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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1914
Page
3
A brief readable notice indicates an event at an off Terbein location on Tuesday. Details are limited in the fragmented OCR text, with no further names, places, or actions clearly identifiable.
The notice urges saving as a response to rising needs and announces the opening of a SAVING program aimed at helping households prepare for difficult days.
Weekly mining of Otterbein edition contains display ad rates ten cents per column inch per week with deadlines and discounts for timely insertions. Local notices 6 cents per line first week rising to nine and three cents thereafter. cards of thanks five cents per line. Community notes list residents and visitors including Brett Conder, Lee Haxton, Lizzie Haxton, Miss Emma Trueblood, Esther Woodhams, Opal Bailey, Cecil Haxton, M. C. Bailey, Ancil McKinney, Ransom Wagoner, Albert Swisher, Asher Dilts, Perry Bailey, Phil Haxton, Jesse McKinney, Frank Roudebush, E Haxton and families with oyster supper celebration closing the year’s corn husking.
Wednesday afternoon Fred Conder visited A L Musselman in Walcott. The Travis schoolhouse Thanksgiving program drew a large crowd. Ernest Conder helped Haxton and WagnER shuck corn. Margaret Bailey and daughter Opal visited Mrs Haxon and Inez. Friday they went to Otterbein to see Mrs Frank Biffle. Fred Conder and his son Ernest were in Lafayette Friday.
A testimonial from Mrs Harriet Gale of Monmouth Ill describes relief from fatigue nervousness and weight loss after using Vinci cod liver oil and iron tonic. The ad promotes the product claiming it strengthens and revitalizes tired workers especially nervous women and offers a money back guarantee if no benefit. Ward Bros Druggists Otterbein Ind distributes the tonic.
A wary tale shows a man denying a paper causes a chain of mishaps. His boy spares no detail by borrowing neighbors copy. chaos follows with a bee stand collapse, a barbed wire mishap, cow catastrophe, dairy spill, teeth loss, a creaking carpet ruin, and a fleeing daughter, ending with a moral urging subscriptions.
Local notes list MONTMORENCY H. S. vs Dayton H. S. Friday night after sickness and illness saw Edna Wein absent from school. Miss Elias Reiners visited Willow Grove. Leota Jordan improves after St Elizabeth Hospital Lafayette stay.
Jeremiah Edwards serves as president CHAS L Mckinnis is vice president J S Ward holds the cashier role for the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Otterbein Indiana.
A public sale at the Burns farm features ten head of horses and colts, twelve cows and calves, sixty Hampshire sows and gifts, and ten Hampshire boars. The auction on Thursday December 17 1914 begins at 11 am with terms offering six months credit and interest if paid late. Located 9 miles west of Lafayette on the Lafayette and Pine Village Road. John J Burns owner with Hastburn as auctioneer and Ame Smith & Son as clerks.
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