Rain delays and harvest notes haunt North Manchester
Local items report farmers pushing wheat to Silver Lake market with prices around 70 cents. Excursions by Noftiger and Sheller to Benton Harbor July 20 raise funds for the Woman’s Relief Corps. Community events include lodge installations, church services, a threshers supper, and calls for subscribers to settle accounts after harvest.
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North Manchester
Noftiger & Sheller
Benton Marbor
Silver Lake
Benton Harbor
Wanderer’s Hymn to Freedom and Earth’s Quiet Joy
A lyrical meditation from the London Spectator on freedom and nature. The speaker contrasts merriment with pain, savoring birdsong and sunlit fields while noting moments of longing and tears. Subtle images of larks, bees, daisies, and baby laughter evoke a yearning for release and tenderness.
Summer encampment along Yellow Creek lake thrives
The lakeside area fills with tents as city visitors seek quiet recreation not military drills. A local bottling and ice cream maker, M. M. Syphers of Warsaw, advertises his cream flavors and plain ices. The Statesman program at Winona Park features daily speakers from July 18 to 22, with Gov Mount and other dignitaries. A farmer, Wm Hanes, touts a hard prolific wheat variety with high seed yield, while Thos Decker’s berry crate and box plant near Claypool expands rapidly since spring 97, producing thousands of crates and boxes for berries.
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Winona Park
Aldrich
Wim. Mason
Senator
Illinois
A. J Beveridge
Taylor
Gov. Mount
B. Landis
Congress
Wm. Cumback
J. F. Brooks
L. W. Rouse
Grosvenor
Ohio
Wm. Hanes
Thos. Decker
Claypool
Local notices mix ads and travel plans in Indiana paper
Readers are urged to subscribe and settle accounts while ads promote cigars ladies undergarments and carpets. Nickel Plate Road announces July excursion tickets and a revised spring schedule with faster express trains to Cleveland and Chicago. A Medora birthday tale and local development at Yellow Creek lake are noted along with church union dates in July Chicago.
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Nickel Plate Road
Young People’s Christian Union of the Universalist Church
Chicago
M. H. Arnold
Claypool
Yellow Creek Lake
Indiana
Arnold
W. A. Kingrey & Co
Warsaw
Chas. Smith
Akron
Cleveland
W. H. Kingry & Co
Fauk
Swiss Mountain Power From Small Streams
The article describes Switzerland’s extensive use of hydro power from small streams fed into reservoirs on hillsides. It notes electric trams in Montreux and a trolley ride from Vevey to Chillon powered by minor streams. It highlights long distance transmission and the potential of high head flows to supply distant applications using electricity or compressed air.
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Switzerland
Montreux
Cassier
When They May Meet in Heaven
A Washington Star quip notes 57 house committees vary in activity. A clerk says a lazily meeting committee may never meet on earth if its members are not upright. only in heaven, if they are good men, would they convene.
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House of Representatives
Washington Star
Indigo lobster rare among blue crustaceans noted in 1890s New London catches
Historical clipping records indigo lobsters as extremely rare. New London lobstermen caught five between 1890 and 1891, including two in Fisher Island sound, a record said to surpass previous world figures. Other notes mention leather polish, plant seeds, Linnaeus and Cuvier on birds, male mosquitoes, and a New York to Denver rail journey.
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New London
Conn
Fisher Island Sound
Maine
St. Louis Republic
New Harness Shop Opens Nearby With Full Stock
A shop beside the Farmers Bank announces a new industry making first-class light and heavy harness. They pledge the best materials, a complete line of whips collars fly nets and all fittings at very low prices by John Jorgo.
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Farmers’ Bank
Patent Remedy Ad Promises Quick Relief and Refund
A vintage ad touts Dr. Davis anti headache treatment claiming rapid relief. It urges druggists to educate bowels with Cascarete candy cathartic for constipation and promises money back if CCC fails.
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C.C.C
Refund Guarantee for Baxter Mandrake Bitters and Downs Elixir
I U Snoberger signs an agreement to refund money for two 25 cent bottles of Baxter's Mandrake Bitters and a 25 cent bottle of Downs' Elixir if they fail to cure constipation biliousness headaches coughing croup whooping cough or throat or lung trouble. The guarantee promises a full refund or exchange upon unsatisfactory results.
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I. U. Snoberger
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Thacker
Bros
Strauss & Gingericks
Manchester
Noftager & Sheller
Rathbone
Lake View Castle Hall
Victoria Reading Club
P. EK. Terry
George Shultz
K. of P
H. Ju. Oldfather
C. C
F. M. Jaques
V. C
J. C. Hay
J. C
Martin
M. A
Sam Groninger
I. G
S. F. McKrill
O. G
Harry Haney
Strauss
Gingericks
North
Winona Lake Assembly
Tev T DeWitt Talmage
al Olinger
Deering Harvesting Company
James Ellsworth
Paulus Bros
Chas. Morris
C. Leroy Leonard
John Smith
Eph Wells
Thad McClure
Tom Baker
Whittenberger
String Town
Daughters of
Rebeccah
C. W. Shipley
N. G
L. W. Myers
W. G
Myrtle Smith
J. W. Cook
Minnie Thacker
Rose Martin
Manchester Lodge
Riley
Franklin
Twin Lake
John Fitton
Thomas
Gertie Holmes
U. B
Eiverybody
J. W. Riley
Scott
Bowne
Velvet Bee
London Spectator
National
Leonard
Kingery & Co
Red Cross
Nickle Plate Road
Indianapolis Sentinel
Medora
Dr. Wommell
Ile
America
England
Linnius
Cuvier
New York
Denver
Conner
Pres
E. Rantz
W. J. Fitton, C
Mark Smith
St. G.jants
C. E. Rants
W. J. Fitton
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