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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
3
The Rev Dr Cortland Myers of Brooklyn Baptist Temple clashes with women over hats during services. After initial defiance, a wave of hat removals follows his pulpit proclamation, leaving only about fifty hats visible as the sermon begins.
A druggist promotes Rexall Mucu-Tone as a universal cure and preventive for coughs colds and catarrh It guarantees a cure or no charge and offers two sizes 50 cents and 1 The advertisement credits a famous physician with 30 years of cures and states the medicine will cost nothing if unsatisfactory.
The DePew Burdette company opens its engagement at the Nelsor tonight with Ali American Girl a southern life tale. The show features a strong cast led by Thomas E De Pew and includes Georgia Charteris Williette Charteris Eddie Howyer and the Hudson children. The Crystal theatre hosts Billy Link’s acclaimed vaudeville lineup praised as the best yet with lively singing and dancing by many pretty girls.
Theatrical group Trade in Toyland brings clean comedy and tuneful music to Nelson on Monday November 2. Glen MacKDonough and Victor Herbert provide book lyrics and score while the cast features the Rabard family in feats and aerial acts, Carberry and Stanton dancing, La Crandall on the wire, Maude Chestnut singing, and moving pictures closing the show.
The Majestic in Chicago premieres a strong week of vaudeville with The Van Dyck headlining, plus Harison Hunter in Elfie Fay, The Moian tet fermpriy. Genepeiar Ajetan Trio and five new members perform a new burlesque among other attractions. Work and Over acrobats and Harry Richards with Dorothy Daley join a smart musical sketch, while Silbons trains cats entertain audiences.
Richard Bennett, formerly of this city, is now lead with Maude Adams and opens an engagement tonight at the Illinois Theatre in Chicago. His rise in theater has been rapid and several old Logansport friends will travel to Chicago this week to see him.
The last quarter reports show total payments of 11 382 141 67 dollars with September payments at 196 657 25. Of the September total, 44 847 45 went to relatives of the deceased, the rest covered sick benefits.
Mace Crustory of Hammonton New Jersey, a brickyard worker, learns from letters and an Italian consul that he is heir to a vast fortune, possibly $100000 plus, from the woman who raised him in a foundling home. He plans to travel to Italy but will continue working as a laborer.
Henderson files a dramatic claim asserting a pet ptar migan and a theory that the richest ground lies beneath the exact spot where the wounded ptarmi gan bled on the snow. He argues the coincidence indicates hidden value aligned with the creature and its bloodstain.
Leading features include The Fight for a New Navy addressing battleship construction fixes, Fire An American Extravagance arguing wasteful burning, What Organized Labor Wants an interview with Samuel Gompers, and The Vanderbilt Fortune by Hendrick. Also Saint Gaudens letters and Bronson western tale plus six shore stories.
Fairbanks Alaska October 26 He saved a wounded ptarmigan found a mine hopeful Henderson stayed in a deserted cabin then began digging This spring he washed out his camp dirt and cleared 50600 with belief of further riches totaling around 1900060 remaining to be found
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