Local items and social notices from Muncie scene
A roundup of society updates from Muncie and surrounding towns includes marriages, engagements, and visits. Notables include Eva Jeu Devine wedding to Dr. A. E. Burton Jr. of Wayne Indiana, with reception details and future home in Fort Wayne, plus multiple brief notes on residents of Warsaw and nearby communities.
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Sharch
de- Free Press
Eva Jeu Devine
Rnage
A. E. Burton, Jr
Wayne
Ind
Fort Wayne
Burton
The
Hamilton
Moran Death After Morphine Threats
William J Moran carried out a threat to kill himself by taking a large morphine dose at home. His wife found him breathing laboriously after supper. a physician arrived too late to save him, and death was attributed to the overdose during a personal crisis.
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Witliam
Moran
Wm. J. Moran
Resolutions on Death of W D Hart Suff Express Deep Regret
The Railroad Young Men’s Christian Association adopts resolutions mourning the death of W. D. Hart Suff, charter member and former treasurer, praising his devotion, financial acumen, and lifelong service. Sympathy extended to his wife and friends as the organization reflects on his loss and faith.
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Railroad Department
Young Men's Christian Association
W. D. Hartsuff
Christian Fellowship
Railroad Young Men's Christian Association
Death of Adams Express Messenger in Pittsburg Train Wreck
The Pittsburg train No 8 wreck at Shreve Ohio killed Adams Express messenger Samuel Jackson a Chicago resident aged thirty eight. He perished in a burning car after a heavy pulley pinned him, while a two year old girl perished in the same crash. The Adams Express Company faces thousands of dollars in losses from destroyed merchandise and cars.
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Eddy
Chicago News Record
Charles J. Lipes
Adams Express Company
James A. Armstrong
Harry Zwahlen
East Lewis Street
New York City
Joseph Hanson
Fort Wayne
Jennie Funk
Rena Richardson
Ed Crosby
Akron
Ohio
Fred Hayden
Indianapolis
Henry ‘Reilling
McCausland
Elizabeth Howell
Samuel Jackson
Adams Express
Chicago
Pittsburg
Shreve
Watts
Jackson
Bass Foundry and Machine Company
Brotherhood
City
Express Company
Bucyrus
Espyville
California
Autumn Dress Goods and Millinery Trends Report
The piece outlines fashion notes for autumn wear with Alsatian bows on hats and curved jet buckles, warm-toned gowns for pale complexions, and new hats. It highlights net lace jackets, Persian motifs, cashmere palm patterns, bayader stripes, and iridescent green gold fabrics. A French trend has corsets and petticoats matching, while a silver spur aims to prevent skirt tears. The high crown hat returns as winter’s popular style.
Velvet Crown Trim Describes New Season Novelties
An inch or two high crowns are shown in light velvet with plaits around the side crown. A quarter-inch cream felt ribbon bands the crown, ties in a flat bow. Cigare green velvet forms the crown atop cream felt, with the cream ribbon replacing straw this spring and summer.
Elwood Tin Plate Mill Visit Questions Labor Value
Hon W F McNagoy visited Elwood Indiana to assess the tin plate mill. He found a mostlyWelsh workforce with wages from 1 25 to 5 dollars daily and total employment under 100. He argues the industry offers poor returns for American labor and costs the public money.
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W. F. McNagoy
Tin Plate
Elwood
Ind
Columbia City Post
W. F. McNagey
Mac
Sozodont Promises Fresh Breath for Wives and Husbands
A period advertisement touts Sozodont as pleasant tasting and fragrant. It claims to improve comfort and prevent offensive breath for users.
Pere Hyacinthe's Wife and Other Society Notes
Mme Hyacinthe Loyson, 58, wife of Pere Hyacinthe, arrives in America to promote their reformist Catholic work. The Shat-In society, an invalid support group, shares a global reach with a magazine and wheelchairs for patients. Wyoming Supreme Court decision touches on women jurors and suffrage issues.
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Pere Hyacinthe
Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson
Charles Loyson
Pere Tryacinthe
France
Henry Ward Beecher
Vatican
Rome
America
Mme. Loyeon
Mme. Layson
Chicago
New York
Jennie Casseday
Louisville
National Flower Mission
Margaret Williamson
Shanghai
China
Wyoming
State Supreme Court
Cheyenne
Voyage Tales Of 1351 Days At Sea And Natural Wonders
A Morning Oregonian report recounts travelers aboard clipper ships seeking adventure on long voyages. It highlights life at sea, observations of birds and fish, deck-side fishing, and the curious pilot fish guiding thrashers toward whales, with notes on a bloodsucking parasite.
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Wessel
Factorus
Nwo
W. F. Gray
Rochester
Hugh P. Blackinton
Hoosac Falla
N.Y
Blackinton
Pactolus
Oregonian
Jong
Draw near to Him in sorrow and seek His love
A devotional exhortation urges the reader to draw near to God in sorrow and guilt. It frames Christ as a healing refuge and asks the reader to kneel, lift the heart, and adore the loving God. The text emphasizes mercy, restoration, and pastoral comfort for the burdened soul.
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God
A Great Frozen Lake Across Lake Baikal
The narrative describes crossing Lake Baikal on solid ice nine months a year with crystal clear water beneath. The journey from Irkutsk to Moufshkaya covers over thirty miles in four and a half hours, amid silence and distant booming cracks. The piece also recalls a beetle experiment with a milk bottle and a dramatic rattlesnake incident witnessed by Mr. Lane in Illinois in 1818. It ends noting Professor Freeman at Yale.
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Irkutsk
Kiachta
Lake Baikal
J. M., Price
Arctic Ocean
Yellow Sea
Moufshkaya
Liestvenitz
Mr. Gosse
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London
Mr. Lane
Oshkosh
Wis
Coles County
Illinois
Junken
Historian Objects to Being Called Doctor
The anecdote recalls a Yale professor addressing Freeman as Doctor Freeman. Freeman, who held doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge, questions the title. He quips that even Gladstone would not be called doctor, urging caution in titles for eminent figures.
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Yale
Freeman
Oxford
Cambridge
Gladstone
Desires to Bear Testimony on Allcock's Plasters
Henry Thorne traveling secretary of the Y M C A writes from Exeter Het Strand London February 2nd 8 I desire to bear my testimony to the value of Allcock's Porous Plasters used for pains in the back and side from rheumatic and other causes They are easily applied and very comforting Those in public work exposed to sudden temperature changes should keep a supply in their portmanteaus.
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Henry Thorne
Exeter Het Strand
London
Allcock
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Wayne Rifles
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Washington, D. C
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Sedalia
Michael Wolf
Melita Street
Pauline Flint
Kendallville
Westminster Seminary
Edward Dalman
Smith Hardware Store
Will Kyle
Kyle & Plumadore
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John T. Ferguson
Delphos
Mintie
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Calhoun Street
P. A.randall
Murray Hartnett
Wells Street
Muncie Tracks
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Jefferson Township
Girardo
Gladio
J. P. Manuel
Begunot
Presbytery
Presbyterian Church
Warsaw
Warsaw Times
George Mackintosh
J. D. Healy
Auburn
J. A. Allen
J. L. Leeper
Second Presbyterian Church
H. B Townsend
Elkhart
Orphans’ Home
Indiana
Mexico
Levi Miller
Peru
Indianapolis News
Miller
German Baptist Church
Eel River
Elwood’s
Douglas
Miss Marsh-Phillips
England
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Alpine Club
Grenoble
Mont Blarne
Dickens
Mary Angela Dickens
Charles Dickens
Cross Currents
Appleton
Town and Country
London Spectator
Miss Talbott
Wellesley
Chicago University
Mme
Adelina Patti
Paris
Milan
Princess Marie of Schwarzenberg
Prague
Stark Evans
Hampton
Iowa
State University
Ruth McEnery Stuart
New Orleans
South
Harper’s Bazar
Margaret Sangster
Ellen Harris
Philadelphia
First Woman’s Aid Society
Fort Sumpter
Florence
Italy
L. L. Polk
National Alliance
Progressive Farmer
Raleigh
N. C
People’s Party
Sarah Pollard
Polk County
Minnesota
Abner Taylor
National House of Representatives
Taylor
Tone Perry
George Perry
Home Journal
Bassonade
Ida M. Gardner
American Society For the
Joseph Ruby
Columbia
Hood
Doctor Freeman
Prof. Freeman
Carlyle
Peterson
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Burton’s Corners
Castors
Castoria
Society For the Prevention of
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Rock Island
Pacifivty
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Rock Des Pt
Eawess
Apees
Puebla
Cosches
CaGo
Fuerlo Va
Albert Lea
Eas
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A. G. Root
M. C
Peart St.s
Leeat Allen Tho
Elty
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Chicane
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Pathe
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Randall Hotel
Rea and
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J.G. Thieme & Son
Clothiers and ‘Tailors
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Columbia & Glinion
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