Social notes and visits span multiple Indiana towns
Miss Bonnie Hickman visits W Lebanon. Miss Margaret Burns stays in Lafayette with friends. Miss Mae Burns hosts Miss Mary Smith and Miss Gladys Kenzler. Lora and Maude Alvey weekend于 near Hebron with Lelia Whitsell. Allen family to Chicago for illness of Geo Bodley. Princess Theater shows up to date pictures. Various socials at U B Church and local homes. Hammocks and Croquet sets advertised by Burns Davis. Lost key ring reported. Local residents visit and travel between Lafayette, Fowler, Monticello, and surrounding towns.
Grand rope walk night draws crowd on Main Street
A 13 foot high rope ladder and a 40 foot taut wire drew a huge turnout on Main Street Monday. The show promised a one hour and a half act of dazzle and vaudeville with crowd funding and later criticism of the performance and its billing.
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Main Street
Terra Firma
For Sale Local Ads Feature Horses and Motor Goods
A fragment notes Iusteets Picture Shop in Lafayette selling a pair of black geldings for 600 dollars to Smith McClure. It also advertises 1913 model motor cycles and motor boats with new machines and easy payments, plus bargains in used cycles. Contact details include Lock Box 11, Trenton, Michigan.
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Pho Rowe
Fto Smith McClure
Lafayette
Rowe
Trenton
Mich
Town to Adopt Electric Classification Soon
Preparations by Supt. Pierce of the Q L P Co. near completion to transform the neighboring town into an electric classification. Citizens show enthusiasm and readiness for the current, reflecting a progressive spirit and welcoming attitude toward the change.
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Supt. Pierce
Runaway incidents report minor injuries and loose harness
Two runaways are recorded this issue. Friday afternoon Ern Gephart’s daughters fell from a buggy after a frightened horse hit a traction engine near the L. E. W. tracks causing a pole impact. No serious injuries, just bruises and a damaged wheel. Saturday morning a Cain boy driven team dashed three blocks on First street with only broken harness and a wagon incident near the parsonage corner.
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Ern Gephart
I. E. Switzer Farm
Cain
Smirling
Puck Ward
Letter from Savoy France Describes Travel and Agriculture
A dated 1913 note from Regina Hotel Bernascon Aix-les-Bains details rapid three day travel from Paris covering 209 miles with visits to chateaus and cathedrals. It contrasts primitive French farming with American harvesters, oxen powered loads, women harvesting with sickles, and grape culture as a chief industry. Food notes praise wine cheese jelly cakes and abundant strawberries. Red-coated bands appear in towns.
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Here
Paris
France
Letters From Otterbein Abroad Describe French Life
A reader shares observations on France including couriers, guides, travel in Paris and other cities, chateaus with secret passages, large hat brims for priests and nuns, sample pronunciation notes, beneficial baths, tax gates, Bastille Day echoes, gambling casinos, and the Credit Lyonnais network. The writer recounts sights, accents, and cultural quirks with a personal travelogue tone.
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Paris
London
New York
Champs
Aix-les-Bains
France
Monte Carlo
Credit Lyonnais
Lafayette
Local visitors and residents seen in town this week
A string of arrivals and departures highlights the week with James H. McClairen and family visiting relatives from South Bend, Miss Anna Powers of Indianapolis staying with her sister Mrs Clovis Lord, Dr L W Smith and family from the Soldiers Home visiting E M Johnson, and Miss Irene Rowe moving from Lafayette to Brooklyn New York for a librarian position. Rev F K Dougherty attends the Young People's Institute at Battle Ground and plans to visit relatives. Hart Fowler and friends enjoy gatherings while Thus Bowyer trades an old Buick for a Nyberg from Glynn & Sewell.
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Anna. Powers
Indianapolis
Clovis Lord
Bowyer
F. K. Dougherty
South Bend
Young People’s Institute
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Flannagan
Bonnie Hickman
W. Lebanon
Margaret Burns
Mary Smith
Gladys Kenzler
Mae Burns
Lora and
Maude Alvey
Lelia Whitsell
Hebron
Allen
Mrs
Chicago
Geo. Bodley
The
Princess Theater
Young People’s Social
U. B. Church
Kathryn Peters
Adam C. Moore
Mary Daniels
Newark
Maddox
West End
Wilbur
Willard Knowles
Nellie
Pine Village
Wanrep
Sun
Alfred Hall
Lochiel
Allen & Co
A. E. VanNatta
Terre Haute
Ella Cain
George Wingert
Monticello
Princess Photoplay
Ernest Abel
Lloyd
Thomas Buins
Fowler
Clovis Lord and Family
Ernest Scipio
Brookston
James Ford
Burns & Davis
Kodaks
Eastman Film
Foster's Picture Shop
North Side Square
Ind
Thor
Eveatl
Joh
Montmorci
Harold Scott
Charles Sewell
Burns & Davis Drug Store
Margaret Maddox
Vesta Edmonds
Joseph Walsh
King .Hill
Idaho
Burns & Davis Drug Co
Avery Hawkins
Jennie Merrick
John Fowler
Stella
Potomac, Ill
Sarah Siddens
Boswell
L. H. Perigo
Mrs. Frank Rowe
Metropolis, Ill
S.T. Barnes and Family
Montmorenci
John Tolley
John Schilling
Barrydaya
Harry Ruch
Nelle van Natta
van Baugher
Battle Ground
Augusta Belgigson
West Lafayette
5. A. Towsley
Fred Rowe
Elmer Griffing
St. Ane, Til
Metta Taylor
Roy Laurence
Brook
Sun Office
Sheriff Cowgill
Williams, Nort
Alessis
Mesdames
Charles Weigle
Walter
Charles Nicel
Ambia
John Farrell
O. Mann
H. Kretschman
Elza Morgan
Hughes
Tipton
Irvin Hart
Toledo
Ohio
Jimi. Wiebers, Sr
George Hann
George Rush
Sarah Hann
Attica
Wiss Sue Shearer
A. EH. VanNatta Agid
R. M. Heavilon
Pranket
Floyd Garrett
Emily
S. W. Baker
Gallibus Exceliabumbuncae
Mao
Baltimore Clothing House
Maior
Iusteets Picture Shop
Weet Hide Square
Fend
Savoy
Regina
Aix-les- Bains
Savoie
Otterbein
Columbus Wagons
L. Burns
James H. McClairen
L. W. Smith
E. M. Johnson
Bernice Lewis
Verg and
Mildred Fowler
Wiliam Mann
Irene Rowe
J. R. “Hearer
Brooklyn
N. Y
Foley
Ty Burns
Aan
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