Christmas Maxims and the Family Dollar Crunch
A nostalgic survey of Christmas preparations emphasizing money anxiety and frugal habits. It notes girls earning pin money for gifts, men tightening cigar and smoking habits, wives bargaining to protect the family purse, and the central role of the breadwinner. The piece suggests avoiding debt, using tin banks for children, and treating Christmas as an unavoidable household obligation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Santa Claue
Hubby
Little Tin Bank
Little Willie
Mary
Little Tin Banks
Judge Hayden Calls Stronger Divorce Laws But Weakens Current Rules
Medina judge urges tougher filing rules to curb easy separations. He proposes six month hearings, strict docket order, and appointing counsel in uncontested cases to uncover fuller facts. The piece notes the Kennedy remedy ad context amid the proceeding text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comen
Ron
Eaally Chen
Oberlin Woman Granted Divorce in Castalia Case
Mrs Isabella Wilcox Storey of Oberlin obtains a divorce from Dr William Storey, Castalia physician, after settlement and decree on gross neglect of duty. The couple remains in Sandusky County with serious charges aired but resolved.
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Sandusky
Isabella Wilcox Storey
Oberlin
Wiliam Storey
Castalia
Paci Te See
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tex Ad Promises Relief
An advertising note touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tex as a remedy for indigestion constipation sour stomach and other ills. Available in tea or tablets for 85 cents from H A Dykeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Morale resigns as ron tester at Springfield Mal igable Iron Co
Thomas Morrie resigns from his thirty three year post as ron tester with the Springfield Variable Iron Company after long service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Morrie
Ron Tester
Springfield Maligable Iron Co
Auditor seeks names of blind children in county
Auditor Haserodt requests the names ages and addresses of all blind children in Lotata county for school age to forward to the Columbus superintendent. The statute requires auditors to collect names and transmit them quarterly to the school authority.
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Haserodt
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward and Testimony
One hundred dollar reward offered for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo are vouched for by Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. Cure is taken internally and works on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials available. Price 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
All Drugata
Oberlin Romance Ends in Christmas Wedding Plan
Colorado Springs reports H R Chapman will travel to Oberlin Ohio for a Christmas Eve wedding to Miss Nora E Eads of Oberlin. Both are Oberlin College graduates. Chapman has led the State Christian Endeavor society for five years and serves as an instructor at the Colorado Institute for the Deaf and Blind, noted in educational circles.
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Tennyson
Tennygon
Jasue
Papa
Colorado Springs
Colo
H.R. Chapman
Oberlin
Nora E Eads
Chapman
Miss Eads
Oberlin College
State Christian Endeavor Society
Colorado Institute For the Deaf
Siind
Mrs Austin's Buckwheat Savor Stands World Renowned
The text promotes Mrs. Austins Buckwheat as a genuine buckwheat savor with world wide reputation and urges readers to remember the name.
Rochester Social Notes Include Moves and Visits
Rochester residents host and visit relatives in town and Wellington. Notable items include Garrison and McAfee family visits, Crapo family travels to Charlotte Michigan for winter, and creamery relocation plans. Local movements feature Beardsleys moving to vacant house, and attendance at a funeral in Wellington for Hamilton Flaher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T. Garrison
Toledo
Wellington
Dell Rolfe
Misa Roxie McAfee
Elizabeth Crapo
Ina Lane
Charlotte
Mich
Crapo
Fern Coata
Grundy
Brighton
Warren Phillips
William Callen
GC. S. Johnston
C. Crapo
Lettha Beatty
Stewart McConnell
A. J. Irish
Farragher
Lorain
J. F. Beardsley
Dell Mitchell
Beardsley
Homerville
Ethel Gillette
Huntington
D. C. Mann
Chas, Rolfe
Little Son
Lillie Baneshaw
Lodi
Ethe Taylor
Misa Joyce
Miss Day
Brownhelm
M. E. Duchast
Wits
Henry Barnes, Jr
O. L. Fisher
Hamilton Flaher
Pain Names Try To Mislead In 19th Century Ad
An ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims to cure pains named rheumatism neuralgia lumbago pleurisy with tablets priced at 36 cents. The Reporter, a live newspaper, carries the promotion by H. A. Dykeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. A. Dykeman
Bad Luck Marks Life of Noted Speculator Haas Arraigned
L D Bias, once a famed Minneapolis stock maven, returns to the city and is charged with vagrancy after a long estrangement. He gained notoriety for the Nicolett avenue fire that killed his mother and sister in 1895, but authorities later learned his mother’s mental decline and he was released.
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Minneapolis
Minn
L. D. Bias
Minnespolia
Haas
Bieter
Nicolett Avenue
Riias
Siater
Python Attack Cripples Cincinnati Zoo Keeper
Rudolph Fluegal, a Cincinnati zoological gardens keeper, was nearly crushed to death by a giant python in the snake cage. He entered to sweep the cage without a blanket, the snake coiled around him as assistants beat and restrained it, and he was revived after an hour of resuscitation.
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Cincinnati, O
Rudolph Fluegal
Cincinnati Zoological Gardens
Fluegal
Edward Coyne
Sistanta
Flusgal
Physiclang
Lanai Ravaged by Wild Goats and Wind
Hawaiis Lanai island faces desertion and vegetation loss due to wild goats and high winds. Gov Oshter notes dire impact while two elderly native residents survive among few inhabitants. Charles Gay leases the island and faces drought with livestock losses. Foresters and legislature warned to act.
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Honolulu
Lanai
Gov
Oshter
United States
Iroquois
Charles Gay
Gay
Board of Forestry
Lanal
Advertising bids and hiring the cheapest professionals
A reader cautions about treating advertising bids as if they were legally or medically qualified choices and urges skepticism toward hiring the cheapest lawyer or doctor. The note emphasizes value and due diligence over minimal cost.
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Kennedy
Colorado
Otdo
Rochester
the Reporter
Onor Rich
Mother
Python
Man
Cincinnati Zoological Garden
6Th
Germany
German Empire
Lynch
Russia
Libau
Wah
Ack
Fauver & Robson
Selle
Geo. Westenholm & Son
Wade and Butcher Robeson Cutlery Co
Wadsworth Razor Company
Jackson Shear and Knife Co
W. F. Hafner
Broad St
Dorothy Dodd
Philpott’s
Philpott's
Sulei
Jn Guo
Philpott
Silkbeck
Gesiark
Randy Kitchen
PHONE
Century Buildin
G. Hurst
Lorain, Ohio
Umbrella Manzeane
the Bed Hardware Co
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