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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
8
A condensed page lists ads and small notices, including help wanted, sales, and rentals. Updates cover births, illnesses, visits, and travel, with mentions of church events and local performances. Several names and addresses appear alongside business promotions and occasional weather and market notes.
F D Gallion reports from Zamboanga Mindanao describing his stay in the Philippines. He notes local attire, native guitarists, and the water buffalo caribou as beast of burden. He mentions meat from Australia arriving by steamer and a turtle yielding ample steak for the company. He closes with adios and hopes for a proper address.
Tritt's Drug Store offers training and outfits to apply a new wood finishing method for old woodwork and floors. The process provides beautiful results at little more than the price of cheap paint.
Herbert Keesey resigned as soda dispenser at the Red Cross pharmacy and moved to work with C. L. Knouff in the insurance business. Thomas Quigley is expected to fill Keesey’s former soda dispenser post at the drug store.
To first comers the price is five dollars instead of 2.48. Do not delay. If you come today or this evening you can see the items in the Otto outside display case.
Fort Mason guardhouse in San Francisco holds Private Buwalda of Company A First Battalion of Engineers accused of shaking hands with Emma Goldman and pledging aid. Detectives identify him and prepare to bring him before a court martial.
Waukegan May 5 Attorney Ralph Cady filed suit for Mrs Jane Dowie and her son Gladstone to set aside the will of the late John Alexander Dowie appointing John A Lewis as successor. She alleges undue influence and lack of sound mind and seeks to lead the church. Voliva recently secured a change of value to Winnebago county in a similar suit.
Joseph Sturgeon fifteen son of Mr and Mrs Warren Sturgeon of Spencer Park died after a two week illness. Funeral tomorrow at 1 30 oclock from uncle Adrain Willis residence Nineteenth and Spear streets Rev J O Simon. Interment Anoka cemetery. Julia Costello funeral held at St Vincent de Paul church Rev P J Crosson interment St Anns cemetery Grass Creek. Infant son of Mr and Mrs A M Reeder Bates street funeral at Crooked Creek church interment adjoining cemetery.
Lillian Smith was picked up by police late last night on the streets and shipped back to Chicago. She was acting rather loud.
Bloodhounds from Indianapolis tracked a burglar shot by William Knight at the Coulter farm near Marion Indiana. Knight pursued the fleeing man after a padlock was thrown and a rifle fired. the burglar left a blood trail and vanished into the woods. Local notices follow about church and lodge activities and hospital cornerstone meetings.
Local notices list Miss May Cox visiting Fort Wayne and Attorney Robert Hillis in Monticello. Promotions for Porter's Smoky City wallpaper cleaner and a Broadway Born concert. Hazel Jenkin es visits Burnettsville. Foresters social in Ben Hur hall May 7.
Forest Gamble son of Mr and Mrs A G Gamble of East High street came home Friday after about a year away He sailed to Australia last summer worked on a merchant ship visited major cities and provinces in that country Then he went to Alaska with his uncle to work in a gold mine He was ill before departing for Alaska and spent three weeks in a hospital in Oakland California
Kokomo residents who claim the reward for Worley Osborn may sue before settlement. Hal McElheny and Perry Sager say they gave the first clue and that Detective Strahle and John Miller made the arrest. The court may receive the reward and divide it among local claimants.
J J Sullivan of Cincinnati narrowly escaped death in the Aveline hotel fire early Sunday. Firemen found him at a fifth floor window and a ladder saved him after the fire cut off his path to the fire escape. He is a friend of Miss Margaret Pickett, cashier at Union Central Life Insurance in Cincinnati, who hosted him in this city last Sunday week.
The Sutton hotel at 525 527 Broadway Logansport Indiana is for rent. The property includes a large office dining room twenty two bedrooms and four bathrooms. For more information contact The Logansport Daily Reporter at 525 Broadway Logansport Indiana.
John Hedde advertises a fire sale of all kinds of coal at 432 High Street offering customers coal in bulk. Contact via phone 1700 for details and pricing.
Rev G C Eastes hosts a birthday tribute at raw nee street with Miss Dock and Milburn in piano pieces. Elmer Snyder honored by friends. W S Stalnaker celebrated at 2025 North street with family and Dr H G Stalnaker. L A to O R C party planned at 1828 High street at 2 30 in the afternoon with card games.
The Ladies' Aid society of Wheatland Avenue M. E. church will hold its regular monthly meeting at Mrs. A. Morehart's home, 721 Liberty Street, Wednesday at 2 30 PM. All are invited.
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