Local News Roundup of Visits Sales and Winter Weather
Local items note Mrs Charles Murphy of Brazil entertaining friends here this week. Various travels include Miss Jennie Pfaffenberger visiting Louisville, T M Clark at Omaha for a corn show, and Miss Kia Droffleman visiting Mrs T E Davidson in Cincinnati. Families travel to Indianapolis for holidays and grandson visit. Church talks by Judge J K Ewing and Rev W G Johnstone appear amid jewelry ad copy and local commerce. Temperatures drop with winter arrival and gas shortages spike stove and coal demand as Indianapolis sees four inches of snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Pfaftenberger
Louisville
E. L. Moore
T. M. Clark
Middle Branch
Omaha
Wneb
Kia
Mendenhall & Santa Claus
West Side Square
J. K. Ewing
Indianapolis
Haines Bros
J. W. Owens Music Store
Charles Annis
Corinth
Kentucky
John Evans
J. W. Gwens Music & Jewelry Store
S. N. Patterson
Julia Rogers
Franklin
Greensburg
Thomas Ardery
For Eczema Tetter and Salt Rheum Relief
The intense itching from eczema tetter and salt rheum is quickly eased by Chamberlains Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Eskimo boot making by sealskin and fur footwear
Captain Moses Bartlett describes traditional Eskimo footwear using sealskin and deer skin boots. Hareskin inner socks, sun-dried seal skins stretched on frames, and large boots kept snow out. Eskimo boots lack bark tanning and leather soles, with durability of about six months under harsh ice wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labrador
Moses Bartlett
Small boy uses diplomacy to get crullers
A mother and child visit an old friend. The boy pretends innocence while secretly loving crullers and outsmarts the rule not to ask. He claims he did not ask, then protests as the cruller maker leaves with a sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Cruiler
Mud Hat Tale From the Roadside Mire
A man finds a hat in mud along a roadside and a voice from beneath reveals the wearer is buried to the head in mud. The startled finder learns the depth is extreme and the scene turns into a curious roadside anecdote.
Deadly Poisons and Their Effects Across History
The article surveys about 160 known poisons, noting their classifications and primary actions. It details brain and nerve effects, respiration impact, heart influence, and irritant actions, with examples like arsenic phosphorus and strychnine, plus factory dangers from mercuric methide and potassium bichromate. It cites cyanide as instantly fatal and prussic acid as anciently used by Egyptians in peach pit distillation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouark
Pyramids
New York Press
Marion Vanth's Cannonade Ends Museum Tour
Suarion, a six year old American girl, refused to continue visiting Europe’s famous museums after three months of viewing relics from Marie Antoinette to Napoleonic hats. Her mother finally relented, and Marion agreed to visit any place but not more famed artworks, requesting never again to look at anything famous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suarion
Europe
Marie Antoinette
Catherine de’ Medici
Napoleon
Marion
Vanth
Camnenian
Prairie Dogs Mistaken for Indians in Texas Frontier Tale
A reminiscence from J. B. Quigley recounts a brush with a 300 strong band on Texas prairies after the Civil War. The party dug trenches, drank scarce water, and waited through a dawn attack before realizing the threat was only prairie dogs, a shared psychological illusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Quigley
Texas
City Star
How He Knew Assault Testimony Opens Hurdle
In a Cleveland assault and battery trial the prosecuting witness testified at length that the defendant knocked him senseless and kicked him for several minutes. Asked how he could say the kick occurred while he was down, the witness paused then said he would have acted the same if the roles were reversed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Circle Magazine
Quirky Fare Dispute Between Two Cabmen over Charge
In a street exchange two cabmen discuss a fare from a single passenger. One asks why the driver charged two shillings and ninepence halfpenny rather than an even three bob, noting the passenger could only pay that amount. The dialogue stops with the uneasy tally and a garbled name.
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cCut Glass
J. W. Owens Jewelry Store
Charles Murphy
Brazil
Fountain Pens
C. H. Thomson & Co
Charles Cory
Muncie
Anna Coury
Amos Leper
East Mai Street
Kirby’s
People’s Grocery
Richard A. Powers
Jacob Powers
Westport
Flatrock
Thomson's Jewelry
John W. Swartz
Clay Township
Davenport
James Anderson
Ethel Trimble
Kirby
Bert Morgan
Harry Mount
A. M. Willoughby
Panama Canal
Christina Flint
Florine Meek
C. H. Taomson & Co
Thomson's
Lambertvilla
Boston
George Elliott
J. W. Owens
South Side Square
KirrBy
S. Foley
J. H. Batterton
Thomson’s
J. F. Huckleberry
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Ira E. Wonn
Square
Thomas Moberly
James H. Moberly
Shelbyville
Thomas
Orville Thomson
East Central Avenue
Decatur County Independent Telephone
A. R. Hall
Qualls
Richard Simmonds
J W. Owens
Owens Music & Jewelry Store
Sam Dowden
Julia Greenfield
East Hendricks Street
Baltimore
Type Moore
Kokomo
J. C. Bell
Frank Deem
Margaret Kammerling
Rockville
Norman Scharfe
Tarvis
Canada
Rev
George Gallup
Mary J. Hart
Ed Mills
Norwood, Ohio
Walter Reynolds
A. Reiter
Cincinnati
R. C. Shoffner
Alliance
Nebraska
Wil
H. B. Sherman
Kerr Brothers
Decatur County
New Castle
Charles Porter
Euchre Club
Franklin Street
Finley Mantook
Della Eddiss
Clifty
R. M. Meredith
Goldfield
Nevada
W. H. Weaver
Wickens & Osbor
George E. Erdmann
Kingsbury Ioner
W. G. Johnstone
Usta
Bell
O'Dell
Burney
Hs Brother
Charley Adams
Los Angeles
Cal
People's Grocery
G. M. Smith
Indiana
M. E
Trinity Church
Evansville
Jack’’ Ewing
University Dramatic Organizaton
Edgar Waters
John Waters
Gerze Sefton
North Franklin Street
Aid Society of the Christian Church
Will Davis
Eliza Byers
Lizzie Thomas
George Adams
Offcer
James Grinstead
Council
Elizabeth Reed
Hope
Columbus
Anna Reed
Ralph Spaugh
Mr. Spaugh
Standard Shoe Co
W.L. Thomas
Edwin Thomas
Amarillo
C.F
Houston
Arctic
Curtis McCoy
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