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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
5
A wealthy young man from Hoboken balks at leaving New York Central Station. A pretty young woman arrives by car and delivers a long soul kiss that cools his defiance, leading to his return home. The scene includes a policeman, a sanatorium plan, and a staged rescue by kiss.
W N Michael and others transfer lots 10 and 4 in city developments to Goldsberry and Dykeman for 5000 dollars. Wilhelmina Asmus sells to Lewis J Smith and others on Miami avenue Cicott and Heath streets for 25 dollars. Mortgage filings total 1400 dollars. chattel mortgages 1184 dollars. mortgage release 955 dollars. Try a Want Ad in the Reporter.
The New York school ship Newport sails May 25 from Northport to New London and onward to Plymouth Gibraltar Madeira and home, carrying 100 boys aged fourteen to twenty under six naval officers. The program covers two years with winter dock at East Twenty Fourth Street and a summer cruise, with mandatory drills, studies and chores.
Washington school students greeted Miss Caroline McNitt with flowers and song as she gave her last music lesson. After classes nine teachers hosted a farewell spread in the Washington building, with many pupils moved to tears by her departure.
County Assessor Harry C. Warrick completed the assessment of the Wabash Valley Gas plant in this city. The facility is now under a receiver and expected to be merged into a larger corporation that already controls gas operations in several Indiana and Ohio cities. The total assessed value was $22,803.66.
The June Century presents Harvard Yale and Princeton Old College Songs with drawings by John Wolcott Adams. It also features Mrs Isaac L Rices critique of Our Barbarous Fourth and a constructive debate on a live issue. Gerald H Thayers piece on The Concealing Coloration of Animals explores Thayer and Abbott H Thayers theories of counteracted light and shade. Serial features include The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill Proof of Life on Mars Grant’s Last Days The Spell of Egypt and color reproductions of Guerins art of Amenhotep II Luxor Memnon Temple Meidnet Abu.
Bolton Hall, author and lawyer, turns a vacant Harlem lot into a daily urban farm living in a tent. He hoes potatoes onions cabbage while working in his downtown law office. Hall says city garden labor on half an acre can beat rural yields and plans shared produce with partner Alfred Banning.
San Francisco reopens a rebuilt Chinatown on the old site beneath Nob Hill, financed by Chinese merchants who returned with cash from the coast and steamer letters. New brick and cement structures blend oriental styling with modern codes, adding pagoda hints and lanterns while boosting health standards.
London reports a striking habit of Adjutant Kiselev, aide to the late General Shobeteff, who for thirty years has bathed each dawn in the chilly waters of the Gulf of Finland. The unusual practice is linked to his endurance and long service in the Russian army.
Years will pass before Chinatown recovers souvenirs after the earthquake and fire. Chinese crockery shops and brass and ivory workers’ establishments salvaged stock that withstood the blaze, and dealers fear shortages as demand grows.
A cryptic note asks whether the plumber’s fate is a joke or a serious matter, wondering if the issue has grown or if he has mended his ways. The text invites readers to choose one guess about the situation.
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