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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
3
Dallas reappears before Bennett as Alderman Phelan rallies charity to poorer families, while Gibbs questions political leverage over the Borough bill. Bennett and Dallas discuss the fight and inspiration behind his success, just before Horrigan confronts him outside about a pending clash.
A partial, garbled OCR fragment hints at a local report mentioning a person named Renee and referenced medicinal treatment. No coherent event or outcome is readable from the surviving text.
Mrs S Joyce of 180 Sullivan Street Claremont NH reports a year ago she bought Foley's Kidney Cure and was cured of a long standing kidney trouble calling it a grand good medicine and recommends it. O D Knoefet
A New York dealer notes the origin of fixed shoe sizes set by a French inventor who defined zero at three and seven-eighths inches and built a scale from there. The system confounds customers as weight and foot shape alter fit, with women’s sizing often further distorted by manufacturers. The article also compares hat sizing with inner rim measurements and mentions a misfit incident at a shoe store.
In Paris the new bridal wardrobe pairs delicate rose colored lingerie with rose gowns. A bride wore a white lawn embroidered set to accompany a Persian blue broad cloth gown. The fashion notes describe tight skirts with minimal bulk and evolving underwear silhouettes.
A seven size pattern for a dressing sack ranges bust 32 to 44 inches. Send 10 cents to receive pattern 3798 by mail. Wide sleeves appear in wedding gowns this season, worn by brides and bridesmaids. The sack can be made from flannelette lawn cimity or silk with a simple ribbon bow. Judic Chollet.
A Pearsons Weekly excerpt recalls how English merchants formed the London East India Company after Dutch greed over pepper. Royal charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I launched direct trade with the East, expanding from lowering pepper prices to building a vast imperial reach under Clive and its nabobs.
The artist protests the paints bought from the Retort Direct calling them worse than imagined. The dealer responds with a quip about using imagination on painting.
A young man in a London railway terminus third class waits with a crying baby while a passerby suspects a practical joke. The elder man questions the father and jokes about being "done" before realizing the baby is the couple’s first, and the scene shifts as the elderly man discovers he has missed his train.
J D Robey of Memphis describes a group of about a dozen men in Con gresa avenue Austin wearing broad hats and cartridge belts. He identifies them as rangers, praising their bravery and skill with Winchesters. The piece lauds rangers as fearless guardians of law and order ready to die at a moment’s notice and notes their frequent encounters with criminals on the western frontier.
Robert Reid, the artist, will direct removal of two circular mural paintings from the ceiling of the Fifth Avenue hotel’s dismantled great hall. The panels, painted about fifteen years ago, are affixed by white lead and may resist removal. The wrecker team hopes to separate them without damage, while Reid remains hopeful for a clean lift.
Consul Maxwell Blake reports a new British movement by commercial and scientific groups to exterminate rats. Britain offers a virus for rat destruction profitable to American chemists, but it risks spreading contamination and death to rats and potentially swine via trichinosis. The German chancellor publishes a rat extermination recipe for districts with trichinosis incidents.
A 13 year old boy was sent through a short tube in a pneumatic parcel carrier experiment in Chicago. He reached 16 miles per hour and was unharmed. J M Masten and Postmaster Campbell witnessed for the post office department which is evaluating the device. The inventor claims a New York Chicago route could take seven hours.
The German emperor reportedly objected to spending 1200 dollars on a lace trimmed cradle for the baby heir to Saxe Coburg. He quipped that a princess would matter more, but a warrior becoming a prince should not be raised in a cradle funded by a year's salary of an office or professional man.
A Tokyo survey among Japan's leading figures shows Washington and Napoleon as the greatest favorites, followed by Hannibal Caesar and Charles XI of Sweden. The most disliked are Brutus Cromwell and Darwin.
A short letters page item from the Era in Spring Bill Kentucky noting readers should send a Gollar bill to pay for a year’s subscription and advising silence as it is none of their business.
A lively stage piece mocks social quirks with fast moving gags and a chorus of bemused onlookers. The dialogue riffs on desire gossip and race, ending with a playful jab about a rumored romantic liaison and a watermelon punchline.
A light exchange about persistent rain ends with a quip that spring seems to have sprung a leak, prompting chuckles about ongoing wet weather.
A reflective verse voice laments going to work as spring fields call to fishing by rivers and winds. The speaker longs for freedom and nature’s sway, with imagery of sunlit ripples and restless rivers, ending in a witty quip about wisdom and vanity.
A brief exchange notes someone showing a bundle of dry statistics. The other asks about the contents prompting a reaction to the figures on prohibition votes.
A playful muddle of phrases hints at light humor and social musings. The text mocks fashion, friendship, and easy money while noting belief in a fleeting presidential candidate fad and the resilience of cheerful voices. No clear events or names emerge.
A list of nine fire alarm stations marked at intersections West Seventh and Ohio streets Weat Tenth and Floyd streets Weet Seventh and Main streets Reel House corner Lower Fourth and Market streets Weat Second and Markets street City Hall State and Spring streets Lower Fourth and River Weat Eighth and Spring Bienee abn
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