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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
7
In 1893 Jessie Roll begins leading carey telephone operations. Other notes report a $1,100 Carey post office salary, rising wheat prices, and local civic updates including electric door bells and factory shutdowns.
July 2 1914 items include Goodyear tires priced 11 and 325 for tubes and tires. James Archer Chicago Cub catcher injures arm. Postmaster M E Fought assumes duty at Upper Sandusky. Births and marriages noted including Myron E Forney and Bernice Huston. Sycamore vs Carey game at Wagner's park with church bells tolling. Prohibition begins in West Virginia. Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated. Prinzip named as assassin. Major train accident injures Charles Sourwine Big Four brakeman. Movie feature In the Stretch promoted for July 4 at Royal theater.
Sunday dedication marks the opening of the new United Brethren church. Mrs. Laura E. Geiger rents her restaurant to Frank Roland. Francis M. Harris dies at his Vance street home aged nearly 81. Civil War veteran. At the Strand: Drums of Fate tonight. Three Ages Friday and Saturday. Way Down East Monday and Tuesday. Alias the Night Wind on Wednesday. Mrs Ferdinand Braun, 83, dies at Clay street home. German native survived by husband and six children in various cities.
Mrs June Clabaugh and Joe Wetzel of Lima visited the EE Gibson family on Tuesday. Numerous relatives from Carey, Tiffin, Upper Sandusky, Bridgedale and Columbus called on or dined with the Gibbsons and Blands throughout the week, sharing greetings, dinners, and afternoon visits.
A man muses on a woman’s driving and quick shopping, describing a scene where she hurried through a narrow drugstore aisle and later knocked down the doors of a 12 foot high garage. The vivid, humorous vignette contrasts domestic life and sudden strength.
The village council approved numerous invoices at the June 19 session including freight for playground equipment, blocks, cards, lumber, salaries for town officials and workers, and various utilities. A July 3 session covered street work, water and electric line payrolls, supply purchases, and contractor costs.
Advertisements note adding machine ribbons and typewriter ribbons for any make machine available at The Carey Times. Local suppliers advertise stock, with options for office use and stenography machines.
A reflective note states life on earth is brief and fragile. It compares human existence to dust and wormlike moments before death, ending with the idea that a larger fate consumes us.
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