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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
2
A consumer health blurb argues a torpid liver signals poor nutrition and suggests starting with digestion. It touts Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as restoring stomach activity, cleansing poisons, and aiding liver function, with a claim of medical endorsement and non-secret composition.
The Seventeenth Universal Peace Congress is in session in London. Lincoln gears up for Bryan’s August 12 notification. Roosevelt accepts honorary presidency of Peace and Arbitration League. Mack to establish Democratic HQ in Chicago. Fallieres sails to Reval to meet Nicholas. West Virginia Democrats plan state convention in Charleston on Wednesday. J. E. Dodge of Malden and Lockwood Reed of Port Henry killed in an automobile crash near Port Henry.
William Howard Taft aids the Ohio state central committee and local notification group in Cincinnati preparations for tomorrow's presidential acceptance speech. Frank Hitchcock and Elmer Dover arrive to report on conditions in the West as decorations and holiday displays go up across the city.
At a Chicago conference of Bryan Kem and the DNC executives Norman E. Mack of Buffalo was chosen chairman. Other officers include Vice chairman L P Hall secretary Urey Woodson treasurer C N Haskell sergeant at arms John S Martin. Headquarters will be in Chicago. Honduras quiets as Choluteca is retaken by government troops ending the revolt. many prisoners taken and reports indicate a new tranquil period across the republic.
Bloomington Indiana July 27 news reports former city treasurer Billheimer now under indictment for embezzlement linked to the collapse of the Real Estate Building Loan and Savings Association. The association, ordered into receivership from Indianapolis, faced an insolvent status as Bloomington residents sought weekly payments.
Auditor Bilheimer announced papers ordering a receiver have been mailed after the former secretary Harry A. Axtell left the association short 41000 and the city 7000. Axtell is under indictment for embezzlement and out on a 3000 bond.
Marion Indiana July 27 angry farmers seized Elijah Starrell a fifty three year old justice of the peace at Hanfield four miles east of Marion. Deputies arrived and took him to jail while Sate Pulley a farmer rescued twelve year old Addie Botkin by confronting Harrell on a lonely road. Harrell confesses to the assault and remains jailed unable to post bond.
Plans are under way to drill a test well ten miles west of Princeton on the Wabash river. Large tracts have been leased as efforts continue to extend the Gibson county field seven miles further west, a move watched with interest by the oil industry.
A description of how a first class local newspaper operates its city canvas, uses telephones to reach surrounding towns, traces rumors, reports news from country communities, corrects home markets each morning, and editorially discusses local matters.
The Daily Herxato notes that rival papers push sensational general news while neglecting home news, which is deemed the most valuable by editors. It argues true local reporting serves readers best and emphasizes the need for community coverage over broader sensationalism.
The Weekly Herald curates the cream of the Daily’s six issues, delivering a best and most entertaining home news summary for Blackford county readers not nearby The Daily Herald.
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