Portugal appoints Antonio Azevedo as new premier
A new cabinet was formed in Portugal with Senior Antonio Azevedo serving as premier. The report notes wartime style reforms and a shift in government leadership following ongoing political changes.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
6
A new cabinet was formed in Portugal with Senior Antonio Azevedo serving as premier. The report notes wartime style reforms and a shift in government leadership following ongoing political changes.
Burglars raided the cathedral at Roeskilde severing centuries of royal memorials. Gold and silver wreaths urns and shields were carried away from the tombs of King Christian and Queen Louise, with valuables sent by European crowned heads and Danish cities stolen.
In San Francisco on March 23 Whan Chang shot American diplomat Durham White Stevens. A jury in Judge Larrell Cook's department found Chang guilty of second degree murder. Sentencing set for December 26 with a ten year minimum and life maximum.
The Mark Twain Company of New York, capital 5000 dollars, formed to secure to the author and his family all rights in the home of the nom de plume Mark Twain, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Directors include Samuel L. Clemens Clara L. Clemens Jean L. Clemens Isabel V. Lyon of Redding Conn and Ralph W. Ashcroft of New York.
A blaze swept the upper floors of a double tenement at 122 124 West 127th Street shortly before 3 a m. Firefighters found women and children on windows and the roof. They were warned not to jump but there is fear of loss of life.
Fire swept through Lima's business section on Wednesday night burning multiple stores and residences. The blaze raged for hours and caused an estimated loss near 150000 dollars.
Chicago notes bear and strong sentiment in grains with winter and spring wheats priced from 3.66 to 6.30 per bushel, December corn around 67 to 68 cents, oats firm near 50 cents, and creamery products listing various prices. New York markets reflect steady spot wheat and corn with several price points for No. 2 red and winter wheats and oats at mixed tonality.
South Bend woman Mrs Edward Machemer reports a ghostly encounter in a two story brick house on Miami Street. She awoke at 3 am to see a pale misty figure, cold to the touch, vanish as she cried out. The family moved to Rush Street after the incident.
Chicago and Omaha markets show mixed cattle and hog prices. Chicago lists steers from 4.00 to 7.75, cows and feeders around 2.00 to 6.50, sows and bulls up to 3.30, and hogs from 5.00 to 5.85. Omaha reports higher native steers 4.00 to 7.00, westerns 6.00 to 8.50, cows 2.00 to 5.00, stockers 2.75 to 5.25, calves 3.00 to 6.00, hogs 5.40 to 5.66.
The Reporter is available at Roy al Tamve cigars 411 Fourth Street Porter's Cigar Store 324 Market Street and at the Interurban News Stand for readers.
An unreadable OCR fragment from a Galveston report mentions places and numbers with little coherence. The text shows garbled city names and stray terms, offering no clear event, date, or involved entities.
The page lists price ranges for cattle heifers calves and other animals in cwt terms with cents per hundredweight. It includes notes indicating corrected figures and market activity.
Daily hog market report lists price ranges by weight from 100 to 130 pounds at 3.45 to 4.30 dollars and up to heavy hogs at 5.20 to 5.45 dollars. The entry notes light, medium, and choice heavy hog classifications with corresponding price bands.
Hides and wool market update issued by B V Cook and Company provides corrected daily figures on tanned hides and raw wool prices. The notice reflects adjustments to prior quotations and offers guidance to buyers and sellers on current market levels.
Mrs. Machemer describes nightly spectral visits starting with unseen quarrels and culminating in a white dressed form claiming murder. The ghost allegedly wrote the murdered man Robert Airwood's name on the wall and urged a tour of a cellar and upstairs room. The family prepared to move as haunting continued and neighbors report a red floor stain and unsanctioned explorations upstairs.
Mrs Happy Louise, described as the heaviest Salome at 780 pounds, was raided from the Bowery museum along with five diving girls and two midgets. Police officer Joseph O Connor led a force of twenty to evacuate the venue at 265 Bowery as divers fled or hid. Miss May and Mr John Brown were recovered from inside a piano during the operation.
Lafayette resolves tramp lodging by contracting with Frank Wetzel to provide one night’s lodging and breakfast for twenty five cents. Tramps sent to county jail will no longer be kept ten days, instead they stay overnight at the Rescue Mission and are escorted out of the city next morning.
New York reports Ray C Ewry marks twenty years of uninterrupted athletic competition celebrated at the New York Athletic Club. Ewry, famed as the Grand Old Man of athletics, has won ten firsts and set multiple records in standing jumps, with a career spanning from 1888 to London 1908. He stands six feet one inch tall and weighs 165 pounds.
A druggist testimonial promotes Orino Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup for permanent relief from habitual constipation by stimulating the liver and restoring natural bowel action. It claims to be mild and pleasant, without nausea or griping, and discourages substitutes.
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