Local notes include purchases taxes and obituaries
Treasurer W. T. Hines bought a Studebaker car and Corbin Bidwell bought D. A. Schaff property on North York street. Taxes due by May 4 with ten percent penalty. Community updates cover illness recoveries, funerals in Bremen, visitors from Michigan City, and a new auctioneer in Albion. Epworth League officers elected at M E church.
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Corbin Bidwell
D. A. Schaff
North York Street
Epworth League of the
M. E. Church
Mildred Reed
R. J Burns
Glenn Gaff
Addie Evans
Will Menaugh
Clarence Holderman
Forest Beck
Calve Ralibao
The Tree Butcher Vandals Shade Trees
An opinion warns against reckless tree trimming by hired cutters. It argues many so called experts lack knowledge and can ruin trees, stressing the lasting value of shade and advising consulting a real expert to avoid irreversible damage.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Call to reform city skating rules across districts
Fort Wayne News urges substantial change to the ban on children on roller skates. It argues business districts should ban on walks and streets, while residential and outlying areas deserve more freedom for healthful exercise, warning that current rules invite accidents with speeding autos.
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Fort Wayne News
Woman Suffers Mercury Poisoning After Calomel Mix Up
Mrs. Bert Baughman of Kendallville ingested bichloride of mercury by mistake after her husband requested calomel at Snyder's drug store. Doctors treated her with temporary relief but the outcome remains uncertain.
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Bert Baughman
Kendallville
Baughman
Snyder’s
Good Roads Meeting At Opera House Draws Crowd
A busy season did not deter an audience of about one hundred at the opera house last Wednesday afternoon for the good roads gathering. Mr. Eldridge presented an engaging talk and stereoptical views that attendees found interesting and instructive.
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Opera House
Spirella Corsets The best dressed woman fitted to measure
Ray Hursey and family moved to the St. Hursey farm in York township last week. Mrs. B. R. Suirk advertised as Corsetiere for Spirella Corsets offering fitted garments.
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B. R. Suirk
Ray Hursey
St. Hursey
York Township
Remarkable mail carrier Gans served 106 years route
Post office inspector recalls Gans on the Vawter Park to Oswego mail run from July 1 1891 to July 1 1997. Over sixteen years he missed only three trips due to snow blocked roads or high water. His hands were lost in youth yet he maintained a near flawless star route record, a rare Indiana achievement.
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G. Gans
Vawter Park
Oswego
Gans
Star Route
Indiana
Syracuse Joursa
Wrigley Renominated at Democratic Judicial Con vention
At the Columbia City convention last Thursday Judge L H Wrigley was renominated for judge of the judicial circuit by acclamation with no opposition. Whitley county proposed F J Hiller for prosecuting attorney and Noble county proposed Harry Helwig, Kendallville, with the vote 16 to 17 in Helwig’s favor and he declared the nominee. Try an ad in The New Era.
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Columbia City
L. H. Wrigley
Whitley County
F. J. Hiller
Noble County
Harry Helwig
Kendallville
Helwig
Alfalfa not suited for all soils cautions from experts
U S Bureau of Agriculture warns farmers against rushing into alfalfa planting. Specialists urge testing in small experimental plots before wide cultivation and advise consulting state stations to assess climate soil and economic risks.
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U. S. Bureau of Agriculture
Value of Practical Work Over High Payed Vacations
A Evansville Courier excerpt argues vacation jobs lure youth with high pay but little real value. It urges aspiring mechanics to work in a machine shop for hard, dirty labor that builds practical skill and theory. It notes rapid hands on experience in electric civil or telephone engineering and salesrooms offers concrete facts over office clerks’ pay.
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Embryo Electric
Evansville Courier
Stanley's Hardware Galvanized Roofing Ad
For the best galvanized roofing see Stanley's Hardware. All work guaranteed. Ad.
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Stanley
Weather, elections and fish noted in Albion in 1886
Clipped from the Albion newspaper dated April 22 1886 reports budding trees a local barefoot man a visit by Warren McMeans and wife from Cromwell and local political hints for town marshal candidates Andy Parks and J N Bast. It notes school enrollment 382 pupils and a large catch of black suckers in a ditch near Commissioner Kimmell’s farm.
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Taz Albros
Ena
J. P. Prickett
Warren McMeans
Cromwell
How to Keep Books on the Farm Bulletin No 572
The Department releases Farmers Bulletin No 572 titled A System of Farm Cost Accounting. It requires no prior bookkeeping knowledge and helps farmers estimate annual profits or losses. Tested for three years in New York with 53 participant farms, the system is available free while supplies last.
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New York
Busy Thoughtful Man Refuses Help At Work
A southern tale tells Mrs Ebenezer washing a head while Ebenezer on the woodpile boasts of being busy. She questions his laziness and he replies he is busy thinking. The exchange ends with her sharp retort about his thinking.
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Indianapolis
Ebenezer
Parcel Post Mail Record At Albion Post Office
Albion post office totals for the first half of the month include 783 total weight 1802 total postage paid and 1354 total parcels handled with 21 insured. Beginning April 16 rural route carriers will separate count weigh and compute total postage on all mail for sixty days.
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Albion Post Office
Eeee Eens
Hg Win Aan
Be Direct About Chamberlain Cough Remedy Ad
Promote Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best first choice for coughs and colds. The ad touts its worldwide reputation and high praise from users, noting availability through M. C. Beck.
Grain elevator stocks on hand at Stiefel and Levy
Barn, middlings, and hominy feed available from Stiefel & Levy. Local grain elevator advertises current stock on hand to meet farmer needs.
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Stiefel & Levy
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