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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
15
Advertisement extols Dr Pierce world famous medicines made in Buffalo New York with full ingredient disclosure on wrappers. It claims physician endorsement and criticizes secret remedies while praising Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and overall health, noting easy use and pharmacy availability.
Indiana humorist George Ade portrays non progressive outlying districts while touring Egypt. He mocks township supervisors for bad roads, describing dirt dumped into mid road humps as a sign of imbecilic work and recalls Indiana road tax and past poor upkeep. He contrasts progress under intelligent direction with rural neglect and road degradation.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows marked Memorial Day honoring their dead with arranged ceremonies. References to participants and local congregations indicate joint homage and interment traditions intertwined with church associations.
Auditor Johnston filed a report to the state superintendent detailing common school revenues for tuition. Since December 1905, 47.082407 in taxes, interest, and fees have been collected, with 35 licensed saloons in Blackford County and additional funds noted for distribution.
Indiana ranks second in rural telephone lines with 14 428 operated by commercial companies and 6 850 by mutual companies. The state has public exchanges, many run by Bell or independent groups, fueling a wide independent movement and a surge of exchanges and equipment amid renewed standardization confusion.
General storm sweeps northern Indiana causing extensive property damage and transportation disruptions. Widespread wind and heavy rain topple wires and trees, damage factories and canneries, suspend interurban service, and injure workers.
Mrs Emma Peeters and children from Cripple Creek arrive to visit relatives near Montpelier. They stay several months with her parents Mr and Mrs John Harris six miles east of town, then visit her aunt Mrs Thos Bull before her mother joins them.
Jas F Dawley of Montpelier area reports a splendid wool harvest from seventeen catswool sheep averaging thirteen pounds each and a yearling buck at twenty six pounds. Wool measured up to nineteen inches long. The flock’s ewes mostly twin, yielding 2 lambs each. price was thirty cents per pound totaling 83 90 per head. He also sheared ten Angola goats with wool at the same price.
The fragment references a claim about a laxative effect tied to Chamberlain's product and a remark about tasters. Details are sparse and the text is incomplete.
Judge Macey issues a decisive ruling in the David Levey case of Winchester. The decision holds that a liquor license granted by the board of commissioners is valid for one year and takes effect upon grant, not upon bond filing or auditor issuance. The ruling asserts that the retail license enters final judgment and cannot be delayed.
Miss Celia Session who ran the millinery department at the New York Store the past season departed yesterday for Fort Wayne to spend part of the summer.
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