Help for Others Expands Community Aid Drive
Local group promotes volunteer help to assist residents with services. The effort invites participation from neighbors, churches, and businesses to support food, shelter, and counseling resources.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
3
Local group promotes volunteer help to assist residents with services. The effort invites participation from neighbors, churches, and businesses to support food, shelter, and counseling resources.
Classified notice states advertisements under this head are five cents per line per insertion. It specifies a rate for listings and directs readers to place notices in the column.
Wolverean Co of Pittsburg Pa advertises agents needed to sell a household patent claimed as the market’s fastest seller. The notice emphasizes rapid earnings and nationwide opportunity for sales reps.
Monroe Cigar Co. of Toledo Ohio seeks a local sales rep. No experience required. Salary 68 per month plus expenses. Write for particulars.
Help wanted for men to learn barber trade. College will equip shop or furnish positions with careful instruction and provided tools. Saturday wages offered. Write or catalogue Moler Barber College Chicago.
Female workers advertise hose sales opportunities with a manufacturing company based in Waltham Massachusetts. The notice promotes earning money through selling hosiery and offers free support for supporters.
The First Presbyterian Church holds a Mothers Day service tomorrow at eleven o'clock. Congregants are urged to wear a white flower in May to honor mothers, living or memory of another. Mr Bigler will preach on "Our Mothers" and all members are asked to bring a mother.
Experts at Berrien Springs Michigan demonstrate how moving pictures are secured for films showing bank robbery scenes. The brief feature highlights techniques used to ensure realistic yet safe depictions.
The Es sanay Film company from Chicago and New York shoots moving pictures of the Younger brothers chase in Northfield bank robbery scenes and the Lion and the Mouse at Berrien Springs. Renowned artists Lee and Hamilton lead a large cast with cowboys and cowgirls, recreating the bank raid amid town residents aiding as extras. The production also plans to film The Squaw Man with William Faversham after completing the Younger episodes.
Water remains high with areas along Cicott Lake flooded one to three feet after a dam built Sunday failed. Residents fear continued overflow as water reaches Crooked Creek and the Panhandle right of way. Watchmen are stationed and the issue may be taken to the government.
In St Louis on May 16, 1906 78 year old widow Mrs Mary Sezer sues for divorce from William Axley 66 a widower after a shaky courtship. Axley pleaded threats to drown himself and haunt her if refused. The couple married after a string of comic misunderstandings including language barriers and a $1.59 license fee. She supported him and furnished their home as she sought stability.
The bride, struck by rheumatism, required help in bed each morning. Her husband Axley acted as a human derrick for a week before admitting weakness. A carpenter installed a pulley to lift her, after which he saw her only at meals as he worked far away as a night watchman.
The witness testifies that after supper he admitted spending eight months at Mrs Axley’s residence and paying her only eight dollars, detailing alleged dealings in a Ball flat.
The bill before Congress would raise rural carrier salaries to 1000 dollars annually, affecting thirty four routes in the county. The first salaries were 300, then 900 last year, with the current proposal likely to pass.
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