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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
4
The Logansport Daily Reporter provides afternoon editions except Sundays with mail and carrier delivery options. Rates: daily ten cents by carrier, forty cents weekly, forty cents monthly. annual subscription $1.25 for weekly editions. Office: 525 Broadway. phone orders, change notices, and complaints directed to the office.
The piece derides the Elkins Abruzzi engagement as snobbery and plutocracy while contrasting it with a farmer's simple wedding. It attacks royalty, wealth, and literary sensationalism, arguing real happiness rests on ordinary love and honest toil. It also satirizes modern fiction's violence and the public’s appetite for sensational realism.
A literary woman is arrested for abstracting articles from a store and offers the plea that she was merely seeking local color for a story. She argues shoplifting can be a literary device. The case raises questions about method and reality in realism.
New York October 28 The country braces on election night as 65 000 workers and vast wire networks tally national results. Press offices in New York Chicago and San Francisco process millions in costs and figures while the nation awaits whether Taft or Bryan will lead the next four years.
Paris fashion notes that French women wore American short skirts long ago and now French men adopt American styles. English tailors lose influence as Frenchmen buy American suits in New York or imitate them locally with padded shoulders loose coats and peg topped trousers. American shoes are popular and many men shave mustaches producing a smooth faced look on the boulevards.
The text mixes playful fortune telling and warnings about memory lapses. It mentions benzine exposure, a lucky number 26, and a humorous critique of public figures chatty and careless with notes. It hints at future political shifts and disappearing ink advice.
London reports fashion authorities embracing greens from pale eau-de-nil to deep emerald for the coming seasons. The shift defies superstition as shops show greens in gowns coats and hats with demand rising, while actors worry green on stage.
A note recommends Ely's Crean Balm for nasal catarrh hay fever or cold in the head. It is purifying and soothing to the nasal membrane and claims to cure the disease not just offer relief. No cocaine or mercury and no substitutes. sold by druggists. Mailed by Ely Bros New York.
Patrolman Jones found a salt sculpture of Lot's wife on Carondelet Street after rain soaked the Louisiana rock salt figure once kept in the Louisiana exhibit and later in the state museum. A crowd gathered as mules licked the salt, while officers sought the owner and considered the prank a public nuisance.
A man uses intimidation as a prop in street scams, flashing a pistol to demand money. Victims fear for their safety as he claims the act is a joke, but they pay to avoid harm. Authorities pursue him as the pattern of threats and coercion emerges.
A terse stage exchange shows an impatient husband urging his wife Charlotte to decide while she replies she is making up her complexion. The brief dialogue captures domestic pressure with humor.
Former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan faced a kiss from two women amid about seven hundred attendees at the Waldorf Astoria reception hosted by the Woman's Democratic club. Bryan remarked on growing support for Democratic reforms and spoke of justice and brotherhood.
A speaker laments lazy days and missing meals while describing a plan to lure and trap deadbeat thieves. The verse frames cunning tactics as a playful remedy for fleeting hunger and boredom.
An optimistic observer notes a smile revealing a spectrum of color impressions. The description emphasizes cheerfulness and positive perception.
Samuel R. Worley of Hixburg Virginia, a blacksmith for over fifty years, credits Chamberlain's Pain Balm with relief from lame back and rheumatism. He calls it the best liniment he ever used and notes it is available for sale by W. H. Porter.
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