Obituary for Hannah Jane Spinning Coffeen
Hannah Jane Spinning Coffeen born near Lebanon Ohio March 12 1827 died November 26 1912 aged 85. She married Edwin William Coffeen at 19 and left a widow with three children Olive Coffeen Dora L Coddington and Francis E Coffeen at 26. A teacher she studied at Lebanon Normal School and taught 15 years in primary departments. She joined Cumberland Presbyterian church and WCTU and served as Corresponding Secretary of the Lebanon Union. A reformer and charitable woman she supported temperance and humanities and politics. Her memorial service was held at the Presbyterian church with interment in Mt Hope cemetery. Her son F E Coffeen attended from Sumner Wash. She was a D A R ancestor and several out of town relatives attended.
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Hannah Jane Spinning-Coffeen
Lebanon
Edwin William Coffeen
Olive Coffeen
Dora L. Coddington
Francis E. Coffeen
Mary Catharine
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Swedenborg
Morrow
Woman’s
Union
Ind
F. E. Coffeen
Presbyterian Church
H. K. Fox
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Rollan ‘Coffeen
Piqua
E. Geddington
Mabel
Roy Coding Bt
OBi@ Fayle
Knightstown
Frash
Wakerusa
Osborn
Attica
Villa Grove Fire Roars Through Local Restaurant Loss
Mrs Helen Adkins Ford and her husband lost their Villa Grove IN restaurants to a Monday fire with heavy losses. County commissioners met in regular session this week approving election bills and other routine expenditures. New road petitions were filed and initial steps for construction begun though some projects may be delayed due to township limits.
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Helen Adkins-Ford
Husband
Villa Grove
Gift Subscription Offer for The Youth's Companion
Simple solution to Christmas shopping is to subscribe for The Youth's Companion for a year. The gift covers fifty two weekly issues and the final issue of 1912, plus a 1913 Window Transparency and Calendar. Free for the recipient, the giver also receives a copy. price less than four cents a week. The Youth's Companion, 144 Berkeley St Boston Mass. (adv).
Unclear ad copy touting herbal remedy
fragmentary promotional note touts a pill for stomach liver and bowels with claims of restoring health and good feelings. mentions Dr King's New Life Pills and druggists. text is garbled and promotional in tone with unclear attribution.
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Sandy
Dichotomy Uses in Medical Fee Division Cited by London Hospital
The medical press of the United States borrows the botanic term dichotomy to describe illicit business practices. It refers to the split of a surgeon or specialist fee with the practitioner who refers the patient.
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United States
London Hospital
Impresario Defined as Manager of Operatic Singers
The piece explains an impresario is a manager or conductor of a troupe of operatic concert singers and, rarely, a coach or trainer. It contrasts grim seriousness with humor and notes that piety and wholesome thinking should not be judged by facial lines.
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New York Press
Tennis Origins Traced to Knighthood and Ancient Games
A London Times contributor notes tennis is a very ancient ball game dating back before cricket. Itmentions the term tenetz in Arthurian legends, origins as jeu de paume, glove and racket evolution, and transition from open grass courts to enclosed four-walled courts by late seventeenth century.
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Tenez
Knights of the Round Table
London Times
Life of Thomas Andrews A Titanic Designer
A summary of S F Bullock s Life of Thomas Andrews traces the Belfast born ship designer s rise at Harland and Wolff to chief designer and managing director. He sailed on the Titanic and aided in rescuing passengers before perishing at sea his final moments described by survivors and witnesses.
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S. F. Bullock
Thomas Andrews
Royal Academical Institution
Belfast
Andrews
Harland & Wolff
Goodby
Mr. Andrews
Faraday’s Quiet Lab Assistant Who Kept Stirring All Night
Sir Henry Roscoe recalls Faraday and his assistant Sergeant Anderson. Anderson, uneducated in science, could only obey orders. He watched a pot of chemicals all night, stirring for hours until Faraday returned, having forgotten he had given the instruction.
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Sir Henry Roscoe
Faraday
Sergeant Anderson
Anderson
Anderso
Stirr
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