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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1916
Page
4
Grimes Derek spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Ber tha O'Brian of Peru. Mrs. Mary Berger and Mrs. John Miller were guests of Mrs. J. W. Dice Monday afternoon.
Community notices from Peru include visits by Mrs. George Rhineberger and daughter, Ed Strehes family guests of Frank Farner, and Mr. and Mrs. George Lane visiting from Kokomo. Also mentions Dan Baber visit, Gilead near Denver travel, and family dinners. Local ads promote Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea and cut rate drug deals at McCaffrey Co. Peru.
A grand display at the Indiana state fair during the week of September 4 will present the centennial history of Indiana with nightly fireworks. Highlights include an evolution of transport from ox team to locomotive, a Hoosier barnyard scene, a blooming Hoosier vase, and towering salutes to Old Glory.
Indiana state fair features include Eugene Shireman leading a fish exhibit with 50 varieties in 25 aquariums from lakes and streams. The forestry board advances a large display with member companies expanding the scale, and the food commission presents educational exhibits on fraudulent weights and unsanitary grocery practices.
Visitors to the Indiana state fair will see new 1917 motor cars months before they appear elsewhere. The Indianapolis Automobile Trade Association calls it the greatest autumn automobile show in the United States and it will run the week of Sept. 4. Major makes and models, touring and closed cars, plus tires and accessories, fill the mammoth exhibit with advances like four and six cylinder engines, electric start and lighting, new seating plans, and luxurious details.
The motor show will be housed in a huge tent at the Indiana state fair ground due to space limits. With no extra admission, about 200000 visitors are expected to view the auto display during the state fair.
Denver and surrounding region endure ten days of record heat with daytime highs near 100 degrees and minimal night relief. Livestock suffer with horses dying and threshing halted to avoid further heat damage while crops wilt as three weeks pass without rain. Forecasters expect rains soon to avert corn and fall pasture losses.
J T Donaldson bought a Ford touring car from Murden agency Peru. While learning to drive on Chili road east of town the car struck a telephone pole breaking it off. All four occupants escaped injury though the Peru driver was thrown through the windshield. The car sustained heavy damage.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It blames inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous linings, mostly due to catarrh, and offers a $100 reward for any deafness case cured only by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circles and pills are promoted by F J Chaney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
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