Griffith to Speak to High School on Shakespeare This Saturday
Actor Griffith booked at the Nelson theatre will lecture on Shakespeare and his plays for teachers and students of the city high school with an afternoon and night session. The event, part of a winter program, also signals ongoing lectures by business and professional leaders and a move to progressive teaching across graded schools. Superintendent Douglass and Principal Mitchell visited Lafayette high, noting similar enrollments to the local school.
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Nelson Theatre
Griffith
Douglass
Mitchell
Lafayette High School
Tax payments slow as deadline nears
Treasurer Moroney reports slow tax payments this year with a big rush expected in the final week. Campaign year may influence tardiness, but hundreds are still due. Only one clerk can handle the window, causing possible delays. The tax deadline expires in one week.
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Moroney
Grandpa’s Brick Ice Creams Sold Locally by Shearer & Son
W J Shearer & Son advertise brick ice creams guaranteed to be pure cream with fruit and flavors. Packaged in clean boxes for easy carry home for lunch or Sunday dinner. Available at nearby drug or confectionery stores.
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W. J. Shearer & Son
CHALLENGE SALE WINDOW SPECIALS TODAY AT WILER &. WISE
Retail sale note lists numerous discounts on soaps linens damask muslin and dress goods. Highlights include Fel T Naptha and Fairbanks tar soaps 25c each. ladies wear from 19c. yard wide bleached muslin 1.00 value 0.19. various coats suits and rugs heavily discounted. Local sale advertisement from Wiler & Wise, Inc.
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Turkey
Axminster
Wiler & Wise, Inc
Lecture at First Church Tonight at Broadway Theatre
A lecture under the First Church of Christ Scientist will be given Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in the Broadway theatre. The speaker is Rev Arthur R Vosburgh of Rochester New York, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship for the First Church.
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First Church of Christ Scientists
Thist City
Broadway
Logansport Families Plan Cottages at Pleasant View
Four groups plan to build cottages at Pleasant View just east of the Country Club golf grounds. More buyers are expected before summer. Contracted lot owners include Mrs. Sol Wise and son Vic, Hal B. Smith, Carl Wise, and Henry Wiles. An ice house will be built and filled this winter for next summer’s use.
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Logansport
Pleasant View
Sol , Wise
Vic
Hal B. Smith
Carl Wise
Henry Wiles
Local Brevities Chronicle Small City Notes
Local items report chores and odds and ends: ads for coal and a cigar case, jobs for cooks and boarders, visits by Miss Growell and many relatives, theater listings at the Ark and Crystal, births, sales on heaters and flowers, trips and illnesses, rents, discount for children's coats, social visits, a harvest of potatoes, and a photographer returning from a reunion.
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Dunn Hotel
Marie Growell
Royal
B. Edwins W. Duffy
Kokomo
the Crystal
Tritt’s
W. H. Hayes
Maine
Bath
George McCullum
Burns
Brown’s Cor
R. A. Bailey
Indianapolis
John Mooney
Bates Street
Nelle Grant
America
Harry Dodds
High Street
Dunkle & Stocks
Kinney’s
Christopher Jeannerette
Redwood
Blanche Skinner
Nell Skinner
William Parks
Wiler & Wise’s
Frank Crouse
Mansfield
Ohio
E. W. Crouse
Geo. Strahley
Ora
Strahley
Charley James
Wabash River
D. H. Bennett
Clyde
Bennett
Helen
Papers in Stove Inadequate Fire Hazard Found
A report notes excessive papers in a stove room at the Murdock building raising fire hazard concerns. Officials urge cleanup to prevent accidents.
Young Indiana Couple Wed in Michigan Gretna Green
Truman Farrer aged 18 and Minnie Rummel 16 married in St Joe Michigan on Wednesday after going there for a license. Parents knew of the match and had no objections. couple returned home to Culbertson Street living with the groom's mother.
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Truman Farrer
Minnie Rummel
St. Joe
Michigan
Gretna Green
Culbertson Street
Indiana
John R. Rummel
Local Notices and Classifieds Update
Various advertisements list rentable furnished rooms and a four or five unfurnished units near 621 Miami avenue and 1931 High. Dressed poultry from Kinney's Market and Michigan potatoes from McCaffrey appear alongside a gold watch lost on Sycamore Street or Royal Centre pike with a reward. Residents include Dr. Stalnaker and Mrs. Margaret Bridge visiting, while Elpers & Miller and Wiser & Wise, Inc. push sales and discounts.
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Stalnaker
the Ark
Roy Grantham
Georgetown
Miami Avenue
Elpers & Miller
Michigan
McCaffrey
Kinney’s
C. H. Thayer
Kalamazo
Mich
Henry Murdock
Sycamore Street
Royal Centre Pike
Adams Express
Robert Vickers
Royal Centre
W Wiler & Wise, Inc
X” Care Tribune
Thomas F. Studebaker
Gertrude
I. C. Studebaker
Cummings’ Street
Peru
John Gray
City National Bank
Thanks to Friends and Officials for Funeral Support
Mr J O Holmes thanks friends and neighbors for help during his wife Mrs Holmes illness and death. He notes kind deeds will never be forgotten and credits Panhandle officials for stopping the train for the funeral party at Star City.
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J. O. Holmes
Horse Runs Away From Delivery Wagon
A horse belonging to McCaffrey bolted yesterday after being hitched to a delivery wagon. The animal was pursued but vanished with its mate, leaving the scene in confusion.
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McCaffrey
Stole an auto horn from Market street show
A man deceived John Rombold the dray man into handing over an auto horn from his barn, thinking it belonged to the bira and animal show on Market street. It was later learned the horn did not belong to the show.
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Bira and
Animal Show
Market Street
John Rombold
Drayman
Rombold
GARS TO THE PARK for football game schedule
Cars will run on a twelve minute schedule to Spencer Park today for the football game beginning at one o clock and ending after the game. The regular city park schedule will be maintained tomorrow.
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Spencer Park
Ministerial Association Votes on Thanksgiving Service Venue
At a meeting of the Ministerial Association next Monday the place for holding the Thanksgiving services will be chosen and the program for the meeting prepared. All churches of the city are invited to participate.
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Oye
Griffiths
Grandpa
Christian Science
Steven
Lonsdale
Abe
Wes
Tice Graves
Otto Prosch
Prosch
Louise Holley
Proseh
Gars
New York
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Wm. Steinhart
Race Street
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Continental Fire Ins. Co. of
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O. M. Zinn
Boon
Best
Brussels
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Wilton
Smyrna
Breen
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