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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
2
In a kaleidoscopic column the Pekin Advance ruminates on prices for cigars and eggs, currency shifts, and the cost of living. It touches on social habits, fashion, mischief, and the era’s curiosities from diet and harvests to travel and morality, all laced with wit and satire.
Church notices list social meetings and worship times for multiple Christ church groups. Elders and pastors, including Rev BE L Moore, provide schedules with sermons, prayer meetings, and Sunday school. Locations include New Pekin, College Hill, Martinsburg, Conway, Emmanuel ME, Bethel ME, and Daisy Hill Chapel UD B.
Olive Branch Frimative Baptist and Morris Chapel Christian Church advertise preaching on alternating weekends and Sundays with pastors W C Hancock Cranford and Holmes. Blue River Missionary Baptist and Martinsburg U.8 locations list monthly first and third Sundays plus Saturday nights with winter and summer time changes. Public invited. L.3 Sanders, Master.
A fragmented note discusses cough varieties from dry to bronchial, cites Enos Halbert of Paoli Indiana who found Foley's Honey and Tar effective, and references Limestone Ridge geology and a patriotic quote attributed to F. W. Roosevelt.
In a rural town, Carrie and Sam Karns pursue a library funded by a neighborhood campaign. Ferdinand Welgel wrestles with pride as Sam returns to seek Carrie’s hand and a future library, while Carrie champions literacy and Shakespeare’s era, shaping a hopeful town project.
A fragmentary clipping portrays tension around Mrs. Dubwalte and her political ambitions. Neighbors claim Dubwalte used staged scenes to influence her, while references to suffrage and traditional male female roles appear. The tone suggests skepticism about modern progress versus enduring gender norms.
A quirky dialogue sketches characters like the fuggler of cups and plates and a party leader in a satirical exchange. Walter’s Philosophy plays on affection and misunderstanding as Dubson worries and Mel Dubson questions love while Senator Sorghum riffs on a party leader by asking what the people went through.
Preparation is underway to remodel the Church of Christ here. John Roberts and Everett Brown have traveled to Detroit. Bro Cooper preached at the Church of Christ Sunday morning and evening. The basket ball game Saturday night ended 42 to 18 in Salem’s favor. Mrs John Elrod and Mrs Susie Loverton visited Mrs Anna Morris Sunday afternoon. School resumed January 2 after holiday break. Albert Morris and family spent Monday with his mother here. Garden nuts were displayed at James Roberts Sunday evening.
Naw Lihert and James Taylor family spent weekend at J B Caseys. Lug Fenner returned to Indianapolis after two weeks with home folks. Millard Gray and wife visited Claude Coetria’s Wednesday. Marion Stewart of Oakland fil and Edd Collins of Scott Co visited Amos Gray’s Friday. Alice and Goldin Applegate working in Scott Co spent last week with their mother Mrs Rusie Applegate. Bert Spence and son Roy of Lethbridge Alberta visiting David and Mrs Matthews. Lebert Gray and Joyce Grispy returned to Indianapolis after week with Amos Gray family. Edd Brim and family visited Wm McClellan of South Boston DL. Jeffs and family of Pekin spent last week old. Funeral of Ezra McClellan at Conway Monday attended by several from this place. Lula Walker working at W A Richey’s spent Sunday with home folks. Tom Smith’s moved from Shiloh vicinity. James Davis and family and Walter Matthews and family spent Sunday at Amos Gray’s. Several from this vicinity attended sale at James Howell’s Thursday. James Weller and wife spent one day last week at Amos Gray’s. Lebert Robison wife and son Sundayed at Link Robison’s.
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