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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
2
A merchant laments poor crop years and cash flow woes as customers delay payments, advance cash to mail order houses, and demand sympathy from suppliers. He notes Montgomery Ward & Co refuses involvement, contemplates how to raise $820 to cover a $18,000 balance, and battles guilt and public perception.
Perry White formerly of Nottingham travels to Ottawa Ohio to join Cass White in a hardware store and consider moving it to Illinois. He plans trips to Columbus Ohio and lingers in oil leases near Palestine Illinois. White claims ownership of about 2000 acres of leases and conducts oil brokerage alongside his investments.
Montpelier resident Mrs John Moon reports years of backache headaches and fatigue from kidney trouble. She describes dry mouth stiff back pain and poor appetite improving after using Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York with dealers carrying the remedy.
Assessors will complete work by May 15 as allowed by law. Most are on the books for transfer to the county assessor next week with little field work remaining. The board of review of equalization will meet June 1 for twenty days to hear taxpayers’ complaints about high assessments in each township including Montpelier and Hartford City.
The Bluffton church of the German Reformed congregation was dedicated with united city services and speeches by Rev. C. E. Miller Heideburg University and Rev. J. H. Homberger editor of the Christian World. Rev. P. E. Zartman assisted. The building cost $30,000 with $13,000 raised yesterday.
W. W. Russell, the American minister to Venezuela, departed Willemstad for the United States for a two month vacation after a stop at Puerto Cabello and a visit to the US gunboat Paducah. Venezuelan officials absent at farewell signal heightened tensions. Consul Moffat at LaGuaira is incommunicado due to plague as U.S. eyes transfer by gunboat. Castro decree on La Guaira potentially extended until new cases subside.
Keller argues color shapes thought so deeply that it colors speech and memory. She compares the deaf blind experience to a sailor on an island where locals speak an unknown language, stressing the need to learn others’ perspectives to understand and align with their ideals.
The passage recalls Sheridan as manager offering Reynolds play The Caravan to the public with a dog as key figure. After a performance he asks for his guardian angel. Reynolds replies Here I am. The remark focuses on the dog not the author. Dignun, a cast member, laments illness cannot carry on while Sheridan assumes the dog is ill.
Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor known for fishing and storytelling died in Washington. At a Fort Frederick fish and game league meeting, Proctor recounted a tale about Congressman Capron of Rhode Island who had teased him. Proctor, with a sportsman’s wit, turned the joke to Capron.
The Capron club hosts the fish scales mystery with a neighbor bringing a newborn weighing a suspected ten pounds. The scales show an improbable forty seven pounds, amusing the senator and members. Senator Proctor recalls a west tour with Mrs. Proctor. In Salt Lake City onlookers misread him as an old Mormon with many wives.
Omega man Mr Ek Humphery, a large general store owner and telephony president, credits Dr King s New Discovery with saving his life after a severe cough. The piece notes a free trial bottle and mentions upcoming events: the Southern Baptist convention at Hot Springs Arkansas and a governors conference in Washington focused on natural resource conservation.
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