Local News Fragments Narrate Fortunes and Feuds
A jumbled local roundup reports a string of names, addresses, and events from Williams Street to Chicago. It notes a girl born to Mr and Mrs Cohagen, a farm financier election, house construction at 202 em, and various city figures like J H Sohlersgen and Mee of Laporte. It mentions a day’s travel, a court candidate, and a town wedding with a large attendance, plus scattered mentions of accidents, shipments, and community happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra Cohagen
A. Segley
Williams Street
Hines
Pired Farm
Fred Boeater
Arthur Fits
Fleming Mann
J. H. Sohwersgen
City
Chicago
Sohlandroft
James
New Ohio
Mage Company
Jering Bros. & Millard
Chiesgo
Grand Rapids
Fort
Webster
Mee
Laporte
Allen Ee Wayne
Pate
Bovine
Mar
Local notes and small town events mix in Gray Eagle items
A sprawling string of notes covers farm life, marriages, a courtship, a runaway horse tragedy, and a free medical dispensary. Allen county records show eighteen reform school youths at Knightstown, while William Hough of Fort Wayne marries Clara Welker under Rev. Mellinger. A Pennsylvanian train case ends with a freed child from the penitentiary, and a cider mill yields about 750 barrels as apples thrive in this area. A burglar nabs silver heirlooms from Mrs. Osenbrugh, and a seven year old burns himself in a kitchen accident. Reuben Reichard and Miss Mary Specht marry in Huntington after obtaining a license through Squire Cole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Etzold
Flora Berlin
Emanuel
Alice Hamilton
L. J. Bobilya
John Porter
Bobilya
Lakeside
Effie Houge
New Era
Florence Hogue
William Hough
Fort Wayne
J. Mellinger
Hough
Lake Shore
Clara Welker
Pennsylvania
Lima
Gabe
Isaac Blystone
Harrison Street
Axeson
Reuben Reichard
Mary Specht
Huntington
Noble County
Reuben F. Reichard
Squire Scott Cole
Samuel DeHaven
Rock Creek Township
Breaking Ice at Norwood Villa Colony
Two elderly sisters observe new tenants moving into three modern villas near their cottage. The arrival of Mrs Westmacott and her nephew Charles triggers comic and sharp social clash, exposing the Emancipation Guild advocate’s confrontational views and the sisters’ growing unease.
Dwellers in the Wilderness at Norwood Tennis Ground
In a Norwood suburb three villas share a common lawn tennis ground binding residents together. Admiral Hay Denver, Dr Walker and his daughters Clara and Ida, the widow and nephew, plus Harold Denver confront intertwined lives as they seek companionship beyond their professional calls. Clara Walker stands calm and thoughtful, Ida seeks lighthearted fun, while Harold, pressured by a broker career and restlessness, weighs marriage options as spectral memories of past service linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misses Williams
Norwood
Anerley
Forest Hill
Mr. Williams
Williams
Chance
No. 1
Admiral Hay Denver
V. C
C. B
Hay Denver
Bomarsund
Alexandria
Talm
Shannon
Zanzibar
Harold Denver
Stock Exchange
Hay
Balthazar Walker
Medical
Weymouth Street
Indies
Monica
Bertha
No. 8
Eliza
Charley
Mrs. Westmacott
Miss Williams
Bertha Williams
Marquesas Islands
Charles
Denver
Dr. Walker
Clara
Ida
Lancet
Arcana
Nature
Mary
Teould
London
Idn Walker
Inm
Salthazar
Ida Walker
No. 2
Navy
Lancaster
St. Helena
Harold
Devonshire
Hampshire
Painea
New Zealands
Heaven
Willy
Charles Westmacott
Ory Denver
Plymouth Bay
Barakl
Clara Walker
Cure for consumption claimed by Golden Medical Discovery
Advertisement touts early treatment of consumption as curable. It cites hundreds of cured cases after attempting cod liver oil, malt, whiskey and hypophosphites, asserts physicians corroborate results, and promises a 160-page book with testimonials from cured patients upon request to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh
Pierce
Golden
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Japanese Victory Port Arthur Captured
Yokonoma reports Port Arthur fallen to Japanese forces on November 2. In unrelated local news, John Potter of Seavoy Hardware suffered a crushed right hand unloading a steam boiler at J. E. K. France's residence on South Harrison Street. no bones were broken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Potter
Seavey Hardware Company
J. E. K. France
Harrison Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
South Wayne
Bigomingdale
Pabonette
Wees
Chrysanthe
Mira
Kieble
Tom Brickley
Bluffton
Ered
Lees
Allen County
Reform School
Knightstown
George W. Heller
Globe Clothing House
George Horton
Nickel Plate
Sweet William
No. 3
Monica Williams
Emancipation Guild
Dwellers IN the
Wilderness
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
C. Wa
The
Mederma Beauty
New York
Boston
Santa Claus
N. K. Peirbank Company
Hls
Marity Vanerong
Eas
N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
Yokonoma
Port Arthur
Castoria
Miss
Casoria
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