Peru Businesses Close Wednesdays in July and August
A 1900s notice urges Peru and vicinity shoppers that starting July 4 and continuing each Wednesday afternoon at 12:30, participating stores will close for a midweek half day. The handwritten list names many local firms, including Woolworth, Arnolds Candy Store, Schultzmeyer, and others, urging public cooperation to maintain supply for midweek needs.
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Peru
West and Stevens
F. W. Woolworth & Co
Hammond Murphy Co
Arnolds
Henry Meinhardt CO
N. Hall & Son
Peru Mercantile Co
C. N. Schulmeyer Long Shge Co
Schock-Smuck
Walter W
Peru Frust Co and local firms form trade coalition
Local merchants including Wabash Valley Trust Co Glennon and Wendt and A W Smith join Peru Frust Co to organize a retail coalition. The partnership aims to unify pricing and supply efforts across Both Stores.
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Peru ‘Frust Co
Wabash Valley Trust Co
Glennon & Wendt
A.W. Smith
The Mother Narrates Storytelling’s Deep Home Power
The essay extols story telling by mothers as central to child development. It emphasizes contentment, warmth, and bonding, noting stories shape character, ethics, and lifelong influence more than schooling. It frames mother and child as united in a shared story realm, guiding and confidant.
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Julia Darrow Cowles
One Qualification About the Dog and its Daisy Tail
A quirky dialogue shows a boy explaining why someone has a daisy tail to tie tin cans. the man expresses reluctance about buying a dog while the boy clarifies the tail serves a practical purpose.
Terrors of the Tango Strike Yale Track
Grantland Rice cites three Yale track athletes injured by tango dancing urging debrutalization of the dance and reforms to prevent further wrecks of young manhood, calling for action similar to football reforms.
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Yale
Grantland Rice
Collier’s
Lincoln Steffens Advocates Free Speech Club
Lincoln Steffens, noted writer, promotes free speech as the right to say anything anytime anywhere and forms a Free Speech club inviting attendees to join after delivering a speech advocating broad theories. The event ends with an invitation to membership.
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Lincoln Steffens
Steffens
Residents and visitors noted at North Manchester events
The column lists guest visits from Indianapolis Peru Huntington and Denver, plus Lake Manitou outings and summer preparations. It mentions the Fourth of July races in North Manchester and local home improvements. A reader letter from Michigan discusses subscription renewal and regional development as land values rise with a new wide gauge railroad.
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Indiana
North
Manchester
C. H. Friend
North Manchester
Li. G. Jacobs
Lewia Gustin
Lawyer and client discuss breaking uncle's will
The dialogue shows a lawyer teasing a possible break of the will while the client questions paying for past work. The exchange includes phrases about "a ghost of a chance" and whether the will can be broken.
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Marburger Bros
Kauffman Lénhaat Moon Co
L. P. Reinhart Smith & Elder Grocery
Joe Barnhart & Sons
A. E. Shapiro
The
Fampus
Sadler Bros
M. J. Koontz
J. Marshall
Fasnacht Millinery
Roy J. Cassady
E. Beauchamp
Endicott Wreckage Co
Warren Griggs McCaffrey & Co
H. Ream
Reed Bros
J. Beisner
Lentz Bros
Kelly & Allman
Peru Cycle Exchange
A. Wertheim Barney Baer B. FV Weimer
Pp. J. Pagsley
Reuter Bros
E. J. Englige
Basil Baker G. B. Noland Peru Sp
Jude
Ens National Bankational
Bank
Boston
Manton
Mane
Messaline
Poplins
OL. OS
Mies Vada Matthias
Indianapolis
W. A. Phillips
J. A. Dice
J. W. Dice
Weasaw
Albert Eikenberry
Nellie Crute
Lake Manitou
Nellie McGrew
E. 5. Waymire
George Lee
Denver
Ed Pontius
Miami
Harry Eikenberry
Harve Ream
Huntington
Vernon Rocky
David Rocky
Everley Hoover
John Fahl
Washington’ Street
Glennie, Mich
the Tribune
Esther Moon
Mercedes Newell
Gladys Gage
Clint Grimes
Claude Gage
Mrs. Claude
Woolleytown
Emma McCoy
W. W. Sellers
John
O'Blenis
Isaac
Kern
Schrop
Burkett
Guy
O’blenis
W. H. Howes
Lee.Grimes
Clyde Moon
Mrs. R. S. Place
Sunday
DeWald Carpenter
Gang
Macy
Walter
DeWald
Nelson
D. Guinn
E Wright
D.C
Stan
Wabash
Mra
Charles Brower Arid
W.E. Burke
D. C
N. Broadway
Ind
Frank Murphy
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Trave Manna Desians
V.vyss
Mmunnica
Nancy
Munn & Co
Scientific American
All
All Newsdealers
Srey
New York
Ommec
St. Wesblagron
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