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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
7
An ad promotes Trusler’s Rheumatic Tablets as an infallible cure for rheumatism nervousness and constipation and a preventative of appendicitis. The product is described as easy to take vegetable based and sold under a pure food law guarantee for 50 cents a box by druggists including Porter. Manufactured for T F Trusler Huntington Ind.
The notice lists numerous candidate names such as Weldon Smith Dennis R Uhl Homer Umbarger Edna Brown Minnie Hoover Edna Frank Gladys Mainwaring Esta Mellinger Ruth Shephard Nellie Chesterson Harold Siddall Cora McLae Frances Simpson Robert Banta Eva Claybaugh and others. The standings show the contest warming and votes tallied as of this morning.
The article extols the mule as immune to disease, long lived, and productive in heavy work. It notes mules mature early, adapt to harness quickly, and combine patience with vigor, arguing their hardy temperament and reliability suit farm and urban industry better than horses.
A tract offers a free trial package of Zemo from E W Rose Medicine Co St Louis asserting the vegetable liquid cures itching skin diseases by drawing germs to the surface. Cited cures include Jacob Frank and R W Emerson among others. Homer Closson & Co Logansport holds local agency with endorsements and photos available.
The 250 page annual travel volume titled Water Way Tales is issued by the D. and C. Navigation Co. It includes three stories and is richly illustrated with half tone scenes from the D. and C. Coast Line to Mackinac. Sent anywhere on receipt of ten cents to prepay postage.
Special travel rates for the Toledo G A R National Encampment with going dates August 28 to 31 and return valid until September 15. Extension to October 15 available. Describes the service as the ideal quickest cleanest and lowest fare route to Toledo.
A claim from Mrs. M. M. Weaver urges Otto Wicke to ship 100 more packages after testimonials of swift recoveries. The letter highlights long illness relief and praise for Swiss Herb Tea with money order for $3.00 included. The writer asks others to write to the manufacturer in Brooklyn, New York, asserting the remedy’s effectiveness.
As cool weather nears boys plan nutting and forewarned by reports that hickory nuts will be scarce this year due to few nuts on trees. F. K. Fansler and George street mother have traveled to the southern part of the state to visit relatives for two weeks.
Ethel Berkley aged 15 in Rushville Indiana purchased chloroform with money from selling a pet chicken and inhaled the fumes at home. Found by her 10 year old sister she was revived by prompt medical attention. The girl attempted suicide due to her father Lot Berkley objecting to her keeping company with a young man.
The Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company offers a booklet with complete fish and game laws and coast line to Mackinac details. It promises access to North Lakes and forests rich in game. Send two cent stamp for particulars and booklet at Detroit Michigan.
The clipping lists trains between St Louis New York Toledo Logansport Terre Haute South Bend and Butler with departures arrivals and service notes. Includes No 2 No 28 No 4 No 6 No 5 No 3 No 48 No 58 No 641 No 43 No 45 No 47 No 49 No 59 No 140 No 142 No 143 No 245 with varied daily Sunday or ex service and agents.
Pennsylvania LINES and Vandalia timetable fragment lists train numbers, routes, sleeping and parlor cars, daily schedules, and interurban connections. It notes sleeping car availability on Nos 1 3 10 7 12 18 19 and parlor cars on Nos 118 119 between Chicago Louisville Cincinnati and related routes. It includes departure and arrival times, connections to Delphi Lafayette and Logansport, and freight movements under R T Gunn Supt Trans Ft Wayne.
Delphi Indiana timetable lists north bound and south bound mail express and acem services with times including 5 34 p m and 1 48 p m for north and 4 37 a m for south. Frank J Reed G P A signs as the official.
Effective March 12 1907 interurban service lists departures from 6:00 am to 11:00 pm with limited trains and connections at Tipton for Elwood Alexandria and other towns. Interchangeable coupon book offers 12 dollars of transportation for 10 dollars valid across 32 traction lines in Indiana Ohio and Michigan covering 1807 miles.
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