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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
7
A New York Evening Mail verse celebrates St. Nicholas and holiday cheer. The poem calls for welcoming the saint with warmth, cheer, and childlike joy, inviting both women and men to celebrate in familiar holiday paths and bright lights.
Edward L. Mitten of Goodland files in Indianapolis federal court seeking 15000 damages after the Continental Limited wreck near West Lebanon on March 7. He suffered head and facial injuries with other wounds. joins several others who settled or remain with company.
The Despatch reports brisk sale of oil stock in Wayne town with over $1,400 subscribed by Wednesday. Local landowners near the project have invested and expect to buy more as activity continues. Confidence remains high that oil exists, though the exact drilling site is unsettled. A second well is likely to be drilled south of town near the Kellar farm where the first attempt neared success.
An experimental farm in Laporte County will be led by Leonard B. Clore the corn expert under Purdue university experiment station auspices and with local influential support. The aim is to show sandy soils in Laporte and northern Indiana can yield first class corn and large crops.
Kingman currently lacks a liv ery barn for the first time in years. Tom Jackson sold his stock and rigs at an auction. Charles Millien bought the hearse team and will drive the C. M. Spencer funeral car until a new operation begins, which is expected soon.
A festive note reports a woman under the mistletoe appearing unconscious if the right man is present. Attica visitors Mrs. Perry Overbay and daughter Mrs. Jackson Deeter of Newtown were in town Saturday.
Eber Hollingsworth of Odell area, 82, cousin of former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, recently visited him in Danville. He is Civil War veteran and twelve years older than Cannon. Hollingsworth recounts Cannon family Quaker roots, Joe Cannon’s courtesy to visitors, and his father’s drowning near Bloomington.
Milwaukee Synthesis company announces a chemical process that converts Timothy hay into milk that is said to be identical to cow milk in Taste and nutrition but without souring due to removed germs. The hay milk does not require pasteurization for preservation.
Jonathan VanHorn, one of Warren county’s oldest citizens, died at his Rainsville home on Wednesday December 4 after a four week illness. A Civil War veteran and charter member of Boswell IOOF Lodge, he left son Richard VanHorn of Boswell.
Peter Layton, who had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Roley for several weeks, departed Monday to return to his home in Silver Lake, Missouri.
A Nacional Monthly summary traces Christmas customs from northern tree worship to gifts for gods and priests. It links midwinter rites to modern gift exchanges and stockings tied to St Nicholas, noting German origins and global adoption of these traditions.
A muslin pillowcase bag tied from the chandelier holds dozens of inexpensive trinkets wrapped in paper. Blindfolded players strike the bag with a cane and then reach inside to claim a gift, providing lively holiday entertainment for siblings and cousins.
An old fashioned pantomime game called Quaker Meeting is a party favorite. Players whisper tasks to others and then perform them in silence while the rest of the group remains quiet. The assignments include mime acts such as a bravura on a table or admiring oneself in a mirror.
The Baltimore American reports T. E. Mitten once Attica station agent and now a leading street railway magnate is seriously ill at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He traveled from Philadelphia with his brother T. J. Mitten Dr. Buswell and a nurse. He was moved to the hospital December 5 and companions stayed by him. the paper notes his railroad service from 1887 to 1890 in Attica.
The Veedera burg News notes growing discussion of a wet and dry election in March as supporters likely push a petition to county commissioners for a vote. Hoopeston faces a diphtheria outbreak with three cases under quarantine after a prior twelve cases.
Calvin Breaks found a 300 pound hog missing from his Breaks area farm near Crawfordsville last week. The animal worth about twenty five dollars was butchered and hauled away by a wagon before Breaks arrived. The note ends with a local quip about who might have stolen it.
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