First Ford helper and agent touts Tanlac results
Capt. M. A. Shuey of South Bend recalls helping build and selling the first Ford car from Detroit to South Bend. He credits Tanlac with restoring his digestion after fifteen years of trouble and says the remedy improved his health and well being. Tanlac is sold by druggists with over 27 million bottles sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capt
M. A. Shuey
South Michigan St
South Bend
Ind
Ford
Detroit
Ford Agency
Tanlac
Capt. Shuey
Local residents welcome home and visit across towns
George Port returns from Indianapolis hospital. Families including Mr and Mrs Ray Holder and Mrs Holycross spend weekend with Ray Holder in Hammond. Irvin Yeaggy family returns to Indianapolis after visiting Elizabeth Yeaggy and Nettie. Welter Huffer birthday party attended by Nolin Bash and Elmer Bash in Danville area. Mrs Gordon Ost hosts Lyric theatre party with Catherine Hambright and others. Guests include Lodvie Vince Clinton Otis Miller Frankfort Barbara Merryman. W B Coleman visits in Waynetown with Mil lard Cates Isabelle Cates, who stay for winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvin Yeaggy
Elizabeth Yeaggy
Nettie
Indianapolis
Catherine Hambright
Danville, Ill
Lodvie Vince
Clinton
Otis Miller
Frankfort
Barbara Merryman
Sol Purfeerst
Local notices and social updates from Corydon to Danville
Local residents attend meetings travel and family events across Corydon Danville and Muncie. Genevieve Parrett of Indianapolis visits her parents James and Genevieve Parrett. The Eastern Star holds a meeting at the Masonic hall Monday at 7 30 pm. Rock of Ages and Wisconsin Granite markers sold at reduced prices by E M Board Co. Melodrama The Eleventh Hour with Shirley Mason and Buck Jones at LYRIC Tuesday and Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
E. M. Board & Co
Wisconsin
Shirley Mason
Buck Jones
Cough Remedy Trial Offer and Border Cake Incident
An ad urges readers to mail name and address with 5 cents for a trial package of Chamberlain medicines including Cough Remedy Stomach and Liver Tablets and Salve. The piece also recounts a border duty tale in Ireland where a market woman eats a cake after confiscation, crossing the frontier with the cake amid amused officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain Medicine Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Northern
Southern
Ireland
Milwaukee Journal
Herschel Island Land of Ice and Snow Description
The article describes Herschel Island off the Arctic coast as twelve miles long and three to four miles wide with no trees. Ground thaws to eighteen inches, wild flowers abound with about sixty five varieties. Icebergs surround year round and a northern main ice field poses navigation danger. A dozen buildings remain including the RCMP barracks. Two ships yearly call at Shingle Point trading posts. A Hudson Bay post exists and Eskimos use the area as headquarters. The Anglicans have a mission house unused since 1919 after Reverend Fry’s departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herschel Island
Arctic
Hudson Bay
Fry
Not Fully Prepared Victim Calls for Help and Rope
A distressed message describes a drowning in progress and a plea for immediate rescue. The writer seeks a rope a measuring rod a Carnegie application blank two witnesses and a notary public before assistance can arrive. The tone is urgent and fragmentary reflecting a chaotic moment.
Millionaire income tax filings in 1921
In 1921 only 21 individuals in the United States filed income tax returns showing net incomes of one million dollars or more. Ninety two percent of returns were filed by people with net incomes of three thousand dollars or less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bread on the Water Wayfarer Warns Robber
The speaker a walk ally tells the robber he has no money but offers to spread word to friends to avoid the lonely path henceforth as indicated by Fregende Blaetter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayfarer
Fregende Blaetter
No Chicken Joke Sparks Dinner Standstill
A brief dialogue where a wife jokes about having her mother for lunch but the husband declines, citing digestion concerns and a sudden change of appetite.
Old-Fashioned Girl Chatter Sparks Dance Debate
A playful exchange features a girl urging Uncle George to choose between two dance steps the six-beat double-truncheon crawl and the eight-beat scissor kick thrash. Uncle George replies he’ll skip dancing and go for a swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New School of Notation
Uncle George
Remarkable Record for Chamberlain's Couch Remedy
Chamberlain's Couch Remedy has served for colds croup and whooping cough for nearly fifty years and remains the standard choice in thousands of homes. It is dependable safe and pleasant to take especially for children.
Also Mentioned on This Page
George Port
Ray Holder
Mrs. Holycross
Mrs
Hammond
Nolin Bash
Hoopeston, Ti
Elmer Bash
Welter Huffer
Gordon Ost
the Lyric
W. B. Coleman
Millard Cates
Isabelle Cates
Waynetown
Texaco
Quaker State Oils
W. D. Coffing
McGeorge
S. E. Corner Square
C. D. Misenheimer
Covington, Ind
C. F. Lowe
Corydon
C. A. Morgan
Luke
Danville
Genevieve Parrett
James Parrett
Woman’s Club
Lena Schoonover
Wann
Robb’s
Mrs. M. Schesley
Muncie
Will Peters
Eloise
Helen Peters
Clarence Nelson
S. A. Dickinson
Warren Myers
Decatur
Ill
P. G. Leming
Lawrenceburg
Dick Sheaks
A. Alward
Perrysville
Alward
Covington
Albert Wysong
W. R. Massey
Charles Massey
Sol Purfeers
Lena l Mollingsworth
George Kerr
John Koontz
Warsaw
Forest Livengood
Charles
Mrs. Livengood
Mrs. Livengooc
Stewardson
Illinois
Fred Griffith
Stella Rhodes
Miss Rhodes
Mary Elizabeth Massey
Frances Clawson
Miss Anna
Mrs. Clawsons
Clawson
Canton
China
Elsie R. Anderson
Women’s Christian Association
Miss Anderson
XY. W. C
John Shaffer
E. M. Board
Webb Sprankle
B. F. Sprankle
Montezuma
Mrs. Mont Crain
D. E. Wilson
Florida
Jolly Walter Heirs
Lyric
T. C. Glick
Mr. Hall
Brummett
Edward Stead
Minnesota
Frank Bloomfield
Bleader
Jacksonville
Anna Clawson
Dr. Stanfield
Newtown
Francis Clawson
Methodist Hospital
Frank Myer
C. C. Cliftor
Kingman
Land of
Ice
Paradise Candy Kitchen
West Side Square
Jack Holt
Jack Hoxie
Mary Philbin
Wes
So Long
William Russell
Night Wind
Walter Hiers
Buck. Jones
Allan Hale
June Elvidge
Engle & Lape
Coal
Ceal
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!