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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1908
Page
7
A spirited campaign advocates strict limits on patent medicines, urging reform and tighter regulation. Public speakers describe unsafe products and call for oversight, licensing, and quality standards to protect consumers.
Seventeen year old Helen Baxter, survivor of a six girl party from St Paul, recounts that five companions killed themselves after arriving in New York. She attempted suicide by gas but survived. authorities locked her up for attempted death. The narrative details marriages, false friendship, and grim outcomes as they followed their friends to death.
The Cass county Republican call lists ward and township meetings on March 24 1908 to choose delegates and alternates for the Indianapolis convention April 1 and 2. It designates venues, times, and delegate counts per ward, with ballots to decide selections. Herbert A. Brown chairs, Chas. R. Kahler is secretary.
Captain D. S. Bender, a famed mail clerk on the Cincinnati division, will permanently depart the railway mail service Monday to assume charge of the transfer office at the Panhandle, succeeding J. E. Fraser as transfer clerk.
Captain Bender suffered a slight stroke six months ago and has been incapacitated. He regained some ability to work but chose not to resume engine duty due to lingering danger, leading to an exchange arrangement.
The first shipments of Tennessee strawberries are expected in Logansport within five to six days, bringing a lower early price. Retail will run about 15 cents a quart with cases at 2.50 to 3 dollars. Bananas, oranges, and seed potatoes prices rise due to ice shipments and a late start to the season.
Members of the Jackson club at Indiana University prepare to entertain William J. Bryan in Bloomington on March 20. Bryan will speak twice, once in the afternoon under the University YMCA and again at night before the Jackson club in the student building.
An advertisement pitches the Chicago Daily Farmers and Drovers Journal as a 34 year old leading livestock and farm daily with market reports and farm departments. It promotes combined subscriptions with the Loganport Daily Tribune offering one year totals of $6.50 or $4.50 for twice weekly options.
The schedule lists east and west bound passenger trains from St. Louis to New York and other points, with daily and Sunday services. It includes numbers, origins, routes, and approximate times such as 7:06 a.m. and 2:11 p.m., plus a note that the timetable is in effect December 1, 1907 and references Vandalla and South Bend connections.
Train schedule shows multiple departures arrivals between Chicago, Logansport, Cincinnati and Louisville. Notes sleeping car and parlor car services on Nos 1 6 8 12 16 118 119 126 127 128 and other trains with daily and Sunday patterns.
The Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Co outlines daily train times to Peru Huntington Lafayette and intermediate points with morning and evening departures from Fort Wayne and Lafayette. Limited cars operate with a 11:05 p m ticket to Boyd Park only and weekday terminals at Fort Wayne 9 30 a m and Lafayette 8 30 a m. R T Gunn superintendent.
The notice lists train times and connections from Ko komo to Indianapolis and Tipton with services to Muncie and nearby towns. It advertises a $13 transit pass valid over 32 lines in Indiana Ohio and Michigan covering 1807 miles, with local agents selling the coupon.
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