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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1908
Page
4
Inez M. Sutton Trustee notes subscription rates and delivery terms for the Logansport Daily Reporter. Describes daily and weekly editions, advance payment, and how subscribers should report delivery issues to protect service integrity.
A jury acquitted a hunter charged with killing deer out of season on the plea that a deerskin is not proof of a dead deer. The piece questions legal fashion, noting contrasts with corporate accountability and ship casualty prosecutions and suggesting precedents shape verdicts.
New York architects back a law to cap building heights citing Boston’s eighty foot rule as effective. They argue skyscrapers boost certain land values while harming overall real estate markets and suggest a standard of one and a half times street width as a max. George W. Babb favors sixty feet for non fireproof and 180 feet for fireproof structures. A sixteen story structure runs about 180 feet.
Richmond Pearson Hobson rejects submarine-boat allies who sought to push him onto the naval affairs committee. He notes such pressure felt like an irregular breach in his long career of service.
Bryan supporters push for caution as Minnesota backs Johnson while Johnson backers are more generous. Nebraska supporters accuse Bryan of not facing instruction from the state.
The governor of Massachusetts is nominated for a grand officer title in Italy. The notice suggests concern the honor could affect his accessibility to ordinary officials and citizens.
A lace curtain industry was introduced at Magdalena Bay. It notes a battleship can turn an ordinary canvas target into a Nottingha m pattern in about one minute.
A court sets bail at $30,000 for C. W. Morse, prompting a peevish remark that likens the predicament to a goat and a sheep. The exchange hints at a tense courtroom moment and possible defendants’ framing.
The article notes longer daylight hours impact local routines as night riders adjust bedtimes, hinting at a shift in community patterns and evening activities.
Albany reporting on Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler lieutenant governor of New York as a Democratic presidential candidate. The article traces his wealth lineage Cambridge education legal career and early politics, noting his campaign finance and ties to Hearst while stressing his serious approach and potential appeal to party managers.
The Rev. Jere K Cooke, former New York minister now a San Francisco painter, recounts eloping with Floretta Whaley. He admits wrongdoing, defends their happiness, and recalls a life of faith, conflict with the church, and choices that led to a new union and family.
Special correspondence from Lincoln Nebraska reports William Jennings Bryan at Fairview his model farm home near Lincoln preparing for a busy spring. He fences trees seeds and rides and answers letters while Mrs Bryan handles personal correspondence and legal matters. Bryan receives daily callers and telephone inquiries, delivering multiple speeches yearly.
A farmer’s wife questions the freshness of eggs in a rural setting. The terse farmer’s reply emphasizes blunt honesty as she asks about new laid eggs and he points to their freshness with a plain response.
Carlisle Center New York resident G. B. Burhans testifies four years after claiming cure from kidney trouble with Foley's Kidney Cure. He reports brick dust sediment and pain disappeared and no return of symptoms, endorsing the remedy.
A witty aside from the Houston Post questions why the comet-eyed blonds of Richmond do not try their blandishments on mountain members of the legislature. The reply quips that they do not know how to look out of the tails of their eyes.
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