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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
7
Twilight services will be held on the public square in Shelbyville at 6 30 each evening during the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference starting Tuesday night September 15 Rev George S Hiemer of Linton will lead. Two evenings the Vincennes District quartet will sing and two evenings the Moore's Hill Central Glee Club will provide music.
Minna Bell flees the town lights aboard the Yellow Meteor with Arthur Windom the clubman. She worries for Bud Wilkins and the hill country life as the pair head toward the west in hopes of marriage. Meanwhile a Chinese charmmaker and a jewel worsen Minna’s fate.
In Oakland California J B Johnson a blind inventor known as Edison by locals seeks wealth by dedicating time and money to perfect his creations. His tale includes a jewel cursed by a fortune teller and a shopkeeper Fong Lee who touts a warning prophecy regarding a diamond. Johnson lists inventions a street car fender gold separation process and an electric typewriter for telegraph use.
In a tense scene Fong Lee recalls a brother who died of the plague as a woman removes a ring and hurls it away, the moment filled with fear and superstition.
A boy ignited a fuse on a government cannon at Sunset Park causing a massive blast heard citywide. The fireworkslike eruption sent panicked women and children fleeing as residents mistook it for an earthquake.
Walter Hankins, six, was shot and killed by his ten year old sister Jessie Hankins at the Ambenour residence in Rushville. The siblings had come with their mother Mrs Elijah Hankins to visit their gravely ill grandmother. They were playing when Jessie found an old revolver in a storeroom.
Survivors of the Seventh Indiana cavalry plan their annual reunion at Hartford City on September 30. Joseph Young of Middletown serves as secretary and J. D. Cloud of Tipton is president of the association.
Benjamin Skinner a Civil War veteran died of suffocation when a lamp exploded in his burning Winchester residence. Firemen found his body on the floor of an adjoining room. his wife recently left for the country to live with a son, and the couple had previously lived in Fountain City Indiana.
Columbus dispatch reports Miss Anna Haislup daughter of Mr and Mrs Willard Haislup of Grammar will raise and sell turkeys this fall to fund another year at Franklin college. She supported last year by selling Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
Warsaw August 1 or September 1 reports say ten year old Boyd Leedy son of John Leedy applied a poultice of onions and salt to a rat snake bite within minutes of injury and was credited by City Health Officer T. J. Shackleford with likely saving his life after the wound was dressed.
In Newcastle on September 1, the Bennett family held its tenth annual reunion at the fair grounds east of town. Several hundred relatives gathered from across the state, tracing lineage to Thomas Bennett, an early pioneer of the region.
Wabash plans to host the next national convention of the Beta Phi Sigma fraternity, a high school organization, with efforts underway to ensure a successful meeting next year. Delegates Harry Chapler and Kenneth Yarnelle attended the Muncie convention.
Anderson Sept. 1 Farmers in Green township supported a proposal to build 14 miles of new road at an estimated cost of 60000 dollars. The returns show strong good roads support among county farmers.
In Shelbyville on September 1 the Masons of Edinburg completed and dedicated their new lodge. Judge F. E. Gavin of Indianapolis delivered the dedicatory address after exercises by grand lodge officers in the opera house.
Miss Mattie Hensler, returning from a dance on the Kentucky shore, was shot and killed midstream by an unseen shooter firing from Kentucky as she traveled with two companions on a Madison river trip.
The Queen City court of the lodge of Ben Hur at Marion will entertain the lodges of the state at Goldthwaite park on September 17.
Fresh meat begins to sour. it can be sweetened or rendered fit again by stirring in a little soda.
A collection of odds and ends touches on wedding nerves, marriage age statistics, a shopkeeper joke about bone free meat, and a Bible word count. Names include Jones and Rob inson in a wedding pew echo.
Frank J. Cheney, senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6, 1886. Product advertised as internal remedy acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists.
Chamberlain's Salve is touted as the best burn remedy, easing pain instantly and healing with no scar for minor injuries. It claims usefulness for chapped hands sore nipples and skin diseases with a price of 25 cents sold by W Hi Porter, druggist.
Thomas Reavey, a Peru Indiana blacksmith, described years of backache and dizziness from kidney trouble. After using three boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, his symptoms disappeared and he has been well for three years. Sold by all dealers at 36 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sole agents.
Limited trains connect Logansport with Tipton and Indianapolis. several morning and evening departures run to Tipton with direct connections to Ekwood Alexandria Fairmount Anderson Middletown Muncie and other nearby stations. Late service at 11:00 p m. and some times appear garbled. schedules indicate multiple daily departures and intercity connections.
In effect June 1 1908 trains depart Fort Wayne interurban station for Peru Wabash Huntington and other points at listed times with limited services to Delphi Lafayette and Poyd park. Freight service expanded between Fort Wayne Logansport and Lafayette with eastbound runs at 8:30 pm and 1:30 pm and westbound at 8:18 am and 3:00 pm. R B Gunn is the superintendent of transportation Fort Wayne Indiana.
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