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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR shows schedule notes for Winona Interurban Railway with routes between Warsaw and Winona Lake. Entries reference morning and hourly service and times like 6 55 a m and 1 58 p m.
The notice outlines Sunday train service from 4 a.m. every hour until 11 04 p.m. with the last car at 11 48 p.m. The connection links are South Bend with Southern Michigan Railway for Niles, Berrien Springs and St Joseph in Michigan.
A partial transit timetable entry shows hourly rate and schedule figures with times such as 5 00 and 230. The fragment includes bus notation and unclear fare indicators, reflecting an incomplete timetable snippet.
Fragment cites grocers selling unspecified items and a person named Layee at a store. Context unclear, no concrete facts, no dates or locations.
Mrsz Burket and Oma ender spent Saturday with Ima Kreighbaum and Dennis Moore. The Swarm family visited Wood land. children’s day will be observed at the Methodist church next Sunday evening. Ansel Bhret and sister-in-law Mrs Harry Platt spent Sunday with Carmi Scott’s mother Mrs Levi Pritchard. Harriet McPherson, visiting daughter Mrs Levi Burket, Mrs C Bender spent Sunday with Emory Kindig. Dan Shaum and wife visited in Tikhart Sunday.
27 acre fruit farm with 20 acres set in fruit yields about 1000 dollars this season. Includes good house and barn and a beautiful riverbank location one mile from Bristol post office. Will exchange for two good central residences in Elkhart or sell at reasonable price and terms. D M Best 115 Lexington Avenue.
Advertisement for J C Moore and Son offering Tubular and Drive Well work and sinking piping. Mentions home and work phone numbers, 24 Dean's work guaranteed, and a medicine curing constipation advertised at 25 cents per box with 10 cents per week option.
A local elder farmer Collins Pindell of 206 Crawford Street, Elkhart Indiana, testifies to permanent kidney relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He endorses the remedy and confirms prior statements, describing a history of kidney pain and improvement with the product.
The Senate finance committee met to consider the general supervision plan for corporations and tax objections from Illinois insurers. Aldrich pressed lumber rate changes, McCumber offered a counterproposal, and debates on coal duties concluded with a new schedule reducing the coal rate and scrapping the reciprocity clause.
The article recounts a chaotic case involving Lydia Moffett and Elsie Sigel with claims of abduction and murder. Chung Ling accuses Leon Ling of killing Elsie Sigel while lingering disputes and possible disguises cloud leads. Police note no solid clue from Chung’s statements and consider suspects likely to have left by ship or hidden in absentee locales near port cities.
Local notice announces a Saturday night supper at a winehall on Jackson Street. The event begins at 7:00 PM and runs until all are served, highlighting a community gathering with ticketing and seating details unclear due to text garble.
The text explains proper use of Fels-Naptha soap: follow wrapper directions, avoid relying on medicine for cures, and do not boil or rub excessively. It notes clothes washing instructions including soaking in cold water for 30 minutes, gentle rinsing, and hanging to dry, plus other uses for naptha.
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