Northern Indiana Current Events Report
Publican politicians meet in Indianapolis. The fish law case against Ben Osborn dismissed in Warsaw. Kosciusko county issues 21 marriage licenses during Christmas week. An Indianapolis church promotes ushered men to attend church. Peru board of trade chief departs, creditors left unfunded. Jordon Bros. store at Etna Green robbed of 100 dollars worth goods. Fulton oil strike causes town-wide excitement. Bristol Banner offers free year subscription to couples married in Elkhart county. Monticello contracts twelve miles of stone roads for 25492 dollars. Monterey reports a storehouse cellar cave in kills Uncle Parsonis. George of Greece to buy 10000 plows for refugees. Olivers of South Bend expect orders. Elkhart papers allege 6000 dollars missing from Treasure Romine. Rev Z T Sweeney called to Virginia to preach. LaPorte woman grows hair from pot roots. Clyde Grip convicted in Warsaw for assault on Dessie Michaels. fined 60 dollars, 60 days. Pierceton man sells walnut tree for 100 dollars. logs cut from base. Elkhart County deeds and mortgages tallied. recorder earns 565.25 in three months. Loomis shortfall noted. Waterlooo night watchman shot by two tramps. wound to leg. Goshen grocers plan consolidation to beat department stores. Eight carloads silk pass Pittsburgh from France. value over a million dollars. LaGrange officials accuse scheme to defraud. treasurer confesses. auditor convicted but remains in office.
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Fulton
Rochester
Bristol Banner
Elkhart County
Bolme
Monticello
Monterey
Uncle Parsonis
George
Landis Family Reunion Brightens Christmas Day
A Christmas Day family reunion at Esta Miller’s home near Rose Hill brought together seventy two Landis relatives. Polly Landis’s children and grandchildren enjoyed a large dinner and well wishes for the matriarch. Guests included Jision ByP and wife and William Willer and wife of Dayton Ohio, all daughters of Grandma Landis visiting the area.
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Esta Miller
Rose Hill
Landis
Polly Landis
Mrs. Miller
Ji ‘Sian Byp
William ‘Willer
Dayton
Ohio
Grandma Landis
North Manchester Journal
Missing Warsaw jewelry shop owner linked to fire rumors
Edmund Van Winkle, a Warsaw jewelry and music store buyer from Michigan, vanished last week after rumors of insurance and arson swirled around a basement fire at the shop housing City Pharmacy. Charley Rigdon runs the business in the interim, seeking a buyer or Van Winkle’s return.
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Edmund van Winkle
Warsaw
C. A. Rigdon
Michigan
van Winkle
Charley Rydon
Van
Anther
Oldest Man in County Revisions Highlight Sebring at Ninety Seven
Mentone Gazette corrects The Optic on ages of local elders. Sebring near Silver Lake is 97, Barber 94, Holman 93, Shatto 93. Grandpa Sebring, whose birthday comes in March, is spry and walks a mile daily to town for The Recorps paper and news amidst tobacco habit and a wish to reach a century.
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John Shatto
Etna Green
Mr. Shatto
Mentone Gazette
Mr. Sebring
Silver Lake
M. R. Barber
Chas. Holman
Grandpa Sebring
Recorp
Sebring
Salt increases milk yield in cows at experiment station
At the Mississippi Experiment Station three cows were kept without salt for four weeks and their milk records kept during the last two weeks of this period. Then they received the usual salt allowance for two weeks. Milk yielded 454 pounds with no salt and 564 pounds with salt. The difference over two weeks is 110 pounds in favor of salting.
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Mississippi Experiment Station
Local notices taxed wind and publishers’ struggle
A critique cites towns where public notices are posted on walls rather than printed, raising costs for publishers and questioning why newspapers bear taxes while expected to fund town information with little support. It argues notices hurt the revenue model and presses publishers to keep operating amid ad hoc posting.
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Common Council
Reverend Jones Scolds Society Women In blunt Sermon
The Rev Sam Jones condemns society women as nuisances and mocks their fashion choices. He jokes about dress trimming and bicycle attire while urging modesty and restraint before mixed audiences.
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Sam Jones
Fis
Debate on Cutting Country Schools in State
Warsaw Union notes a trend to reduce the number of country schools to save public funds. Educational leaders believe many small schools can be eliminated without harming education, given already sparse attendance and taxpayer costs.
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Warsaw Union
Local opinions on immigration and community life emerge
The Gas City area features editorials critiquing immigrant labor, noting $39,000 sent to Europe via post office earnings and urging responsible social behavior. Quick essays joke about morals, marriage bets, and a chiding on gossip, with local readers urged to use winter evenings for wholesome reading and personal improvement.
What to Eat January Issue Preview
The January What to Eat issue features an article titled How to keep young and a sensible pledge on the front page. It includes choice recipes poems and stories with the prize poem contest winners to be announced in the next issue. Pierce and Pierce publish in Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Pierce & Pierce, Publishers
Minneapolis, Minn
How to Prevent Pneumonia with Chamberlains Cough Remedy
A Short testimonial from Oolagah Oklahoma Territory extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the only sure preventive for pneumonia. It claims the remedy cures colds and grippe without leading to pneumonia and recommends keeping it for those with weak lungs. It notes 25 and 50 cent sizes available through Lou Sahoberger.
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Chamberlain
Lou, Sahoberger
Waterproof sale bills offered by Record office
The Record office prints sale bills on waterproof paper and inserts a notice in the paper at a very low price. Contact them for details and availability.
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Record Office
Saratoga Restaurant Tops State Dining as First Class
The Saratoga restaurant is praised as the only strict first class dining option. It is recognized for the best dining room and the most elegant lunch counter, a consensus across observers.
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Saratoga
Enthusiastic Purchaser Praises Chamberlain Remedy
Curtis Fleck of Anaheim California bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after friends praised it. The 25 and 50 cent sizes are sold by I. U. Snoberger.
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Chamberlain
Curtis Fleck
Anaheim
California
I. U. Snoberger
Nickel Plate Road offers lithograph map of Klondike Gold Fields
The Nickel Plate Road Advertising Department in Cleveland offers a six color lithograph map of the Klondike Gold Fields, with Conti information and guidance on costs and outfits. Request by sending five 2-cent stamps to the Nickel Plate Road.
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Klondike
Nickel Piate Road
Conti
Nickel Plate Road
Cleveland
Charcoal and Corn Improve Hog Appetite
Prairie Farmer notes hogs fattening on corn eat charcoal to ease stomach acidity and boost appetite. The cob’s potash helps digestion, and charcoal aids even nonfattening hogs without risk of overindulgence.
Klondike Map in Six Colors Advertises Alaskan Gold Fields
An updated lithograph map titled The Alaskan Gold Fields printed in six colors. Complete. For purchase, send five 2-cent stamps to the Advertising Department at the Plate Road in Cleveland Ohio.
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Acenta
Plate Road
Cleveland
Wanted Dry Stove Wood Delivery Ad
Wanted 18 inch dry stove wood. Be on cars at Silver Lake Clay Rose Hill. Address quality lock box Indians.
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Silver Lake
Clay Rose Hill
Box
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Ben Osborn
Kosciusko County
Board of Trade At
Peru
Jordon Bros
Romine
Board of County Commissioners
Z. T. Sweeney
Richmond
LaPorte
Clyde Grip
Sidney
Dessie Michaels
Frank Deardorff
Pierceton
Williams
W. B. Loomis
Elkhart
Knights of the Maccabees
Charles Cox
Waterloo
Cox
Goshen
Leesburg Standard
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
France
San Francisco
County Optic
LaGrange County
Akron News
Gas City Journal
Gas City
Columbia City
Devil
Jesus
Chicago
Claypool
Carroll County
Prairie Farmer
Kansas City
Inter’ Ocean
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