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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
2
Advertising rates list per inch and per line for notices and reading notices. It mentions no extra days for papers sent or mail to the United States and references long time contracts for rates.
On this day 1755 Nathan Hale known for liberty died later executed in 1776. 1813 James Lawrence naval officer died at the Chesapeake with the cry Don’t give up the ship. German philosopher Hartmann born 1841 died. Astronomy notes show moon first quarter with evening sighting of Mercury, Venus, Mars and planetary conjunctions near twilight in the western sky.
The text notes 1764 as the first American congress summoned by Massachusetts assembly. It records deaths of John Brougham in 1880 and Edwin Booth in 1893, both prominent actors. It also mentions Bernab Whitkins, editor and proprietor of the Washington Post, dying in 1905.
The report notes sun set at 7 25 p m and rises at 4 25 a m with moon set at 1 16 a m. Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation of 23 degrees 69 minutes and is visible for a week in the western sky after sunset.
The column rails at a busy Congress for doing little while urging young men to politics then work. It notes Peary’s $10000 funding for Arctic searches, 27000 Corot paintings at New York port, Indiana union labor ties to Republicans, Watson’s gubernatorial bid, and Prohibitionist speakers urging temperance amid party divides. It ends with China’s cotton policy as imperial decree.
The Michigan adopts Dreadnought style gun power with eight twelve inch guns and a turret arrangement allowing rear guns to fire over the front. It remains below the planned standard, as Congress funds two new ships surpass the Dreadnought in displacement and keep to twelve inch calibers. Broadside power matches the Dreadnought at eight guns.
Congress finally raises pay for soldiers and sailors, arguing a well paid force sustains a strong navy and standing army. The piece notes enlisted personnel benefit, officers’ pay must rise to match duties and expenses, and high pay supports pride, discipline, and esprit de corps in campaigns and formal events.
English Etchings notes London has 31 daily papers and 375 periodicals. A giant dredger for Liverpool port measures 478 feet and lifts 10,000 tons of sand in fifty minutes. London rush hours peak 8 9 am and 6 630 pm with huge commuter flows. Tintern Abbey ruins in Monmouthshire are being restored around the four arches amid excavations.
A reflective quotation on memory valued as possession, followed by a vintage broadside offering one hundred dollars for Ostarrh cure and a medicinal supply endorsements segment. The fragment ends with multiple druggist signatures and a testimonial line about F J Cheney.
Danilo and Sonia share a charged waltz ending with mutual dissatisfaction and unspoken longing. Natalie Popoff plans a dramatic farewell with De Jolidon in a moonlit garden as the ambassador’s plot thickens and a hidden rendezvous is suspected.
Danilo and Santa share a dreamlike Viennese waltz as других guests applaud. The widow obsesses over Danilo and a French fiancé while the ambassador muses on schemes, and Danilo rejects plans to wed the widow amid a ballroom tension.
The Railroad Commission of Indians used persuasion to lower hay shipping rates from Terre Haute and other points. A meeting between shippers, railroad officials, and a commission member produced an agreed rate within an hour, enacted within two days to aid producers. The effort is cited as Republican legislative product.
Advertisement text promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease powder for tired aching feet with benefits like curing Osborus and sweating feet. Mentions retailers and a sample offer. Includes a humorous London Telegraph aside about a pudding tasting poorly and a cookery book praise.
An afternoon club scene features outspoken remarks attributed to Mrs Garrulous and a skeptical husband. The item shifts to a medical testimonial by A M Ake of Wood Indiana praising Foley's Honey and Tar for curing lung hemorrhages and stopping coughs, urging its use to prevent serious cold complications.
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