Evansport Notes and Local Events Highlight Community Activity
Evansport updates show residents visiting Defiance Napoleon and Bryan for duties social and religious events. The Home Missionary society hosted a noodle soup supper raising 10.05, while Findecide club planned a moonlit ride and gatherings. Dayton reports John Stallar aged 42 committed suicide at Soldiers Home after despondency.
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Amos Snider
Napoleon
Dr. Davis
Defiance
D. M. Whetstone
Ed M King
Turrittin
Cameron and Wife
Ance
C R Shuter
Cecil
Swedish American Switchboard Co
Chas Key
Zion City
Dowie
Wyatt
Alice Cameron
Home Missionary Society
Mapes’ Hall
Fred Aase
Ney
Frembling
California
Missionary Society
Libbie Kufabl
Bryan
Alice Snider
Jennie Cameron
C M Clark
Blanche Hall
Andrew Buehrer
Wm. Hall
Hicksville
Leorab Dreher
Grace V Yarlot
Anna Winters
Earl Mann
Edgerton
Ella Shanklin
Evansport
L. F. Orahood
W. M. T. E. Shuter
Sec’y
Findecile
Clyde Snyder
Judson McCord
Chas. Hall
Frances Willard
D.M. Whetstone
Helen Gould
J. N Replogle
Harriet B. Stone
Chas
L. Hall
Clyde Sxrper
Ella M. Yeaaney
Dayton
John Stallar
First Snowfalls Thrill Cuban Students at Bloomsburg Normal
A group of Cuban students at Bloomsburg Normal School in Pennsylvania watched their first snowfall with excitement. They described the drifting flakes as beautiful though not indicative of a real Pennsylvania winter. American peers promised a genuine winter ahead and hinted at more snow to come.
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Bloomsburg
Pennsylvania
Carnegie offers to fund Defiance library building
The city should accept Andrew Carnegie’s offer to fund a $17,500 library building, with $1,750 annually for maintenance, arguing the project advances public progress and is affordable. The editorial urges swift action and dismisses delays.
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Defiance
Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Carnegie
Winter Comes to Noble Township with Farm News
The column lists local happenings from Noble Township, noting hunters, farm sales, and work on farms. Gen Parker visits F A Goddard. Fred Smith occupies the Calley farm. J F Dowe sells steers to A Fleckner. Geo Schileng hauls cord wood and buys a Poland China hog. Dan Roebig runs a sawmill with Uriah Gier as head sawyer. Prosecution of an assassin linked to politics is mentioned as well.
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Old Boreas
Tay
Bunnie
Gen. Parker
Jewell
F. A. Goddard
Fred Smith
Calley Farm
Henry
Paulding County
J.F. Dowe
A. Fleckner
Spicer
Brunersburg
Leaders & Co
Geo. Kleinhein
Delaware Township
Fern Mack
Geo. Schileng
Dan Roebiig
Uriah Gier
Bros
A. Growey and Son
F. Goddard
W. Leghorn
R. L. Hed
P. Rock
Goebel
Ohio
T. B
Colgan
Oakwood
Holy Roller sect accused of human sacrifice fears in Oregon
Corvallis, Ore. faces alarm as Chicago Inter Ocean warns that a new religious group named Holy Roller threatens human sacrifice. Leaders deny wrongdoing claiming divine command, while investigators report a girl saved and the sect claims to withdraw from earthly life.
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Oregon
Holy Roller
Corvallis, Ore
Chicago Inter Ocean
New Religion
Nuns Resolve Revenge On Government In Plague Crisis
Paris reports describe nuns defying orders during Marseille plague measures. Mgr Andrieu selected eighteen volunteers to serve in plague hospitals after municipal refusals, highlighting clashes with M. Combes’s government and a broader anti clerical feud.
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France
M. Combes
Paris
London Monitor
New Era
Marseilles
St. Marguerite
Mgr
Andrieu
Mgr. Andrieu
Missouri mule outperforms auto on rural mail routes
Macon Missouri postmaster recounts a letter from a Bunker Hill Illinois worker asking about an automobile mail run on a ten mile rural route. He dismisses autos on muddy earth roads and extols the Missouri mule as a faster, tougher, all weather solution with minimal tools needed.
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Macon
J. Wilson
Kansas City Star
Bunker Hill
Ill
Missouri
Buffalo Bill scarf pin tale and catacomb misadventures
General Miles and Buffalo Bill Cody trade tales of a king Edward scarf pin that vanished in London and reappeared with a show bow, while a Paris catacombs tour ends in confusion as visitors wander for hours. English and American travelers recount a wild west yarn and a comic Canadian Yankee threat poem closes.
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Miles
King Edward
Nelson A. Miles
W. F. Cody
Chicago
Buffalo Bill
Colonel Cody
King Ed
Cody
London
Scotland Yard
Patti
The Defiance School of Telegraphy in Ohio
The notice portrays The Defiance School of Telegraphy in Defiance, Ohio, led by manager J. J. Malley. It connects with broader historical notes on industrial education while listing the school as a local opportunity for telegraph training.
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Salsbury
Burns
George R. Perry
J. Clark Sproat
Grand Rapds Democrat
R. A. Cameron
New York
David E. Burns
Alderman McCool
Ellen
de Paterger
Alderman Muir
Alderman Kinney
Donovan
Phillips
Alderman Johnson
Alderman Stonehouse
Alderman Lozier
Alderman Shriver
Alderman Mol
Alderman Ghysels
Alderman Hodges
Alderman Slocum
Cory P. Bissell
J. Russell Thomson
Evening Press
Isaac Lamore
van Zoeren
van Dorcook
H. D. Conger
Grand Rapids Herald
Thomas F. Gery
Florida
C. 8. Burch
Dudley E. Waters
Board of Public Works
Hilke de Vries
George Ellis
Samuel H. Lemon
Internal Revenue
Wik ‘Yam Hf Anderson
Raeshneansea
Adearagaenee
Almeuly
Ieee
Ies
Adutine
Uncanny Balloon Travel and Odd Bits in 1900s Column
A compilation of brief curiosities and practical tips from a 1900 era page. Notes on balloon speed, confidence with spouse present, insect life stages, paint stain removal, ancient dolls, letter usage, and assorted jokes. Includes short items on alum washing, Vienna death by action, and domestic anecdotes.
Wabash Excursion and Colonist Ticket Dates
Wabash rates and excursion dates for hunters and homeseekers extend to Upper Michigan Wisconsin Missouri Indian Territory Ouisana Canada and Maine with sale until December at low fares. One day round trips and Sunday only return tickets are offered to any Wabash point. many schedules include second class and colonist rates with January 23 1908 or November 30 1907 cutoffs and agent contact in Defiance Ohio.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Lant K. Salsbury
Salsbury
David Burns
Henry Taylor
Lake Michigan
Herrick
McGarry
Sproat
Burns
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri
Indian Territory
Ouisana
Canada
Maine
Wabash Railroad
Ory Fordham
Gereby
Haney Bs
Retinaum
Comrie
Defiance County
Ohio
West Loth
Orerm
John
Norway
Fondant
Fefnant
Joun'e
Bamarbie
Pacific Coast
Holiday Excursions Save on December Tickets West of Ohio River
Baltimore and Ohio railroad offers low rate excursion tickets from all western stations for December 24 25 21 1908 and January 1 1904 with return validity to January 4 1964. Details by contacting nearest B and O agent or B N Austin Chicago. WANTED trustworthy person to manage county and adjacent territory for a solid company. 29 dollars weekly plus expenses paid monthly from Chicago headquarters.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio River
Baltimore & Ohio
B. N. Austin
Chicago
Ill
Monon Bldg
Furs and Hides Wanted in Local Market
An ad seeks furs and hides with pay rates for prime dark mink and other hides. The brief notice emphasizes buying furs at current market prices, inviting sellers to contact the buyer with offerings.
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Fheir
the Peoples Store
J. Pierpont Morgan
Colombia
Col. Bryan
Noble Township
Young America
America
R. V. Pierce
Garden
G. W. Brisco
Abilene
Kans
Fediical
R. V. Pierge
Buffalo, N
Missouri Mules
New York Herald
United States
North Pole
Poiter
Dallas
Texas
Sammy
Mary
Ann
Kent
Carness
Boston Transcript
Italy
Common Pleas
State of Ohio Child Judicial District
Ommon Pleas
Sach
Allen County
Auglaize
Deilange
Marek
Jane
Fulton
Oor- Henry County
Mercer County
Jans Gary
A Pri
Putnam County
Shelby County
W. A. Kehnast CO
Chicago Daily News
Rome
Ephc
Detroit Free Press
Vienna
Danube
Papa
Mamma
Baby
Hamilton Club
Cannon Sal T
Minerva
Jupiter
Godata
Melinda E. May
M. Bernard
Malinda
Mar. Piaintia
Macaulay
Bacon
Yale Record
Mahogany
England
Singapore
James Lane Allen
Somme
R. W. Wortman
Defiance, O
Lewis Block
Mary Elizabeth Dezelm
Harison Dezelm
Mary Elizalth Deselm
Mary Elizabeth Dezelim'ie
Haribon Dezelm
E. W.costello
W T Hill
Trustees Riverside Church
Ostobes Amd
Churc Society
Southwpeek
North America
Maumee Fertilizer
Fred Antener
lWelephone
L. Freecorn
Defiancio Dela Tere
P. Bevington
M. J. Walz
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