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Newspaper
New Albany Evening Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
4
A stick pin reported lost or stolen from a female Scotch terrier with white body and black ears. Leave at the office at 302 Weat Market Street for a reward. finder to contact.
Clarence Jackson died after a morning shooting at the United Gas and Electric Company power house in Indianapolis. Samuel Carpenter, 22, surrendered, saying he was justified after a dispute with Jackson over his wife. The victim, 23, was a fellow employee. no witnesses were reported.
Local groups and incidents include the New Albany Lodge of Masons conferring the Entered Apprentice degree, a Ladies Hospital Club euchre, and various court actions. Notable items cover arrests for assault, upcoming plumbing contracts, dog training arrivals from New York, indictments for dynamiting Indian Creek, and travels of officers to Indianapolis for Masonic and I O O F events. Also reported are obituaries, a divorce suit, church funerals, and a compensation settlement in a Knight of Honor insurance case.
Fragmentary OCR text promotes a health product named Dr King s New Life Pills with vague benefits and misspelled ailments. The snippet offers unverified claims about headache bilions mess constipation malaria and urges trial, lacking verifiable entities or context.
Judge Jacob Herter, a long time Floyd county bar figure and ex judge from 1892 to 1898, suffered a paralytic attack at his 421 East Fifth Street home about 4 am. He has been unconscious since, with Dr. E A Sevringhame called. His condition is listed as very serious.
Over one hundred cases of strawberries were shipped last night along the Pennsylvania and Monon roads toward Chicago and Indianapolis. By Wednesday night they are expected to depart in carload lots and next week in trainloads as fruit ripens. Chicago commission house agents arrive, led by Joe Chappel, making the city a seasonal hub. Growers predict one of the largest crops in years, with distribution reaching several hundred thousand dollars countywide.
Bedford resident Cheeter Fawcett visits relatives while William Wilt family journeys to Minnesota. John A. Harrison travels to Chicago, George Smith returns home from Seymour, and a Cedar Bough couple welcomed a son. Several locals travel to Savannah, Atlanta, and Chattanooga. The Advent Christian Helpers' Union meets at 100 Ekin Avenue. A golden anniversary marked by Mr and Mrs Brader at 1030 East Sixth Street. Fireworks and lawn party for the Felts daughter Paulise. Alpha Club hosts Fortnightly and Amaranth on May 28 at Highland Country Club. Hartford City postmaster Henry Golaler visits, after river trip with Indiana editors. Lucy Miller Givens and Samuel Dean Bartley to wed in Stanford Christian church.
Rev. F. Starbird of East Raymond Maine praises Backlen arnoa Salve for years on his army wound and other obstinate sores. He also uses it in his veterinary business. Price 250 at Ohas D Knoefel’s drug store.
Homeseekers tickets go on sale on May 6 and 19, June 7 and 16, July 1 and 21, August 4 and 18, September 1 and 15, with stops in Arizona and Arkansas.
Official returns show the liberal element weaker on the Republican side but stronger in the Democratic slate. Brewers and their allies nominated many Republican candidates, while reformers lagged in the senate race. Moorman pursues district control as Kern contemplates a Senate bid over vice presidency, aided by Bryan allies.
Graduation plans shift away from caps and gowns and traditional exercises. A lecture by Prof. William Lowell Bryan of Indiana University Bloomington will replace essays and orations. The high school ceremony is set for June 4 with a musical program on June 1 and the grammar school exercises on June 2. The baccalaureate sermon will be Sunday May 25 by Rev. T Dewits Miller. Music will feature the high school orchestra.
The first district bankers gathering of the Indiana Bankers Association will convene Thursday at Highland Country Club with 35 member banks. Delegates depart by special car at 12:30 from the interurban station to Silver Hill, then return for a 1 PM program featuring Claude L Balshis and speeches by Charles D Kelao Andrew Smith S Lynch and H C Johnson. A trip to Charlestown follows with refreshments served aboard the interurban car.
Glenwoods won big over the Cowboys with 16 hits including a Harper homer. Wrenched shoulder injury to Tweese, Schan relieved Harper in the seventh. Next Sunday Shamrocke of Cincinnati with Noodles Hahn to oppose Glenwoods.
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