OLDENBURG Home Coming and Local Festivities
Oldenburg hosts a home coming on Sept 4 with Sunman Street Fair Sept 10 11 and a Labor Day dance by Eureka Band at Batesville Fair Grounds on Monday. A progressive euchre at Oldenburg Town Hall Sept 5 begins at 7:30 PM with all welcome. Numerous local residents and visitors are noted in short social items across Cincinnati Indianapolis Connersville and Kentucky towns.
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Newpoint
Eureka
Batesville Fair Grounds
Oldenburg Town Hall
F. B. Moorman
Arthur
Cincinnati
J. F. Burdick
Omer
Monica Burdick
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Leo Herrman
Martin Herrman
Henry Herrman
Julia Boehm
Indianapolis
F. J. Hoelker
George. Streuwing
William Brockman
Antwerp
L. Hall
John Holtel
Edmund Hoelker
Harry Baumer
Connersville
Marie Feldkamp
John Haverkos
William Riehling
Woodlawn
Jacob Etter
Bernadetta Mollaun
Irene Herrman
Frank Enneking
Herman Bessler
Lawrenceburg
Elizabeth Holtel
Henry Ortman
Latonia
Gertrude Freihage
Della Kellerman
Ella Macke
Joseph Kellerman
Pete Kellerman
Margaret Kellerman
Richmond
Leon Kellerman
Henry Handorf
William Enneking
Haserf
John Dellar
Dahmus
Columbus
Ed Freihage
Frank Peine
Linda
Erie
Mich
William Hoelker
Conrad Roth
Charles Witters
Brookville
Nick Gloshen
Mary Clemens
Franklin
Ohio
C. W
Ben Streuwing
Why People Buy Rat Snap in Preference to Rat Poison
RAT-SNAP kills rats and mice. What it doesn’t kill it scares away. Rats killed with RAT-SNAP leave no smell and dry up inside. Made in cakes no mixing with other food. Cats and dogs won’t touch it. Three sizes 35c 68c and $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Blank's Pharmacy and Meyer Hardware Company.
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Blank’s Pharmacy
Meyer Hardware Company
Pig in the Bed Tale From Northumberland Satire
A London Express item explains how phrases vary locally with a traveler recounting a tale that in Northumberland people slept with a pig in the bed to keep warm, using the story to illustrate regional language quirks and humor.
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Northumberland
London
First Elephant Arrivals in Western Europe and England
The text notes an elephant first arriving in western Europe in 607 when the Walnut Heroin al Ras chid presented one to Charlemagne. It claims the animal did not reach England until 3255, a long after this initial introduction.
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Western
Europe
Charlemagne
England
Connersville and area residents visit, relocate
Local social news notes many residents traveling visiting relatives and friends in Indianapolis Connersville Cincinnati Muncie Fairfield Greensburg Flagstaff and other cities. Several ties show moves as Beech er Matthews family and Luther Lockwood attend events while Mrs Gordon resigns as post mistress and Linnie Banes becomes successor.
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J. C. Swan
St. Louis
Jack Hay
Indianapolis
James Hay
Mises Florence
Lucile Allison
Cincinnati
John Alley Sr
Alden Sherwood
Tom Martindale
Olive Sherwood
Alice Manley
Ernest Manley
Brookville
Connersville
Ella McGuire
de Witt Curry
Fairfield
Guy Thompson
Edwin
Will Clevenger
Muncie
Beecher Matthews
Albert Matthews
Greenfield
Ohio
Luther Lockwood
Greensburg
Gladys McFarlan
Evelyn
Flagstaff
Arizona
Lee McFarlan
Prescott
Emma Parvis
Richmond
Ben Sanford
Edith Wright
Lorna Hutton
Mabel Swartz
Emma Johnson
Stipps’ Hill
Ruby Lambdin
C. H. Thorpe
Harry Davis
Mt. Carmel
Monroe Allison
Inez Gordon
Linnie Banes
Metal Pen Origin From Accident in Birmingham
Eight years ago in Birmingham England jeweler Joseph Gillt split a steel tool and used the split piece as a makeshift nib to sign a receipt. This accident inspired the concept of making pens from metal.
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Joseph GiItt
Birmingham
England
Treasure Trove Found by Baltimore Laborer
A laborer named Starry Lee uncovered a metal box while helping pull down an old Baltimore residence. He removed the lid and found a sack of several old coins believed to date from the early eighteenth century, along with two old flints.
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Starry Lee
Baltimore
Contraries and a Village Suitor Change of Heart
Lessie, thought homely by sister Ellen, gains confidence and supplies a real home offer when Nate Dixon, a well off suitor, shows genuine intent. Lessie’s transformation under Cy Cummings and Ellen’s social plotting leads to a revelation of true happiness as Dixon sees Lessie’s true self.
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Western Newspaper Union
Lessie
Cy Cummings
Hanner West
Wilby
Webster’s Corners
Nate Dixon
Mary
Willin
Dixon
Ellen
Barnie’s
Miss Lessie
Mrs. Cummings
Saunders
Miss Saunders
Leasie
Printing for power and purpose the right kind platform
A concise manifesto proclaims that true printing value rests in quality and purpose, framing it as a decisive platform for influence and impact. It emphasizes the distinct advantage of well crafted print to persuade, inform, and endure.
Trustee's Notice of Township Meetings in Adams Township
John Sieg trustee of Adams Township announces monthly meetings on the first Saturday in Morris Sunman and the second Saturday in Sunman with a final Saturday session each month at home. Meetings address township business and governance.
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Morris
Sunman
John Sieg
Adams Township
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Deafness Cure
An old advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous surfaces and claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures it by a constitutional remedy. It offers a $100 reward for any case not cured and notes circulars free with purchase from J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toleds
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