Residents and visitors gather for local festival notes
South Bend residents and guests recount a festival in Elderton with attendance from South Bend. Mr and Mrs W R Thompson and children and sisters Mae and Ruth Stewart joined Friday evening in Indiana. Bruce Kepple recently called on W A Moorhead as Henderson family visits with daughters Josephine and Jane in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ella Smith
James Smith
Elderton
W. R. Thompson
Lida Moorhead
Mae
Ruth Stewart
Indiana
Bruce Kepple
W. A. Moorhead
Mrs
S. J. Henderson
Josephine
Jane
The Man Who Swallowed a Dollar Adverts Tidal Wave Bread
An ad extols a baking product named Tidal Wave claiming it outperforms the Minnesota standard for bread. It urges immediate trial with a money back promise and notes a price of 2.75 dollars per sack delivered to homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Japanese Seed Buckwheat Sale at Elevator Price
Recleaned Japanese seed buckwheat offered at 2 dollars and 50 cents per 100 pounds at the elevator. C D notes favorable terms and compares to higher grain prices. Full stock of poultry feeds available including Little Chick Royal Poultry Royal Meat Mash Beef Scrap Oyster Shell Pearl Grit Bran Middlings Chop Recleaned Corn and Oats Alfalfa Molasses Need and dry barrel salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D
Decoration Day visits and community notices at Plumville area
North Washington and Garret's Run residents attended Decoration Day events at L. M. Henderson's and Clark Stewart's. Numerous kinfolk and neighbors from Vandergrift, Apollo, Indiana, and nearby towns visited for Memorial Day and family gatherings, with multiple calls, travels, and building projects noted.
Rhine family and guests visit in Johnstown region
BRUSHVALLEY Mr and Mrs Russell Rhine of Johnstown spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs J F H Rhine. Mr and Mrs Warren Buterbaugh, their son Clair and daughter Ethel, and Albert Buterbaugh and family visited the Chester Rhine home on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Mimi
Wyans City
Irwin M. Gimmerman
Munn
Travis
Pittburgh
Dale Douds
Cornonolia
Margaret Donds
Frank Stewart
Wilking UK
Cora Stewart
Lizgie Lewis Ewing
Pittsburgh
Mars
Wing
Mra
Uarry Jamison
Jamiy
Indling
Pitts Eur
Robert Wood
Pittsburg
Burgh
W. G. Moore
Rebekan Lodge
Erleeile Weel
Berneha
Blair Trundle
Indhina
J. EB
Vdnale Smith
Wale Gromsey
Marl Beck
Dorsey Smith
Dubos
Kenneth
Viljene Cusskiy
David Gorman
Wittanalng
EL. J
Saltsbury
Emma Love
Omer City
Burnside
Town Monts
Suithiy
Wood
Henry
Daugter
Leona
Merle Bauer
Cer
Kathleen Hamilton
Nile Dilts
Blickfletk
Add Lightcap
Aspinwall
Mira
Nile Uite
Wickard
Blicklick
Russell Rhine
Johnstown
J. FH. Rhine
Warren Buterbaugh
Clair
Ethel
Albert Buterbaugh
Chester Rhine Home
Unstudied fauna and flora near Penama river
Fragmentary notes describe a locale two miles from the Penama river harboring anphiblang of new habits and innumerable insect species. The area reportedly hosts anteaters, sloths, armadillos, peccaries, tapirs, agoutis, ocelots, jaguars, various monkeys, and the famed black howlers, with 2 000 or more plant species observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penama
One Little Phone Call Starts Big Mechanism
The Pennsylvania Public Service Information Committee notes that a telephone call relies on 186 parts of the instrument, 25 operator steps, 600 assistive components, 1200 hand-made connections, and careful handling by the subscriber for proper conversation and prompt ringing response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensylvania Public Service Information Committee
Dog Heaven Speculation Sparks Gentle Mirth and Morality
The writer muses on a canine afterlife and the bond with dogs, imagining a dog star where dogs live freely and humans face comical judgment for misdeeds toward animals. He recalls a mother dog guarding her pups and reflects on trust, responsibility, and love between humans and animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adventure
Noahs Ark on Barro Colorado Island Formed by Flood
The Detroit News notes that Panama's Noahs Ark on Barro Colorado Island formed as Chagres River waters rose behind an impoundment. The flooded valleys created a refuge where nearly every local animal species gathered seeking escape from the rising floodwaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Barro Colorado Island
Chagres
Detroit News
End to Mosquito Plague Through Non-Stinging Varieties
A Paris Academy paper reports a scientist describing Brittany mosquitoes that do not enter houses or sting people. He notes where these non-stingers occur there is no sign of stinging varieties and that moving specimens from Brittany to Charente led to the harmless mosquitoes replacing the stinging ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Academy of Sciences
Paris
Brittany
Charente Department
Marie Vee Her Depraved Taste For Labor
Marie Veronica proclaims a fierce affinity for work over leisure. She jokes she prefers the heat and burden of the day to vacations, golf, tennis, or shopping, saying labor keeps her from aging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Veronica
Gene Stratton Porter
Newport
Marie Vee
Douglas Newton
First Civil Marriage by Woman Official in England
Miss Dorothy M. Haldane, deputy superintendent registrar, officiated at St. Giles register office London for the first civil marriage conducted by a woman in a register office. Haldane was appointed last April. The bridegroom showed astonishment at a woman officiating though women had officiated at religious ceremonies before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Dorothy M. Haldane
St. Giles' Register Office
Bloomsbury
London
Miss Haldane
Orchestra Leader Struggles Through Vigorous Performance
A concert page notes the lead conductor, not very young, pressing through a demanding piece. A humorous audience remark in the third row quips about her having seen the last eclipse as she labored to finish the number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page Howard Carter
Plausible Explanation From a Witty German Reply
A German officer humorously defends higher milk costs for the army clothing department cat in western Germany. He explains that mice fed on army rations in the victualing department thrive, while clothing department mice have only old leather and rags, making their cat’s milk costlier. The quip silences critics as London Balk notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Clothing Department
Western
Germany
London
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Griffith Ellis
Ellis’ Mills
Indiana, Pa
Glasser
Phila
North Washington
Dick Croyle
Garret’s Run
L. M. Henderson
S. W
Margaret McGaughey
Gene Silvis
Justine Christy
Harry Christy
Girty
Robert Townsend
Hobart Shellhammer
Apollo
Ward Devers
Alvin
Janet Ramer
R. A. Silvis
Lizzie Painter
Five Points
L. E. Deemer
L. M. Martz
John Kepple
Plumville
Ambrose
Brushvalley
The
Indiana Theatre
B. F. Keith
New
Coats
Orr's Hardware
J. L, Orr & Son
Philadelphia St. Indiana, PA
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