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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
6
Local notes from Montpelier detail community events and notices including a church gathering, school activities, and public meeting announcements for the week ahead. Authorities urge residents to attend and participate in civic happenings across the city.
A registered mail pouch containing at least $50,000 in currency and remittances vanished en route from Los Angeles to New York. Post Office inspectors track the theft to the Kansas City division, but refuse to identify the crew involved as the mystery unfolds.
The estate of James Compton was awarded 860000 against the Wabash Railroad Company by Judge R W Taylor in the United States Circuit Court at Washington. The case, brought by widow Ellen Compton, stems from a long dispute over title to a Wabash line segment between Toledo and Ohio State Inc and ownership of related stock. Compton resided in Washington D C and the suit was filed more than 33 years ago.
A Savannah dispatch reports the British tank steamer Carib bee, en route from Matanzas to New York, foundered on June 8. One sailor drowned. The rest of the crew were landed at Savannah by the steamer Merrimack from Philadelphia, which took them from the schooner Thealine, Brunswick for Boston, fifty four miles from Frying Pan shoal light ship.
A dispatch from Tournai reports a passenger train from Mona ran off the track near there, killing five people and injuring several others as cars were demolished and the wreckage caught fire, with rescuers racing to free the wounded before flames spread.
Charlies F Swetner once at Indiana Reformatory and famed for a Louisville society stir and vanished leaving many creditors is now in custody at Deming New Mexico. Reformatory officials plan to request his transfer to New Mexico authorities.
Willie Barkest, 11, of St. Joseph, Missouri, confessed to turning a switch that wrecked a Burlington freight train. He said he planned the act to steal coal and to upset cars so he could obtain fuel more easily.
Thieves smashed a plate glass window at Hymen Berg & Co. on State and Washington in Chicago and escaped with sixty gold watches and other jewelry valued at 3000 dollars. Two watchmen pursued them but the robbers vanished.
A Dun's Review summary reports improved daily banking activity despite a five day week, with freight demand light but farm product forwarding rising. Iron and steel show strengthening, metal and woodwork output increasing, and money markets easing. Grain prices stay high, crop progress tracks ideal weather, port grain movement totals 7,460,790 bushels versus 8,549,570 and 7,208,488 in prior periods. Livestock receipts fall to 19,000 head, and bank clearings total 210,326,721 with a 20.5 percent drop from 1907.
Weather conditions bring uneven retail reports with heavy rain in the Northwest Southwest and South. Wholesale lines and leading industries show brighter notes with improved orders and more full time resumption in cotton goods and textile sectors. Money is easy but country inflow to urban centers slows. 225 U S business failures for week ending June 4, the lowest weekly total since October, with 32 in Canada.
Regional market notes show bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo plus grain and dairy prices including wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with no clear single event. Prices reflect varying grades and deliveries across multiple markets.
Walter leaves Mr Drummond's house after a mistaken charge of theft. He declines a meager offer, contemplates returning to Willoughby, and meets Mr James Pusher who pitches a Westward sales job. Walter consults executor Mr Shaw about an estate and contemplates schooling and self-support.
A cartoonish dialogue from Two Evils features Ellen scolding Nancy for not napping, recalling times Nancy checked on her asleep. The scene centers on a nurse and a child in a domestic moment. Houston Post caption and quips about a beard add humor.
A fragmented clip highlights humor about cleverness and ideas. The piece riffs on a farmer banter dialogue and remarks that women can be more valuable than men in jobs requiring quickness and dexterity, reflecting playful but dated views.
The passage describes a woman's nervous symptoms including headaches backache and weight in the lower body. It asserts the feminine organism needs immediate attention and promises a single remedy that quickly removes the cause and returns the body to a healthy state.
Claims from users in Rockland Maine and East Earl Pennsylvania praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for backaches ailments and general improvement after several bottles. The ad recounts thirty years of use and lists related female health issues. A separate anecdote notes charity solicitors and a Western editor's humorous reaction, plus a note on Sicily sulfur production at 500000 tons annually.
A Minnesota schoolteacher known as the Postum Preacher describes her conversion from coffee to Postum. She credits Postum with steadier nerves, clearer thinking, and better health after years of nervous prostration and coffee dependence.
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