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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1908
Page
4
Forecast for Indiana tomorrow indicates a mild day with light winds and possible showers. Temperatures are expected to range in the mid fifties with higher chances of rain showers in the afternoon.
Advertisement seeks an experienced pant maker. Apply at 617 West Main Louisville Kentucky for the position.
New Albany Steam Laundry Co. will close Friday and Saturday after Christmas, offering employees the holiday week. Patrons should have work ready earlier to avoid delay. Office hours on Christmas Eve and morning are posted. A lost green plush laprobe reported Sunday morning between Market street blocks. return to E V Knight for reward.
Community notices include DePauw Lodge to confer Fellowcraft, Central Christian church Christmas sale and popper, and the Tripose editorial series by R G Tucker beginning today. Reports cover social tax case against William Smith, arrests of Edward Bessley and Roy Edison, and vanished James G Scheller family. Courts in Jeffersonville and Corydon noted. car works in Jeffersonville expected to resume by Jan 1. local water supply legal action and license compliance push.
Subscribers to the New Albany papers report irregular timely delivery and ask readers to inform the Tribune Company. Contact details appear as Cumberland and related phone references.
The jury in the state vs Samuel Carpenter, charged with the murder of Clarence Jackson last May, recessed after hearing both sides and judge's instructions. They remained in the jury room awaiting a decision, with no verdict reached by 10 PM and no indication of when a verdict would be returned.
Charles Grandidier, unemployed at the Ohio Faille rolling mill, ingested carbolic acid at his West Third Street home around 6 am. He collapsed after swallowing the poison, his throat burned and tongue blistered. his wife alerted Dr. Richardson as antidotes were given and he showed slight revival but remained in danger.
Indiana Council No 1 Royal Arch Masons elect Thrice Illustrious Master Charles D Konefel, Deputy George A Newhouse Sr, and other officers at the Masonic Temple. An officers’ banquet followed. Crown Camp Knights of Rebecca and Endowment Bank Knights of Pythias also announced new leaders including Mra Cora Kendall and Adam Heimberger.
Mrs G S Balthie of Marengo visits son Claude L Balthie in Silver Hillie. Mrs Charlea Davis of Rockford visits Miss Mayme Frisbie near Spring Street. Mrs Thomas Hanlon travels to Indianapolis to be with sister Mrs James Ryan. Bertha Meinhardt hosts German Evangelical women’s auxiliary at West Fourth Street. Alden Tharp, formerly of the city, now in Indianapolis, visits relatives here and works as an engineer at the central hospital for the insane. Capt Benjamin F Welker, longtime resident, gravely ill at home East Fifth near Market Street with heart trouble. Mary Best remains critically ill at her son Osrl F Best’s home 514 East Market Street after paralytic stroke. widowed of Nicholas Best and mother of Mayor Jacob Best, John, Fred and Ora Best.
In New Albany a visitor from Chicago tested a ring diamond by drawing it across a glass showcase, cracking the pane. Joseph Russell pleaded guilty to malicious trespass, paid a $10 fine and agreed to cover $10 in damages. Post office letters for December 14 1908 listed names and addresses.
The Y M C A basketball squad fell to Louisville YMM A 54 to 22 amid injuries and late-assembled lineup. Dowd Crecelius O Martin Leach Whitsett and Cook starred as the local side earned respect for their effort against a stronger foe. In the second game Keystone Juniors and Second High met in a tense finish with the High School edging 25 to 23 after a 28 23 tie at regulation.
We thank the Rev Father Geo G Borries the Sisters of St Edward's Hospital and St Mary's Academy all classmates friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown in our late bereavement Mr and Mrs Taro Mr Moritz and Family.
A description of The Circle December issue highlighting its broad reader appeal with sections such as Business Music Collector Home and Mother circles. Mentions a dramatic medical topic about the dangers of appendix removal and praises Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle cure for constipation headache biliousness and malaria available at Chas D Kaotell’s drug store.
Representative John Sweeney of Ten City arrives for Democratic talks in Indianapolis and says both legislature branches will unite to repeal the county local option law. He cites past votes and notes many officials and candidates, including John Kern and E r Slack, seek caucus support as the party moves toward repeal and a uniform public bookkeeping law.
A recipe for preparing turkey with bread dressing seasoned with herbs or cracker stuffing options. It suggests stuffing with oysters or sausage and explains using parboiled onions or steaming until tender. Include a centerpiece arrangement around the turkey as shown.
A 19th or early 20th century home remedy lists lemon as a stain remover for hands and copper, plus tips for linen stains and a lemon-based remedy for feverishness. It prescribes lemon juice with alcohol for nails, a nightly treatment with toilet cream and cotton gloves, and sun exposure after lemon salt treatment. It also notes using lemon to clean copper and rust stains and to relieve thirst by softening a lemon with sugar.
A simple fernery project using two birch bark crescents and light green ribbon forms a hanging ornament. Plant tiny asparagus fern and a wider leaf fern in a moist earth canoe, store bought for 56 cents each, and keep fresh with occasional water. On Christmas morning transplant flaxseed to walnut shells glued to cards with Greetings, then place at each breakfast plate for festive cheer.
John J. Crittenden and Walter Skinner colored, arrested by Sergeant Dorn on a charge of fighting, were fined 11 each by City Judge Paris this morning. Leo F. Zelinski of 68 Gideon St Buffalo NY says he cured a cold using Bocklen Arnica Salve. applied once daily for two days and the sore disappeared. Sold at Chas D Knoefel's drug store for 25c with a guarantee.
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