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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
Revival at Main Street M E Church begins 7 30 tomorrow evening with sermons by District Superintendent W M Whiteett and Pastor Rev W B Grimes. A special singing program is planned. Revival services continue each evening for several days.
Dr W H Schlesser returns from Indianapolis and Franklin Ind. Arch ie Stevens and Miss Oclene Vivian Duval to wed tonight by Rev E T Poulson. Miss Lydia Middleton visits East Spring Street. Mrs Bruce Taylor visits her mother Mrs Ellen Stoy. Mrs Joho Octken entertains guests in East Market Street honor of Mrs Joho McAvoy. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Otto Ebeleiser in Belmont Ky. Mrs Eliza Gwio returns from Terre Haute. Henry Johnson and Miss Dore Miller wed in Jeffersonville. Mr and Mrs Guy Lyon back from Leavenworth. Fred T Wilson, once of the city, ill in Pittsburg. Mrs W S Paris and daughter Sallie Paris visit Mrs Jose Johnson in Milltown. Miss Katie Belle Baker spends holidays with Geo H Baker family. John Bracher returns to St Meinrad Academy. Ignatine Kerchevich accompanies him. Joseph Johnson and Miss Mary Beecham marry in Louisville. Groom works for Monon, son of the late John S Johnson.
Employment and sales notice offering permanent positions to reliable men and women to sell Men Women and Children Hottery from the mill to consumers. Addresses Consumers Hosiery Mills Rostling Pa and Louisville Kentucky for applicants. Also a sale listing describes a new four room cottage at Fairmont Park with 60 by 135 lot priced at 750 with 300 cash and $8 monthly installments. Charles A Henry at Fairmont Park is the contact.
The Chicago Dye House declares it has no authorized agents or solicitors and warns that hiring individuals claiming to act as agents is at the risk of the inquirer. The notice mentions a misattributed name Onicaco Dre House and references 80 in some capacity.
A class pin from New Albany High School, tied to the 2001 graduating class, is reported lost. Reward for its return is offered through the office handling the search.
Mask carnival event runs Thursday into midnight with prizes and skating. A special session Friday celebrates New Year's night with more activities.
Kin Hubbard writes a miscellany from Indianapolis including lodge events, a lunacy case against Jerome Noles, a Ruth Lodge visit by Horace M. Kean, and quail season closing. Also updates on Greenville Odd Fellows officers, Curtin Weber's dismissed case, obituaries for Mrs Ostherine Brock and Mrs Elizabeth Lark, a freight-rate hearing set for January 12, bank dividends, and a Gallagher Club minstrel show drawing a crowd.
Quarles Phelps, wanted in Kentucky for illicit liquor selling and assaulting a U S marshal plus an escape from a Kentucky jail, was arrested by officers on Enact Water between 14th and 15th streets. He offered no resistance, learned who tipped off the police, and will be held for transfer. He had been working on a railroad extension near Ferdinand, Dubois County, and came to the city recently.
The first test of the county local option law saw Lawrence and Wabash counties vote dry. Bedford faced 17 saloons in the city and 4 in Oolitic to close by April 1, while Wabash county voters approved dry by 897 with 21 saloons affected, some closing next month and others by October.
Leo F. Zelinaki of 68 Gibson J Buffalo New York says he cured a severe cold sore using Backlow's Arnica Salve. He applied the salve once daily for two days and reports all signs of the sore gone. Available at D. Kecetel's drug store, 280.
The year begins with new offices and leadership. Walter W. Balliet Cape becomes prosecuting attorney replacing Georges B McIntyre. John Doherty succeeds county surveyor John Murchell. Will Richarde takes over coroner from W L Starr. New township trustees, mostly Democrats, include Charles Long Lafayette Henory Wolfe Greenville John Schamel Georgetown Charlie Baylor Franklin Nehemiah Bowman in Floyd county, amid shifting party majorities in Indiana counties.
The Y M C A urges local firms to donate calendars for the New Year exhibit. Ohio Wesleyan University is praised as a strong college team, while a prominent basketball game tomorrow night features the Y M C A team in new attire. A New Year’s reception follows, with drills, games, and a calendar exhibit to be auctioned. Public invited for refreshments and programs. Ely Dream Balm advertised for catarrh relief with 50 cent pricing.
Pearson's Week notes peat contains coal-like constituents and can be dug at surface level yet yields different results when burned. Despite long study and large funding, no practical widespread method exists to burn peat efficiently in the twentieth century, leaving a broad prize for clever inventors.
Fragmentary passage notes a surgical removal of the appendix and a claim that those taking Dr King’s New Life Pills feel no reaction. The text emphasizes a quiet, fearsome ordeal and a satirical tone about the pills’ effects.
Indianapolis reports the Anti-Saloon League will push an amendment for state wide prohibition at the next legislature session. Officials doubt the measure will pass, citing a weakened Republican majority and voter support needed in a general election. The article also notes a public offices accounting reform plan and Rep. A J Behymer’s bid to retain the speakership and to repeal the metropolitan police law.
The text presents a playful arithmetic puzzle where subtracting numbers from others yields letters that spell SEX when combined with S and lo and X. It culminates in a suggestive pun about the sequence of operations and leftover letters.
Helen Taft, daughter of the president elect, devised a fruit punch for tennis parties. She guarded the recipe but leaked it to a friend before Bryn Mawr. Now many young girls reportedly possess the secret and the punch is expected to be widely made next summer.
A recipe instructions for chicken pie: cut and boil chicken until tender, make gravy with flour and butter, bake a biscuit-like crust, layer chicken with gravy, cover with top crust, vent steam, seal edges, butter top, and bake about two hours in a moderate oven.
Frank Manus and partners plan a 20 acre tract as a driving park and fair grounds at the base of the knobs in New Albany. A half mile race track, grand stand, and a street car line to be built by June 1 1909 if city officials grant right of way along three blocks on North State Street to connect current lines to the site. Local business leaders support the project and back the push to secure public approvals.
The law offices of McIntyre Bullint and James in New Albany Indiana announce private sale of Lot 84 and part of Lot 80 Upper Elm Street plat 13 fronting 40 feet and extending back 160 feet to Biley. Sale subject to Floyd circuit court approval and appraised value. Terms: one third cash, one third in six months, one third in twelve months with 6 percent interest. Executor Walter V Bulliet.
Notice informs subscribers that the New Assany Pesccws are not being delivered regularly. It urges readers to report missed deliveries and requests patience while the carrier service resolves the disruption.
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