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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
5
Daily Market Report from Montpeler Chicago outlines grain prices and market notes. The report credits A Ireland rokxer in Mayer block room 2 for furnishing the data.
Local notices list residents and visitors in Bluffton, Muncie, Wartford City, and surrounding towns. Several names appear with travel for business, health ads promote Russ Bleaching Blue and Hollister products, and train delays noted from a washed bridge near Connersville.
A roundup note lists residents and visitors including Sam Drennen and Jake Wade in Hartford City on business, Mrs Bert Wolf and son in Bluffton, Mrs Chas Sellers en route to Ft Wayne, Alex McDonald in Muncie, Rev Watkins heading to Wabash, James Ratliff returning from Newcastle, and local church events plus social calls at the New York Store and the Christian church. It also covers Rothschild history with Baron Alphonse’s burdens and peculiar superstitions.
Classified ad snippet shows rentals sales and items for sale including a six room cottage, storage room, cabbage and sweet potato plants, a Masonic charm, a used organ, a walnut case piano, and a rubber tired buggy with harness. Includes names like Alfred Spaulding John Emshwiller and J H Twibell and mentions Washington D C contact for a Mr. Robert Dean ex member of Congress.
Townsend Burnett Baldwin of the Pennsylvania Railroad, once stout, says he slimmed by a self-made routine. Each night he wrapped blankets, lay on his back, and pounded himself with two large mallets for half an hour, claiming the blunt force aided weight loss and rheumatism, while the blankets softened the impact.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger note says Japanese soldiers carry silk framed post cards with mourning borders. Soldiers write contact details and the recipient before battle and send death notices if they fall. Cards bear regiment seals and are sent back to Japan.
Yao Star notes AGH Path of ai inventive work. The device attaches to a vehicle and marks the road contour on a moving table to illustrate road dangers. It seeks to persuade motorists that speeds over eight miles an hour are unsafe on current roads.
Illinois fish commissioner Colonel S P Bartlett received a letter from G Burgtorff of Florence reporting a Quincy dispatch that he caught a catfish weighing eighty seven pounds. Inside the fish were a watch two pairs of sleeve buttons and a tin coffeepot.
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