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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
4
Fragmented notices describe sales of horses and stock, farm boundary lines near Otterbein, military recruitment praise, community events, and local visits. Mentions Miss May Straughan, Miss Merlen Thompson, Dr. Yager, and William Harmon among neighbors.
Ern Gephart and Miss Ella attended a party at Chas Anderson’s home near Pine Village. Lizzie Davis and John Liptrap were married in Danville last week. many friends offer congratulations. Rev. Dunn announced dates for meetings starting Sunday evening January 12. new furnace installation reported for C. W. Bowyer.
Elza Morgan and Jacob Mann and families and Miss Jennie Morgan visited Sunday with Mrs Cara Quigg and family. James Frasch and family spent Sunday with Gar Eberly and family. Ivan Reed of Deedyville visited friends here last week. Harold Sorenson is out of school on account of sickness. Miss Lucy Ritenour visited with Ethel Buck Saturday.
Ad claims persons with partial paralysis benefit from thorough massage of affected parts using Chamberlain's Liniment. It also says the liniment relieves rheumatic pains and is sold by Ayros & Davis.
J Herman Vickers was in Indianapolis on business earlier this week. Will Burns visited with Mrs J J Burns and family. Mr and Mrs J E Donahue hosted Mr and Mrs J W Dawson at dinner Sunday. May McCormick returned to Talbot after a week with sister Beatrice. Sue Bowen hosted friends Friday evening with refreshments. Harringtons visited Win Mahoney's family in Oxford Sunday. Herman Burling returned to Sheldon after two weeks here. George Smith and Stephen Farrell left for an extended visit with James Smith family in Churchusoo Indiana. Margaret Burns returned home after visiting her sister in Lafayette. Will Wash acquired ownership of building housing Mann Kretschman and Otterbein Telephone Co. J J Burns family hosted dinner with Chas Weigle family Carl, L Burns family, Margaret Burns, and Lawrence Donohue.
Public notice warns against catarrh remedies containing mercury claiming they ruin smell and damage the system. It promotes F J Cheney Co Mercury catarrh cure from Toledo Ohio as the safe internal option. Testimonials offered free. price listed. also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A street faker in Atchison during the Waggener jubilee sells Cubanola look alike gold chains at 50 cents each. He claims to have cleared over $15 from 48 sales that night and predicts higher earnings if arriving earlier. He admits owning a 240 acre Illinois farm and plans to continue scamming buyers as long as he lives.
Thomas Chew has supervised the Fall River Boys' Club for 23 years guiding nationwide youth work. Born in England he started at eight in Lancashire mills, moved to America four years later, worked in Fall River mills, educated himself, joined the Y M C A, then organized the club now housed in a $50,000 facility with over 2,000 members and 17 nationalities.
The doctor instructs, Always eat the skin of the fruit because the skin contains essentials. The patient fears throat scratches from biting into a pineapple with its skin on.
Disjointed dialogue reveals local tensions over salaries and behavior. Residents debate community leadership, finances, and social norms as they discuss workers, drought, and everyday tasks within a small town setting.
In a Philadelphia gossip fragment a quip compares engagements to savings, joking that a longer engagement reduces the need for immediate marriage humor about love and timing.
Sydney Adamson recounts Odessa evolving from a Turkish settlement on the Black Sea into a thriving European trade hub. He notes Russian grain exports, later foreign influence from England Germany and the United States, and finally Jewish merchants dominating export business, with few Germans and English remaining.
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