Local News Notes From Monon And Surrounding Towns
A stream of social updates from Monon and nearby communities includes visits by Mrs Grace Maxwell and children to Monon, Misses Pearl Dunlap and Helen Bier from Indianapolis staying with Mrs Ab Whitaker, and various kinfolk calling on relatives. Repairs, sales, and ads mix with sporadic weather remarks and a reported murder mystery in LaPorte county.
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Anna
Jennie Colbo
Lafayette
J. A. Hayworth
Pearl Dunlap
Helen Bier
Indianapolis
Ab Whitaker
Lew Fields
Logansport
Ralph Owens
Monon
T. Higgins
Medaryville
Crnon
Jory “Povaver
Tuis
Moses Rice
W. A. Geer
Dunnville
Poe
Buat
J M. Glenn
Washburn
Star City
Francesville
Cglenny
Glenn
LaPorte County
Rolling Prairie
Sa lem Evangelical to Host Annual Mission Festival
Next Sunday August the Sa lem Evangelical church will observe its annual mission festival with three services. A German service at 10 30 a m a German service at 2 15 p m and an English service at 7 45 p m. Rev C A Koenig of South Bend Ind and Rev E Brenson of Medaryville will speak on missionary topics. Monday evening Rev Koenig will address the young people's society on his Italy journey. All members and friends are invited.
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Salem Evangelical Church
C. A. Koenig
South Bend
Ind
E. Brenson
Medaryville
Koenig
Young People’s Society
Italy
Presbyterian Ladies To Hold Ice Cream Social For Church Fund
Members of the Presbyterian church in Monon plan an ice cream social on the lawn of W A McPherson on Wednesday evening August 12 to raise funds to replace the church building destroyed by last winter’s fire. Everyone is invited.
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Presbyterain Church
Monon
W. A. McPherson
Dye Thompson Lumber Co Paint Prices Offer Five Year Guarantees
Call for prices on Indiana indestructible paint and metal roof paint both guaranteed for five years. Dye Thompson Lumber Co.
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Indiana
Dye Thompson Lumber Co
Granulated Eyes Cured by Salve Trial
Martin Boya of Venrietta Wy says twenty years of granulated sore eyes were cured after using Chamberlain's Salve given by a gentleman in February 1905. He bought one box and used most of it, and his eyes have been free of trouble since. City Drug Store sells the salve.
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Martin Boya
Venrietta, Wy
Centleman
City Drug Store
Indigestion remedy praised by Drumquin resident
Mr A Robinson of Drumquin Ontario cites Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as the best medicine he ever used for indigestion. He recommends a trial for indigestion or constipation, noting they are easy and pleasant to take. Price 25c with samples free at City Drug.
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A. Robinson
Drumquin
Ontario
Chamberlain
City Drug Store
Mrs Chas E Smith Endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Franklin Maine says her family uses Dr King’s New Life Pills as a laxative medicine because they work quietly and well. The painless purifiers are sold at J E Tillett’s drug store for 25 cents.
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Chas. E. Smith
West Franklin
Maine
Dr. King
J. E. Tillett
Electric Bitters praised by San Jose reader
Mrs. M. M. Davison of 379 Gif ford Ave San Jose Cal lauds Electric Bitters as a superior general family remedy for headache biliousness and torpor of liver and bowels noting more health for the digestive organs in a bottle than any other remedy and mentions its sale under guarantee at J E Tillett's drug store 508
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M. M. Davison
Gifford Ave
San Jose
Cal
J. E. Tillett
FindiliG The Sea and Dutch Adaptation to Flooded Lands
A Buffalo Times report recounts how Holland survives by dikes and water. Dutch life centers on canals and barges with families towing boats, while seas and floods shape a maritime culture. A Prussian observer notes Dutch flood defense and the boast of submerging land with ten feet of water.
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Hieland
Leyden
Prince of Orange
Ireland
France
East Indies
Holland
London Umbrella Invention and Social Reception
The first umbrella in London was carried by philanthropist James Hanway who died in 1786. Early users faced ridicule as umbrellas were seen as effeminate. inns kept a single large umbrella carried by a waiter for patrons. By 1800 umbrellas spread across Europe and America, with Spain Italy France and finally England adopting the item.
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London
James Hanway
Europe
America
Spain
Italy
France
England
What Wagner Recalled
An old hard headed manufacturer recounts attending a Wagner concert at his daughters urging. He recalls youth as a time of boiler shop work in Scranton, contrasting it with recent memories of the concert and a country idyll.
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Wagner
Mr. Smith
Scranton
Philadelphia Ledger
London at Night Through Thames and Towers
A vivid description of London at night from a vantage over the Thames. Westminster’s historic towers rise against a purple sky while the long hotel fronts glow from basement to attic, softening the city’s daytime roughness into a poetic, Turnerian view.
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Thames
Westminster
London
Whistler
Turner
Childly wisdom echoes in a moral tale from a teacher
A teacher admonishes a six year old Johnny about lies by pointing to a father who would sell sand as sugar to illustrate wrongdoing. Johnny retorts that his mother warned him and the father claims indifference.
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Johnny
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Oscar Dunn
I. W. Boltz
Higgins & Co
Grace Maxwell
Merry Widow
Mallon’s Department Store
Meath
Blue Front Drug Store
Burger & Sons
Edison Phonograpus
Hievins & Co
Fred Hubbell
Peru
Mies Elizabeth Ross
Claire Slubbell
H.W. Foster
Gail Wilbite
Dulogo
Mary Comstork
Mire
H. D Wilson
W.A . Geer
Cincinnati
Opal McDonald
Della York
Winnie Hubbell
Chas Crayburn
Chicago Heights
Chas, Halbrecht
James Lowe
Las Vezas
New Mexico
A A Carnes
John Roth
Catherine Mo OoConnor
White County
Palasky
Father Shark
iWe
Mary Wade
Falrnbury
John T. Culp
Vieasant Grove
Gauilford Querry
Margaret Hennechan
Josephine Plaischard
Chicago
Albert FE. Nitzschke
Chas
Nitzschke
Maud Lutes
A.c.northrop
William Raines
Presbyterian
Findilig the Sea
Nolan
Star Store
Venience of
Porter
Dunn's Meat Market
Kopka
Clark’s Grocery
Oxfords
HALL
Red River Valley
Jackson County
Oklahoma
Olustee
Luther E. Pollen
L. G. Hullinger
Franceeville
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