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Newspaper

Piqua Daily Press

Location

Piqua, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1917

Page

4

Memorial Service For Piqua Knights Of Columbus

The annual memorial services for deceased members of Piqua Council Knights of Columbus will be held next Sunday at St Boniface church. Members meet at the Knights of Columbus hall for a procession to the church for the 7 o clock mass and Holy Communion. The center aisle is reserved and Rev J J Brinker will preach the sermon followed by prayers for the dead and Benediction. Open to all, large attendance expected as a public expression of memory.

Piqua Council Knights of Columbus St. Boniface Church Ghedy J. J. Brinker Brinker

Dettman Dead After Long Illness From Auto Crash

John J. Dettman died at his home on 646 South Downing Street after months of illness following a May automobile accident. Survived by three sons Dr Fred Dettman Albert Dettman Earnest Dettman and a daughter Mrs Clifford Stein. One brother Henry Dettman and two grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm at the residence with Rev Goetsch officiating. Burial Forest Hill cemetery.

John J. Dettman South Downing Street Dettman Mr. Dettman Germany Fred Dettman Albert Dettman Troy Earnest Union City Clifford Stein

Market Report From Kings Market Observations

Toledo reports oats higher with colder weather delaying shipments. Gulf demand supports oats via export markets while Illinois and Iowa report soft corn and abundant wheat shipments. Clover and timothy seed markets show steady to firm prices amid transportation constraints and limited domestic tonnage.

Toledo Ohio Gulf Ismbar Chicago Owa Argentina

Local Markets and Prices Header Includes Hogs Cattle and Produce

Market page lists buying and selling prices for wheat flour butter lard potatoes onions and more with corrected daily hogs cattle and veal calf ranges. Named firms Piqua Flour Co Kugelman’s Market and Osborns-Chop feed supply appear among prices and listings.

Vo. B. Osbornt H. P Piqua Flour Co R. Kugelman’s and Co Bullaij

Wheatless poultry ration claimed to save wheat

State War Board reports a wheatless feeding plan that could save 100 million bushels of wheat yearly without burdening poultry. A USDA test at Beltsville shows wheatless rations yield egg production comparable to wheat diets. A 30 Leghorn pullet flock averaged 147.3 eggs in the first laying year, suggesting wheat is not essential for egg laying and that corn products can fatten chickens quickly.

United States Department of Agriculture Weltsville

Wild geese flocks spotted across county near Wapakoneta

Local sportsmen report daily flocks of wild geese in the county with over a hundred at the John Freischer farm southwest of Wapakoneta. Birds are shy and remain out of shooting range. no killings have been reported despite several visits.

John Freischer Wapakoneta Freische

Nervousness Declines as Phosphated Iron Aids Nerves

An old time remedy touts Phosphated Iron capsules as a cure for sleeplessness, worry, and worn out nervous systems. It claims nerve centers strengthen in weeks, improving appearance and energy. Available only in capsules from Greenamyer & Co in Piqua and other leading druggists. local piano bargains at Kiefer's.

Gand Nervongs Greenamyer & Co Piqua

Four Thousand Five Hundred Stolen From Hotel Warner

Otto L. Neef, night clerk at the Hotel Warner in Chillicothe Ohio, is detained after a theft of 4500 from the hotel. Other hotel staff are to be detained as inquiry proceeds. The Warner House was recently bought by John Av McGee and M J Gibbons Jr, as Dayton investors. Earlier J J Herman, ex steward at the Phillips Hotel here, was rehired by Warner management to resume his former role.

Chillicothe, D Otto L. Neef Warner Chicago Jonn Av McGee M. J. Gibbons Jr

Miss Phoebe Ratcliff Named Court Reporter at City Office

Miss Phoebe Ratcliff of Tippecanoe City will become a stenographer in the office of Prosecuting Attorney R. A. Kerr starting January first, succeeding Mrs. Earl Shanks who resigned after a recent marriage.

Phoebe Ratcliff Tippecanoe City R. A. Kerr Earl Shanks

Genealogical query on Better Hall Dearie lineage

A genealogical note questions who follows after the Judge in the line related to Better Hall Dearie. The fragment hints at a posthumous or succession query within a family tree. It lacks clear names, dates, or places to confirm a specific event.

Railway Time Keeps Western Obiur Arrive Leave Schedule

Railway timetable shows Piqua to Sidney and Sidney to Piqua trains with morning departures between 5:88 and 11:00. Limited car connections at Wapakoneta link to Piqua Toledo Limited, and D C P traction runs hourly from six to eleven at night.

Piqua Sidney Wapakoneta Piqua-Toledo Limited D.C. & P. Traction Dayeon TROY Aeeavares Tippecanoe City

Machinery and services listed in Piqua classified ad

Classified items include band saw wood turning lathe pulleys shafting brackets for sale at 1721f Ball 460 Riverside Drive. John F. Class Co offers vapor treatments in Troy Ohio claiming cures for rheumatism and other ailments after first treatment. Also rental wanted garage big enough for two trucks with gas connection, drug clerk position sought, and a man and wife seek small furnished home for several months with light housekeeping duties. reply with details and location.

Riverside Drive John F. Class Co Troy Ohio Piqua

Pennsylvania Lines Schedule From November 26 1917

Pennsylvania Lines timetable details westward and eastward train times effective November 26 1917 with multiple train numbers and corresponding departure or arrival times listed across a dense sequence of values. The data include times such as 2:02 a.m. 6:08 a.m. 1:06 a.m. and 12:12 p.m. among others, indicating a historic transit schedule.

Phennsylvania

Change of schedule reduces Baldore and Ohio R R services

North bound trains No 51 and 52 have been discontinued effective Sunday December 2. The timetable adjustment reflects the line’s revised passenger service pattern.

Heard Not Waste Not in Milwaukee Journal Theme

A Milwaukee Journal note asserts thrift in living, arguing that thinness does not imply fragility but careful use of resources and avoidance of waste in daily life.

Milwaukee Journal

Edward H Moore in Columbus Hospital

A dispatch from Columbus reports Democratic National Committeeman Edward H Moore seriously ill in a Columbus hospital. It is denied that he has pneumonia. Moore has many friends statewide hopeful for his speedy recovery.

The Enquirer Columbus Edward H. Moore Moore

Divorce Petition Filed in Mi jemi County Court

Rose Boley filed a divorce petition in Mi jemi County Common Pleas Court against John Lewis Boley on grounds of adultery and gross neglect of duty with custody sought for their child Thel Boley. The case number is 20359 and a hearing is scheduled after January 2, 1918. Attorney Edwin A. Hiatt represents the petitioner.

John Lewis Doley Rose Boley Court of Common Pleas Mi Jemi County Ohio John Lewis Boley Thel ‘Boley Rosh Boley Edwin A. Hiatt

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