Local News Roundup From Decatur County
Local items include visits by William McConnell and others for the holidays, Miss Hazel Martin teaching in Palestine Wyoming, and a heavy holiday trade noted by merchants. The death of Bernard Koors is reported with funeral at Millhousen Catholic church. A gas explosion damages a home but injures none, and Mrs. Alice Winship dies of acute indigestion at fifty four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert M. Hite
Clarksburg
St. Joe
Michigan
James Alcorn
Stork
William Ray
Louisville
Mignum
Ruth White
Indiana University
Fred Wolver
Kokomo
James Kelly
West North Street
Hazel Martin
Palestine
Wyoming
Hazel
Bernard Koors
Millhousen
Germany
B. Koors & Co
Public Square
Oscar Ewing
L. A. Harding
Newpoint
Ira Miller
Ralph Throp
Purdue
Mary Rankin
Oberlin College
Ohio
Krebbiel
Moui Ridge
Kansas
Springhill
C. H. Thomson & Co
Addie Gilmour
Liberty Aid
H. McGrath
Noblesvile
Warren Robison
North Franklin Street
Miss Gilman
Chrystal Rosebrough
East Washington Street
W. P. Skeen
Alice Winship
Milroy
James Anderson
Hopkins
Everett Hamilton
Rushville
Fortunate Texan endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills
A Dallas resident Mr. E. W. Goodloe praises Dr King’s New Life Pills for curing malaria and biliousness without grinding or griping. The advertisement notes the pills cost 25 cents at F. M. Henry & Co.’s drug store.
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E. W. Goodloe
St. Louis St
Dallas Texas
Dr. King
F. M. Henry & Co
Automobile Disease Inference In Humorous Exchange
A man with a new touring car asks a doctor if car use can cause illness and the doctor muses that automobile may develop disease tendencies. The humorous exchange ends with a pun as the physician suggests the neck spot could be a car buncle or an automobile.
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Young Featherhead
Belasco Double Feature Opens With Warrens of Virginia
New Belasco hit The Warrens of Virginia stars Charlotte Walker and Frank Keenan at the Bijou in a Cecil De Mille collaboration. The production blends love and duty with tense battlefield drama and strong acting. Victor Moore stars in The Talk of New York at Knickerbocker, as Kid Burns, a race track follower who wins a fortune and mingles with high society.
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New York
the Warrens of Virginia
Belasco
Bijou
Charlotte Walker
Frank Keenan
Cecil de Mille
Strongheart
David Belasco
Warrens of Virginia
Virginia
Warren
Tleman
Burton C. D. Waldron
Craig
George Cohan
Victor Moore
Knickerbocker Theater
Mr. Wilcox
Robert Butler
Was Released Nine Times In Southern Michigan League
Detroit ball player Johnny Bokart, a youth from Detroit, set a world record by being released nine times in the Southern Michigan league. He began with Jackson last spring, then moved through Flint, Hillside Independent, Lansing, Battle Creek, Bay City, Kalamazoo, Mount Clemens, and Tecumseh before the season ended and the circuit folded for winter.
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Detroit
Johnny Bokart
Jackson
Flint
Hillside
Bokart
Lansing
Battle Creek
Bay City
Kalamazoo
Mount Clemens
Tecumseh
Alaska Huskies Bring Tough Challenge to North American Courts
Basketball teams from across the country will face a strong Alaska squad that recently arrived from the far north. The husky team promises a difficult contest for every opponent from the United States and Canada this winter, with respect earned by hard play and staunch defense.
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Canada
Gulf
Husky
Alaska
United States
Taming Elephants in Burma’s Teak Trade
W. G. Fitzgerald describes Burma’s teak industry where the Indian government leases vast forests to corporations employing thousands of elephants. The kheddah system captures wild elephants for taming by mahouts, with elephants shipped to Moulmein and Burma. Elephants mature at twenty five, with keen sense of smell and near sight, capable of rapid work and speed but unable to jump.
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Burma
Bellay
Himalayas
Cape Cormorin
Forest Department
Kheddah
India
Moulmein
W. G. Fitzgerald
St. Nicholas
Poems Offered by Leigh Hunt Impatient Readers Demand Entries
A correspondent humorously notes Leigh Hunt signed poems sent to the paper and jokes about publishing others. The Cleve Leader suggests readers submit their verses, though no payment is promised for Leigh Hunt's contributions.
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Leigh Hunt
Leigh
Toad the Friend of Man in the Garden
An American Farmer excerpt extols toads as valuable insect destroyers that curb grubs and cutworms, urging protection and encouragement of toads in gardens while condemning boy cruelty from schoolboys who kill hundreds in a day.
Swanberg star rises in Stockholm distance run
John Swanberg of Sweden defeated England’s John Duncan by about an eighth of a mile in a four mile affair at Stockholm setting a rapid pace. Travers dominates 1907 golf with three titles including the national championship. Amateur golf and track highlights frame a busy year opening with brisk performance and strong international note.
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John Swanberg
Sweden
John Duncan
Stockholm
Jerome D. Travers
Euclid
Travers
Athens
England
Swanberg
Duncan
Alex Grant
Real Seamanship and the Escape at Sea
A New York Sun account recounts Mr. Bankson surviving a sudden gale. He describes detecting an approaching storm, weighing options to save the craft, and leaping overboard with a canoe to reach shore just as the nets rose to threaten.
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Mr. Bankson
New York Sun
Tere
Bankson
How Sunshine Warms Us
The article explains how sun exposure duration and angle affect heating. Summer brings long daily sunlight and vertical rays, increasing absorbed heat, while winter’s shorter days and oblique rays cause more heat to radiate away. It mentions a related Victorian anecdote about age perception and a maid in Manchester.
Local Alabama Choir Singer Faces Illness
A stalwart Alabama singer in a town church choir suffers a protracted illness. A deacon probes his recovery with concern and a touching remark about fate leads to a lighthearted note from the singer’s wife, reflecting the community’s warmth.
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Alabama
Harper’s Weekly
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Hall
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Chester Reinkie
Henry Reinkie
Henry Hollenslee
Peter Luthe
Ivesdale
Illinois
Ova Markwell
Lillian Snyder
Wilbur Donnell
Kingston
Wilbur
Decatur County
Rev
D. R. VanBuskirk
Ben Havens
Albert Christy
Gussie West
Charlie Speers
Charlie Simmonds
Stadley
Speers
Cests
Cheri+s Leland
Cincinnati
Mayme Edkinson
Charles Kessing
Ed Kessing
Archibald Shaw
Lawrenceburg Press
Indianapolis
Lawrence Guess
Greenwood
St. Paul
Daniel Lockinbell
Robbins i
Warrens of
Miss Walker
George M. Cohan
Basket Ball
Sporting Review
Douglas
New Jersey
Baltustel
Morristown
N. J
Max Behr
Behr
Okenmage
Manchester
Susan
London
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