Local notes spotty week with deaths and ads
The fragment catalog shows local notices on subscriptions to the Record and Recorp, Saratoga restaurant offerings and fresh oysters, and a funeral in Burket for Mrs. Shireman. It reports notable deaths in the U S and Britain, a corn belt free offer, and a pencil sketch of A S Sprigg’s Burket lot yards by Riley Johnson.
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N. M. Frantz
Saratuca
John Oldfather
Indiana Sentinel
Indiana
United States
Tie Recoxrp van
Sudana
Riley Johnson
Saratoga
South Pleasant News and Notices From North Manchester Area
Commspoxpents solicit requests from locals not represented in South Pleasant. Lulu Gamble plans a missionary fundraiser and welcomes inquiries. Epworth League meets with topic Working with God hosted by Mrs Winllinger. Wervel, teacher at South Pleasant school, visited home near North Manchester. Warning issued to two boys carrying weapons Sunday night. Students and teacher to publish a history of South Pleasant school. Funeral of Mourris Anderson held at the Disko area church with Dr Ford officiating. Revival meetings conclude with increased spiritual life and conversions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wervel
South Pleasant
North
Manchester
Mourris Anderson
George Rager
Disko
Dr Ford
North Manchester
Protracted Center Meeting and Local Notes
Protracted meeting continues at Center. Various locals reported visiting friends, church attendance, and minor accidents. Obituaries and notices include Charley Noble’s death in Goshen after leaving Warsaw area. a $3,500 judgment for a sidewalk injury against Warsaw. and Elsie Parks joining the Warsaw post office. Community events include lodge installations, farm and geese sales, and churchgoers at Center with local families named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Noble
Goshen
Noble
Asylum For the Insane
Leander Fisher
Warsaw
Silver Lake
Elsie Parks
Robert Long
County Optic
Morning Oregonian
Portland
Oregon
Klondike
Evolution of the umbrella from whale bone to steel
The decline of whaling reduced whalebone supply and raised prices, ending its use in umbrella spreaders. Steel replaced whalebone, with slender steel bows and V shaped rolled tubing handles. Steel tubing handles and rolled channel spreaders enabled tighter rolling and modern designs, as described by a New York Sun account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Water as a health staple urges plentiful intake
The article cites Dr. George Henry Fox and Dr. Charles L. Dana warning that many diseases stem from insufficient water. It advocates drinking pure water between or before meals and consuming about three pints daily to prevent nervous irritation and dehydration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Henry Fox
New York College of Physicians and Surgeons
Charles L. Dana
New York Post Graduate Medical School
Fountain Pens Earliest Use Traced to Jefferson Era
The text notes 1824 as an early use of fountain pens with Thomas Jefferson testing a gold pen and silver ink tube. Jefferson asked General Bernard Peyton in Richmond to obtain one, via a Richmond repairer named Cowan. The price was reportedly five pence. It mentions the first American patent in 1830 to Douglass Hyde and an English patent about two decades earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
Bernard Peyton
Richmond
Jefferson
Richmond Watch
Cowan
Douglass
Hyde
Philadel
Silver Lake school bids for 100 cords green body wood
Silver Lake school board invites sealed bids for 100 cords of green body wood to be delivered on school grounds. Wood must be two feet long from hard wood timber. Bids due January 22 by 8:00 A M. board reserves right to reject any or all bids. J L Arrur Secy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Lake
J. L. Arruor
Chamberlains Pain Balm Offer In Local Market Ad
An 1880s style notice touts Chamberlain Balm as a remedy for fever, back and hip pain and rheumatism. The ad, from Silvern Lake Markets, mentions Louden Crové of Kentucky and a single bottle providing relief. Sold by I. A. Snoberger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louden Crové
Chamberlain
I. A. Snoberger
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England
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C. C. Auger
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WM. Garter
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B. F. VanCamp
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Wm. Callison
Lady Friend
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Stella Arnold
Center Last Sanday
Albert Beber
Gospel Hill
Ervin Callison
Tom Alexander
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F. & A. M. Lodge
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J. L. Arthur
W. M . Adam Stout
P. E. Terry
J. R
G. W. Votter
G. W. Shipley
Henry Paulus
Monroe Paulus
J. D
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A. S. Sprigg
Tyler
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Hoover Station
Akron
Earl
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