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Newspaper
Pekin Advance
Location
Pekin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
1
Pekin residents gather for a busy week of sales at A Curtis and clothing stores while a flood of personal visits, business trips, and subscriptions fill Pekin Advance. Community updates include births and deaths, village visitors, bank promotions, and local church services as residents plan for February activities.
The message urges immediate action to secure a policy with a strong, reliable company. It promotes Howard G. Skiles as the local representative and emphasizes the urgency of obtaining insurance before a fire occurs.
Methodist church revival under Pastor Jenner continues with services in Pekin and Gordon with Sunday dawn and evening preaching by Rev Edwards. Pekin High School notes list new officers, class work in history Latin literature and geography, student activities, and staff changes.
Calendars at the Markland Pharmacy tell of a family meal where Little Raymond, fond of tomatoes, interacts with a guest driver. Haymond slides a whispered plan to seat the boy and secretly swap plates during dinner, prompting caution about strangers at table.
In a witty social moment two women debate beauty among bands of a group. A Yemeni friend, asked for judgment, dismisses the task as too difficult then suggests asking the poor. He asserts the most beautiful band is the band that gives.
In a Colorado town Knox, former pastor of Troy Memorial church, reports in a letter to a friend that the county seat is an up-to-date town in every respect. She notes a recent death by suicide and another accidental death, plus various social affairs, reflecting local life.
Mme Emmanuel Havenith, wife of the Belgian minister to Washington, is noted as an expert on rugs and tapestries. She studied them during her four years in Mersin where her husband served as minister, and she comes from a family famed for a premier Flemish tapestry collection.
A humorous set of dining hints advises bizarre practices such as using a trowel and bathtub for grapefruit, making noise with soup to show enjoyment, and never using the tablecloth as a napkin. It cautions against displaying silverware, washing and ironing the cloth, and entertaining strangers without proper decorum.
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