Local News Roundup From Brook Area On Monday
Local items report Jacob White visiting from the county seat and Mrs Arthur Welshaar ill at home. Notices seek housework, family washings, and advertised sale of Plymouth Rock roosters. Davis and Davis guests, Halloween party hosted, plans for a big game at Brook versus Ladoga. Socials include Carnation Club event, and visits from Lillian Adair, Eunice Park in Chicago, and out-of-town guests from Indianapolis and Frankfort. Frequent mentions of local families, school events, and upcoming community game day at the Brook Community Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob White
Ann Be
Arthur Welshaar
7. B. Staney School
Fred Lyons
The Youth's Companion Christmas Gift Nostalgia Note
A hometown notice highlights The Youth's Companion as a cherished Christmas present with reminiscences of early numbers and family reading. The piece lists local social gatherings, readers and subscribers, and regional notes from Hammond, Crete, and Kankakee about society events, publications, and growing community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Givng
Leopard’s
Halloween Train Fare Sale for Chicago Exposition
Railway associations across the Midwest grant 4 one half fare round trips from Ohio Mississippi River region to Chicago's International Live Stock Exposition. Tickets on sale November 25 to 29, return by December 5 midnight. Also notes a Halloween party hosted by A B Sunday school classes with pumpkin lights, black cats and games at Pauline and Gladys Lyons' home.
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Chicago
Ohio
Mississippi
Animal World
Junor
A. B
Pauline
Gladys Lyons
Red Cross Home Nursing Half-Time Report 1920 1921
Report of home service work from November 1 1920 to October 1 1921 shows 106 on file 27 recurrent cases and 800 layettes produced for Europe. Nurses logged 112 total cases 1781 nursing visits with infant welfare prenatal tuberculosis and school health activities, plus 8783 pupils inspected and 99 talks. Leave of absence noted from June 15 to August 25 1921.
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Victory Medala
Hed Cress
Europe
Newton County
American Red Cross
Bush Docks
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rockville
Chicago
Absorbe
Counterfeit Money Crisis Hits Nationwide Spread
A Treasury report warns counterfeiters and bootleggers flood the country with fake bank notes. Engraving plants, moonshine trades, and border smuggling feed the operation as secret service efforts struggle to curb the flow. Two main methods raise or split notes, with Philadelphia gangs distributing tens and hundreds in circulation. The Treasury urges careful bill inspection and familiarity with portraits to spot fakes.
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Treasury Department
Washington Dispatch
Secret Service
Sta
Mottalus
Tennessee
U. S
Toilay
Philadelphia
Thea
Uncle Sam
United States Treasury Department
Holt
Jackson
Cleveland
Grant
Franklin
Marshall
Relief Came at Last From Pine Remedy Claims
Relief came at last from a pine remedy used by A F Sherer of Haviland Ohio for his son’s years long cough. The advertisement warns a lingering cough can damage lungs and urges prompt treatment. It touts Grand Pine as effective for colds bronchial issues and mentions a Fort Wayne company selling it with preparation directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Sherer
9 S Machine Shop
Haviland
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Prodigals Who Failed to Return
A nostalgic appeal asks readers to share news of community members who left and did not return. The list names former residents and relatives now living in distant places such as Omak Washington Riverside California Tig Timber Montana Wilmington Ohio Chicago Heights Illinois and Milford Utah among others. The piece invites readers to write or tell personally about these prodigals who never came back.
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W. D. Foresman
John 0 Sr
Gate
Oklahome
Will Lowe
David
Thomas
Hobart
Okla
Jotn Merchant
F. E. Hess
Bempett
Biltmore
N.C
Merwin Sell
Isaac Sell
Tig Timber
Mont
Bert Johnson
Tulin, Aantelis
White Cloud
Michigan
John Lyons
John Pence
Narapa
Idaho
Howard Williams
iChicago Heights
Thomas Ulyat
Joe
William
Lves
Mapleton
Mini William Warr
B. F. Warr
Sweet
Charles Vandersmith
Mitchell, S. D
Roy Zook
Edward Zook
Milford
Utah
Peter Rettereth
Loe
Lafayette
Indiana
John Sebold
Mowe
W. D. Soll
Tsane
Ngston
HW. Magee
Jessie Haynes
John Haynes
Wilmington
Ohlo
J. W. Hess
George
Samuel Conn
Ayr
Farmers Demand Lowes Rentals On Teleproxes
In Laporte Indiana the Laporte County Farm Bureau at its annual meeting urged abolition of intra country tolls and wartime telephone rentals. Across three townships Michigan Coolspring and Springfield farmers have authorized a committee to order retention or removal of nearly every telephone in the Michigan City area. The plan to extend county wide gives the committee power to enforce the demands as a strong leverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Laporte County Farm Bureau
Michigan
Coolspring
Springfield
Michigan City
Country trimmed by town experts in a heartbreaking game
In a hard fought contest Captain Lyons and Lt Ulyat struggled as Morton and Epler battled on the mound. Vic Bordlund delivered a whirlwind finish and Claude Warr carried heavy loads, turning the tide as the road builders faced a crushing loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyons
Jake Rich
Jacob
Morton
Herrlymim
Ulyat
Guwk Timber
Cap Shaffer
Sunderland
Borkjuni
Warr
Herriman
Viyat
Bort
Lute
Vic Bordlund
Capt Herriman
Lt Ulyar
Claude Warr
Founding of St Louis by Laclede and Chanteau
Louis was founded February 14 1764 by Pierre Lacle de Liguest and Auguste Chanteau sailing from New Orleans. It joined a fur trading post until the Goussianm purchase in 1803.
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St Louis
BE Louis
Pierre Lacle de Liguest
Auguste Chanteau
New Orleans
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Geo. Bill
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Brook
Hogg
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C.H. Gillem
Carnation Club
J. D. Rich
Ard Bay
Manuel al Leopald
Mise
Lillian Adair
Lafsyatte
I Nan Davis
Cou
Foresman School
Bouse
Miss Eunice Park
Sulin
Formars Hess
Aense
Ann. Pearson
Kingman
E ¢ James
Panl Hanson
Bae Ag Pet de Fe
Gem Store
Walter Rich
Indianapolis
Edward Spray
Frankfort
Glenn L. Reed
Thomas Martin
Wesley Smith
Lacona
Iowa
Glen Curtis
Luke McCarty
Chas Lewis
Kenneth Morgan
Sheldon
Wm. Weslley
Ideal Club
Strange Lyons
His
Miss Icedore Lyons
M. E. Ladies Aid
James “Paylor
Foresman School House
King's Daughters
Josie O'Commer
Hammond
Chester Bosse
Jennie Harris
Crete, N
Ilinois
Perry Gaines
Youth's Companion
John Foresman, Jr
Din Chisties
Cago
Companion
McCall's Magazine
Commonwealth Ave
St. Paul St
Boston
Mass
O. M. Lyons
Jake Howers
Clarence Doland
Catia
E. D. Zook
Pitch In
Colorado
John Mallat
Rey. Obinsa
A. L. Thershman
Oscar Carrol
Brida
Win
Karr
Kankakee
Mlinois
W. A. Gridley
Daii Mess
Elizabeth Hinton
Rob Donald Meredith Srg
Charlma Franklin
Madge Hughes
Harold Bowen
Natella Hughes
Louis Hamacher
Thelma Pierce
Glen Mayhew
Essie Bentley
Nates
RED Cross and Home Nursing
Quer
D. Hess Sons
D. M. Bhder Jag
Lyons & Hershman
Omak
Washington
J. P. Fox
Riverside
Cal
O.an
Walter
Ona Lyons
Isaah Lyons
Hve
Oktay
Ksansag
LOWES
Witteman
Casuny
Morten
Epler
Mortes
Ake
Leni
Town
Fred
Mracksimnan
Brease L
Peresman
Cap Lyons
Hreese
Foresman
Cap Herriman
Paleo
Simmons
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