Local Notes From Pittefield And Surrounding Towns
Reports from Pittefield mention Pickworth ill and snow delaying sleighing. News covers residents traveling to Chattanooga, a quarry incident, unusual sales, medical treatments, a new draft horse purchase, Sabbath school resuming, clothing sales comparisons, rheumatic illness, a death in Norfolk, and schoolhouse updates. Drain tile piles suggest extensive township drainage. Richard Mills, Esq, dies of heart failure. funeral held. Township engineers plan east of center plat and cemetery record efforts begun for 1834-founded resting places.
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Pickworth
Dr. Austin
Pith McRoberts
H. Barnard
Oberlin
Gee
Chattanooga
Tenn
Jack Frost
Nickel Plate
C. J. Whitney
T. Sweney
Beteley
Armes
Cleveland
H. E. Clark
Henry
Special School
Enen
Elyria
A. Hanmer
Wm. J. Rogers
Norfolk
Edward Rogers
S. Taylor
John Braithwaite
Samuel Jordan
John Marshall
James Baldwin
Loman Harley
Turkey Ridge
O. Whitney
Richard Mills
J. H. Long
Ridgeville Notes Warm Weather Through Sled Rides And Sickness
Ridgeville community reports sleigh rides thriving as cold snaps ease and illnesses improve. Mrs J P Reidinger is sick with the grip while Miss Wheeler returns to home for her grandfather’s funeral. A stone culvert project at Sugar Ridge is paused due to poor weather and local citizens plow walks in turns.
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J. P. Reidinger
Miss Wheeler
Sugar Ridge
Hiram Frisbee
Cleveland
Frisbee
Eugene Root
Fred
Root
Iff
Defiance, O
Robinson
John Smith
St. Peter’s Church
Local Notes From LaPorte and Nearby
Mrs Ed Mills is now Miss Margott is quite sick Hurrah for the show and surprises that follow Mrs Brush widow of the late William Brush visits Toledo The M E and Society met at James Brazics house for an auction sale of late N Tiss property valued around 1000 Elyria residents surprised the household with a sleigh party Oysters and crackers attended by many Berlin Heights weighs proposal for a new town hall Miss Katie Bohrer of Florence injured by a revolver shot to her right leg Carlos Stebbins loses then regains a dog from Bellevue Vermillion fire saves the house of Kate Duross insured loss about 400 Tug J Enos at Hiedlef's dock suffers 150 loss both fires promptly fought.
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Brush
William Brush
Toledo
M. E. and Society
James Brazic
Peresons
N. Tiss
Elyria
W. Weedon
Kate Duross
Vermillion
J. Enos
Hiedlef
Hidden money unearthed near Bedford by tree of Clark lore
Near Bedford, residents recover $4,000 in greenbacks from under a gallows tree associated with Stephen Clark. A lantern-lit dig uncovers a wooden box fragment, an old coat, a revolver, counterfeiting moulds, and cash. Clark hanged for murder. cave remains of six victims tied to him.
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Bedford
Stephen Clark
Clark
Local harvest notes and market pressure described
Fragmentary wartime style notes describe filling houses with cold fluid, six to eight inches thick, and discuss harvest timing and a rising fish price. It mentions preference for waiting, the current season, and market scarcity impacting retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wea Arcarce
Girls Will Be Girls at Boarding Schools
A Buffalo Times item notes girls at a boarding school arranging secret meetings with Academy boys through intermediaries. Mothers object to these introductions yet the girls pursue social contact beyond the school lines. The piece mentions a dealer offering a new stock of drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Academy
Drop of Silver at St Louis Treasury Causes Near Fatal Crush
An accident at the United States Sub-Treasury in St Louis on January 16 involved sixty thousand pounds of silver dollars stored in sacks along a vault. Two rows toppled, narrowly missing employees B C Farrar son of Gen Farrar Charles Richer and Eugene Miller. Several names and details were mixed with reporting errors including a separate note about Prof Alston Ellie being elected president at Colorado College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sub-Treasury
St. Louis
Custom House
B. C. Farrar
Gen. Farrar
S Office
Charles Richer
Eugene Miller
Menara
Farrar
Miller
Richer
Best Third Street Property For Sale Cheap
Property listing on Best Third Street notes sale at low price. Item appears in a local classifieds section with brief description and contact initials HL and J Baby for inquiry.
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Third Street
Trsins CiSamao Sa L3eapim Tapa at Shawville
Trains run into the lake shore area with a timetable from the Lake area collection. It lists times around 7pm to 12pm and references officials AMITH and KRUOWS with ticket agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trsins CiSamao Sa
L3eapim Tapa
Uwlaud
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Spitzenberg
Aly
Levain Cvanty
Broad Street
Ohio
Pittefield
Ridgeville
LaPorte
Ed Mills
Miss Margott
Berlin Heights
Katie Bohrer
Florence, O
Dr. Eldredge
Carlos Stebbins
Sherman
N. Y
Express
Bellevue
Mr Stebbing
Bors Ae
The
Bufalo Times
Grut Clase
Alston Ellie
Sandusky
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
HL. J. Baby
Im Bas. LS
Ratoni
Amberat
Caain BS
Brignt Taalxe
tOpm
Wale
Sisam Rago
Marcy
Risen
Eave Shawville
Samac
WAV
Neight Trains
Gqoisu
Siam
Odile
Cleveland Weekly Leader
Colomas
Leader
W. H. Caniff
A.J. Smith
Lake Shore
Newell
Chicago
Geu Ifeu & Coe
Burea
Spruce Street
Enntrets Tay
New York
Serruade
Ft In
STS
Scientific American
Mibley
the Hand Medicine CO
Cherry Street
Philadelphia
Kendall
Ark
Haveegiba
Piptinare Eyres
Ora
Forres
Wish
Ang
Prac
Krexwale CO
Balls
Verne
France Medical and Suc Ival Institut
Columbus
Beelw Hotel
France Medical and Surgical Institute of
Columate, C
France
Gay St
Oun
Beck
Calmnies
Ire
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