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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
3
A local shop promotes its millinery department with bold claims about fashionable hats and prices. The ad invites customers from neighboring towns to visit Logam and find trimmed hats, shapes, frames, feathers, plumes, and children's caps at low prices, emphasizing value and mutual benefit.
Eyewitness accounts describe a gondola car blaze sending pedestrians scrambling toward Posen as flames envelop Metz. George Boston and others escaped, while many villagers perished. relief trains brought back bodies and refugees amid hysteria and ongoing searches. In Michigan, nine Chippewa county towns face forest fires with no fatalities reported yet.
Associated Press dispatch from Denver reports William Jennings Bryan traveling from Plattsmouth to Denver on Oct 16 encountered unexpected crowds at multiple Nebraska and Colorado towns. Despite no scheduled speeches, crowds gathered at each stop demanding remarks and Bryan delivered brief talks from each train stop en route to Denver.
Police raided a house at 515 Erie Avenue arresting three people Mary E Kilgore Sardina Shortridge and a man who claimed the name John Doe. Kilgore charged with conducting an immoral resort Shortridge charged as an inmate and the man with public indecency. All posted bond for court today.
A new glee club quartet, the Class Quartette, debuted at a Democratic meeting in Logansport. Members William Jackson Leonard Harris Joseph Malone and Albert Akres, all colored, drew storms of applause and laughter. The group joins three other quartets eager to sing for political events for payment.
London dispatch says President Roosevelt plans a 1910 European tour after Africa. He will deliver the Romances lecture at Oxford during the university commemoration and receive the honorary degree of D. C. L. He is also set to visit Paris and speak at the Sorbonne.
Logansport hosted a visiting college football team from Grand Prairie College of Onarga Illinois last night. The game featured the Logan squad facing a stubborn opponent as fans packed the stadium.
The article contrasts Sunni and Shiah views on immortality of the soul and divine order. It notes Sunnis hold one immutable God and believe in Abu Bakr Omar Osman and Ali as rightful successors, while Shiahs deny early successors and honor Ali as sole legitimate successor. Differences in pilgrimage and daily prayer counts are highlighted.
A quotation from William J. Bryan's January 20 1900 Baltimore speech on discerning true prophets through their fruits, acknowledging the existence of prophets today and the challenge of distinguishing them.
A historical note contrasts William J. Bryan’s 1892 warning that tariff and tenancy would ruin farmers with 1908 outcomes. It cites rising farm prices, land value growth, and many tenant farmers becoming owners under the National Irrigation Act and Republican conservation efforts, highlighting the West as a major farming region.
A historical contrast argues the gold standard as ruinous versus elevating prosperity. Bryan condemns the standard as a threat to homes and families in 1896 and 1898 speeches, while proponents claim it supported mortgage relief and education, highlighting improved national prosperity and happiness.
A 1900 Bryan address in Lincoln urges preserving the spirit of 1776 against imperial sentiment. The speaker contrasts fears of empire with pride in American citizenship and Fourth of July traditions.
In 1904 anti Roosevelt rhetoric is noted with Bryan accusing Roosevelt of surrendering to corporate influence. The reply praises Roosevelt as a pacific exemplar and peacemaker while Taft is seen as continuing his policies.
Extract discusses a 1906 view that railways should be public property. It notes calls from Candidate Bryan and others to end private monopoly by government ownership, framing ownership as the ultimate public solution.
A speech warns against leaving a trade or career prematurely and staying until learning completes. Separate note claims London lacks fresh air with ozone absent near major parks, suggesting pollution from people and animals per a local investigator.
A Bombay correspondent details Parsees death rites with the priest remaining to recite Zend Avesta verses while a dog, trained to gaze steadily at the dying person, is admitted to the room. The dog’s stare is said to terrify evil spirits, making the last sight on earth the sas did. No human shadow must intervene to preserve the gaze.
An anecdote recalls Emperor Hadrian in a public bath observing veterans scraping themselves with potsherds. He funded proper bath materials, and later found the institution crowded with veterans scraping again. He quipped that they may scrape but not an acquaintance with him.
The critic notes a contradiction in a friend poem describing brooks as joyous, yet later saying they are ever murmuring. The exchange highlights tension between nature’s beauty and perpetual sound in verse.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press records a brief exchange between Miss Cutting and Mr. Borem about meeting Sunday. Miss Cutting insists that seeing her implies he saw her last, and Mr. Borem seeks clarification noting his unclear understanding.
Fragmentary lines describe a sea voyage and a collapse upon arriving in Liverpool. A speaker questions how the journey went and mentions returning to learn if a position was lost, hinting at a severe disruption or collapse aboard the voyage.
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