Decatur County Fair Closes After Strong Attendance
Friday afternoon capped a successful county fair with strong crowds and fine weather. About 6,500 total on grounds, 5,056 Thursday admissions, auto races saw Buick win in 1 36 then 1 324 record, stock parade drew crowds, and music by Hope Letts and Clarksburg bands pleased patrons. Premiums awarded across horses, cattle, hogs, and poultry with numerous local exhibitors and winners named.
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Decatur County
Michigan
Everett Arbuckle
Buick
Ford
Indianapolis
Hope, Letts
Clarksburg
Fair Management
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets Endorsement
Mr A Robison of Drumquin Ontario reports years of indigestion and endorses Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as the best medicine for indigestion or constipation. He notes they are easy to take and pleasant, priced at 25 cents with free samples at Batterton's drug store.
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A. Robison
Drumquin
Ontario
Chamberlain
Whale guns earlier whaling effort traced to 1731
Forest and Stream notes the first attempt to use swiveling light guns on whaleboats for whale capture dating to 1731. A stout thirty inch barrel harpoon pistol with a flint lock faced many problems including aim accuracy, wet powder, and danger of striking other boats, yielding limited success.
Taking a Walk
A humorous court exchange in which an accused man pleads he took a neighbor’s plank walk on medical advice to take a long walk daily. The justice sentences him to three months in the house of correction for theft and offers court advice at no charge.
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House of Correction
Boston Transcript
Fifth Avenue
W. B. Hayward
Bohemian Magazine
Man’s vow to do his best echoes years later
The father urges his son to always do his best as he sends him into life. Years later the son becomes a prosperous businessman but betrays a friend by taking a large sum of money. The Chicago Tribune notes the irony that this happens occasionally despite good intentions.
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Chicago Tribune
The Photographer
A Bohemian Magazine inspired portrait of photographers as interpreters and artists. It explains how studio retouching shapes vanity and how clients influence images through wardrobe and preparation, with witty anecdotes about waistlines hair and collars.
Boston Boy Misreads Battle Atop Bunker Hill
A narrator quotes a Boston Post tale in which a British father tests his son on the history of the site. The boy answers with swaggering pride about "licking the stuffin' out of the English" at Bunker Hill, revealing a humorous Americanized retelling rather than a formal history.
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Boston Post
Panama Hats Weaving Time Fact Defies Myth
A Panama hat maker with lifelong experience disputes claims that hats are woven under water. He explains hats are woven in damp early mornings when fiber is pliable, then hung at night to absorb dew. The process, from one to three months, accounts for the long production time.
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New York American
A Faithful Friend Endorses a Chronically Used Remedy
H S Nichols of Oakland Indian Territory testifies to the lasting effectiveness of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since 1872. The commercial traveler praises its reliability after thirty-five years of use and notes it is sold at Batterton's drug store.
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Chamberlain
H. S. Nichols
Oakland
Ind
Batterton’s
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W. R. Vansickle
H. M. Redelman
Christian & Buell
J. E. Robbins
Joe Cory
Jack
Willard Miers
Ira Carmen
Mule
Span Mules
G. F. Garley
Micajah Smith
Jacob Black
J. G. Davis
Ed Chandler
John Rheinhard
W. A. Minor
William Stewart
Orlando Lee
Cliff Eward
Walter Cory
John Underwood
J. F. Garley
M. Kessling
Lafe Robertson
Hazelrigg & Bailey
Poland
China Hogs
E. E. Smiley
Calvin Thornburg
Calvin
Plymouth Rocks
Joe Strausburger
Charles Clemons
Rhode Island Reds
John E. Robbins
Web Rhodes
Wesley Lanus
Wesley Lamus
Frank Alexander
Clyde Boling
George Anderson
W. W. Bonner
Truman Guthrie
J. P. Thomson
James Littell
William Leffler
J. T. Gurly
J. W. Rhodes
Jessie Robbins
Mary Louise Greene
William M. Stewart
Walter W. Bonner
St. Paul
John Rinehart
Grant Thayer
Frank Clark
Don Wilson
Homer Powell
Rich Wilson
Rushville
Pace
Lester S Osborne
Katherine C
Russell Hallie R
Hilligoss
Eens Reese
Mamie Sherwood
Clark
Gamar
Hook
Smith
Marie Fort
Fort Sessewe
Dolly Carr
Carr Widben Cfee
Heer
Jack the Ripper
Bailey
Carney
Rhodes
Robbin R
Russell
Lizzie Red
Shook
General Fox
Graham
Anjie W
Cummins
Escreenes
Anna N
Inlow
Decatur Boy
Silvers
Turner
Ee Gee
Davis
Foley’s
Foley & Company
Chicaege
William H. Taft
Ohio
James S. Sherman
New York
Congressional
Congress
Sixt
William O. Barnard
Albert W. Phillips
Jethro C. Meek
Oscar
Tri
Lindsey C. Jackson
Bruceraig
Gollefer
William G. Updike
Washington Township
Will C. Ehrhardt
Henry C Snell
Pulse & Porter
Greensburg, Indiana
J. H. Christian
W. H. Robbins
Chas. Zoller, Sr
James M. Woodfill
James B. Lathrop
Frank Robbins
Tsaac Sefton
Barrington Boyd
A. “Aef
St.John & Guthrie
Studebaker
New England
Corbett & Rohe
Polis. VS
Iiversit
Penagyvagia St
Indiana
J. Heer
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