Dress Goods and Local News Around town
Community notes recount market goods in demand at Argus stores, new residents moving in, a huckster wagon resuming service, and plans for an Easter cantata. Officials convened to nominate officers, schools prepare for a March 30 event, and local projects include building, gravel testing, and frontier expansion with Dr. remington typewriter bids and property purchases noted.
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Heusser
German Reformed Church
Oregon
Isaac North & Co
Wabash River
The
Evangelical Church
Ed. Shoemaker
Biberstine
Town Notes and Visitations From Galt to Montpelier
Local items report A. Dean visiting Galt Ontario Monday. Mrs. Milliken called to see her grandson. Davis at Montpelier Thursday. Roe and Hunter at Bluffton Saturday. Ida Imanuel visiting her mother Oswald. Mannes teaching at Liberty Center. Sunday visit. Swaim family from Bluffton in town. Keefer editor of the News in Ft Wayne. Mrs. Walmer of Montpelier visiting parents. Carpenter family from Ft Wayne visiting. Caston and Clark from Wall in town. Jennie Hatfield from Ft Wayne home for the weekend. Maggie Duan elected organist and A E Ormsby choRister at M E church. Dr M N Newman buys Foughty farm west of town for 1075. H E Keller photographer ill at Craig house. Home Insurance adjuster settled T B Hunter claim. John Cartwright of Delphi at bedside of Mrs Gorrell. Miss May Hughes dies age. funeral Tuesday. L F Chalfant from Greentown visiting locally. School resumes Monday with seventh and eighth grades.
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T. A. Dean
Galt
Ontario
Wm. Milliken
A. B. Davis
Montpelier
E. H. Roe
H.C. Hunter
Bluffton
Ida Imanuel
Oswald
W. D. Mannes
Liberty Center
H. Swaim
Jennie Hatfield
Ft. Wayne
Maggie Duan
A. E. Ormsby
M. E
M. N. Newman
Foughty
H. E. Keller
Craig House
Home Insurance Co
T. B. Hunter
Nottingham Items Signal Bright Local Outlook
Health is good in the vicinity and Nottingham experiences a lively March with growth. William Pace gathers ground material for a new farm while oil activity increases with seven wells inside the corporation and Well No. 7 on the Waldron farm yielding 100 barrels in the first day under Orville Fisher’s lease management.
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William Pace
Nottinghammers
F. Y. Fisher
Reiffsburg
Jay County
Nottingham
Waldron
Orville Fisher
Horses Wanted for Market Sale at Gehrett Barn
SPRINGER GERBER and Co announce a horse sale day at H. S. Gehrett's barn on Saturday March 24. Bring your horses to get market prices.
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H. S. Gehrett
Springer, Gerber & Co
Ulyses Hunnicutt Public Sale Near Poneto
Public sale at the residence one and one half miles east and one half mile north of Poneto on Wednesday March 238. The catalog lists a cow two year old steer yearling heifer three year old colt two year old colt two yearling colts two horse wagon spring wagon top buggy buggy harness double work harness wheat drill spring tooth cultivator and many other articles.
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Ulyses Hunnicutt
Poneto
Buttermilk Out of Season in Cham berlain’s Delmonico
A New Yorker dining at John Chamberlain’s Washington Delmonico protests a $1.85 butter milk bill. Chamberlain explains buttermilk is out of season, and the man is urged to dispute with the waiter for the high charge.
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John Chamberlain
Washington
Delmonico
Capital City
Eiffel Tower
Mr. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
New Yorker
New York Tribune
Railway tale and mountain humor in Old Detroit piece
The selection blends a Vienna hospital anecdote about a patient with a rusty nail in the brain and a Kentucky Tennessee hillside farmer joke. A whispering farmer laments poor land and inability to raise his voice, claiming ten years on the land has left him hushed for five.
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Vienna
Kentucky
Tennessee
Big Sandy
Fanshaw’s Mill
Detroit
One Minute Cough Cure Mentioned In Ad Snippet
An advertising fragment cites One Minute Cough Cure offering quick relief for coughs and a reference to Warner's Heart Corrector and Early Risers tablets. It notes the tallow tree in China and lists ailments like constipation and nervousness.
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China
California by North Western Line in 34 Days
From Chicago to California the North Western line offers a 34 day through journey with full dining service en route. Tourist sleeping cars run daily to San Francisco and Los Angeles with weekly escorted excursions. Berths in tourist sleepers from Chicago to the Pacific coast cost 6.00 each with low rate variable excursion tickets to key points.
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California
North Western
Palace
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
W. A. Thrall
Chicago & North-Western Ba Y
Ill
Indians Rege of Evil Spirits Work Report
A fragment notes a focus on Indians and evil spirits with references to work. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear dates or explicit events. Further context would be needed to clarify names, places, or outcomes.
Dr Wells New Cough Cure Ad
An old advertisement urges immediate purchase of Dr Wells New Cough Cure at 25 cents from J E Sturgis in Newark New Jersey. The notice claims rapid safe relief and warns that coughs and colds can be fatal. The text also contains a business line noting annual sales of 70 million dollars for a Newark firm.
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Dr. Wells
J. E. Sturgis
Morris English Stable Powders Sold For Horses
To horse owners the ad promotes Morris English Stable Powders to tone up digestion cure loss of appetite relieve constipation correct kidney disorders and destroy worms. Each package costs 25 cents or five for one dollar sold by J. E. Sturgis in Philadelphia.
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J. E. Sturgis
Bucklen Arnica Salve Promises Quick Skin Cure
Bucklen Arnica Salve marketed as the best salve for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and sells for 25 cents per box through Charles Do. Deem. New Orleans described as the crescent city on the Mississippi bend.
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Bucklen
Charles Do. Deem
Dr King's New Discovery touted by household users
Canajoharie New York resident D W Fuller praises Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and says he would not be without it. Catskill New York druggist G A Dykeman calls it the best cough remedy and notes eight years of family use with full results. Trial bottles free at Charles C Deam's drug store. regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar. Dewitt’s Early Risers touted for digestion and biliousness. Witch Hazel Salve advertised for cleansing healing and piles.
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D. W. Fuller
Canajoharie
N.Y
Dr. King
G. A. Dykeman
Catskill
N. Y
Charles C. Deam
Distemper Its Cause and Treatment
Distemper Its Cause and Treatment is a small book proving Crafts Distemper and Cough Cure effective for equine and animal diseases. Free by Wells Medicine Co. Lafayette Ind. Remedy sold by J E Sturgis. 5113 Tiberias Palestine hosts a meteorological observatory 682 feet below sea level.
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Craft
Wells Medicine Co
Lafayette
Ind
J. E. Sturgis
Tiberias
Palestine
How's Your Horses Morris English Stable Liniment
A claim for Morris English Stable Liniment promises to cure lameness sprains galls and other hoof and flesh injuries in horses. It touts promptness safety and economy with prices 50 cents and 1.00. Sold by J E Sturgis. Some geologists regard mudstones as fossil corals.
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Morris
Liniment
J. E. Sturgis
Eminent Minnesota Judge Endorses White Wine of Tar Syrup
Judge M B Koon of Minneapolis writes against patent medicines and praises White Wine of Tar Syrup for a lung attack. He says one bottle strengthened his lungs and he would recommend it to fellow lawyers with throat or lung troubles. The note appears in a period letter.
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M. B. Koon
Minneapolis
Minn
J. E. Sturgis
Springtime Remedies and Hood’s Sarsaparilla
An old note on spring fever cites Alfred Tennyson and humorously credits Hood’s Sarsaparilla as the era’s popular spring medicine. The ad claims it purifies the blood and strengthens nerve mind body and digestion nationwide.
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Alfred Tennyson
Hood
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ARGUS
J.J.M. M
John Beberstein
Montana
Noah Teeler
Fred Hofstetter
J. G. Dettinger
J. Gehring
Uno
Weist Bros
Wm. Mertz
Fred Engeler
A. E. North
Isaac North
John Baumgardner
Baumgardner
Imogene
Band Boys
Stine
Union Township
Aaron Vail
Elzey
Gorrell
Chas. Carpenter
Ossian
Tom Tim
W. D. Caston
Wm. Clark
Wall
Warner
C.C. Deam
Newark
N. J
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Crescent City
Mississippi
Seattle
Wash
Dewitt
C.C
C. Deam
Minnesota
Tennyson
J. A. Studabaker
Deering Binders
Maita
Nancy Hanks
Wein —& T. Wza.gow
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