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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
7
The notice lists business locals and advertising rates at six cents per line for each insertion. Festival and entertainment notices are six cents per insertion, with greeting cards at twenty five cents and memorials at one dollar per insertion. Legal ads follow law. Contact telephone 49. Thursday Feb 12.
Reading through a flood of names and places, the item highlights visits and travels of residents like David Grove in Angola, Miss Ethel Pettit in Quincy, and Edith Brooks for medical care. It notes church events, civic meetings, a new electric plant engine arrival, and a political caucus outcome.
Read all the ads and watch the Booster List grow as residents are urged to sign up. Heavy snows improve roads and bring in many logs, including large ones, while local families travel and visit. Mrs. Lona Boor returns from Jackson. Mrs. Ora Brown plans a brief stay. Mrs. Tenna Gould arrives from East Liverpool to live with relatives. The first $5 U.S. greenback, No. 1 A, is claimed by Lawrence Gates of Angola. Ice and weather concerns ease as cold spell lingers. Reading discusses day electric current and motor use if power is available. Pythian Sisters offer a supper February 19 from 5 to 7 at 25 cents in Harbaugh building with music. Two high school boys, Sloane Lewis and Paul Richards, briefly wander to Detroit then California before returning home to family.
Philadelphia area place names reflect Welsh Irish and Celtic roots with Bryn Mawr Pencoyd Bala Gladwyne Bethryn Achlyn Dubh Lin Gwynedd Upper Dubin Kincora Cornwell and Tacony histories. The piece links language meaning to local topography and settlement patterns along the Schuylkill and rail lines.
The Delaware people christened the land in their tongue along the river and swamp near it. Indian names dot the Delaware up to Pocono and Manunka Chunk. crossing into Carbon County you meet Mauob Chunk Bear Mountain Towamencia Nesquehoning Nescopeck and other toponyms. Roschil notes tribes mined coal and used it to power pipeheads and cook in gumberry tree pots.
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