Residents Reach Holiday Breaks and Plans Across States
Visitors and relatives span several cities with Christmas and New Year travel notes. Notables include R L Vanarsdell in Washington visiting family. Dr and Mrs Compton returning from Henderson. James French at home in Henderson visiting parents. Charles Greene of Indianapolis visiting in the city. Cockrells returning to Middlesboro. attorneys Winn and Grubbs in Toronto on legal business. James Hall of Powell County visiting relatives. Mayme Redmon visiting her mother Cassie Redmond. William Scott of New York visiting his sister Mrs Percy Bryan. G H Satterwhite of Lexington at a Christmas dance. Elmer Berry and wife from Sharpsburg visiting the Berry family. Farmer Greenwade and Mab gop. John Greenwade visiting Huntington relatives. Webster Huntington and wife from Cleveland visiting Mrs Bogie and family. trip to New York for the Ohio Society banquet then to Washington for Perry’s Victory Centennial matters. Huntington to appear before multiple state legislatures on centennial business with wife. The years whirl around so fast that one gets dizzy trying to tell what time it is.
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Webster P. Huntington
Cleveland
Ohio
War and Navy Departments
Huntington
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Illinois
New York
Indiana
Minnesota
Local Couple Plans Wedding From Murky OCR Fragment
Fragmentary text notes a Midway residence, a couple from Owingsville and nearby areas slated for marriage. Details are unclear due to damage, but reference to a engagement or wedding in county context remains.
Illness Update From Local Area
J Q Stephens's grippe injures him but he is recovering. Owan has room for a table to be sat. Macker has had a poisoned hand but is now improving. Helen Redmond, twenty months, sick with scarlet fever, is getting along nicely.
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Owan
Helen
Death of C S Pieratt at age 40 on Queen Street
Mr C S Pieratt aged 40 died at his brother John Pieratt s residence on Queen Street Saturday morning of pneumonia. He had been ill only a few days and his death shocked friends. Pieratt was a tobacco man and barn builder, well known in this county and nearby areas.
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C. S. Pieratt
John Pieratt
Queen Street
Mr. Pieratt
Grahame Stock Company Opens With Laugh Worth a Dollar
The Grahame Stock Company at the Table Opera House offers a week of new plays and five vaudeville acts promising a dollar's worth of laugh for thirty cents. Cheaper seats at ten and twenty cents available, with Ladies' Free Tickets on opening night if reserved before 6 PM at Mt Sterling Drug Company.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
James Whitcomb Riley
Grahame Stock Company
Table Opera
Mt. Sterling Drug Company
The Friendly Spider Reveals Its Quiet Value
A Harper's Weekly essay argues the spider, though plain, benefits humans by eating pests. It notes the spider's diet of houseflies and other insects reduces disease spread, while acknowledging a defensive bite is rare and mild.
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Harper's Weekly
Fair Chance For Borrower Ends In Debt List
Mrs. Worth notices items stolen from her household as the borrower’s family gradually vanishes. Jimmy returns with requests for the wash boiler and insists his mother will repay once items are itemized. Mrs. Worth compiles an alphabetical list of every borrowed good before their promised return.
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Mrs. Worth
Jimmy
Saint Petersburg Saint or Petersburg History Misnaming
A satirical note contrasts English usage of the city name Saint Petersburg with the founder Peter the Great. It recalls Peter’s holiness and questions how the saintly epithet became English fashion, followed by a church window anecdote about Job 14 10 in a family dinner tale.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Petersburg
Peter the Great
Peter
London Mail
England
Harold
London Globe
Home Piety
A minister rebukes John for missing church on three Sundays while John replies he is not remiss but tinkering with his soul masses, in a humorous exchange from the Methodist Recorder.
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John
Compliment About Worst Liar Echoed by Recipient
A brief quip from the St. Louis Post Dispatch notes a speaker replying to being called the worst liar. He says he has felt flattered before, signaling a wry, understated reaction to the jab.
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St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Fourteen Cooks In Three Months Frustrate Mrs Hatterson
Mrs Hatterson laments rapid turnover as fourteen cooks failed to satisfy her needs in three months. Mrs Datterson confirms the string of unsatisfied hires, highlighting ongoing kitchen woes.
Conscience Voice Quoted in Jameson Phrase
A historical quotation attributed to Jameson states that conscience has never been silenced without consequence, reflecting the enduring call for accountability in public life.
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Jameson
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Port Ad
Rey
Igall
A . Erway UE
Inasiington
His Brother
Mr. R. L. Vanarsdell
James French
Hom
Henderson
Chas. Greene
Indianapolis
Mrs. Chenault Cockrell
Middlesboro
R. H. Winn
CU. D. Grubbs
Toronto
Canada
James Hall
Powell County
Mayme Redmon
Washington
Mrs
Cassie Redmond
Mrs. Wm. Scott
Mr. Scott
Percy D. Bryan
G. H. Satterwhite
Lexington
Elmer Berry
Sharpsburg
W. H. Berry
Mr. Farmer Greenwade
Mab
John Greenwade
Mr. Greenwade
Ewing Sperity
Florida
Owings
IOK
J. Q. Stephens
Grippe
Irner
Kerr’s
Sdeaths
Patent Medicine
Graves & Go
Table Theatre
Night Feature Pictures
Stanton College
J. C. Hanley
Stanton, Kentucky
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