Diverse local ads promote goods and services across town
Beckman’s markets ball bearing umbrellas while G M Band offers up to date gent’s shoes. U S. Jourdan provides baggage transfers and telephone service. Druggist roley’s Kidney Cure targets urinary issues. Flint and Walling seeks workers. George Lang tailors latest trouser patterns. George Steckley sells flour and feed. Lake Shore By will run annual Atlantic City sea shore excursion July 17 with low fares and twelve day return. details from agents or A J Smith Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckman’s
G. M. Band
Peter
U. S
Charles Jourdan
Roley
E B. C. Cunningham
Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company
George Lang
George Steckley
Mitchell Street
Lake Shore
Michigan
Every Soldier Has His Marks
Major Macklin describes army recruit maps kept by the surgeon general showing a man’s topography and features. The system records height weight hair eye color teeth and even toe or finger variations to verify identity and prevent enlistment under assumed names. It also flags bobtail discharges and potential reenlistment attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Army
Macklin
Indianapolis
Surgeon-General of
Washington
Uncle Sam
Caniot
Shooting Affray Stirs Corunna Residents
A Tuesday morning shooting in Corunna involved Will Crawford and Charles Wallace both barbers over a dispute about Wallace's alleged intimacy with Crawford's wife. Crawford shot Wallace in the hip. Wallace was treated at home, Crawford fled but may be arrested on a charge of shooting with intent to kill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corunna
Will Crawford
Charles Wallace
Wallace
Crawford
Town Curfew Opinion Supports Municipal Control
The attorney general replies to Bourbon town board affirming state court approval of curfews. He notes municipalities may regulate after hours for minors and calls unrestricted street freedom a prime source of crime, though he declines to set a specific curfew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourbon
Supreme Courts
Shortest married couple travels through Kendallville to Benton Harbor
Mr and Mrs Frank Shade of Kendallville travel through the city en route to Benton Harbor. They stand under four feet tall and plan a return to the histrionic profession via a vaudeville contract. Mr Shade runs a Kendallville confectionery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Shade
Kendallville
Benton Harbor
Ringling Brothers Pick Fort Branch for Winter Quarters
Ringling Brothers circus chooses 400 acres near Fort Branch Indiana seven miles south of Princeton for winter quarters. Construction of buildings to start immediately. Current facilities are at Bamboo Wisconsin Valparaiso Messenger reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringling Brothers’ Circus
Warsaw
Fort Branch
Princeton
Ind
Bamboo
Wis
Valparaiso
Ohio Governor to Convene Special Session August Twenty Fifth
Governor Nash announces a special legislative session on August 25 to enact a municipal code bill for Ohio cities. Ligonier visitors drive in three recently purchased cars and head home. Local mystic lodge members plan to travel to Garrett to witness new initiates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nash
Ohio
Ligonier
Mystic Tie
Garrett
Masonic Lodge
Tat Place
Blended Patent Flour and the Quest for Good Bread
A collection of brief items notes Blended Patent Flour Ger belle as a staple for good bread. It also references harsh heat, lynching lore in western Kansas, substitutes for patent medicines, local mail routes, and remarks on politics and notable deaths. The Indiana sentiment shift and other small notices follow.
Various Local Classifieds and Notices Across Town
A collage of briefs notes sales ads theater and notices from Sullivan's Studio to Kendallville Manufacturing. Items include dressmaking shoes noting new machines arrival, mosquito hatching, Good Luck flour, ball bearing umbrellas, a Wolf Lake fight update, Earl Reed arrest for mail theft, corn price outlook, Lily Brackett shoes, Foley kidney cure, M P church lawn social at Nev Moody's, Rocky Mountain Tea tonic, Kilks carnival at Elkhart August 18 to 23 with free shows, and a wry line about men squeezing dollars and wives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Cushing
Geo. Lang
G. M. Band
George Lang
Kendallville Manufacturing Company
Ligonier Milling Company
George Steckley
Lily Brackett Company
Foley
H.C. Cunningham
Ladies’ Aid Society
M. P. Church
Nev
J. R. Moody
Rocky Mountain
G. H. Lohman & Co
Elkhart
North Judson
Bread from Blended Patent "GERBELLE" beats spring wheat flour bread
A Patent Ger belle bread claims superior taste and appearance over bread made from all spring wheat flour. Local notes report a July 4 marriage of Hon W D Owen former secretary of state to Dr Aimee Haskinson in Bolivar Pa. They plan to reside in Logansport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Owen
Aimee Haskinson
Bolivar
Logansport
Christian Church
A. Rt. Otis
Chamberlain
Elkhart
Raton
New Mexico
Harry Ball
Walter Waite
Ball
Lake Shore
Simon Pokagon, Jr
Indiana
Mishawaka
Chief Pokagon
Michigan
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J.KELLER @ CO
Cawley & Cawley
A. J. Strauss
ONE Frice Store
Texas
Havana
L. Beckman
Rome City
A. B. McKeen
A. T. Ross
Sheridan Street
Clark Sheffer
Lee Zern
State Street
France
Italy
Marshal-elect Shauck
Island Park
Owen
Noble County Loan and Savings Association
Ringlings
Kansas
Madison Medicine Co
G. UW. Lohman & Co
W. M. Dive
LaGrange County
Noble County
Sentinel
Democratic Party of
Michael Jxrentine
Chicago
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
KR. D. Biedermann
Ed Swartz
Lincoln Street
John Wymer
Waterloo
Morgan
Congress
Alabama
Nicaragua
Panama
United States
Spooner
John ‘I. Morgan
Massachusetts
Sullivan
McCray Manufacturing Company
Lake Shore By
Kibo Patent
Ideal Dress Boot
Oxford
Campbell & Company
H. G. Misselhorn
Peninsular
D. H. Stinson
J.Lang @ Sons
Kodaks
KODAK
J. G. Leins
Opera House Grocery
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