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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
7
Mrs Bennie Butcher improves after a month of sickness. Neighborhood life includes church attendance, help with housework, new home additions, corn planting progress, and numerous Sunday visits among families such as McCarty Burton Staley Harris and many others.
An advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a universal laxative for constipation and digestive ills. It claims quick relief, gentle action, and lasting cure, suggesting use at night for morning results and asserting superiority over salts or purgatives. It cites Dr Wilson Brown endorsing it as the greatest laxative and urges readers to buy a 50 cent bottle.
A series of local updates note corn planting by Elmer Clark for A. Cox near Sheridan, residents visiting families such as Mr. and Mrs. Zeno Davids with Mrs. Boyer, and visits among neighbors including Richard Ryan, A. V. Ryan, and Vern Pearson. Decoration day services are set for the Baptist church Saturday at 10 o'clock.
Farmers in Hortonville are taking advantage of favorable weather to plant corn. They report strong soil conditions and steady progress across fields as spring work continues.
Birth announced for Nathan Mundy and wife a boy. Elijah Graham attends funeral of a relative in Seirclesville. Payton Cox of Ingersoll Oklahoma, formerly Alice Johnson, visits locals. Carrie Graham of Chicago plans a visit with Alfred Graham and wife. A C Jones and son Paul of Gary Indiana stay with relatives this week.
Noblesville visitors Al Voss Mr Foster Madge Ro quie and I plus Ote Steward Westfield Ridge Sheridan Dr Burris Indianapolis Geo Anthony Miss Kate Kiser Homer Graham spent time here. Halcie Crane Indianapolis Waldo Stout visiting. Roscoe Barnett Malcolm Kreag away. Westfield Maroons Cicero Athletes to play a Decoration Day double header here. Cicero Athletes lost 4 to 1 to Anderson. Shoaf studio slides of local views shown by Plain's.
A collection of amusing schoolroom blunders and misread phrases. Students mix historic names with baffling errors from Caesar, Cicero, and biblical types, alongside social and housing reform quips, showing the era’s playful misinterpretations.
The Chicago News recounts an 1814 experiment in Florence where Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday burned a diamond using a solar burning glass. A platinum rod held the diamond over hydrogen in a globe. after repeated cooling and reexposure the diamond burned and was consumed, the first recorded instance of a diamond burning.
The record notes the Sedwick Chapel church third quarterly meeting held over Saturday and Sunday. It lists local social visits including Ava Stephenson and family with J. F. Neal and wife, dinners with W. R. Moreland and wife and others, and visits to Ellen Thompson and Mrs. Emma Fancher. It mentions Fred Neal losing a cow and Grace Mayfield and Atha Fray obtaining new organs.
The article recalls popular bear and bull baiting in old England, noting riots when it was suppressed and its integration into civic festivities in Liverpool. It cites a famous 1782 bear gifted with garlands and ribbons, and mentions Shakespearean interest in licensed bear wardens amid theatergoing trends.
Sheridan resident Mrs. Kate Stevens praises Doan's Kidney Pills for curing a stubborn kidney trouble after other remedies failed. She describes relief from back pain dizziness and irregular kidney secretions. Sold at Elliott's drug store in Sheridan with FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY as US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
An old clothes man dismisses advertising while a millionaire merchant persuades him to try. An Indian tests a feather bed by sleeping on a plank. he wakes grumbling that the pale face praised feathers as soft and foolish.
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