Local residents attend courses and mourn a child
Karl Wright Josie Gray and Della Hurley finished a twelve week normal course in Danville Indiana and returned home. A series of social visits includes Mr and Mrs Claude Barker Mr and Mrs Walter Robinson at Clem Ratcliff home and Fi Mrs Ann Philpott visiting Covington to see her son Claude. Mary Foneda Cox born Oct 23 1911 died July 28 1912 at nine months nine days old. The community shares grief with Otha and Ida Cox as funeral services were held at 1 30 pm Monday at the home Rev R V Johnson officiating burial at Zickmire cemetery.
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Karl Wright
Josie Gray
Della Hurley
Danville
Ind
Mary Foneda Cox
Otha
Ida Cox
R. V. Johnson
M. E Church
Zickmire
Ice Cream Supper Planned by Ladies Aid M E Church
The Ladies Aid of the M E church schedules an ice cream supper for Saturday evening August 17 featuring homemade desserts and fellowship at the church hall.
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Ladies Aid of the
M. E. Church
Plate There All Right In Xenia Birth Plate Joke
Wilbur Nesbit recalls a banquet tale about Xenia Ohio honoring him with a brass plate on the house of his birth. He learns the engraving reads simply Main Street, a modest jab at hometown praise. The anecdote blends pride with humor about local recognition.
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Wilbur Nesbit
Xenia
Ohio
Wilbur
Bill
Not a Good Focus Mr Hynson Gracious
A reader complains about the difficulty of getting photo focus right and criticizes another amateur photographer for making a big deal out of the issue.
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Mr. Hynson
Record hailstorm devastates Missouri fields in 1898
A severe hailstorm on September 5 1898 struck Nodaway county Missouri. The three mile wide and eighteen mile long path concentrated four square miles east of Claremont with heavy hail leaving four week ground covers. Farmers collected hail for ice cream while corn across eighty acres was nearly wiped out leaving a single standing stalk.
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United States
Nodaway County
Claremont
Leap Year News and Tales from 1908
Suspicion grows that many men tied to events of 1908 are sharing stories. The New York Evening Telegram notes a grim monotony in leap year coverage and hints at growing suspicion among observers about confessions and motives behind the tales.
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New York Evening Telegram
Hand Injury From Gasoline Engine Wheel
Ras Gerrard sustained a painful injury Wednesday when his right hand was caught in the wheel of a gasoline engine while in motion. He was oiling the engine and fingers were badly mashed. A year earlier he lost his left arm above the elbow in a corn shredder accident.
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Ras. Gerrard
Mr. Gerrard
M. E. Church Notice Sunday Schedule
Sunday School at 9 30 a m Preaching at 10 30 a m Epworth League 6 45 p m Preaching 7 30 p m Pastor R V Johnson conducts services.
Local race draws in attendance and visits from area residents
Jas Moore traveled to Logansport yesterday to witness a race featuring entrant Harry Thistle. Messrs. Kelsey and Atha Pearson of near Attica spent Sunday with relatives in the area. Luke Farr’s lay remains critically ill after the past week.
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Jas. Moore
Logansport
Harry Thistle
Messrs
Kelsey and
Atha Pearson
Attica
Luke Farr
Card of Thanks for Baby Mary Cox
We thank friends and neighbors for help during the illness and death of our baby Mary Cox. May God's choicest blessings be strewn along your pathway. Mr. and Mrs. Otha Cox.
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Mary
Family thanks for support after baby's death burial
A family expresses sincere thanks for kind assistance during the death and burial of their infant. They pray for God’s choicest blessings on those who helped. Signed Chas E Best and family.
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Ayers
Parkers
G. L. Cory
Kingman
Claude Barker
Walter Robinson
Clem Ratcliff
Ann Philpott
Covington
Claude
Miss Byrd Sloan
A. Dickens
Steinbaugh @ Jones
Frank McDermond
Mr. and
Mrs. Otha' Cox
Chas, E
Best and Family
E. C. Stone
American Hampshire Swine Record Assn
T. M Jack
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