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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1917
Page
7
A collection of short items from Fremont Indiana including advertising rates, local meetings such as the W C T U gathering on February 20 and a Washington's Birthday social on February 22, farm loan offers, store promotions, and numerous small community notes about visits, illnesses, marriages, and deaths.
A playful local item describes a character nicknamed Tilly flipping flapjacks to please patrons, while others named Eliza, Jane, and May are mentioned in lighthearted fashion. The note captures a small town humor about cooking and romance.
A lighthearted column notes superstition about Friday marriages and jokes about a bride Mary Garden tipping the scales at 119 pounds with clothes on making her net 118 pounds. It references a California professor who claims to hear a feather fall and a quip about rising living costs hindering investigations.
Oscar Fuller Mallory born November 18 1852 in Jamestown township Steuben County Ind died February 6 1917 age sixty four years two months and nineteen days He married Edna Brooks April 24 1879 and later Mrs Louisa Hobson December 7 1897 He leaves a wife two sons a daughter in law and grandchildren Funeral February 8 conducted by Rev Oscar Martin Jamestown cemetery burial beside his first wife He was active in Congregational church and known for kindness and charity.
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