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Newspaper
Hobart News
Location
Hobart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
7
John G Earle and others visited town on Tuesday while several residents spent Sundays with family. A Hammond All Stars game scheduled for Sunday in town drew attention along with multiple residents travelling to Chicago and Valpo for events and errands.
News notes from Joliet division staff and residents. Vacationing mail clerk S. F. Champion is in Paw Paw Michigan with substitute F. S. Sanborn. Many local residents travel, visit, or welcome relatives, while others take trips to Chicago Michigan City Crown Point Hammond and Crown Point for shopping entertainment and family events.
An appeal invites open participation from willing hustlers to gain subscribers for Hobart's new newspaper. Promises honest, reliable goods secured from local merchants as prizes offered only as represented.
The contest runs until 6 pm Saturday July 16 1910. Participants must visit the News office in Hobart to obtain receipt books and instructions. Report weekly with subscriber names and payments. Subscriptions cost 1.50 per year and must be prepaid with cash. Prizes awarded strictly by records with no favoritism. No variations allowed.
The Hobart News offers prizes for readers who recruit subscribers. A Diamond Ring from Dell F Beach for 125 subscribers, a New Royal Drop Head Sewing Machine from Scheidt & Keilman for 75, a gold filled Gent’s or Lady’s Watch from Ed Odell for 50, and a Cruse Bicycle from Paul Newman for 40. Each prize is shown in exhibtion at the respective stores.
Hobart News announces a promotion offering a Hibbard Spencer Bartlett washing machine at eight dollars and fifty cents to any person who secures twenty subscribers. Extra machines awarded to all contestants meeting the target, with full details at Fiester's corner store and Hobart News office.
A home priced to suit a physician or dentist, with a small office at home and practical floor layout. Stone bowlders on the first story exterior blend with stained shingles. size 30 by 30. Finishes include birch floors and white enamel trim. total build cost about 4000 dollars, plans set offered for 30 dollars.
Merrillville residents host and visit relatives over the weekend. A. O. Merrill and wife of Hammond spent Saturday and Sunday with M. F. Pierce. Ralph Burge and family hosted in Gary. Birdie Demmon of Valparaiso visited her parents, John Demmon. Mat Wagner and Chicago relatives called on B. Franz. Bertha and Clara Burge returned from Gary visit.
A British magistrate notes that many perjurers may face punishment through illness, remarking that kissing microbe laden Bibles seems to inflict punishment in lieu of legal consequences. The comment links perjury to contagious disease as a deterrent.
Insurance authorities state that about 300 000 new houses each year are needed to house population growth and an additional 80 000 homes are required to replace structures destroyed by fire.
Naturalists claim the Greenland birch is the world’s smallest tree growing under three inches tall yet spreading two to three feet in radius. It defies typical tree size expectations with its compact stature and wide base.
Abe Levine and Max Brody both sixteen from Patterson New Jersey travel via Hobart toward San Francisco aiming to finish in 100 clear days excluding rainy days and Sundays. They carry a message from Mayor McBride of Patterson to Mayor McCarty of San Francisco and hope for a sizable stake if they succeed. They are currently 42 days in and report growing toughness to meet the schedule.
Conundrum answer: holes. The riddle asks what fills a ten pound barrel but makes it lighter, and the solution is holes which occupy space and reduce overall weight.
Judge Batt told Gladdis Schaefer a 20 year old accused of attempting death by her own action that there was no law to punish her. The river below remained, and she could go jump in if she wished. The girl appeared amused at the lack of punishment.
A rustic exchange has an old farmer warning about germs in kisses through a screen door while the hired man quips that kissing through a screen door cannot catch anything, noting that kisses are strained.
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