West York notes and visiting relatives and local events
West York and nearby towns feature several visits from Terre Haute and Mattoon residents. Miss Cecil Bell returns to State University while Delance Evans visits family from Paris Island. A French letter confirms missing soldier Ray Hand is safe. George Higgins opens a new hardware store in Marshall.
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Chas Buckner
Casey
West York
Glen Powers
Babe
Melrose
Josiah Henderson
Thomas Wheeler
Shelbyville
Ind
James Lindley
Mary
Marshall
Richard Piersall
Jesse Evans
Carl Michael
Baby
Mattoon
John Stevens
Cecil
Lowell Bell
State University
Delance Evans
Paris Island
Matt Evans
Roy Barkalow
Community News and Personal Notes From Clarksville
Sunday traffic was light with frost noted last year on the 11th and 12th. Will Davis reports his son Ralph landed safely in France. Vern Fox died after a self inflicted shooting near the Steve Applegate farm. Wm Johnson died of heart failure and Andy Connerton died by self harm. Residents include Aunt Akasha Ennis visiting Mrs. Sophia Montgomery and others, and various moves and local business updates.
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Will Davis
Ralph
France
Akasha Ennis
Wm. Brating
Wm. Cale
Joe Fitzgarald
Oilfield
J. W. B. Hutchings
Eva Schwartz
Myrtle
Charleston
Mike Schwartz
Standard Oil Co
Charles Schwartz
John Schwartz, Sr
Milo Combs
Robt. Stricker
Vern Fox
Steve Applegate
Clarksville
Wm. H. Johnson
Andy Connerton
Martinsville Notes Entry Greenup Fair Ahead and Visitors
Greenup fair week over half a dozen visitors in Martinsville with Riley Bennett and wife from Westfield and others from Springfield Indianapolis and Arkansas City. Farmers report corn and pastures recovering from drought while sorghum syrup prices climb. Missing soldier Milo Fessenbeck feared prisoner. local veterans listed as ill but holding steady. Main streets crowded with autos as fair nears September 17 to 21. Guy Fasig, home on leave, recounts convoy service and submarine engagement.
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Martinsville
Riley Bennett
Westfield
J & Cooper
Henry
John Blakeman
Samuel Lane
St Louis
T P Cleaver
Springfield
J. F Lafferty
Carson Johnson
R. A Jones
A. S. Sleeth
Indianapolis
Guy Fasig
Man Returns to Vessel at Portsmouth NH After Incident
The report notes no damage from the earlier event as the individual returns to his vessel in Portsmouth New Hampshire on Tuesday.
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Local Notes and Arrivals From The Review
Miss Edith Lowry left Friday for Waukegan to teach for the coming year. Paul Porterfi eld and family of Quay Oklahoma arrived for a visit. Eugene Wilmot of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, after a three month Atlantic cruise, visits his parents. W H Goodman, 74, died at Dundas. remains arrived with relatives. Rev C A Alexander, pastor of the Free Methodist church, attended conference and is assigned to Vincennes Indiana for the coming year.
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Edith Lowry
Waukegan
Paul Porterfiel
Quay Okla
Eugene Wilmot
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Atlantic
W. H. Goodman
Dundas
C. A. Alexander
Free Methodist Church
Vincennes
Ind
Casey and Terre Haute Couple Wed In City Ceremony
John Houser of Casey and Velva Pearl Anderson of Terre Haute were married on August 31 in Terre Haute and will reside there. The notices list other local events including several marriages, travel notes, a bookkeeper job in Enid Oklahoma, school openings in Casey with 190 high school students, and the death of R. F. Lee’s mother near Mountain Grove Missouri at age 95.
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Banner-Times
John Houser
Casey
Velva Pearl Anderson
Terre Haute
Sam Moore
New York City
W. Robinson
Doit Loung
Twin Falls
Idaho
Serena Sharp
Glen Payne
Elmer Whitney
Kansas City
Whitney
Ola Redman
Harold Crampton
Methodist
Maud Funk
Enid
Okla
R. F. Lee
Mountain Grove
New York Buried Wealth Revealed at Electrical Exposition
At Grand Central Palace engineers unveiled a cross section of a city street showing copper and lead veins beneath New York. Officials estimate Manhattan and Bronx copper at 80 million pounds valued about 7.5 million dollars and lead at 60 million pounds worth around 4.8 million. The display illustrated conduits rails substations and drainage as proof of the metropolis advanced civilization.
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New York City
Manhattan
Bronx
Grand Central Palace
Consolidated Telegraph and Electric Subway Company
Great Metropolis
New York
Ancient harbor Soa Honica in Macedonian history
The London Globe recalls Soa Honica as the principal Macedonian harbor founded around 315 B C by a ruler named after his wife sister of Alexander the Great. It notes historic fires including a major blaze that destroyed much of the city over the years and its wooden, inflammable architecture. It also mentions an early September 1890 fire causing multi million damage. A side remark discusses drought affecting corn belt farmers.
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St. Paul
Thessalonians
Soa- Honica
Therme
London Globe
Alexander the Great
Macedonia
Rome
Half the town mourns as Paola Pittman killed in France
Hutsonville reports Paola Pittman, formerly of the place, was killed in action in France last week. Henry Draper is paralyzed and critical after a Sunday illness. Mrs. Delia Hurst departs for Mt. Pleasant Iowa to teach. Henry Lawhead and Oscar Lawhead sail for military training at Camp Sherman and Purdue University. Mrs George Tolin and Miss Lulu Weller visit from Rockville with the Weller family.
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Paola Pittman
France
Henry Draper
Delia Hurst
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Henry Lawhead
Camp Sherman
Oscar
Purdue University
George Tolin
Lulu Weller
Rockville
Ind
Not All Love Silence Dr Brill on Noises and Insomnia
Dr A A Brill of New York discusses a musician plagued by insomnia blamed on street noises and night calls. He notes hypersensitivity to sound. many blame noises for trouble, yet some great minds sought noise to stimulate thought as illustrated by John Stuart Mill hiring a boy to drum beside his room.
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A. A. Brill
New York
John Stuart Mill
Brill
Spiders Ride on Back of Files
A London Chronicle note reports a corre spondent using a microscope to reveal that a parasite on houseflies is often an immature spider. The spider rides the fly as a winged palfrey, guiding its movements until either the Pegasus dies or the rider preys.
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Pegasus
London Chronicle
Report of the Condition of the Dulaney National Bank
The record notes financial figures for the Dulaney National Bank including balances and periods. Key numbers appear as 3,000 1,233 08 3,593 49 and a deduction of 1,900 00, indicating assets and liabilities or changes within the bank's condition.
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Dulaney National Bank
U.S
U.S. Bonda
Federal Reserve Bank
U.S. Treas
U. S. Treas
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