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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
7
The note mentions weddings starting and a fear the Christmas bell may go unheard. It notes 1,285,349 foreigners entering the United States that year with Italians and Hungarians as the largest groups.
A Christmas program at the Salem church, four miles southwest of Dalton, on December 15 at 1 30 p m. Includes Congregational singing devotional exercises an address of welcome multiple declamations songs and choruses by mixed groups a German and English address and a gift distribution with closing prayer and offering. The program lists titles such as What Can Little Children Do Bethlehem s Song and Christmas Thoughts along with a Sonnenberg School performance and a German dialogue.
In Mound City Mrs. E. D. Clapp reports Dr. King's New Discovery saved Ierson, once near death from lung and throat trouble, after exhausting coughing spells. The medicine, guaranteed for coughs and colds, throat and lung troubles, is sold by A. J. White with a trial bottle free.
Several children from Dalton Ohio write Santa Claus listing simple Christmas wishes. The notes request a variety of toy items including dolls, a rattle, a train, a wagon, a horse and cart, skates, a jacking jack, a lead pencil, a speech book, a coat and overcoat, and candy oranges and nuts. They sign with names and dates in December 1907.
PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. W. Findlay to preach at 11 oclock a. m. and 7:00 p.m. SALEM MENNONITE CHURCH Rev. A. A. Sommer Sabbath school at 9 a. m. preaching at 10 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN Rev. W. H. Hubbell preaching at 11 a. m. Christmas sermon. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Rev. J. T. Fleak preaching at 11:00 a. m. All invited.
Monongah's disaster sparked Wooster sympathy and Mrs Wertz widow of Wm H H Wertz began mercy work. She appealed to churches and individuals for Monongah widows and orphans with early cash gifts of 20 dollars from Mr and Mrs James Mullins.
A miscellany of local ads and notices lists fresh oysters at Gardiner’s and lamp wares at the Gazette Office Dalton. It promotes DeWitt’s salves and Pineules, Cascasweet, and Beal remedies sold by A J White and W O Laney. It notes radio and theater trade in Milan and Yorodzu Choho’s world oldest man claim. It covers rail ticket changes in Oklahoma, tariff notes, Thanksgiving fowl prices, and kidney health ads. Includes a municipal pool scare involving alligators near Greenville F C and a Detroit Methodist tribute to Mrs Jane Brancott Robinson.
Following our usual custom of balancing our books at year end we respectfully ask those indebted to us to call and settle on or before January 1 1908 Kurzen and Son.
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