Neighborhood party honors Stewart and Evalyn McKnight
I L McKnight and wife hosted about 40 children northeast of town on Saturday for their children Stewart and Evalyn. The wagon arrival with flag decorations drew a crowd to the McKnight home for games and ice cream cones. Elsewhere the Baptist Sunday School classes held an indoor ice cream supper due to weather and more events, with Edwin Raw’s lecture promoted for the evening and preacher visits planned for Sunday.
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I. L. McKnight
Stewart
Evalyn
Ciasses
Baptist Sunday School
Real estate transfers filed in Fountain county
Transactions in Fountain county real estate during the past week list deeds recorded by O E Douglass abstractor for five per cent loans. Names include Lindley to Stoup for 20 acres at 1700, J E Morrison to E P Finch fraction Hillsboro 1000, Judy to Wood lots 171-180 Newtown 35, Steinbaugh to Jones lots 26-29 32 S add Kingman 500, Gordon to Myers lots 21-22 23 38 39-40 G add Kingman 414, Lindley to Copeland lots 6-7 G add Kingman 204, Gordon to Copeland lots 3-4 G add Kingman 260, Gordon to Copeland lots 26-27 G add Kingman 186.
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Fountain County
Douglass
L Steinbaugh
R Jones
Kingman
J G Gordon
H A Myers
Lote
Mail Carriers Will Fly and Air Age Progress Featured
An optimistic piece extols air travel and mail delivery as signs of progress. It also advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs Colds and lung diseases as highly popular, with a testimonial from J F Davis of Stickney Corner Maine. Priced 50 cents and one dollar with a free trial bottle.
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Starck
United States
Blue Hen’s Chickens nickname for Delaware regiment
Captain Caldwell led a Delaware regiment in the revolution and earned a reputation for cock fighting. His troops were dubbed Caldwell's game cocks for their drill and discipline. He popularized the theory that only blue hens produced truly game cocks, so the nickname Blue Hen’s Chickens spread to Delawareans after the war.
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Caldwell
Delaware
Islands as Cable Stations at Midway Islands
A Sub marine cable from San Francisco to Asia broke on coral reefs near Midway Islands, with repairs costing about 100000 dollars. Sand Island houses a small, law abiding community of 23 people and a growing wild canary population of over five hundred birds.
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San Francisco
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Commercial Pacific Cable Company
China
Japan
Philippines
Midway Islands
Sand Island
Cable Company
United States
Woman Refuses Promise to Marry Damages Suit
Edna M. Cooke sued Garnett Sparks for 10000 damages for breach of promise to marry. The circuit court ruled that an emphatic yes is required and she did not say yea, having assumed he knew she would marry him, leading her attorney to withdraw the case.
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Kanass City
Edna M. Cooke
Garnett Sparks
Broadway
Sparks
Many Uses for Porpoises on the Atlantic Coast
A coastal Atlantic factory near Cape Hatteras catches porpoises for several products. Hides, salt cured and sent to a New Jersey tannery become leather. blubber oil refined in New Bedford yields head oil valued at 900 to 1200 dollars per barrel for delicate machinery. Carcasses are turned into fertilizer and the body oil has minor uses and lower value.
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Atlantic
Siz Ranos
Cape Hatteras
Hatteras Inlet
New Jersey
New Bedford
Mass
Wishing Chair of Whitby Passes Legend to Mates and Kids
The famed wishing chair sits about a mile from Whitby Bridge in England. Legend says it was once the base of an old cross replacing a heathen altar. The site is popular with the unmarried seeking mates and with children hoping for various wishes.
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Whitby Bridge
England
Why Thunder Soars Milk Decay Theory Challenged
French chemist Prof. Trillat reports experiments showing tiny traces of putrescence gases accelerate lactic fermentation. Atmospheric depressions lift gases from earth and objects, making odors stronger after storms. He found lower barometer speeds decay in various substances, challenging the ozone theory of thunderstorm spoilage.
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Prof
Trillat
France
When a Bath Is a Luxury in Holland Hotels
The piece notes that in Holland hotel rooms rarely include baths. Guests request tub access, a maid provides towels and soap, runs water to a suitable temperature, then locks the faucet. The hotel charges 40 cents for the bath, and shuts off water to deter unauthorized extra baths.
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America
Holland
Welsh farm hand inherits £200,000 fortune
A farm hand at Tynllwyne near Hay Breconshire has been told he will receive £200,000 from a relative who went to America years ago and accumulated a fortune. The relative’s will provides the sizeable legacy to the local worker.
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America
Tynllwyne
Hay
Breconshire
Height of Shooting Stars According to Cosmos
The article states that shooting stars first become visible at about one mile height and disappear at around six miles. Their visible path averages forty five miles in length.
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Cosmos
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