Lew Starrs Cream Factory Expands Ice Cream Trade
Lew Starr quietly built an ice cream business with hand frozen first batches then labor saving machinery. A gas engine powered the freezer followed by a cream separator. The latest equipment handles eighty gallons daily, supporting a nationwide customer base served from a rear house build. Starr supplies eight hundred gallon tubs and makes all ice for winter. he milks cows and performs all operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Starr
Starr
Revolution Imminent and Mail Stamps Policy
An advertisement touts Selectric Bitters for nervousness sleeplessness and stomach upsets promising stomach tone kidney and bowel regulation liver stimulation and blood clarification with a 50 cent price guaranteed by a druggist. A postal rule effective October 1 requires stamps to Philippines to bear the overprint Philippines. unlabeled mail destined to the islands will be rejected for postage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. C. Deam
Post Office Department
Philippines
United States
New Teachers Hired as City Board Sets Levy
The city school board met Thursday to fix the ensuing year's tax levy. The special tax fund remains fifty cents, but forty two cents are levied this year versus thirty six cents last year to align with the new fund-raising law. Tuition levy rises five cents to forty. Several new teachers are hired, filling all vacancies. S.J. Brickley and Oliver Hammon join staff, Eva Phillips takes room four, Kenyon Mix remains in room two, and Oliver Lockhart from Albany will teach history and English at the high school, replacing Earl J. Walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City School Board
Oak Street
S.J. Brickley
Oliver Hammon
Eva Phillips
Huntington
Columbian
Kenyon Mix
J. M. Mix
Massachusetess
Oliver Lockhart
Albany
Indiana
Indiana University
Earl J. Walker
Chamberlains Colic Remedy and a Huge Local Snake Tale
The column praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a popular, reliable stomach medicine especially for children in summer. It also reports a big snake sighting near Reiffsburg where John Kimmel and Sylvester Runyon claim a fifteen foot black snake was shot at with no effect, noting uncertainty and secondhand reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport & Eble
Reiffsburg
John Kimmel
Sylvester Runyon
Runyon
Two Personal Conducted Excursions To The West
Two personally conducted excursions to Colorado Utah and California are being organized to leave the first week in July and August. Very low round trip rates and no change of cars from Ohio to Indiana points to destination. If you have not arranged your summer vacation write for full information to G A A Deane Jr T P AA Mo Pac Rig 200 Sentinel Bldg Indianapolis Ind.
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Colorado
Utah
California
Ohio
Indiana
G. A. A. Deane, Jr
T. P. Aa. Mo
Sentinel Bidg
Indianapolis
Ind
Federation of Clubs endorses library fund drive
The Federation of Clubs met in Bluffton to plan a garden party at Mrs. FY PB Adams home on July ninth to raise money for the public library juvenile department. Members resolved to support efforts to remove the saloon evil and pledged help as possible, electing Mrs. W. Mason as president, Mrs. W. A. Kunkel secretary, and Mrs. I. P. Adams treasurer for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation of Clubs
M. E
Public Library
FY PB. Adams
Bluffton
Mason
W. .A.kunkel
I. P. Adams
Trouble at Petroleum Dr Saunders seeks eviction after divorce
Dr. Saunders of Petroleum visited the city to determine steps to eject his ex wife from their Petroleum home. After a divorce two weeks prior custody of their two year old child was awarded to the mother who then attempted to seize the child in a hotel dining room. The dispute led to a forcible ejection of Mrs Saunders and a cracked door glass. Deputy Prosecutor Matlack declined to file, noting both sides bore blame. Saunders paid ten dollars into court for child support. Also reported is the burial of Lent Murphy, 17, widow of Wiley Murphy, transported to Rossville for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Saunders
Petroleum
Mr. Saunders
Trurtford City
Matlack
Saunders
Lent Murphy
Wiley Murphy
West Bond
Rossville
East Wabash Street
Dr. McKinney
Wingfield
Johnson
Carlisle
Crouse
Williams Ed
Mack
Marshal Crosbie
Chris Starr records in town for paid fine and affidavit
Chris Starr paid a twenty five dollar fine and costs for pointing a dangerous weapon and sought to file an assault affidavit against William Turner. The deputy prosecutor delayed until Starr paid the fine. Starr claims Turner threatened him with a pipe during their quarrel.
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Chris Starr
Chris
Matlack
William Turner
Turner
A Costly Mistake in Dyspepsia Remedies
An old advertisement mocks costly blunders over stomach ills and promotes Dro King Life Pills as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion and liver pain. The copy warns that life’s price can be paid for errors, urging readers to choose the advertised remedy.
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Gray
E. Z. Benomme
Cohoes, N. Y
Ayer
Ayer CO
Lowell
Mass
Chamberlain
Tad Eee
Wu Lee
S.S. S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Gas
Ed Wingfield
Ele
Randall
Montpelier
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