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Newspaper

Logansport Daily Reporter

Location

Logansport, Indiana, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1908

Page

4

Nothing Succeeds Like Success Carrier Rates Notice

Public notice from the Logansport Daily Reporter outlines subscription terms for daily and weekly editions, delivery charges, and advance payment. It directs subscribers to report delivery irregularities to the office and prohibits carriers from reporting address changes or complaints. Names Inez M. Sutton, trustee, appear as a referenced party.

Logansport Daily Reporter J. E. Sutton Inez M. Sutton United States

My Brother's Keeper and a Poor Laundress's Dilemma

A poor laundress Ellen, who washes for Mrs. Blank, faces a child in a juvenile court while supporting her invalid husband and two boys on a limited income. When Ellen misses a wash day due to court, she contends with poverty, rent, food costs, and a looming death illness.

Mrs. Blank East End Ellen Jimmy Tom Juvenile Court

Don't Cheer, Boys The Poor Devils Are Dying

A World War era plea links the Spanish fleet's fate at Santiago to the suffering of the unemployed. The speaker urges pity for the dying and for those in want, condemning brutal policing and social indifference. The message equates battlefield mercy with civilian compassion and calls for humane treatment of the poor.

Santiago Sidney Philip

Oklahoma Enacts Broad Jim Crow Measures Including Rail Depots

Guthrie Oklahoma May 1 railroads race to create separate depots and waiting rooms for African Americans under the Graham Jim Crow bill with an estimated 500 stations remodeled or rebuilt at a cost surpassing 500000 dollars. Separate coaches add nearly 500000 more in outlay. Legal challenge led by W H H Hart aims to overturn the law as unconstitutional. Further moves include Jim Crow telephone booths an insane asylum and a complete system of segregated schools with a grandfather clause election measure pending risking racial disenfranchisement.

United States Supreme Court W. H. H. Hart Washington, D. C Washington Pullman Oklahoma City Robert T Lincoln Pullman Company E. P. Ripley Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ef Hart Pullman Transportation Oklahoma Territory

Merion May Day Prank Ends In Wild Runaway Fight

In Merion Indiana on May 1 George Kiley and Curt Waller schemed a prank about Virgil Steele, leading Steele to a staged dispute. They lured Kiley to a cigar shop, then enticed him to a woods fight near Goldthwaite Park. A cab ride whisked Waller and Steele away, leaving Kiley three miles from town.

Merion Ind George Ixelley Curt Waller Virgil Steele Waller Steele Kiley Goldthwaite Park Riley

Uncertain Scholar Fails to Provide a Reply

A speaker admits no answer exists to the posed question. The moment underscores a lack of solution and leaves listeners without a clear conclusion.

Seas Declared Violated by Treaty Involving Powers

A treaty declaration marks North and Baltic seas as violated by the powers involved. The document alludes to a contentious agreement touching Manchuria, though the specific clause about inviolate status remains unstated or unclear in the accessible text.

North Baltic Seas Manchuria

War in India fires along Kabul to Swat line

Desultory firing marks actions along the front from Michni on the Kabul river to Abazai on the Swat. The dispatches make no mention of the Akoond, once a known ally in the theater.

India Michni Kabul Abazai Swat

Dreamers Sect in Medicine Hat Charged Over Kill Plot

Sect of Dreamers in Medicine Hat is charged with a plot to kill unbelievers. The group is linked to generating the ominous weather attributed to their location and influence.

Medicine Hat

Gardner Seeks Joint Representative Seat for Cass and Fulton

Harry M. Gardner announces his candidacy for joint representative of Cass and Fulton Counties. The decision rests with the Democratic joint representative convention to be held in Logansport on Thursday May 7.

Cass Fulton Counties Logansport Harry M. Gardner

John W Snell Announces Run for Cass Circuit Clerk

Editor Reporter states that John W Snell will seek the Cass circuit court clerk position, contingent on the Democratic county convention decision. The announcement signals his candidacy plan and party backing.

Cass John W. Snell

Estabrook Seeks First District County Commissioner Candidacy

Daily Reporter announces that R. S. Estabrook will run for county commissioner in the First district, subject to the outcome of the Democratic convention.

Daily Reporter R. S. Estabrook

A historical quip on divorce and social judgment

A brief reflection contrasts attitudes from 1880 and 1908 about divorced women. It notes that in 1880 a divorced woman was said to “have a past,” while by 1908 a woman who had been divorced once could be viewed as having “a bright future,” implying shifting social norms.

Ellen Ellenn Jimmy

Judson Harmon Man Reaches зрел age

By this time the original Judson Harmon man must be well along in years.

Judson Harmon

Cleveland Victory Shows City Best Governed in Country

Lincoln Steffens lauds Cleveland municipal victory as the greatest step forward in U S city government. He credits Mayor Pam L Johnson and a reform movement for voting principles over politics and predicts other cities will follow Cleveland’s lead.

Cleveland Lincoln Steffens Tom L. Johnson Steffens Johnson ePsatest Adv United States Eader Pam L. Johnson

Westville Mayor Dowlatt recalls exile from Russia

Peter Dow att mayor of Westville recalls a childish act washing a czar painting led to his imprisonment and exile in Siberia. He fled to Germany and then the United States in 1885 and now serves a second term as Westville’s mayor amid a community with many Russian-born residents. The article ends with a caution about discontent and a mention of the approaching season.

Danville Peter Dowatt Westville Russia Young Dowiatt Fathher Germany Siberia

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