lost a foot after a street car incident. Grant County fair set for August 31 to September 3. Hunters near Bloomington report ample game and many licenses issued. South Bend merchants report…
A Washington report says Japan will halt emigration to the United States after a date to be announced by Baron Komura. The decision followed talks with Secretary Root and Baron Takahira, and travel remains allowed for merchants students and tourists under passport terms.
Homer Lewis of Lagro claims a new banana-eating record by devouring forty two in one sitting. In Hope, Arthur Miller was shot and likely fatally wounded by Frank Detrich during a card game incident.
William Fitzpatrick and Henry Grock, once Francesville saloon keepers, notify Francesville Tribune of their intent to apply for a liquor license at the December commissioners session. The county remains dry and they hope to challenge the remonstrance filed by Salem township, which lasts eighteen months.
Directors who own the artificial ice plant in the name of John Eckert prepare to repair the facility and install new up to date machinery to restore operations.
Logan chapter No. 2 Royal Arch Masons elected officers at their meeting. W P Feiver was named ex high priest and James Shinn as king with Castle as scribe. Joe Linvill became treasurer Henry Tucker secretary E W Kelly captain of host Isaac Shideler principal sojourner M C Miller royal arch captain James J Briggs captain of guard.
Advertising creates business and drives higher buying. It links earnings to spending power and boosts productivity. The piece uses a rural boy parable to illustrate ambition spurred by ads and imagines appealing luxuries like six pairs of shoes and steam radiators.
An advertisement extols New Evergreen Restaurant as a place for good dinners or business lunches with oyster fry and oyster stew, promising best quality at reasonable prices. The piece links dining with a broader desire for safe foods, phonograph pleasures, and consumer goods, noting the need to earn money to obtain them.
On Tuesday a boarding house scene features the mistress asking about Sunday’s turkey while star boarders linger over hash expressing they will never tire of the meal. The light exchange captures domestic humor and a leisurely, social setting.
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