Social notes and weddings from South Avenue to Piqua
Mrs Schuesselin hosted Benkett's department store clorkes with music and knitting. Miss Reo Woodruff won an original contest. Music club to meet Miss Bertha Haines Caldwell street. Young ladies mission circle Greene Street M E church meets Monday at Misses Carrie and Rose Ehlers South Main. program includes devotion and readings. Florence M Williams and David Miler Coddington wed at St Marys parsonage. dinner at West High street. couple to farm near Piqua. Bible society to meet Mrs Robison Monday. DAR to meet Mrs Tr P Evans Caldwell street. six oclock dinner hosted by Mrs Fannie Meyer Versailles Pike for bride and groom Mr and Mrs Ben Beettel of Cincinnati. euchre afterward. Mr and Mrs Charles Grunert host family dinner Covington avenue. thirty guests. Young People League St Pauls church anticipates large Sunday crowd December airship contest.
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Greene Street
M. E
Carrie
Rose Ehlers
South Mainstreet
Fred, Black
Falk
Roy Hershey
Grace Feetree
Florence M. Williams
David ‘Miler Coddington
Piqua
St. Mary's Parsonage
Father Cogan
Gertrude Robbins
Bruno Hemsteger
West High Street
Fannie Meyer
Versailles Pike
Ben Beettel
Cincinnati
Charles Hatch
Louis 3
Meyer
Maurice Friedrich
Local society notes from Urbana to Dayton and Troy
Mrs. Sarah Busser and Miss Mary Busser returned home from Urbana after a short visit. Mrs. Margaret Julian and Mrs. Charles Barton of Troy spent Friday in the city. Earl Boda of Brookville visiting Benton Millhouse. Miss Florence Sachs to visit Dayton friends Sunday. Miss Dorothy Haines returned to Cincinnati Conservatory after Thanksgiving with Dr and Mrs Ashton. Clifford Graig and Edgar Wallace to spend Sunday with Covington friends. Miss Genevieve Lormer, guest of Miss Dorothy Kress, returned to Troy today. Local Elks recall Memorial Services at the Elks Home tomorrow. Mrs. Pius Vohmer of Springfield and Mrs. Snyder of Dayton hosted Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fergus last evening. Miss Snyder, a missionary, will depart December 15 for Africa. Mr. and Mrs. William West and a daughter of Logansport, Ind., visited their aunt Mrs. Mary Lyan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Busser
Mary Busser
Urbana
Dorothy “Haines
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Genevieve Lormer
Dorothy Kress
Troy
Pius Vohmer
Springfield
Snyder
Dayton
C. EB. Fergus
Miss Snyder
Africa
Democracy’s Message to the Germans Delegates Gather for YMCA Conference
Local notices list visitors and delegates across multiple Ohio towns for the Older Boys YMCA Conference and related events. Names include Kimball Evans Paul Parmott B H Allen Wilson Clark John Bokiewitz Edwin Krantz Bernard Crider Murry Ramsey J Pringe Jr Will Prince Jr Camp Sheridan Ala and others. Attendants stay with host families while attending sessions and visiting relatives during Thanksgiving week.
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John Montgomery
Kimball Evans
Paul Parmott
Nellie Pope Paroled From Michigan Prison
Detroit officials report Nellie Pape’s parole from the House of Correction after 21 years for the murder of her husband by Brusseau. Capt. Margaret Duffy and volunteers place a $1000 guarantee she won’t become a public charge and aid her return to work painting miniatures.
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Detroit
Mich
Nellie Pape
House ‘of Correction
Margaret Duffy
The
Salvation Armor
Duffy
Robert .X. Ogg
John Trix
Clara Dyar
Mrs. Pope
Brusseau
Pope
Mrs Pope biography reveals secret daughter and release motives
The article describes Mrs Pope, mother of a daughter kept secret since the conviction. The daughter, renamed after adoption, holds a responsible city job and is reportedly engaged to marry. Fear for public exposure influences those who helped her mother’s release. Pope reflects on prison life and aging, claiming innocence and seeking public understanding.
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Phi
House of Correction
Buffalo Bill Leaves Fortune Now Estimated at 65 000
Denver reports Judge Wall estimates Colonel Cody estate at not more than 65000. Funds from American schoolchildren will be raised to erect a monument to Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain, with a proposed limit of 5 cents per child.
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Denver
Colo
Lestatéros
William F. Cody
W. L. Wall
Cody
School Children of America
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Lookout Mountain
Congress to Authorize Major War Bond Issue
Washington December 1 Congress must authorize early in the next session a large bond issue to raise about 5 billion dollars between now and July 1 in addition to 3.6 billion from liberty bonds already authorized but not yet issued. The plan relies on war savings and war taxes, with McAdoo backing big bond methods. If rejected, the nation may face two more liberty bond issues totaling over 8 billion between February and July.
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Congress
Washington
McAdoo
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means
Voice of the Early Church on wealth and injustice
St John Chrysostom argues wealth is earned through injustice and not divinely allotted. He challenges generational riches, notes the earth belongs to all, and warns that the rich who hoard land rob others, comparing covetousness to robbers in the public way.
Humoring in Domestic Life Sparks Unequal Relations
A Woman's Home Companion piece laments humoring as a daily ritual that enforces inequality between partners. It argues men may yield peace at the expense of their own friendships and identities, while women face social expectations masking subservience.
Alarm sounds as child plans dangerous stunt at home
A fragment describes a dramatic household moment where a child named Bobby intends a circus stunt, causing the mother to call for the child to beware. A voice from above urgently directs attention to the risk of the baby diving from the mantlepiece into the footbath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy
Bobby
Champion of the farmer defense sparks debate across papers
The Prairie Farmer defends the American farmer amid wartime criticism from city dailies. It argues farmers fed nations, bought liberty bonds, and supported the war effort despite harsher labor and market conditions. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes lessons on producer consumer harmony and avoiding class blame.
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Prairie Farmer
Sat
Chicago
America
Illinois
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Funeral Notice for Thomas Dowling at Sister's Home
Friends may view the remains at the home of his sister Mrs. Margaret Fuller on South Avenue Sunday afternoon. The funeral services will be held Monday morning from the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos. Dowling
Margaret Fuller
South Avenue
Kidney Disease and War Fatalities Alike Raise Alarming Facts
The piece cites wartime deaths in France and kidney disease rates among civilians in 1916. It discusses uric acid links to gout and rheumatic pain, then promotes Anuric tablets as a kidney cleaning tonic, claiming relief and a trial offer from Dr. Pierce. Strong entities include Bright's disease, Dr. Pierce, and the Royal Charity Hospital Berlin.
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France
Bright
H. Strauss
Royal Charity Hospital
Berlin
Levison
Straus
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Bertha Haines
Caldwell Steet
Segular Meeting
the Bible Society
Robison
Daughters of the American Revolution
Tr. P. Evans
Caldwell Street
Ben Buettel
Edward Meyer
Charles Grunert
Covington Avenue
William Matilin
Harmon Grunert
Louis. Grunert
William Jordan
Charles Cathcart
Joseph Kennedy
Philips
Firg Secion
Young People's League
Margaret Julian
Charles Barton
Priday
Earl Boda
Brookville
Benton Millhouse
Florence Sachs
Friends
Clifford Graig
Edgar Wallace
Covington
Elks Home
Willian West
Logansport, Ind
Mary Lyan
B. H.allen
Wilson Clark
John Bokiewitz
van Wert
Ohio
Edwin, Krantz
Bernard Crider
Arwin
Piana
J. W. Brandon
West Ash Street
Seth McCullough
Wrest’ Ash Street
Murry, Ramsey
Dantown
Butler County
Will J. Prince, Jr
Camp Sheridan
Ala
Silk Lea Rge
Billy
148Th Division
Col. Hubler
Jay Bennett
Robert Reardon
Arthur Lewis
David Parker
Washington, D. H
A. C. Rahn
Bonnie
B. E. Olwine
Forrest
Greenville
Cornelia Kleinschrodt
Artie Alexander
Magdalene Schnell
Mary Robinson
Sidney
John Renner
Sidney Daily Journal
Rev
C. J.utter
West Mansfield
Grace M. B. Church
Herman Schratt
John Schratt
Mount ‘Healthy, Ohio
Ford Cuni
Leonard Doup
Camp’ Sherman
Mrs
Will Doup
Verdun
No Man’s Land
She
A, Thoma & Sons Jewelers
Salvation ‘Army
Nellie Pope
Buffalo Bill
G. M. Bertling
Mollie
Farm Journal
Anuric
Pierge
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Annric
Pierce
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