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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
Manager Smythe announces the Phantom Detective at the Nelson as the era’s biggest production from Roland and Clifford lessees. It is a high class show with beautiful scenery and a featured original newsboys quartette. A cage of real lions appears in the climactic scene for realism.
The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company advertises a booklet titled D. and C. Coast Line to Mackinac offering complete fish and game laws. It invites hunters and anglers to write for details and to send two-cent stamps for the booklet, with Detroit, Michigan as the address.
Special Correspondent reports on a hot August day as residents embrace auto fever with Dr Lybrook's Buick and new school plans in Young America. Local sports mention Walton Cubs beating Frankfort White Sox 7 to 3 with Louis Ermy delivering key plays.
The Carson Graham reunion gathers in Brookside Park Indianapolis with about 200 relatives from Cass and surrounding counties. John Carson presides as Walter Carson reports a complete family tree from 1817 to today, including a trip to Charlestown and Jennings county. A pear tree on the old Carson homestead, 93 years old, bore fruit during the event preparations.
Miss Louise Schwalm spent a week with brother George Schwalm. Eunice Helen and Jes sie Hurd visited Lilly Kurtz on Friday. Ethel Bowman heads to Ohio to live with her father and attend school. Mrs Maurice Barnard and two daughters from Jeffersonville and Miss Mabel Barnard of Burlington joined O M Barnard for Sunday. Leah Flynn of Marion visits aunt Mrs Cahil. Mrs Earl Foutz and her son return to Muncie after a month with her parents.
Indiana Rural Letter Carriers meet in Marion September 6 and 7 at Ben Hur hall with a reception city tour and entertainment. William Spillman of Washington D C may address the group. deputies will attend if he cannot come. Indiana has about 2500 rural carriers and delegates attend from local associations.
Ed Frazier and his wife from west of town visited Flora while Will Harter from east of Bringhurst was in Flora on Tuesday. Dr J B Blickenstaff traveled to Burlington on professional business. Harry Burns and John Gilliam attended the Frankfort fair with seven prize hogs valued at about $7,000. First home grown watermelons were sold on local streets today signaling the season start.
Actress Josephine Cohan orders a chocolate sundae at a drug store, a hat feather touches a cigar lighter and flames erupt. A clerk pours ice cream on the hat to extinguish the blaze and demands a dime for the soda. Cohan complains the hat cost 50 dollars and seeks 19 dollars in change. She walks away in a fury, while the clerk hides behind the counter making faces.
Stella Gard introduces a program with Col George W Steele and Miss Earlene Bennett in Warren Indiana. A post office official speaks, the Fairmount orchestra performs and Miss Bennett recites. Monday includes a welcome by Mayor Sweezey and a reply by Vice President Ward Carmel.
The Hand-in-Hand Circle of Kings Daughters will meet Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Mary Jacksons home at Eighteenth and Smead to sew comforts. Members should bring thimbles. The session is by order of the secretary.
About fifty Pathfinders from the city attended a district meeting at Boyd Park yesterday. Representatives from lodges in Peru Wabash Marion Kokomo Lafayette and Delphi were present.
P A Havelick and wife of Indianapolis Levi Winklebeck and family of Hartford City and H W Clayton of Dayton Ohio were guests yesterday at a relatives' picnic held in this city at Spencer Park.
William Gremelspacher and Mrs. Butz purchased lots 49 and 50 in Islington Park addition of Mrs. Baker. They camped at Dykeman Springs this summer and, pleased with river life, plan a permanent residence there.
The government ends madstone use after a Boston Transcript report quotes a scientist saying its value against rabies is no greater than blotting paper. The warning cautions that madstone applications yield no real protection.
The Chicago Tribune reports eleven places carry the Taft name plus many Taftville Taftville Taftton Taftvale and Taftdale variations. States with Taft locations include Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Oregon Texas Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina and Oklahoma.
A fragment hints at lavish spending on an imperial table with high prices per item and general excess. The text mentions rubles and shillings but remains unclear on specifics, suggesting a critique of opulent meals. No clear event or persons are named.
In a three century old tale, guide Herman Arshag escorts Greek diamond merchant Gabriel Arshag across the Simplon Alps. The innkeepers at a Swede run inn steal gems, a curse triggers an avalanche, the inn is buried, and Herman later finds the stolen jewels buried in the rock, returning wealthy with Agatha.
Mr. A. R. Webb of St. Louis praises thoughtful travelers who spare newspapers for tollers along the railway. He notes some western dailies print notices urging passengers to hand papers to the workers, viewing it as education and pleasure for humble wage earners.
The article notes Thackeray stood six feet three inches tall, Arthur Conan Doyle six feet two, and mentions Catcliffe and Hesketh Prichard as taller figures. Keble Howard is described as tall as well.
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