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Logansport Daily Tribune

Location

Logansport, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1908

Page

3

Currency figures in mixed formats noted

A string of monetary amounts appears: 1 500 00, S7500, 8600 00, and £ 4.000 00. No context or entities provided to explain purpose or source.

Wall Paper Store Offers 10–20 Percent Discounts

Advertising notice for a local wallpaper shop promising 10 to 20 percent off all orders placed before May 1. Also offers painting hanging and decorating services with samples available for 1908.

League Settles Banking Question in Patriotic Social League

The Patriotic Social League met at 123 State Street last night to debate banking laws. The affirmative won with Joseph Oharan first prize and Harry Watts second for strongest arguments. The group will meet at the Watts home next Thursday to investigate justice of the peace books and whether schools received all fines.

United States Patriotic Social League Joseph Oharan Harry Watts Cotton Justice of the Peace Wo Bat Hnas

Memorial Urges Congress to Restrain Judiciary Over Sherman Law

The memorial argues Congress did not intend the Sherman anti trust law to apply to labor and associations and warns that lower courts misapply injunctions harming free press and speech. It proposes two amendments exempting non profits without capital stock and sharing arrangements among agricultural or horticultural producers to raise prices.

Congress Supreme Court Hatters

Old Fashioned Taffy Pulling At Sugar Camp

An old fashioned taffy pulling was held at Charles Thomas's sugar camp four miles east of Logansport. Miss Mabel Thomas led seventeen Brush College pupils from northeast Logansport to the party with games and music, accompanied by chaperones Mr and Mrs Harry Funk.

Charles Thomas Mabel Thomas Brush College Logansport Fanny Caster Sadie Maude Hopkins Carl Ethel Scott Gilbert Margaret English Erwin Mary Homer Charles Martha Angles Walter Fair Hubert Neff Gertrude Shepler Iva Jennie Murden Harry Funk

Taffy Pull at Miss Helen Fitzger’s Home

Miss Helen Fitzger hosted a taffy-pulling gathering last night seven miles west of the city. About twenty high school students attended the informal event.

Helen Fitzger Helen. Fitzger

Deaths and Funerals for Frank Hight and Anna Arthurhultz

The funeral for Capt. Frank Hight was held Thursday at 2 PM from the Church of God with many ex soldiers in attendance. Anna Arthurhultz died at her Twelve Mile home aged 33 and will be buried Sunday at 2 PM from the U B church in Twelve Mile with interment in the adjacent cemetery. she is survived by three brothers one sister and her mother.

Frank Hight Church of God Anna Arthurhultz Twelve Mile U. B

Chicago billiards champion crowned in national amateur event

Calvin Demarest of Chicago defeated Ferdinand in the national amateur billiard championship match today with a 400 to 135 score. Demarest posted a high run of 170 and a 211.19 average. Poggenburg had a 57 high run and 79.18 average.

Chicago Calvin Demarest Ferdinand Demarest Poggenburg

Hummel Released From Tombs Prison

Abraham H. Hummel the lawyer sentenced to a year for conspiracy in the Dodge Morig divorce case was released from Tombs Prison after a good conduct reduction to about ten months. He left on a regular boat with his nephew and sped to New York where friends arranged plans for a European voyage amid declining health.

Dodge-Morig Hummel Abraham H. Kaffenburg New York Europe

Widow Becomes Bride After Quick Housekeeper Hire

Atlantic City March 19 Mrs B F Frease a widow became wife of William Harris engineer of the Longport water works after three days as Harris household housekeeper. Mothers objection to her being sole servant was overcome by the two’s decision.

B. F. Frease William Harris Longport Bill

Anna Gould Reaches New York With Family After Voyage

Anna Gould formerly Countess Castellane arrived in New York from Cherbourg aboard the Adriatic. She traveled with her three sons Boni Jay and George a maid a chauffeur and a valet. They were listed as Mrs Miller and party at embarkation but later registered under their own names. The children won favor with fellow passengers during the voyage.

Associated Press New York Anna Gould Countess Castellane Cherbourg Boni Jay George Mme. Gould

Fall Causes Death of New Albany Retail Leader

S W Newberger aged 59 head of White House Dry Goods found dead in basement of his store in New Albany Indiana. Coroner Starr rules death from heart disease aggravated by a fall on stairs. Newberger had suffered heart disease for several years.

Associated Press New Albany Ind S. W. Newberger White House

Governor Guilt Better

Boston dispatch reports Dr. Win slow says the governor is better and has done very well today. His condition improves though he remains very ill and there are now hopes of recovery.

Associated Press Boston Mass

Stock Gar Rages in Savannah Are Closed

Savannah March 19 Associated Press The Savannah Automobile Club organized stock car races under AAA. Louis Strang won driving an Italian car, finishing a lap ahead in the 348 mile southern challenge trophy. Results list L Strang first time 6 21 30 Lytle second 6 44 37 Newstetter third 6 47 05 Michener fourth 6 49 17 Poole fifth 6 58 53.

Associated Press Savannah Savannah Automobile Club American Automobile Association Louis Strang Herbert Lytle M. Newstetter H. Michener A. Poole F. W. Leland F. I. Yone William McCulla

Robbers Loot Davis Bank in Hoffman Oklahoma

In Muskogee Oklahoma on March 19 two men believed linked to the Tyro Kansas gang robbed the Davis Bank at Hoffman about 3 30 pm. They held bank officials at gunpoint and escaped with about 900 dollars before a posse could form. Witnesses say the robbers disappeared into southwest rough country, leaving trace none. Vice President I E Davis and Cashier W B Davis were in the bank during the heist.

Associated Press Muskogee Okla Tyro Kansas Davis Bank Hoffman Here I. E. Davis W. B. Davis

Indiana Boy Develops Wireless Telegraph Instrument

Marcella Gleason a 16 year old from Warsaw Indiana has built a wireless telegraph device claiming advantages over existing government and commercial systems He established a station in Warsaw and has sent messages over a considerable distance with greater reach his apparatus uses a jump spark coil key sounder relay and a coppered and other secret components pending patent support from local business and professionals experts say the Gleason instrument may have a big future

Warsaw Ind Marcella Gleason United States Wireless Telegraph Gleason

Artist Sues for Damages Over Infringed Portrait

A man refused to pay for a portrait and later defended himself in court, winning a $10,000 damage suit filed by the artist.

Strange man attacks woman on Sycamore Street

Evansville Indiana March 19. Late at night Mrs William Farmer was stabbed above the heart by a stranger on Sycamore Street near Fifth Street. The wound 2 to 3 inches deep required hours of medical care and left her in serious condition.

Evansville R’rerse Ind William Farmer Sycamore Street Fifth Street

PLAY BY 13 YEAR OLD BOY

New York March 19 E H Sothern plans a benefit for the actors fund of America and will stage a one act blank verse play written for him by thirteen year old John Allen Wyeth son of Dr John A Wyeth The Allegory titled The Weakness of Iran is praised as literature and worthy of serious consideration by Sothern

New York E. H. Sothern Actors’ Fund of America Sothern John Allen Wyeth John A. Wyeth Iran

Eccentric millionaire orders coffin and vault in Chattanooga

Jack Smith of Atlanta arrives in Chattanooga and orders a steel coffin with mahogany trim and a steel cement vault. He will stay until the wooden models are completed and satisfactory. Smith is noted for eccentricities including not wearing a necktie.

Chattanooga Tenn Jack Smith Lanta Smith

Fire at Kissenger Brothers lumber yard in Washington

A fire broke out shortly after midnight in the Kissenger Brothers lumber yard at Seventh and U streets NW and spread to several residences. The American League baseball park and a recently vacated Freedman's hospital building were threatened. By 2 o clock the fire was under control with estimated losses of 500 dollars, mostly confined to the lumber yard.

Washington, D. C Kissenger Brothers Seventh and U Streets Pital

Bigamy Charge Shocks Princeton Man Arriving Home

Harry Wheeler aged 35 of Princeton is arrested on bigamy charges after stepping from a Vincennes train. He had been in a sanitarium for a month. The first wife learned of the possible non marriage a week ago when a woman claiming to be Mrs Wheeler No 2 arrived from Harrisburg Tl. Wheeler stated he was divorced.

Vincennes Wheeler Harrisburg

Local Man Sentenced in Evansville Jail Claim

From No 1, a resident of Evansville, has lived here with his wife and family for years. He remains in jail asserting his innocence.

Evansville

New York Central Orders 136 Locomotives and Rails

New York Central announces orders for 136 locomotives and 24 000 tons of steel rails. The purchases back 30 million dollar equipment trust notes and cover lines east of Buffalo as business conditions improve.

The New York Central Railroad Hines Buffalo

Tree Trimmer Struck, Paralysis in Evansville Rescue

A. B. Miller, a tree trimmer, was struck by paralysis while aloft in a tall tree in Evansville Indiana. He lay unconscious among high branches for nearly an hour before rescue by the Aerial Truck company crew.

Associated Press Evansville Ind A. B. Miller Trimmer Aerial Truck Company

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