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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
5
Our Correspondence lists residents and visitors at lakeside and Fremont areas. Entries include camping trips by Fulton, McNaughton, Worton families. births near Clear Lake. social visits among neighbors. new cars. threshing and building activity. illnesses and health updates. church meeting announced. various trips to Coldwater Lake, Jackson, Elkhart, Reading. and everyday farm life details from July.
Jamestown residents and visitors are noted in Fort Wayne, Waterloo, Bronson, Coldwater, Bluffton, and West Jamestown. The report mentions Mr. and Mrs. George Llausier, Cecil Robbins, J J Berry, Coral Straw, Nettie Straw, Mrs Geo Blausier, Miss Mamie Collins, Miss Carrie Dawes, and local families.
Dayton Aikens killed a 700 pound elk at the Seven Mountains border near Listerville after mistaking it for a deer. Five hunters fired. Aikens hit it. He posted bond for a 10 cent fine for killing protected game, with his father as the informer, and half the fine goes to the family. The carcass was sent to Lewistown Hospital for patient use. In Philadelphia, 16 122 marriage licenses were issued in 1913, up 767 from 1912, a new record.
A Philadelphia broker used a simple stock fraud to borrow vast sums, raising shares to inflate value then taking certificates to banks for loans while others in the city pursued similar schemes. The schemes spanned years and ended with the broker's death by suicide. other cases involved a street railway official and a safe-deposit supervisor.
Lord Kitchener, England's field marshal, took his first airplane ride with aviator Olivier over Cairo for about 15 minutes in a Warisaw Biplane. He described alighting as a splendid game. The rest of the fragmentary text references a New York wedding and garbled notes, with unclear details.
Jerry, a rookie night operator in old blue grass Jamestown, longs for an emergency to prove himself. On the Charleston earthquake night, a false alarm spreads as he misreads the tremor and bellows quake here, exposing his nerves before the crew.
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