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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
A park scene in a Chicago Tribune item shows a weary traveler told to stay off the grass. The man identifies himself as Wareham Long, an independent American citizen, as he lies under an oak and dozes despite the officer’s admonition.
A vintage advertisement touts Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure for backache hip pain dizziness headaches and nervousness. It features a testimonial from Mrs James Lutz of Marion Ohio and notes the product is sold by dealers at 50 cents a box. The piece also includes unrelated lines about tourism in India and a casual baseball exchange.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts its exceptional equipment and chemists enabling Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna made from pure medicinal plant principles. It warns only the genuine product, with full company name on the front, provides benefits and urges buyers to decline imitations.
Telegraphic items report Congressman George A. Pearre’s denial of knowledge of his son citing Cumberland dispatches. Joseph DeGrace, convicted of burglary in Danville, vows to claim a fortune as Pearre’s son after release. A Cincinnati tenement fire saves 100 occupants as a mother drops her baby to waiting hands, then escapes unharmed.
A large fire destroyed the Hardman Peck & Co piano plant on West Forty-eighth Street and spread to the neighboring Pabst Brewing Company plant. The blaze, aided by strong winds, also damaged Pabst stables and the main plant. Loss ranges from 300000 to 400000 dollars.
Etna Green Indiana suffered its most disastrous blaze destroying four two story blocks within two hours. Loss placed around forty thousand dollars. Thomas M. Jones, a heavy loser, detected the fire and suspects arson from first evidence. Others doubt arson but cite possible spontaneous combustion. In Paris, Lizzie O Haldeman, daughter of Col W S Haldeman of the Louisville Times, dies from appendicitis after six months overseas. Earlham College trustees in Richmond refuse to dismiss Prof William N Trueblood over a local option vote.
Charles W. Morse, a New York banker, is released on $125 000 bail while he awaits the U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on his appeal set for next October. A Austrian immigrant, Sendo Furals, 35, committed suicide in Pittsburg after failing to locate relatives. Joseph Ramera, once a Chicago leader of the Black Hand, was sentenced to fourteen years in prison in connection with recent sensational charges. Delegates from thirty states gather in Milwaukee for the National Children's Finding Association convention now underway.
A brisk, vivid portrait of a western town features William Parker the banker and promoter, his daughter Evelyn, and John Saxton the Boston financier sent west to settle ranch holdings. The plot centers on a traction line scheme and the kidnapping of Parker’s child, delivering a buoyant yet poignant tale of love, ambition, and honest success.
John Saxton, sent by Neponset Trust Company to oversee distressed investments, moves into the Interstate Company office above Clarkson National Bank. Porter, bank president, coaches him to navigate tough borrowers while Saxton adapts to the Missouri valley town and the Jackson Club network.
Fragmentary excerpt shows a man entering a bank while Sartcn rides an elevator to his own office, with casual advice about starting slow and a remark on the heat.
Saxton settles into Clarkson after his first day at the club house. Warrick Raridan, a socially versatile 26-year-old with varied duties, greets him and explains Clarkson life. Raridan, a reforming dresser and amateur actor, leads committees, supports two Indian boys, and muses on belonging in a growing town.
The New York Sun reports that modern methods have raised embalming and burial planning to high skill levels. Future experiments may permit embalming without incisions using air chamber methods and gas pressures. Firms in major cities improve convenience by housing bodies, providing burial clothes, and offering chapels, clergy, and legal services for families.
A caution on frying eggs noting spitting fat as the main nuisance and recommending pre warming the pan. The State of New Jersey imported five stallions from Great Britain to improve horse stock for farmers.
A Chicago woman credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with avoiding a third surgical operation. She suffered from inflammation and a small tumor until three bottles cured her. The ad promotes the product as a standard remedy for female ills and urges others to try it to remove distress and prevent surgery.
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