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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
2
Birth announced for Leo Bradman and Mrs. Bradman’s August baby. Local residents, including Miss Gladys Hunter and Miss Beatrice Myers, visit friends. Dozens attend St. Joseph's social raising over 700 dollars. Various dinners, travels, and storms detailed with families from Carey, Millersville, Bowling Green, and Detroit.
The piece notes that the Venetian gondola reached its simple color scheme by the late seventeenth century. It explains that attempts to transplant the gondola elsewhere failed to take root, as the craft resisted acclimatization outside Venice.
Local residents and families are listed with visits and travels across the region. Mentions include Clara Kline as a guest of Mrs. Frank Babcock, R J Detray visiting Windom, the Bemisderfer couple traveling to Medina, Mrs. Jennie Burton visiting Mrs. John Delaplane, and a Bader family reunion planned at Carey Park. Several car trips and Sunday gatherings are noted among neighbors and friends.
Sunday events center on Father’s Day activities at the Methodist church in Vanilee. Families visited relatives in Findlay and nearby towns including Knepper, Monday, Corbin, Arcadia, Cedar Point, and Ridge. Multiple households spent Sunday with friends and kin, sharing meals and greetings.
Bhaskar Hivale, an Indian Christian student, discusses his American experiences from Harvard Yale football to the snake dance and cold breakfast scenes. He notes cultural contrasts and his Chautauqua theme India and World Events guiding August Carey talks.
Beech Grove church schedules Sunday services led by Rev. J C Rinehart at 10 30. A parish festival is planned for Tuesday evening August 16 with all invited. the article lists many local families visiting and hosting over the weekend and references illness in Springfield.
Miss Lalia Brashares and Olive Breashares visit Mrs Lawrence Stout. Mr and Mrs George Stephan guests of Sam and Lovell Stephan. Mrs Lyman Colern visiting Hoytville with Wm Stillberger family. Otto Stephan remodels his home. Dozens of local calls and Sunday visits noted.
Notice to farmers urging readers to compare their tornado insurance costs and promising to write the same or greater coverage at cheaper rates. Claims a single policy from the Great American Insurance Co. of New York covers fire lightning tornado and cyclone. Grant Karr Agency.
Farmers threshing season active as residents visit relatives and attend outings in Carey, Mt. Blanchard, Wharton and Findlay. Sunday School at St. Paul leads into an allday picnic and home-coming at St John, followed by baptisms at Kear’s Bridge.
A critic praises a painter for pursuing original themes and sincerity over prevailing tastes, aligning with great masters while rejecting contemporary norms. The work highlights the artist’s maturation and distinct role in American art as described by Charles F. Cuffin.
Investigations by the agricultural department show one standard cord of well seasoned hickory oak beech birch turd taple ash elk locust or cherry wood roughly equals one ton of anthracite coal. A cord and a bif of soft maple or two cords of cedar poplar or bass wood yield the same heat. One cord of well seasoned mixed wood equals at least one ton of average grade bituminous coal.
Several houses and parcels are offered on a paved street in Vanlue. Options include 8 to 10 room modern homes with barns and garages, a 7 room barn property, a 5 room cottage with gas and water, and a 6 room house with farm buildings from $1800 to $2500.
Listings describe multiple parcels from 70 to 120 acres in Ridge township and nearby Upper Sandusky Carey and McCutchenville areas. Prices range 125 to 185 per acre with houses, cellars, drilled wells, wind pumps, barns, machine and grain houses, orchards, and timber. Several on pike with good access and some offered for trade or with city property exchange.
Adrian Miss Mina Ruehle is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Presler traveled to Fostoria for business. The Preslers visited James Phillips near Alvada. Walter Mullholand and family were called to Bradner for sickness. Saunders and Gon Tom spend a few days in Sandusky City. Bertha Crumline left for Bowling Green for a normal course. Delee Ewing returned home after a Toledo visit. Ann Brett visits Hayes Shireman in McCutchenville. Lawrence Dible and Albert called on Perry Presler family. Paul Haines and son Neil ill. they were called to Bucyrus. Elizabeth Johnson and Melba of Toledo visited the Ewings. Johnsons homeward bound after a few weeks.
The visiting card custom spread from sixteenth century Italy. Padua drew many German students who, when leaving college, paid farewell visits to professors. If professors were away, students left their names on slips of paper as tokens.
Kansas Senator Arthur Capper argues that the public includes all workers and citizens and urges cooperation after labor strikes. He says unions pale beside the nation and calls for everyone to work honestly to restore national prosperity.
Dr Arthur William Myers of Stanford University uses mineral oil boxes to store cadavers for anatomical study. The method yields near odorless preservation and slows decay.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quote contrasts reformers as inspired missionaries with those who reform others but are hypocritical humbugs highlighting perceived hypocrisy in public reform efforts.
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