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Newspaper
Hamilton Democrat Sun
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
11
A Santa Claus edition list markets dolls and doll heads in vast variety with rubber, china, bisque and celluloid heads. Prices span from a few cents to a few dollars, plus bargain items like trinkets, toys, games, and holiday ornaments.
A fragmented advertisement lists items such as Extra Pure Fine Candy at 10c per pound, 12 pound bundles, China Seis coins and various wood furniture pieces like side boards chiffoniers dressers and rockers with prices from a few cents to over a dollar. Also features drums banks wringers hoses wagons and game sets with assorted prices.
Peoria residents report a series of family and neighbor gatherings. Fred Conn and son Ray visited Clem Conn and wife and Frank George in Okeana. W F Freeland and daughter Myrtie traveled to Oxford. Sallie Wehr visited Dan Wehr and family. Hallie Freeland stayed with grandparents W T Freeland and wife.
Wm. Cregg of Baltimore visited friends here last Thursday. Wm. Jinkens is building a crib and wagon shed for Christopher Starr. A. F. Bickley of Hamilton, CO, visiting relatives here. The Christmas entertainment will be held in the Congregational church the Monday before Christmas.
An Ohio sale ad promotes Christmas line Medium Price China and Steam Stationary Engines with prices from 25 to 68 cents. It lists Machinery to attach to engines, moving train items, pistols targets and cork guns with multiple small price points.
Catalog lists postal and photo albums with varied prices from 5e to $1.00. Better grade albums priced $1.19 to $3.98. Toilet cases and smoker sets offered from 40c to $2.54 and $1.82 to $2.34 respectively. Manicure and shaving sets priced up to $65.50. Work boxes, cigar and collar boxes shown with multiple figures.
A catalog-like listing shows Teddy Bear Special at $1.87 and Fine Natural Hair Bears priced at $1.39 $1.10 and $6.48. Additional items include 100 Easel Blackboards at $1.00 and several items at 59c 298 4.98 3.98 and 1.50. Master Prices on Furs 50c en $2.25. Fine Natural Hair Bears appear multiple times with varied rates.
Mrs E Augspurger hosted by Mrs Albert Augspurger on Sunday. Henry and Mrs Moser visited Hamilton Saturday and Sunday. Almond and Mrs Davis traveled to Trenton Sunday. The Harm family hosted Middletown relatives last week. Mollie Henn visited Mrs Henry Goertemiller Sunday. Kit Bridge gave a six o'clock dinner Sunday for Mary Harmon Olimer Shaefer and Cleve Rupp.
Gano O visiting figures record social calls and upcoming local events. Amelia Kitchen spent Thursday with Fannie Laren. an oyster supper is planned for December 13 to aid a new church. John Hackens from Hamilton visited his sister Mrs. Glines. Thomas Cadwallader and wife from Fort Wayne are visiting Charles Cadwallader. E Surface and wife from Mauds visited Amos Larew families.
Ode Urmston and family entertained relatives from Reiley and Bunker Hill on Sunday. Mrs. Nathan Bryant visited her daughter Mrs. Chester Urban of Hamilton last week. A. R. Gillespie stays with W. S. Gillespie and family. L. Cameron family to move to Peoria Indiana this week. A. Inlee and Merley Irwen attended St Charles church Sunday afternoon. Jas Flora reported no better. H Wortman did business in Hamilton Saturday.
Brown's Run reports Mr and Mrs Charles Mears hosting family dinner at David Ankeney's. Dr Charles Judy from Miamisburg visits parents. Ernest Slifer and bride serenaded by local youth. Rev J H Mayne conducts State Road revival with converts. A B Sunday school plans a Christmas program. Mrs Fouts of Germantown visits John Slifer. Germantown farmers institute Dec 11-12 features a corn bread wheat prize exhibit. Runaway incident at State Road as Roy Longman’s buggy wheel fails and horse bolts.
Local advertiser promotes a holiday sale of New England Peanut Brittle and assorted confections at manufacturer prices. Items include French Creams Peanut Slab Mint and Lemon Balls Popcorn Puff Cream Caramels No 1 Nougat and Box Candies 4 to 7 lb. Boxes plus candy canes and baskets at low rates.
The issue features William Jennings Bryan and Albert J. Beveridge debating The Tariff, short stories by O Henry Gelett Burgess Inez G Thompson John Edward Lauer articles by Brand Whitlock Lawa Hamilton Birchall and J O Curwood poems by James Whitcomb Riley Percival Gibbon Florence Earle Coates and Ehlis Parker Butler and color illustrations by noted artists.
NINE MILE Notes of Interest From The Neighborhood. Ninemile, Dec. 11. Mrs. Conrad Filler and daughter Bertha attended a reception given at Arthur Hunter's on Friday. Miss Alma Stock spent Saturday with Mrs. Wash Phares and daughter Minnie. Miss Minnie Phares entertained Miss Lizzie Truster, of Cotton Run, Misses Thelma Crist and Mary Deam visited the Misses Pugh on Suan.
Mr and Mrs Will Shafer and son visited the former s parents near Trenton. Jacob Stock and Mrs Stock were entertained by George Shafer at Hickory Flat. Jacob Stock Jr and David Rindchen called on Ford Pugh and family Saturday evening. Several attended the Collinsville dance. Maggie Shafer of College Hill visits the Filler family. Ford Pugh spent Tuesday with his parents near Millville. Mrs Wm Cunningham and Jess Pugh called on Mrs John Wirtley of Cotton Run Friday afternoon.
Notice of annual meeting of the Citizen's Building Loan and Savings company to elect directors for terms of three two one years. Meeting held at the association office in the Miami Valley National Bank building Hamilton Ohio on Wednesday January 8 1908 between 7 and 8 p m. C E Mason secretary dee 5 12 19 26.
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