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Newspaper
The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram
Location
Richmond, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
4
Per Copy daily and Sunday rates are shown for the publication. The notice notes weekly, daily, and Sunday copies with a one year term. It lists price terms and frequency options for both daily and Sunday editions. The object is to outline subscription commitments and durations.
Four youths carried out a northbound Great Northern train robbery at the stock yards near Great Falls Montana. Albert Hatch 15 William Randall 17 Harry Reams 15 and George Creswell 19 are held in jail with a fourth admitted helper. Hatch allegedly switched the tracks, ordered the engineer to back up and, at gunpoint, forced the conductor to collect fares from passengers. A passenger named William Dempsey was shot during the incident.
Indiana Gons of Veterans plan the annual encampment in Lafayette with delegates from every camp. The event runs Tuesday and Wednesday and includes the ladies auxiliary convention starting with a courthouse reception and ending with a Wednesday afternoon business meeting. A large campfire at the Court House Tuesday evening features noted speakers from VFW and G A R circles.
A fragmented electoral snippet shows subscription offers for voters, listing votes tied to durations. It references women candidates and vote counts including 2,500 votes for a year’s term, 1,060 for six months, 500 for fifteen weeks, and 100 for one month, totaling 24,303 votes with 20,379 noted elsewhere.
Washington Court House Ohio June 1 Crosby Porter 35 cut his wife to pieces with a razor then slashed his own throat. Porter survived for a few hours and sent a letter to his father explaining the double tragedy. The note's content has not been released. The couple quarreled at breakfast and Porter acted in a frenzied rage.
A well to do farmer owning 400 acres was accused of attacking his wife inflicting eighteen wounds in a case tied to a rural community. Prosecutors say the incident prompted police to intervene and the man faces legal action.
A fragment describes rough red hands and prescribes stopping yellow resin soaps in favor of Easy Task soap and the white Find, promising visible hand improvement within a week. A dialogue references Brown's honesty, noting rainy nights and an umbrella motif.
San Francisco gossip traces a June engagement between Edna Goodrich and Harry J. McMillan. They express plans to marry on June 10 but say the marriage is delayed for months. All parties, including their mothers, remain unsure of the outcome as circumstances blur the couple’s future.
Lafayette Ind June 1 Advance crowds arrive for Purdue commencement set to run June 6 through the week. On June 10 two hundred sixty graduates will receive diplomas and sixty will receive advanced degrees. The senior class prepared to entertain visitors and a record alumni turnout is expected. Theses are nearly complete. Trustees meet to sanction diploma awards. Seventy seven civil seventy six mechanical and seventy seven electrical engineers will graduate.
Announcement reports Miss Bidle Rafter of The Lady from Lane's at Bush Temple engaged to R M Gulick a Pittsburg multimillionaire and former divorcee who owns the Alvin and Bijou theaters. The couple will wed in Chicago in the third week of June after her engagement ends with Will J Block's musical comedy company.
Denver June 1 The youngest counterfeiter Harry Hare has just turned twelve and was arrested for making and passing counterfeit coins. His case has been sent to the federal grand jury. Previously, at age eight, he aided his sister Minnie in eloping with Dr A D Farber of St Louis.
The first division of Atlantic Fleet under Rear Admiral Sporty Cohsissas returned to San Francisco from Tacoma and anchored at Man O'War as Maine and hospital ship Relief joined them. Minnesota arrived later from Bremerton.
Pekin on May 30 launched municipal pawnshops to shield residents from extortionate private lenders. City charges are 15 percent, compared with the previous burden of 50 percent.
Herbert Kaufman argues circulation is merchandise with provable value measured like groceries and real estate. Choose newspapers by readership quality and neighborhoods, not mere size, and verify by advertiser lists not vague statements.
Mrs. John A. Logan comments from Washington on the surge of conferences shaping national policy. She notes a push toward centralizing power through sustained deliberations, urging careful separation of politics from practical policy, and highlighting the role of governors and congressional committees in advancing federal interests and uniform laws. The piece reflects on the potential political costs and benefits of such gatherings.
Disjointed items report on thefts of fifteen chickens near Werk Pennsylvania, trials in Connecticut, and public health worries across the state. A Kansas City dentist dispute ends in Miss Emma Virginia Ice winning a suit over payment. An Alderman in Wilkes-Barre calls for whipping dancing girls, while a church organist is discharged after a dance hall incident. Misidentified bodies surface in New Hampshire and Maine, linking a buried man to a missing father’s grave.
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