Local Happenings List Busy Peru Area Families
Mr and Mrs Clyde Miller traveled to Peru on business while nearby residents including E O Sullivan fishing at South Mud Lake and John Tharp family visiting Perry Tharp. Epworth League held a meeting at East Denver with Eva Grimes named 1st Vice President for 1912. Various neighbors from Kokomo Laporte and Winchester visited or hosted events. Also notices of sales, planing mill work, medicines and local commerce fill the row.
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Clyde Miller
Peru
E. O. Sullivan
South Mud Lake
John Tharp
Perry Tharp
Harley Bumgerdner
Roy
Laketon
Woodkirk Wright
The
Epworth League
East
Denver
Eva Grimes
McCaffrey & Co
Penn
Audna Derek
Kokomo
Marjorie Graft
Winchester
C. O. Derek
I Painted the Abbott Thayer Study Hidden Attacker
An art student at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is confronted by a plainclothes man who criticizes his work. The student, angered, learns the critic claims to be the painter and asserts he knows the subject. The exchange ends with a bold claim that the stranger painted the picture.
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Abbott §. Thayer
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fire-Dog Unwelcome Guest
A Philadelphia Times item notes the fire station dog Barney visits a wife's home on Wednesdays for all meals. The wife explains the guests and cooks must balance richness to avoid indigestion, while firefighters fear restaurant food hinders Barney’s health. Barney’s meals cause anxiety for the household and mother-in-law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Barney
Bob
Wooden shoe thrown at bride sparks local wedding custom
In a Boston Herald report, a wooden shoe was hurled at a bride as part of a ritual. A settlement worker was struck, prompting the officiating curate to explain the tradition that guests throw wooden shoes to honor the bride’s past wearing of such footwear.
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Boston Herald
Albino Puzzle Seen in Science History
The article notes albinos remain a mystery beyond known pigment loss. Physiologists and pathologists are largely puzzled about the ultimate cause of albinism. It cites albinism frequency in Italy about one in twenty thousand and in Norway about one in ten thousand.
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Italy
Norway
Carborundum Coating Shields Furnaces From Heat
Carborundum, an artificial substitute for emery and rival to diamond in hardness, is used as a furnace interior coating for its extraordinary heat resistance. Finely powdered and applied as a paste with a brush to brickwork, a two millimeter layer can protect bricks from the highest temperatures produced.
Carborundum as a Product of the Electric Furnace
Harper's Weekly notes that carborundum forms from aulica and carbon fused in an electric furnace with salt and sawdust. The piece explains the material’s origin and the role of the electric furnace in producing this compound.
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Harper‘s Weekly
Simple and Forcible
Sir Richard Jebb, noted physician, warned a troublesome patient with imaginary illness about diet. He said his directions would be few and simple, noting you must not eat the shovel, poker, or tongs for they are hard of digestion, nor the bellows for they are windy, but anything else you please.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Jebb
Sir Richard
Martha Pyle Returns Home After Visit
Miss Martha Pyle came back Tuesday from a pleasant visit with relatives at Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Pyle
Peru
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mahlon M. Squires and
Laporte
William Whistler
Grimes Derek
B. F. Derek
Audna
Charles Derek
Acel Dukes
Macy
Hazel Wright
Roann
Gale Stowman
Nellie Garritson
Maggie J. Coil
Mexico
George Musselman
Ormia Dukes
Joseph Smith
Kokoma
Olivia Smith
W. W. Sellers
Helen
L. H. Dice
Marvin Wood, Nansee
Converse
Bernice’ Miller
Swayzee
Strode
Chili
M. J. Whitmore
McCaffrey
Jacob Dice
Erie
Dice
Wabash
Jordan
Tribune
O. Gandy & Co
Ethel Kinzie
Flora Shafer
Claude Haines
North Manchester
Nana Gladden
Alma Baker
Louise Derek
Emma Hard
Near Chili
J. W.warren
C. A. Smith
Ella McElwee
A. B. Guyer
E. A. Guyer
Gas City
H. Lacey
Fay
Ruth
Charles
Poneto
H. H. Dice
McCaffreys
Fred Wright
St. Joseph, Mo
Elijah Redman
Courter
Greer-Wilkinson
Gari Miller
Clyde Miler
Easrmount
Ind
Phillips Feed Exchange
Tribune Office
Wah
Rene
Dr. O. B. Andrews
Dukes Bldg
South of Baptist Church
Wabash St
Indiana
Turtle’s Perfection
Magnolia
Eaco
Phone O'Gandy & Company
Denver, E. S. Kline
Mer
Alecone
Mationis Beertae
TOR National
Seortshan
Federal St
Boston
Mung & Ag
Scientific Americar
New York
HN & Co
FB &T
Washington
NEW Yorkentral Lines
Lake Manitou
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie & Western R. R. Roghesuef .c
Michigan
Rochester
Suli Ag
Winona Interurban Railway Company
Goshen
Indianapolis
J. L. Keim
W. D Stansifer
A.G. F
P. A
Warsaw
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