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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
6
Fashion notes describe coats with many buttons in varied sizes and gores in skirts. Silk dominates autumn and winter gowns while empire waistlines and fancy girdles flatter many figures. Jumpers and fancy waists stay in style with simple country frocks or serge trotting costumes as day wear.
The report notes Germany can field 4,750,000 troops, Russia to issue compasses with luminous needles, Italian cavalry trained in pigeon signaling, and total European military spending reaching about 4 million dollars daily as nations bolster armed forces and navies.
In Brooklyn a woman named Catherine Stroebel lived as wife to two men, Stroebel and Valusse, at separate addresses. Evidence before Justice Aspinall led to a divorce decree, detailing her routine of alternating between Stanhope Street and Richmond Hill households, while both husbands worked day or night shifts. The report also notes concurrent life in Belfast about a future grand ocean liner under Harland & Wolff construction.
The brief items report new occupants like James Deniston in a brick building, moves by Mr. Smith and Mrs. Minnie Scott, visits and travels of Mrs. Linna Brown and Julia Rogers, a ten pound birth, a Chicago trip, and a 24th wedding anniversary celebration at the McDowell home with music by the Morrow brothers and friends.
The Hotel Gotham on Fifth Avenue is to be sold after foreclosure on a $155,000 mortgage judgment. Built at a cost near $2,000,000, it stood within 200 feet of a church, triggering a 500 foot dry law. The hotel failed, and its manager recently committed suicide due to business troubles.
The Reporter edition is available at Porter's cigar store located at 324 Market Street, offering readers convenient access in the downtown area.
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