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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
8
A collage of notices from city life including illness updates, theater listings, church events, sales and promotions, travel plans, and civic notices. Items mention Crystal theater shows, Porter's shop, Vivian's produce, banking offers, and interurban transport details.
Local notes list 10c wall paper cleaner at Porter's with claims to renew old paper. Notices mention departures to nonticello and Chicago for relatives, travel plans for Texarkana in April, and a royal center visit. Other items include a fence ad, a death-related visit by John Goring, savings and mortgage notices, a debt disclaimer, remodeling work, a cold in Ira Stone, Peru trip updates, a limp from an accident, a musical recital at Bdwy Presbyterian with Miss Koons, and ticket price 25c.
A collage of small town ads and notices includes coal phone requests, Porter's wallpaper cleaner promotions, house rentals, piano tuner listings, job seeks, millinery, theater go notices, silk sales, local births and marriages, mortgage exemptions, candidates, savings advice, and banking account checks.
Fancy California celery bunch 8 1 to 3 cents. Red onion sets quart 9 cents. Rio coffee pound 12 1 2 cents. Wheat bread two loaves 6 cents. Oranges per dozen 9 cents. M caffrey.
Easter buying is in full blast with a nobbiest line of spring and summer suitings. Murphy and Fieming at 325 Market St promise the lowest prices, plus style, fit and workmanship guaranteed.
Mrs. Benjamin invites the public to view spring millinery displays at 417 Broadway. The event runs tonight and Saturday with all varieties shown in full beauty.
John Hedde advertises a fire sale of all kinds of coal at 432 High Street, phone 1700. Local customers are invited to inspect offers and bargain prices.
Brussels reports King Leopold III ill since Sunday with Dr Thiriar in attendance. Officials say his condition is not serious and his recovery is expected with warmer weather. He will rest in the Ardennes and later travel to De Rocher near Rochefort for quiet, with preparations for a royal automobile journey.
Winamac authorities report a horse owned by Joseph Cooper standing uncared for at the hitch rack. Cooper was arrested in the city for creating a disturbance at Panhandle station and later released.
Jack Smith of Atlanta arrived in Chattanooga and ordered a coffin and vault from a local company. A wooden model of each is being made. the coffin will be steel with mahogany trim and the vault steel and cement. Smith will stay until completion and is noted for past eccentricities including refusing a necktie and a $109000 damage suit.
In bankruptcy court the case of the Germer Stove company against A P Flynn trustee of Shorte and Van Steenberg was heard by Referee McConnell. No definite action was taken.
Mrs. Pearl LaRose hosted fifteen friends on Berkley street for her 23rd birthday anniversary with games and prizes awarded to Mrs. Gus Yong and Mrs. Walter Stafford. Miss Gertrude Johnston entertained the High School Cooking Club on East Broadway for Miss Bertha Levinson who leaves for the West today.
A short ad from Tritt's Drug Store promotes English violets for Saturday at 10 cents an ounce, encouraging customers to tie a hundred.
Rich, fresh cut carnations are offered at Golden Rule with blooms described as beautiful. The ad notes carnations go on sale tomorrow at the shop.
Our line of spring millinery in both tailor and dress hats is complete. We will have no opening. Come and look any day at Kuppenheimer millinery.
Mrs. Anna Arthurhultz aged 33 died at home in Twelve Mile. Funeral Sunday at 2 PM from United Brotherin church with interment in adjoining cemetery. Mrs. Ellen Goring's funeral was held at St Bridget's Church with burial Mt St Vincent. Henry C. Swadener's remains arrived yesterday. funeral Sunday at 2 PM at Kroeger Strain's, Rev E A Arthur officiating, interment Mt Hope. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers arranged services. other railroad groups invited.
Benjam in announces a spring hat display at 417 Broadway opening tonight and Saturday. The store highlights hats in varied shapes, colors, and styles and invites customers to view the collection.
Dr. J. W. Ballard displays a mounted deer and a Moose head in the window of Murphy and Flemming's tailoring shop. The animals were killed during a Maine camping trip with local men.
New York March 20. Miss Helen Daenzer, a 30-year-old embroidery teacher in Brooklyn, killed herself in a drug store telephone booth after a distressing telephone call. A note to her mother cited illness and disappointment as motives while a clerk nearby witnessed the grim scene and identified the body.
Gov. Hughes faced an emotional moment as he heard Mrs. Louisa Gillette plead for her son Chester's life. Chester Brown was convicted of Grace Brown's murder at Big Moose Lake and sentenced to die in the week beginning March 30 at Auburn Prison. The interview occurred in the governor’s private office with the door locked.
Miss Annie Wyatt of Clifton avenue was operated on yesterday at St Josephs hospital. Dr O Leary and a specialist from Indianapolis performed the procedure. She is getting along nicely today.
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