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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
4
The notice lists publishing details for the newspaper with manager Troutman and the office in Herald Block Montpelier Indiana. It notes second class mail status and post office handling at North Main Street.
A French serenaut who has flown balloon trips with eleven passengers is constructing an airship designed to carry 100 people. If French ingenuity succeeds, air travel could become more affordable and accessible.
The text claims Austria holds the only radium supply and plans a thermal establishment to provide cures using miners. It warns of monopoly power with 1¢ pricing and no competition, suggesting Standard Oil would be insignificant by comparison.
The preacher told his Bloomington audience that support was不足 and if church members do not show more zeal and cooperation he may close his meetings. His rhetoric links enthusiasm with cash as a measure of success.
Maxwell proposes legal liability for parents over children’s home hygiene and school readiness, even suggesting state adoption under socialistic plans. He argues households should meet sanitation standards to ensure pupils attend proper conditions.
Rev Linville continues protracted meeting at this place while Mrs Green wife of Rev George Green addresses locals Sunday evening. Appointments set at Gillead and Oak Cooper. Gier Pownall and wife visit A J McColly family as they plan spring farm move near Dundre.
Mrs Noah Desrauff visits Me Jeesa Carter last Friday. Simon Heminger delivered care from Heminger farm. he got 44 bushes. Mrs John Fensel learns of her father’s illness on Monday and visits bedside Tuesday. George Harrie assists A 8. Simon ton cleans gas well. Martin Fensel builds wagon shed. Salamarie dredge features in farmer discussion. M Garrett travels through Texas this winter.
Reports from Lafayette say nearly everything is in readiness for a grand meeting to outclass previous events in the state. Farmers from all parts will attend with corn judging, breeding of cattle and horses, and daily classes in feeding and pork and beef production. Breckford county will be represented as several farmers plan to attend.
The Blackford County Teachers Association holds its annual meeting in the Hartford City High School Assembly room Friday and Saturday January 17 18. Indiana officials and educators including Supt L N Hines Dr W L Bryan and Dr Edaion Holt Hughes are billed to speak on education topics and classroom methods with sessions led by local principals Ratliff Myers and others.
Samuel Roush canvasses for a cherry picking contrivance patented by James West a farmer from Jackson township. The device is a spring operated tin receptacle with scissors edges that drops fruit without touching by hand promising sanitary handling and low price from Montpelier based Sap and Mets Works Company. Roush covers Liberty township with the new tool claimed to be first on the market and ready for sale in small quantities.
An 1908 notice lists addressees for an upcoming letter list dated January 11 1908 including Chas E Beker Sam Gill B R B Griffith Cecil Gray William Jones Cony T Lackemayer Lee Moltz E W Rogers Chae Wilson John R Wilson Thomas Wilson Harry Lane A E Waymire and Mesdames Frank Alberson Martha Askern Elsie De Witte Geo E Goodrich Estella Jackson Jas MaChniels Flossie Rawager plus a Miss Piors dies sauce Forest.
Hartford City tightens Sunday rules with 8:30 curfew and shop closures except drug stores by prescription. Law and Order League backs rigid limits, targeting cigars, candy kiosks, groceries, galleries, salons, and women’s clubs while reviving the dog tax and enforcing signs over seven and a half feet high.
Judge Frazier of Montpelier Ohio spoke to Montpelier High School students about differences between today’s schools and his boyhood. He offered a prize to the pupil who can spell the most words and noted his past as a local educator in the county.
Joseph Ankerman of Poneto recalls a white blackbird among a flock of blackbirds near Liberty Center. He says the freak bird, once common with the flock, was seen by many older residents in earlier years and may have been mistaken for a white-winged crow killed on Auditor Garrett’s farm.
Reports from Hertford City indicate County Clerk Charles Heaves will run for Congress in the eleventh district. If nominated he would be Blackford County’s first candidate, with supporters citing his youth era schooling and lack of shortcomings as advantages.
Wayne County Central Committee in Richmond plans to ban treat ing at meetings. A chairmanship secretary and treasurer will be elected with other business. Past reform efforts reduced grafters access to election dates and liquor funds.
Milo Moore to become owner of the J. T. Jones grocery on West High Street as invoicing nears completion. Jones, who moved the business from South Main Street seven months ago, will continue operating from the same location while invoices are finalized. Further notices expected in tomorrow's paper.
Mrs Andrew Murry reports a long letter from Mrs Janes O Donell and family who left two weeks ago for Florida for Mr O Donell health. They are settled in West Palm Beach and describe warm weather and daily swims as he recovers and enjoys summerlike days similar to June. The family notes the Evening Herald remains a welcome visitor.
Harry Alexander, proprietor, states the Mammoth Rocket store to reopen in a few days after court action favored him. He promises old customers a glad welcome and a larger racket than before, following months of closure.
R M James of Louellen South Carolina proclaims a cure for malaria and bilious attacks. He claims Electric Bitters come in 50 cent bottles and act quickly to ease misery and health issues.
A London Tit-Dits excerpt retells a thief memoir noting that honor among thieves is unreliable. The narrator recalls touching valuables in Croydon and Shoreditch, being cheated by a fence, seeking vengeance, and planning a burglary with a mob, ending with an uneasy truce.
Chief Justice Doherty of Ireland famed for wit. Gossip held a judge may have danced at Dublin Castle after a wine party. Doherty quips he saw him in a reel and that the wind cut his face, noting the wind had the worst of it.
The Westminster Gazette notes Geneva’s rival fleets on Lake Geneva in the medieval era. The Duke of Savoy maintained war galleys with rams, turrets, and crews from forty to seventy-two, while Geneva built its own flotilla aiding the 1536 capture of Chilon and later Bernese annexation left a docked dotilla. The largest vessel was the Great Bear, carrying 64 oarsmen, 8 guns, and 150 fighters.
A downtown office displays a framed schedule of hours: 10 to 10 reserved for Louk agents and sellers, 10 to 11 for Insurance agents, 11 to 12 for bored long story tellers, 1 to 2 for solicitors for church and charities, 2 to 3 to discuss sporting news with callers, 3 to 5 for miscellaneous social visitors. Night business transacted by the firm.
A brief quip defines a financier as one who can make the government sit up when his affairs falter. The fragment also includes a humorous exchange about rice pudding and a mispronounced request, reflecting a clipped, playful newspaper tone.
The Hartford City News reports piano tuner George Davis, seen in Montpelier, then Hartford City, accused of causing disturbances, making insulting remarks from an alley near Squire Fargo's office. Prosecutor Emshwiller led a court inquiry to identify the man, with witnesses describing a 25 year old, boarding on West Washington Street, sought for explanation of his actions.
The farmers institute will meet in the circuit court room Hartford City on February 11 and 12 1908 with C Martindale Otis Crans and Miss Sertha Miller set to attend A corn exhibit will accompany the event Prizes are planned for best 10 ears of corn by township and overall best by variety raised in Blackford county
Oklahoma bound letter from W A Kuckel says Jim McCormick and Jerry Smith will make a million dollars soon. They hold 750 acres freehold, 600 under lease, with five wells producing about a thousand barrels daily. McCormick recently returned to Bluffton after four years away and is described as “struck it rich.”
Miss Orleefes Wyandt spent Thursday with her sister Mrs L Schwartzkopf. Jake Schwartzkopf delivered hogs to Hartford City shippers last Wednesday. Duke Kuttler went to Hertford City last Saturday. Jake Schwartzkopf is on the sick list. Mrs James Rinker visited her parents last Friday.
Mrs Sam Emory spent Thursday with the Milton Rhotenard family. Curt Rawkins was guest of Austtm Beeks and wife Wednesday and Thursday nights. Mrs Wm Williams visited Mrs David Spear Thursday afternoon. Alma Heeks spent Thursday afternoon with her sister Mrs Wm Spaulding. Joe Emory and family of Bryanwood were mentioned in the record.
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