Local and Personal Notes and Health Adverts
Local brief items report visits and returns including Mrs. Camilla Thompson and mother Weldon bound for Illinois, Will Trost's Sunday Ottumwa trip, Mrs. W H Kephart visiting en route to Peoria, Marion Howard family visiting cousin Mrs. Francis Howard, and Miss Marrilia Hunter of Lincoln University staying with cousins Eloise and Helen Harper at Grandparents G J Stewart. An ad promotes a croup and whooping cough remedy from Williamson Drug Co. and C T Stafford and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gale
Williamson Drug .Co
Erma
Osceola
Camilla Thompson
Weldon
Ida Mitchell
Illinois
W.H. Kephart
Lamont
Chariton
T. R. Percifield
Peoria
Marion Howard
Hannah
Union
Iowa
Francis Howard
Marrilia Hunter
Lincoln University
Eloise
Helen Harper
G. J. Stewart
Stella Thomas
Des Moines
Ned Clinton
Marshalltown
Harry Keller
Runnels
Lulu McFarland
Lacona
Etta Robinson
Ottumwa
J. L. Werts
J. Jackley
Sadie Pyle
Effie
Luella Criswell
Anson Dewey
le Mars
Arthur Woodman
Ames
Sarah Goltry
Bertha Stroud
Force
Mrs Jennie Lutz Sanborn Dies in Iowa at 61
Mrs Jennie Lutz Sanborn born 1846 in Indiana County Pennsylvania died December 18 1907 at her Cedar township Lucas County Iowa after a several months illness. She moved with her parents to Illinois in 1865 married Joseph N Sanborn in 1857 and moved to Lucas County in 1868. She joined the M E Church in Polo Illinois in 1867 and later transferred to Russell. Survived by husband and four brothers. Funeral at Bethel Chapel Thursday at two officiating Rev Shenton, interment Bethel cemetery. Described as an exemplary christian life.
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Jennie R. Lutz
Indiana County
Pennsylvania
Cedar Township
Lucas County
Iowa
Ogle County
Illinois
Joseph N. Sanborn
M. E
Polo
Seoon
Russell
Bethel Chapel
Shenton
Russell M. E
Bethel
Simple Remedy For La Grippe
La grippe coughs are dangerous as they frequently develop into pneumonia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough but heals and strengthens the lungs so that no serious results need be feared. The genuine Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes, Storie Paton.
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Foley
Storie & Paton
Senator Allison led in United States senate say Gedar Rapids Republicans
The Gedar Rapids Republican lauds Senator Allison as the Senate leader and quotes the Iowa governor praising his long service. Medicare style ads promote Bees Laxative Cough Syrup and Ring's liver pills by Williamson Drug Co. The column notes campaign chatter, patent remedies, and a sugar beet crop report from Waverly with farmers receiving forty thousand dollars.
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Gedar Rapids
Allison
United States Senate
Iowa
Local residents share visits and weddings across towns
A string of social notes records visits from Kent to Osceola and Ottumwa, weddings in Frankfort Indiana, and relatives staying with families in Indianola, Des Moines, Chariton, and Marshalltown. Guests travel from Chicago to Pierre and Dudley, with multiple family gatherings and showers noted.
Deadly underwater duel in East River ends with rescue
In the East River off Hamilton Street Brooklyn a longshoreman Alexander Anderson fought rival Robert Stevens underwater with a bale hook. Both men were rescued after severe injuries with Anderson in danger of death.
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Alexander Anderson
Victor Hugo
Anderson
East River
Hamilton Street
Brooklyn
Sweden
Summit Place
Hamilton’ Street
Robert Stevens
Columbia Street
Stevens
Charles Walsh
Walsh
Long Island Hospital
Doyle
Pleasant Hill Social Notes and Local Travel Updates
Christopher Miller a bookkeeper from Red Oak vacationed here while Clarke Knotts studying at Indianola visited friends. Maud Carson recovering from thumb amputation returns home with father. Several locals, including Clarke Knotts, Susie Levien, Orville Henry and wife, and Kenneth Oden, are visiting relatives or traveling. Pleasant Hill scholars prepare a program and box supper on January 8. The vigilant committee held an oyster supper at Pleasant Hill schoolhouse with a large crowd.
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Maud Carson
Clarke Knotts
Susie Levien
Frank Carson
Orville Henry
Carson
Kenneth Oden
Beulah Carson
Charles McDowell
Kansas
Mingles
Thos. Avitt
Clarence Avitt
Ottumwa
Elmer Wilson
Jim Brown
Frank Boothe
Pleasant Two
O.F . Brownlee
Mexico
Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill School House
Deer Hunting In Cars Shocks Sullivan County Fans
Dr Leroy Culver of Jersey City and Dr W B Kelley of Port Jervis used a Ford to chase deer near Cahoonzle seven miles from Port Jervis. They bagged two deer but the car stalled and was towed up the grade by Kelley.
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Sullivan
Orange Counties
N. Y
Leroy Culver
Jersey City
National
W. B. Kelley
Port Jervis
Ford
Cahoonzle
Cul‘ver
Kelley’s. Ford
Culver
Rabbit Lures Dogs to Death at Stone Quarry
Trinidad correspondent reports six dogs killed after chasing a rabbit to a 100 foot quarry edge. The rabbit leads them toward the precipice where the quarry drops steeply. Dogs fall to the rocky bottom. six skeletons found by the quarry keeper solve the mystery. Valuable rabbit hounds among the deceased.
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Printdad
Trinidad
Denver
Times
Jack Rabbit
Jansen
Teddy bear proposal leads to Elwood wedding
In Elwood Texas a surprise wedding occurred when Clinton Sidwell, son of a local jeweler, married Maggie Barnett after a Teddy bear joke. She had admired a Teddy bear display and asked for one, and he replied let me be your Teddy bear, sparking the marriage.
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Elwood
Tex
Clinton Sidwell
Maggie Barnett
Chicago
New Nutcracker Squirrels in Contra Costa County
State Senator Charles Belshaw tells a San Francisco Chronicle correspondent about black walnut trees in Walnut Creek Contra Costa County. Farmers waste walnuts as shells crack hard and squirrels raid roads while an automobile passes, prompting a comic chase as nuts spill on tire tracks.
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Charles Belshaw
Antioch
Cal
San Francisco Chronicle
Contra
Costa‘ County
Walnut - Creek
Golden Glove Encrusted with Gems Inspires Fashion Trend
The Technical World notes a left hand glove covered in precious stones as the latest goldsmiths art novelty. Owners visit international watering places and Paris wearing it. Making costs range from 1100 to 2400 dollars. A silver thread necktie by a Wiesbaden jeweler is cheaper at 350 dollars.
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Paris
Wiesbaden
The Kansas Sunflower Invades the Desert
The El Dorado Republican notes the Kansas sunflower spreading across deserts of New Mexico and Arizona after fifty years. It claims the flower signals rains crops and progress as it climbs mountains and blooms in midsummer on the far side of the divide.
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Kansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Chinese Punishment Public theater debt for assault
A Chefu Daily News report says a Chinese police court punished a female offender by making her pay for a two day Chinese theater show in a temple near the main gulley after she dragged an elderly man’s pipe, causing two front teeth to be lost.
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Chefu Daily News
Pie supply claim sparks pie lovers banter
A Cleveland Plain Dealer tongue in cheek note jokes that Iowa has grown enough pumpkins to bake a pie for every person on earth. The column playfully notes many pie lovers deserve their due as autumn harvests roll in.
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Iowa
Cleveland Plain
Wisconsin Drainage Push to Add 7.36 Million Acres to Farm Land
A Milwaukee dispatch reports Wisconsin plans widespread drainage to reclaim 7.36 million acres at an estimated 66.75 million dollars. Valuation could rise about 200 million, boosting agriculture and dairy prominence. Projects target marsh peat and clay lands with state supervised drainage districts funded by benefiting-property taxes. Early returns include faster springs, longer growing seasons, and improved crop yields with tile drainage methods pioneered by farmers like W D Hoard.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
St. Louis
W. D. Hoard
Fort Atkinson
Hoard
Joseph Winterling
Jefferson
Jefferson County
Carl ‘Foll
Nels Holman
Deerfield
Carl Foll
Yankee plot to free Katrina ends in deception
A tale describes Jonathan and Yankees plotting to free Katrina Bleeker from a Dutch fort on the border. They lure the Dutch by dressing as Dutchwomen, selling butter and eggs inside the fort, aiming to expose the guards and gain entry. The plan relies on feigned gender disguise and misdirection amid frontier tensions.
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Katrina
Jonathan
Ixatrina
Bleeker
Katring
Ctos
Dians
College Girl’s Piano Stunt At Oxford Vaudeville
Oxford college girl students staged a private vaudeville show praised for a nose piano piece. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune notes the standout performance and a playful encore involving a stepladder as part of the act.
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Oxford College
Hamilton
Dispatch
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Oxford
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Will Trost
Jennie Lutz Sanborn
Williamson Drug Co
Muscatine
Billy
Williamson Drag Co
United States
Fairfield Ledger
Warren Garss
ManZan
Soldsby
Waverly
The
Patriot
Joe Thomas
Kent
Mra. Lichtebarger
Lichtebarger
David Long
John Murray
J. Bryson Robb
Eleanor Masters
Frankfort
Indiana
Florida
Ashba
Albia
Harriett Delano
Promise City
Mabel Robinson
New York Bay
Christopher Miller
Red Oak
Indianola
Texas
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