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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
6
Wm Wilkey Jr travels to Attica on business while Kingman merchants push Christmas buying. Covington and Lafayette visits noted for Chas Fisher wife J W Black C L Stein baugh Tobias Nolen deliveries. District Superintendent Rev A G Lezenby to preach December 24 with quarterly conference Monday.
Public sale by administrator of Edmon B. Ratcliff estate at Millcreek Township Indiana on January 2 1912 at 10 AM itemized livestock and farming gear with 9 month credit on sums over five dollars and six percent interest after maturity sum under five dollars cash. Assets include multiple horses mares and colts wagons tools corn and other farm equipment. Ira W. Duncan administrator O B S Douglass attorney for estate.
The town of Kingman in Fountain County Indiana passes an act preventing heavy vehicles with metal wheel flanges from crossing sidewalks without protective measures. Violations carry a fine up to 1000 dollars and the ordinance takes effect after passage and publication.
The CIRCUIT COURT of Fountain County Indiana appoints IRA W Duncan as Administrator of the estate of Edmon B Ratcliff deceased. The administrator has qualified and the estate is believed solvent. Attorney Dovenass filed the notice on 12-22.
A Lancaster farmer, rich from a bumper tobacco harvest, killed himself fearing his barns would be too small to store it. The piece argues prosperity can breed misery when a miserly fear of loss overrides life.
A pointed exchange at a ball reveals rivalries of dress and attention. The baroness’s unintentional snub and the speaker’s pride in a new gown steal the scene as gossip flares.
A caller asks for a job as an attendant at a sanitarium. The superintendent says no one over forty is hired. The man, aged sixty five, is then offered a living testimonial role reporting to the neurasthenia department manager.
Litson faces a conflict between keeping his vow not to shave if Canada’s reciprocity bill passes and his fianc ee Lillens who gave him a shaving set on his birthday. The playful quarrel centers on honor versus sentiment in a domestic moment.
A witty exchange frames the night as a single, fixed gaze while a speaker counters with playful wordplay about how many eyes exist. The dialogue centers on a poetic mood and a lighthearted jab at the phrase.
A light dialogue fragment references a repeated surname change across marriages with a playful tone. The snippet notes a prior meeting and identifies a person named Smith, hinting at personal history and social context in a lifestyle column.
A witty exchange about ancestry features a man who jokes he can purchase his forebears from a shop. The quip plays on lineage and self ownership with humorous nostalgia.
Mrs Laura Russell of Logan Iowa says Dr Miles Heart Remedy cured her twenty year struggle with heart disease. The ad explains heart action weakness causes shortness of breath and smothering spells and claims the remedy strengthens heart nerves and muscles to boost circulation.
Jericho Leaves Importing Co of Buffalo New York promotes shrub leaves from the Holy Land as a superior laxative. They claim natural cleansing action gentler than drugs, with palatable and harmless effects. Sold by mail in a plain cloth sack for twenty five cents with refund if unsatisfactory.
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