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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
2
Round steak per pound 122 cents Pork steak per pound 0 65 10 cents Fresh pork sausage per pound 10 cents Louis Schmidt at 202 West Market offers limited time meat deals with low prices.
For sale is a five room cottage with cellar cistern and full lot. Good rental, in good condition. Also modern eight room house with bath and furnace in fine location, well arranged and close in. Includes several vacant lots on Eighth Street and Ninth Street with prices. Contact W. T. GIFFE at 417 Broadway, phone 1363.
Advertisement claims Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets cure rheumatism nervousness and constipation and prevent appendicitis. Described as easy to take and vegetable with a 50 cent price per box and a strict guarantee. Sold by druggists and manufactured for T Porter Huntington Ind.
A clash between the Order of Railway Telegraphers and major railroads grows as lines abandon telegraph in favor of telephone dispatching. Telephones are used on over six thousand miles of U S rails and the American Railway Association approves the system. The telegraphers seek state laws to ban telephone dispatching, arguing it endangers workers and the public.
Beginning December 20 the Pennsylvania line with the Louisville and Nashville will run through trains to Florida points via Logansport and Indianapolis. Through cars will connect Chicago routes to Southern points and the winter line is planned to be permanent. On December 21 Louisville & Nashville will start fast service from Louisville to Jacksonville via Knoxville making the shortest, fastest Southern route. The division has been ready for fast service for two years but required solid track for reliability.
Officials rule that every fireman is issued a numbered shovel and must keep it on duty. Shovels are stored in a northwest corner rack at the round house with individual locking, and all firemen must carry their assigned shovel or face discipline. A posted list links each fireman to his number for accountability.
The Fort Wayne Wabash shops are undergoing un abated electrification with Engineer Hopkins from Springfield in charge. Power will be supplied by the Fort Wayne and Wabash Traction Company, with wires tapped at the Calhoun street crossing.
J C Schiele, a local car repairman, is taking a short layoff for a few days. No further details provided.
At the International Live Stock Exposition Armour & Co. shows a 260 foot long movable iron bench that dresses carcasses on a revolving platform. The system reduces walking for workers, cuts handling risk, and uses metal contact surfaces with sterilizing tanks for tools. Government inspection occurs as beef progresses to cooling rooms after about half an hour on the bench.
D F Puett takes a few days leave of absence. Culver Military Academy closes December 22 for Christmas. Vandalia runs a special from Culver to Chicago for homebound students. William Harrison lays off after his mother’s death. Sehrt brothers return from Lafayette after their father’s death. Vandalia disinfectors have cleaned fifty stock cars this week. A car must bear the car A mark to leave the state. Engine No 303 was removed for testing. E A Masters’ remains shipped to Pioneer after death on a Vandalia train. L D Collins lays off a few days. George Mosel returns to duty after illness. Mosel to resume duties as fireman.
The schedule lists a Good Fellow on December 5, Aubrey Stock Co on December 7, and The Talk of New York on December 16 at the Nelson theater.
A promotional notice invites patrons to see the comedy A Good Fellow by Mark E. Swan at the Nelson with matinee and night showings on Saturday. The piece promises continuous hearty laughter and notes Swan also wrote Top of the World, a recent hit in New York and Chicago.
The Aubrey Stock Company presents Why Girls Leave Home at the Nelson next week. The melodrama centers on four people, a mother, a brother and two sisters, one led astray by flattery to drink and associate with unscrupulous figures in a wine room. The production promises coherent plotting, dramatic license, vivid action, and strong climaxes without horseplay.
The review notes a returning New Rochelle setting and a more worldly Kid Burns now a race track plunger. New patter delights blase crowds while a strong cast supports a big singing and dancing Cohan chorus.
At the Broadway Theatre patrons praise two weeks of top fare and expect a stronger lineup for December 7. Lillian Shaffener and Company staged a standout one act comedy while Le Compt the Wizard of fire dazzled with molten lead and burning carbon feats. The Delacy children showcased Southern tunes and dance as Gretchen Delacy earns praise as a leading juvenile dancer. Miss Chestnut will sing Neath the Old Cherry Tree with Marie Limp Del Pew presenting Laughing Gas and Who Did in two big comedy pictures.
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