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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
4
Wanted to travel in Indiana with an honest man over 25. Must provide good references. Steady position with advancement. 60 per month plus expenses. No cigarette smokers or drinkers. Apply Sales Department Parkmen Building Boston Massachusetts.
Advert says JM. Robinson, Norton & Co seek fifty pant makers for steady light work in a clean modern factory. Apply at Division and Vincennes Streets in New Albany Indiana.
A brief local notice notes dental work at 223 Pearl Street with clarification on dentures and fittings. The item mentions DEN TINTS and ongoing tooth care in a small urban storefront context.
Floyd County Indiana Commissioners invite bids for Pittsburg Cval court house jail and poor asylum for the coming year. Bids due by 12 oclock Monday September 7 1908. Auditor Juin T Millen notes right to reject any bid. New Albany Business College advertises 44th year starting September 1 1908 urging enrollment.
Readers report daily letters for summer vacation via Trieste for 10 cents weekly. Fisheries bureau to send twenty five gallons of bass to Jerry J. Suddarth for deposit in Little Blue river. Thomas Casmobell, an elderly man, held in Jeffersonville for chicken theft near the city. Reunion plans for Marengo Academy at the fair grounds in Marengo next Friday. Eighty First Indians regimental officers elected. Next reunion to be held in Sellersburg in September 1909. Funeral of Mrs. Mary F. Strother in Louisville with burial at Fairview cemetery. Judge Utz orders $25 for prosecuting divorce and $1 per week maintenance during suit. Glenn Fairchild repatriated to Springfield after wanting to return home. G H Hagan injured internally after falling from Salem High School roof. no bones broken. John W. Gaither notes reimbursement of expenses for L A Elke’s burial. Later note: East St Louis lodge action on reinterment.
At a Board of Public Works session on Fifteenth and Market streets two residents Jacob Zinsmeister and J R Coffin opposed a twenty four foot roadway while M Moley urged it noting majority support. Duffin urged broader width and city beautification as plans and specs were ordered with possible later changes and a 10 day timeline for final plans. A health board notice condemned East Ninth Street north of Calbertson avenue and Elm between Jay and Silver streets plans were not yet ready amid property holder splits.
In a circuit court hearing Judge Utz granted an injunction stopping Southern Railway Company from laying a track before Mrs Mary H. Birtles property on McBeth street until the final hearing at the October term. E B Stoteenburg represented Mrs Birtles.
The TriBune publishes the first of Roosevelt’s hunting stories about big game in the west. It notes the former president was famed as a hunter and that his Africa jungle tales next year will be paid at two dollars per word, boosting his status as a popular writer.
Thomas Friedley was arrested by Chief Fess on a provoke charge filed by Anna Parish and sued $11 by City Judge Paris. Thomas Gilbert, arrested by Patrolman Pepper on a provoke charge, was fined $11 by City Judge Paris.
Miss Nettie Goe, about sixty, was found dead about dawn at 1805 East Market Street, the result of acute indigestion and muscular rheumatism. She had been a long time invalid from Ohio and had lived with her sister Mrs. Mary Brigham for nearly thirty years. Funeral plans await announcement.
Mr. Harry Dollens aged about thirty four, son of Mrs. Robert W. Dollens formerly of this city, died yesterday at his mother's home in Indianapolis after a several months illness. His father died in Indianapolis a few months earlier. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 PM from the home of his sister Mrs. J. W. Lillie after news reached Rev. E. Poulson of the Baptist Tabernacle.
A collection of social notes lists residents and visitors: Mrs Lillie Nanemacher heads to Cincinnati while Clara Simpson visits Miss Alma Orme and returns from Murfreesboro Tennessee. John Wiaether travels east. Eva Matheny Emma Hart return from Benton Harbor Michigan. Mrs A J Foust visits sister Mary Devenish in King Street. H 0 Korrhage and daughter Anna go two weeks to Racine Wisconsin. Clara Hangary returns from Fort Dodge. Mary Kelly returns from Breitung Harbor and Chicago. Richarda T Brooke expected home from South America. Addison Jackson leaves for Lafayette to resume Purdue studies. Mrs W D Beck and daughters Bertha Maud O'Donnell back from Benton Harbor and Chicago. Helen Schroder returns from Chicago. Rev J H Boersig convalescent from blood poisoning. G A R to host cadre at Pearl and Market with prizes. Winifred Barlow leaves for Nambe New Mexico to teach at Indian school. Florence Whistler to Lacha Flambeaux Wisconsin to teach at Chir Pens Indian school. Rev Thomas G Beharrell injured, slight improvement but age concerns. Tom Moore writes of a nonhealing sore cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. sale at Chas D Enoe drug store.
G W McCulloch, once chief of the police, faces insubordination charges and a trial set for next Monday at 8 30 PM. He contends he sought a vacation until the board’s next meeting after being reduced to patrolman on August 6. The case arises from a dispute over reporting for duty and a 48 hour resignation deadline issued by the board.
The Salem fair returns next week in New Albany with purses in speed ring and fast half mile races in southern Indiana. Baseball games, hippodrome and chariot races, and a Palaro Brothers show are among free attractions, with music by the Quaker brass band daily. The Salem grounds offer water and shade for a pleasant outing.
Edward Dennison of the city and Miss May Cottingham of Jeffersonville wed secretly on April 21 in Jeffersonville by Justice Ferguson. The ceremony was undisclosed until today. Dennison has lived with Cottingham at her Jeffersonville home and with his parents at 714 East Spring Street. Now the couple will reside with his parents.
J Espe of Jenkintown recalls a past country spelling contest with Charles Bates at the Wyman school between Marengo and Milltown. Peyton remembers the moment he mispronounced concatenate as concatinate and nearly sparked a district fight over the error.
Subscribers to the New Albany Tribune are asked to report irregular delivery to the Tribune Company. The notice lists two phone lines for contact, with unclear digits, urging prompt notification to ensure timely service.
Church notices list Sunday schools and services at German M E Pauls and Centenary churches with mornings at 9 9 45 or 10 30 and evenings at 7 30 including clergy names Rev Fred J Williams Rev Arthur E Watham John Goetz W M Whitsett Henry Miller and others. Also mentions Baptists Presbyterians Adventists and Third Presbyterian preaching schedules with vacation fills and a sunset river bank service conducted by Rev W B Grimes.
Durham leads American Association pitching scene after Blues defeat Dusty Rhodes in Louisville. Walters starts for the Blues against McMonigle. lineup includes Sehan Harper Smith Lloyd Febler Maker Russell Pressier Hobehurst. Game called 2:45. Umpire Kleiber. Also schedules: New Albany Browne play two tomorrow. Douglas Lign vs Acmes at Claysburg. Futurity at Sheepshead Bay features nine two year olds racing six furlongs for a $35,000 purse.
The Dutch battleship Jacob Van Heems werk arrived at Willemstad Curacao after sailing from Holland on August 11. The ship's arrival is noted in the Aug 29 report from Willemstad.
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