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Newspaper
New Albany Weekly Tribune
Location
New Albany, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
2
Readers are urged to try Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root for kidney bladder and liver trouble. A free sample bottle and an informational book are offered by mail to those who mention reading the paper, with bottles sold by druggists at fifty cents or one dollar.
Publication notice from The Tribune Company at 42 Pearl Street New Albany Indiana announces subscription rates in advance for one year six months and three months. Remittance options include registered letter money order or express.
A collage of opinion notes covers topics from corporal punishment in New York schools to Diaz declining a sixteenth term. It remarks on Turkish bath trends, police action, maternal influence, canal naysayers, a 7 cent New York restaurant meal, and naval optimism. It also notes Shakespeare monument fuss, a fast firing gun claim, and Valencia orange overproduction hurting growers.
An editorial discusses social clubs formed by women veterans, pending groups by royals who were shot at, and a call for subpoenas to Spanish crews from the Santiago battles. It also notes Magdalena bay as a potential US harbor, possible Mexican consent without annexation, and reports on French troop plans in Morocco amid unrest with Moors.
A quoted standard describes a man who is clean inside and out, respects the poor, loses without squealing and wins without bragging, treats women and the-aged with consideration, refuses to lie or cheat, and shares the world while allowing others theirs.
A German paper laments migrants sent back by the United States while America’s travelers and collectors are accused of draining European wealth. The piece contrasts a historic Oregon voyage against Evans' fleet, then shares a desperate appeal from a deserted wife seeking aid, criticizing philanthropic indifference.
Buckford, a Wyoming horse thief who murdered Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone County, Butte, Mont, died by his own hand rather than face a posse that had him surrounded.
Senator Ebb Scotaanburg announces a measure to replace the city council and board of public works with a five member commission including the mayor and four officers who will run police and fire. The plan lets voters elect these officials and sets that street improvements are city funded with half costs shared for reconstructions. Franchises would require a public vote, with the corporation bearing the election costs.
Indianapolis protests flare as anti Taggart and Taggart camps mobilize for district conventions to choose national delegates and state committee members. Westlake backs his bid for national committeeman while Terre Haute figures lead the drive for at large seats and potential governor nomination for Samuel M. Ralston.
A mother objects to her son’s roommate at college claiming the student uses too many sesquipedalian words. The professor had endorsed the roommate for his hard study, but the mother fears contamination by such language.
Miss Suain M Richardson eighteen daughter of Mr and Mrs Felix Richardson of Franklin Ind died by self inflicted gunshot through the heart with a revolver. Police reported no immediate motive or note. authorities investigated the sudden death as a local tragedy in this city.
Wilson Roose reports from Charlen Miller HQ in Indianapolis that 1 316 delegates are chosen of 1 470 with 154 left. He notes Miller leads among delegates but cautions county loyalties spread votes and predicts Miller will enter the convention as probable nominee. Miller, in Evansville, asserts a delegate majority and plans to stay until after Thursday when Republicans pick delegates.
Local notices report visits by W W Godfrey and Nell Melkutosh, Chicago guests Theodore Beck and Far Grange ill relatives, and several calls at the Tribune office. Marriages noted include Lewis Kiser and Agnes Wyman, Carl Main and Edith Van Dyke, with couples to reside with the groom’s parents.
Communications to Charles M. Zink, chairman, note several local updates. Walter Terategge improves. J F Habermel travels via Corydon. J Fein resumes mobility after confinement. Stockdell considering moving to Oklahoma City for business. Homecomings and returns from California and Decatur noted. membership rallies planned in Evansville Indianapolis and South Bend next month.
Samuel Brown aged fifty dies at his Ealy Street home. William Mack funeral held in Hardinaborg. Mrs Adolph H Firnhaber mother of Del Firnhaber of this city buried at Marion Indiana. Joseph Spurgeon, eighty six, dies near Salem survived by son William. George C Waterhouse seventy five dies west of city. funeral tomorrow at daughter's home Culbertson Avenue Silver Grove with burial at Soldiers Cemetery. Butler J Stocksdale thirty four dies at sister’s home from brain congestion after grip. funeral Saturday at 2:30 from Hindmarch residence. Mrs Echo M Schaefer dies at 216 West Tenth Street aged twenty with one week old daughter. funeral Saturday 2 PM at home. Sonia F Bidaine eighty? four? no, seventy four dies in Lafayette township. survived by wife and three sons Edward Frank William Behan. Levi O Hand sixty six dies Grand Line Road. Civil War veteran, Mt Tabor Church member. funeral Monday. Philip Zenor fifty five dies of uremic poisoning at mother's residence 518 West Main Street. survived by multiple siblings and half-siblings. funeral Tuesday 2 PM.
At the Indiana state Democratic convention in Indianapolis the third ballot gave Slack 490 votes, Ralston 458, Marshall 326, Kuhn 60, Conn 37, with Floyd county delegates split among candidates. It was expected Ralston's support would transfer to Marshall on the next ballot.
William Thompson an elderly Ironton resident died Tuesday evening at his home 214 West Fifth street after a lingering asthmatic illness. A former iron worker and later a flagman for the Southern guard he was 68. He leaves a wife two sons John W. and Thomas and three daughters Mrs Otto Rady Mrs James Fidler and Mrs W G Bawden. He belonged to First Congregational church and hops Lodge No 83 1 C C F in this city.
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