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Local notices mix with wedding and county events in Athens area
A wedding at Mrs. Mabel A. Rice in Battle Creek joins Mrs. Rice and Mark Francisco of Kalamazoo. Plans discuss Seattle trip. News mentions Battle Creek Gull Lake railway contract, island purchase, and efforts to boost local grain trade. Other items report wheat prices, city lawsuits, a pranks or “posters” causing a crowd, a mad dog scare, arrests for larceny and arson links, and a large Springport war veterans reunion.
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Mabel A. Rice
Battle Creek
Rice
Mark Francisco
Kalamazoo
Marshall
Calhoun County
Omaha
Neb
Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Gull Lake
Thomas Dempsey
G All Lake
Fred Sebastian
John Young
Kekford
Harry Miner
Albion
Springport
Hillsdale
Calhoun
Eaton
Ingham
Jackson
Chas. Hill
James O. Ducker
Algernon
Hor
Portland
Sauerkraut
Knickerbockers
Litchfield
Lattle Creek
Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee
Toledo
Frank Rowland
Peter Hamilton
Thomas Jones
Bernard Shultz
Morton Anch
McNall
Williams House
Crane
H. &. Winsor, Esq
Coustable Hamilton
Lockton
Winsor
Maurice Pichelas
Clarence Bradley
Justice Lewis
Buckeye
4 Cincinnati Bank
George Bland
Rowland
Hamilton
Battle Creek Journal