Brooksburg Items Reflect Grippe Aftermath and Local News
The Brooksburg column reports a grippe outbreak affecting residents including Loren Konkle and daughter Norma, Albert Imel and family, Anna Haggy, Otto Brittenback, and others. It notes tobacco deliveries, a church play planned for fund raising, visits among neighbors, home improvements, and a church fundraiser tally exceeding 870.
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Grippe
Loren Konkle
Norma
Albert Imel
Anna Haggy
Otto Brittenback
Thomas Little
Clarence Stanton
Frank Tague
Oscar Brindley
Harry Stanton
Calvert
Effie Tague
Kenneth
Clara Stanton
Macedonia Church
William Lyon
Gladys
Lyon
Chas. Heath
Orville
Stanley Demaree
Clyde McKay
Virgil Demaree
M. E. Church
Worst Flood Hits Illinois River Valley
Peru Illinois January 22 The Illinois river valley suffers its worst flood in fifty years with factories and power plants shut down and railroads hampered. One man drowns south of Peru and scores of families are homeless.
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Peru
Illinois River Valley
Sygna Fire Aboard Munitions Steamer Returns to Port
The Norwegian steamer Sygna carrying munitions returned to port with a fire in the hold. The blaze was extinguished with no major damage and no fatalities reported. The ship sailed from New York the previous day and reached port this morning.
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New York
Sygna
Beware of Mercury in Ointments for Catarrh
Advises against mercury containing treatments for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Care by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as a safe internal remedy. Claims it acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Includes note to obtain genuine product and testimonials free.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney &Co
Toledo
Ohio
O.cheney & Co
Forest King Falls in Nehalem Oregon Storm
In Nehalem Oregon a giant spruce nearly four thousand years old toppled in a storm. Visitors still flock to view the fallen monarch and scientists note its vast age by its rings. Nearby at Watseco a cedar about two thousand years old stands as another ancient landmark.
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Nehalem Forest
Oregon
Amd
Watseco
Nehajiem
Gos Valley
Travelers cross 1700 miles in historic wagon
Two families from Washington Court House Fayette county traveled west in a pioneer wagon with three horses. Jacob D Pane his wife and son Walter along with Ralph Wolf his wife and two children left Olio July 27 and have journeyed through Kentucky Tennessee Georgia Mississippi Arkansas Oklahoma to reach Texas. They expect to reach San Antonio with the same three horses pulling the wagon.
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Austin
Vex
Ralph Wolf
Trwo
Vexias
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Mississippi
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
San Antonio
Student Lives On 25 Cents A Day To College
Gan-A youth Savinnah Cole, eighteen, attends the Georgia Tech through a grindstone plan. He builds a shack on land near Marietta, works two weeks a month at Anata Steel, earning $2 every thirty days, and spends the rest on tuition books and food. He studies ten hours daily, rising at 5 a.m. to cook breakfast and read, dreaming of becoming an electrical or mechanical engineer or perhaps a farmer.
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Savinnah
Gan
Ds Divine
Ceeorgia School of Technology
Tudo
Ohi
UPS Cole
Beins
Cole
Antiaita Steel
Sehioot
Jcl Cole
Acnita
Marietta
Nore College
DT H
Mic
de Miight
Mavielia
Tir Peters
Jim
Lina
Goeleck
Pi Heny Electrical
Red Heads and Citizenship Bring Coroner Testimony
Evansville coroner Neal Kermey testifies on red headed people’s character noting none in jail or divorce courts and recalling no cases of suicide attributed to red heads. Herald subscription urged.
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Evansville
Ind
Neal Kermey
Hanging of Eight Americans Reported Near Oaxaca
Andrew J. Trumbo, metallurgical engineer, arrived in Douglas on January 22 and described seeing eight American mining men hanged near Ejutla in Oaxaca two months earlier. He said the bodies were badly decomposed, preventing identification, and that locals claimed Mexican forces executed them. Reports also said a Carranza troop train was dynamited with hundreds killed between Vera Cruz and Jalapa.
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Douglas
Aziz
Ejutla
Indictment Row Asks New York Court Turnover
Direct charges of bribery were made against Representative Frank Boonan of Illinois and former Representative Fowler at a hearing to decide if men should be turned over to New York courts. The session with United States Commissioner Taylor addressed jurisdiction and transfer.
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New York
Washington
Frank Boonan
Hlinois
Ferman Schulte
Fowler
United States
Taylor
Wolcott resigns from State Tax Board to take effect in sixty days
Eben H. Wolcott quits the State Tax Board and withdraws from the Republican bid for Secretary of State to become Vice President of the State Savings Trust Company. Mayor Crozier records fines for skinning a dead horse within city limits. The health board investigated the carcass near the old starch factory.
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Indianapolis
Eben H. Wolcott
State Tax Board
Savings Trust Company
Crozier
Albert Kaufman
Rufus Brown
Board of Health
Jenkins
Alexander
Saluda Township Trustee Report 1915 Receipts and Balances
Saluda Township Jefferson county Indiana presents the annual report ending December 31 1915 detailing receipts disbursements and balances with a final balance of 949.01 outstanding warrants 428.39 total 1377.35 and cash in depository 1377.35 sworn by Robt A J McKeand Trustee and approved January 4 1916 by James Arbuckle Chairman and Frank Bruce Secretary. Also includes a backache remedies ad for Doans Kidney Pills with testimonial from Mrs J J Bumen Madison Indiana.
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Saluda Township
Jefferson County
Indiana
A. J. McKeand
Robt
A. J. M’keand
James Arbuckle
W S Taff
Hanover D't Bank
Rodgers Bros
Iw Rat
Chas. Glass Iiee Rai
John P McDonald
J H Riedel
Marvin Burnworth
Edward F Berry
Miller & Sons
J Horton Barber
F Wilson
Robert Merideth
R A J McKeand
Ax A Marling
G A Warner
Township Fund
W D Hearn
S L Graves
Chase Dibler
P E Gill
Balance
C H Rousch
WS Ta
Nat Branch Bank
O J Bowman
Edward Berry
J C Maddox
Albert M Wilhelm
F Turner
Edn Jeffries
C H Rousch & Co
Han Deposit Bank
Herald Co
Courier Co
Field Examiners
County Auditor
F L Turner
Dawson
Cyrus Dean
Pete Craig
W C Dawson
DOG Fund
A Ae
AM Wilhelm
Ora
Hearn
Ora B Hearn
WS Pender
L W Roberts
Field
Roy Dawson AO
Archie M Pender
Laura Dawson
Sophia Wells
Ora Hearn
Hazel Gorrell
A M Taff
Frankie Bruther
Arthur Wilson
LC Protsman
W Airhart
Lodge How Co
Roy Dawson
Alex Taylor
Frankie Brother
N Hay
LD Eldridge
A A Warner
Archie Pender
John Robinson
J P
LC Protsman Oest
J Ta
Linley Lawson
H P Boles
Chas Bolander
James Nichols
James A Nichols
Dallas Noell
W O Green
A M Wilhelm
Fannie E Reed
Wm L Walker
L D Eldridge
Melvin Marling
L Roberts
Freda Roberts
L W Walker
L C Pratsman
Hanover
D’t Bank
Hanover D’t Bank
J F Bair
L C Protsman
Thos Snodgrass
John Beach
Edwa Berry
A M Pender
Dallas A Noell
Ira Sipe
W S Pender
Louis Kloppfer
Lizzie Brother
Roy Passwater
Clyde W Hutsell
Tracy Stodgill
Floyd Hostetler
Max A Marling
Floyd Barton
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