Old Soldiers’ Reunion Committee List Announced for September
Captain W. H. Stephenson reveals the Banner’s committee and officers for the old soldiers’ reunion set for September 1 in this city at Camp Peter Dabaker. W. H. Stephenson presides with W. L. Kiger as VP and O. P. Koontz as secretary, plus M. M. Justus as treasurer and a long roster overseeing arrangements, finance, transportation, initiation, reception, grounds, music, decoration, camp surgeons, and salutes.
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Joseph Myers
Dil Hon ‘Meyers
F. F. Boltz
A. L. Sharpe
M. M. Juntus
Jas. Chaddock
Levi Mack
Chas
Brunn
H. Y. Sturis
G. H. Gardiner
B. F. Wiley
Sam‘uel Keller
J. C. Fulton
L. “Mason
W. H. Start
9. Kauffman
Jumping at Conclusions Trunks Mislead Hartford City Trip
Interurban employees and officers at Hartford City wrongly assumed a gruesome crime when trunks loaded by C N Saxson were found to carry clothing. A foul odor triggered rumors of dead bodies, but investigators located Saxson at a relative in Blackford County and confirmed no mystery.
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Hartford City
C. N. Saxson
Saxson
Blackford County
Lancaster Township Appointees Await Qualification
Two men named John Grames and Simon Hetrick have been appointed by the county board of commissioners as Justices of the Peace in Lancaster township to fill vacancies caused by deaths, but neither has qualified yet and cannot hear cases. An affidavit may allow a case to be filed elsewhere if no Lancaster justice is eligible. Miss Hezel Grove arrives from Hartford City for a week with friends. Wile Grove, her father, was in town yesterday. Speheger and Irvin Miller plan to leave for St. Louis tomorrow to spend a few days.
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Lancaster Township
County Board of Commissioners
John Grames
Simon Hetrick
Manuel Chalfant
Ben Miller
Lancaster
Hezel Grove
Tomor
Hartford City
Wile Grove
Speheger
Irvin Miller
Ilvagt
St. Louia
Genealogy Sparks Romantic Rebuff in Farce
Francis Norton quarrels with Dolly over ancestry and insists on marriage only if she traces ten generations. Dolly favors genealogy as a serious hobby, but Norton learns his lineage includes a thief and a pirate, ending with a humorous departure as Dolly concedes she cares less for roots.
Conkling's Remark Shapes 1880 Republican Convention Moment
The piece recalls Roscoe Conkling at the 1880 Republican convention addressing about 20 000 people. He aimed to secure Ulysses S Grant for a third term and faced vociferous crowd responses lasting minutes before beginning with a controversial line echoing Miles O Reilly.
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Conkling
Ulysses Ss. Grant
Appomattox
Miles O'Reilly
Everybody's Magazine
The Inexhaustibility of Chess Count
A historical note outlines immense combinatorial counts in chess moves. It estimates 18,078,504,000 ways for the first four moves on one side and about 1.895e20 for the first ten moves on each side, citing Edward Anthony’s article on chess inexhaustibility.
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Edward Anthony
Strange Antipathies and Peculiar Patient Reactions
A physician notes patients with unusual aversions and reactions. One fainted at the smell of a rose while others reacted to honey thyme fish or violets. A rash followed crib meat for another, and odd cases include lps sore at dogs and nose discomfort from apples. The text ends with a widow calm until hearing a funeral sound.
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Catilinal Cardona
Boyle
Love and intrigue at a military post ends with wary ploy
Lieutenant White engineers a ruse to protect Mrs. Gessner from a jealous rival, Mrs. Walsh, while navigating charges of impropriety. He convinces Walsh he loves her while guiding Gessner to expose the rival and save multiple reputations. White then departs for Washington as both women leave the post.
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Geesner
Karl Gessner
West Point
White
Gessner
Major Walsh
Lieutenant White
Ele
Sueb
Mrs. Gessner
Washington
Thuily
San Francisco
Wealth, Love, and a Hidden Peer Duke Romance
Mrs Ferrier, a wealthy widow with no heir, had loved a drawing master, Alan Conyngham, ten years earlier. At a Washington reunion he reveals he is actually the Marquis of Bournemouth, British minister to the United States, who rose from drawing master to diplomat. The couple reunites as she learns his true title and they marry, uniting wealth and status.
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Ferrier
Alan Conyngham
Florence Huntington
Florence
Washington
Congress
Florence Ferrier
Conyngham
Jin
Jim
Legation
Bournemouth
United States
England
Lord Bournemouth
Matel
Posigona
Grain market news cites outlook and prices from Chicago reports
The Aug 17 grain summary notes frost risk in the Dakotas, mixed crop estimates, and ongoing threshing. It describes a nervous corn market, rising winter wheat movement, and generally weak cash trade though offerings grow. Wheat and oats prices are listed with futures quotations and livestock receipts are reported.
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Chicago
Northwestern
ODELL
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Manitoba
Minnedosia
Bluffton Market Prices for Wheat and Farm Produce in 1904
Bluffton Indiana August 17 1904 market report lists prices for wheat oats clover seed timothy seed hay and livestock. Includes butter lard potatoes veal calves cattle hogs and poultry with a mix of high and low quotes and buyers. An advertisement touts Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets with a Des Moines endorsement and Davenport and White as sellers.
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Dolly
Nis
Maine
McGregor
Genealogical Society
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Hitle
Eame
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Flo
Chicago Marketa
L. A. Higdon
Dakota
Kansas City
Bluffton Markets
Bluffton,Ind
Aram
Chamberlain
L. F. Andrews
Des Moines
Davenport
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