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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
8
Readable items include avowed wants and store ads from 1908 such as pies, cheeses, cigars, hardware, and fabrics. Local society notes report births, visits, travels, and a funeral. Multiple business promotions outline sales, interest rates, and loan offerings across Royal Center and nearby towns.
John R. Anderson of Walton produced 98 eggs from 116 in a Peta luma incubator. The batch was sold through Flanegin Hardware Co.
A real dollar shirt drops to 38 cents after a pattern fails to catch on. It’s sold as an everyday shirt by Otto, washing and wearing well. Other dollar shirts run 69 cents, including the Royal Blue Model with two extra collars, union made.
Mrs M Grace 38 died at 324 Melbourne Ave. Funeral to be announced later. Goldie W Swigart five months old of Adamsboro died last night. funeral 11 a.m. tomorrow at the M E church. interment Mt Hope. Myndus Grace funeral today at 4 p.m. from 1707 Knowlton St. interment Mt Hope. John Siford Georgetown funeral today at 1 p.m. Great Eastern Church. interment nearby. Isabel Bockover remains shipped to Kewanna. funeral in Kewanna Cemetery. Francis M Smith funeral tomorrow at 2 p.m. from 413 Clifton Ave. interment Mt Hope.
The First National Bank of Logansport offers 3 percent per year on deposits left for three or more even months and 4 percent for six months, aiming to meet competition.
Readable ad highlights women suit prices from twelve fifty to fifteen dollars for prime lines. Other price points show suits from eighteen to twenty dollars at twelve eighty eight. Heavily discounted items list high end twenty five to forty dollar suits at sixteen forty five.
The article recalls the Henderson company’s popular spectacle factory with the second production of the Slipper clearing over $100,000 in a year. It notes Sinbad and Ali Baba as nautical and adventurous pieces and praises the allure that kept audiences returning nightly. David Henderson is credited with launching stars Ida Mulle Eddie Foy Kenny Norman and Ada Deaves.
Prices marked in plain figures on men's and boys' suits in the large display windows and outside display cases.
G A R members of Logansport post 14 are directed to meet at Grand Army hall on Sunday May 24 at 7 p m to attend memorial services at Broadway Presbyterian church All ex soldiers of the city and country are invited to join in the services Rodney Strain post commander
Friday May 22 sale at John Crawford farm 1144 miles west of Twelve Mile. Auction includes 3 head horses 4 cows 15 hogs farming implements and household goods. Ross Howell notices sale.
An old diet letter promotes a ten day breakfast plan featuring two soft boiled eggs four heaping teaspoons of Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum coffee. Lunch repeats the same, dinner combines meat and vegetables with lighter desserts. The note pressures predigested foods and urges moderation and health as business leverage.
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