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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
4
The issue reports on the Presidents message drawing praise from W J Bryan and notes a revival of Populist themes within the major parties. Local Republicans nominate W C Woods Wm Hadhey and Frank R Bass ask for support at the township convention for the position of Township Trustee.
Notices report residents with illnesses and recoveries, church services planned, visitors from Plainfield, a small fire near town controlled, and a Ladies Aid Society meeting at Mrs Roy Kirk. Future events include a Due Day Social at Mrs Conrad Gentry’s on February 13 with snacks served.
Readable note lists Seer blankets at five fifty and another at three seventy five in the Thompson shop.
Candidate Jytias Tam 2 é announces run for township trustee after nominating convention and respectfully asks for support from voters. Signed W. Menderson.
L. E. Ballard signs a request for support at the township convention, urging neighbors to back the effort.
A scrambled column notes political jabs and social tidbits from across the nation. Mentions Cortelyou, Mrs Szecheny, Joan D, Gladys, and Tillman with comic asides. Reports on Pennsylvania, water taxes, England and Germany naval plans, and a surge in New York marriages amid weather and fashion quips.
A dated political letter to a New York Republican club contrasts candidacy for residency with demagogic self interest. It recalls early Republic ideals of seeking the office for the man, not the man for the office.
Resolutions of Sympathy express condolences to the family of Charles R. Poe. The Morgan Lodge No. 2111 O. O. F. offers heartfelt sympathy and invokes the Great Spirit. Notes were to be spread on minutes and published in the Mooresville Times by KH Males, W M, and Geo W Clark.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors friends and church for kindness shown during the sickness and death of a wife and mother. Rasmus Dill Howard Dill Mrs Clarence Hubbard Eli Harvey and family extend sincere thanks for assistance and sympathy during illness and sorrow.
The W. O. T. U held a regular meeting at Mrs. Alicx Utierbach with two new members Mrs. Mark Adams and Margaret Tutt. The Brooklyn Union named a local superintendent of evangelistic temperance work, as discussions criticise prohibition impacts on business. The piece cites anti prohibition data across states while urging persistent effort to sustain prohibition.
Henry B. Taylor appointed by the Morgan Circuit Court as Executor of the estate of Huldah Alornaday deceased. The estate is alleged to be solvent. January 21, 1908.
For rent a six room house on Naylor Street. Inquiries at the Comer & Scearce Co office. Also noting sale of $200 worth Baldwin Piano Co rebate certificates. For particulars apply at this office.
A Philadelphia North American discussion argues that meat consumption in the US has halved over thirty years while foreign nations eat less and work for lower wages. It claims nutrition shapes labor, cost of living, and global politics as Americans overeat and digestively falter.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls a seafaring father delaying his son’s christening until he could return to stand as sponsor. At the vestry baptism the minister splashed more than the boy, prompting the father to whisper, I catch it, my man, that was a clean pinny this morning.
A brown eyed girl explains she cannot judge if the girl across the hall is pretty. She fears praise or insult will invite gossip and personal attacks, saying she cannot honestly express her thoughts again. The excerpt is attributed to the New York Press.
An old North Sea skipper argues against buying life belts for his vessel, insisting his ship must ride out danger with its crew and gear aboard. He rejects life belts smelling salts and other items, vowing his ship will go down with it if needed. The quoted stance reflects stubborn maritime macho attitudes from Pearson's Weekly.
A French painter visiting the Paris Salon with a committee member friend protests that his painting is shown upside down. The friend answers that the committee refused it in the correct orientation.
A London omnibus scene unfolds with a passenger asking to stop at 334 and the conductor replying in a curt, formal tone. The bus halts on a dirty road as the driver is urged to pull up closer to the kerb while an enemy cleans his boots, in a stark London Telegraph style.
A tale about a member who abstained on the deceased wife's sister bill. When asked why, he replied that his wife has a sister, illustrating the joking reasoning used in political debates.
The admiralty trains divers and every British warship carries at least one. Portsmouth Devonport and Sheerness host schools. Divers descend through increasing depths encountering immense pressure, with advanced gear including copper helmets, canvas rubber air pipes, life lines and electric lamps. Communication via telephone replaces jerks on a line.
The Livingston Democrat laments the Genesee River as a crooked stream, noting twenty eight miles by river from Genesee to Mount Morris versus six miles by road. It details the river’s path around Piffard Genesco and back toward Piffard with two near points half a mile apart, yet a five to six mile journey along the water’s course.
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