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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
8
Fresh eggs and country butter prices shown. Fancy No 1 country butter 34 cents, No 2 country butter 26 cents, fresh eggs 34? 34? The snippet records multiple price entries including 30 and 34 cents for butter and eggs with unclear OCR.
The page blends brief city notices with entertainment and social updates. It lists showtimes at Lyric and Vine theaters for Skinner’s Bubble and Musty Suller plus Louise Glau m’s Love or Justice, while noting automotive license applications and a flood of personal mentions including visits, travels, and relatives in and around the city.
Surgeons at 610 Transportation Camp conducted inoculations of typhoid serum for 178 soldiers led by Surgeon Major Eliat J Gordon. The men endured a brief procedure with mixed nerves, while one battery member joked about the needle and others pressed for fresh reading material. Grocers Mrinl & Son supplied apples as morale items at the battery line.
The board of state charities experts plans to nominate a child from Wilwerie for placement in family homes. The Southern WHHL board will oversee a temporary care period while ensuring the child receives growth in body, mind, spirit, and wellbeing. The process emphasizes cooperation with foster families to promote development.
A garbled wartime kitchen guide shows recipes for beef and pork stuffed peppers, barley soup, apple bar line dessert, and lemon juice extraction. It lists ingredients like beef and pork, rice, barley, onions, tomatoes, and apples, with hints on preparation, seasoning, and serving, all in a historical, patchy OCR style.
Cooking advice for tough roosters includes hanging to drain, slow cooking in heat, and using stock to soften meat. Methods cover deep frying, cold pack surplus, croquettes, pie fillings, scalloped dishes, and gelatin or cornstarch thickeners. Also notes separating birds from hens and feeding on oats to tenderize flesh.
Carlyle Sherlock of New York visits Mt Vernon to launch the Mt Vernon Feature Film Company project. Local investors aim to subscribe 510,000 in stock to fund a $100,000 capitalization and establish a permanent Mt Vernon studio with local actors and workers to begin production by September 17.
Rev. Shields to lead Hillsboro Presbyterians starting October 1 after accepting call. He comes from Detroit and Mineboro with three prior pastorates and a Doctor of Divinity. He and wife will relocate with two daughters, ages 17 and 10. Mrs Shields active in the Presbyterian Mission society locally.
Attendance at a Friday schedule featuring multiple services and meetings at Camp By, led by Rev. Andrew Johnson of Kentucky, with regional evangelists and youth programs. Johnson, who twice sought governor and congress on the Prohibition Ticket, quips he won’t step aside for Billy Sunday.
North Liberty residents John and Vernor Wohlford of Akron visit with friends and relatives prior to leaving for the U S Navy. Mrs. William Poorman and daughter Heth travel to Cleveland for a two week visit with Mrs. Poorman's daughter Mrs. Chas Waddle. Emma Groff of Cleveland visits George Kirkpatrick and family. Hazel Snyder returns to Galion after a week with relatives here, taking Doris Thenour. Miss Sadie Porter visits Mansfield friends. Fife Wohlford of Cuyahoga Palleyville visits with friends. There will be preaching at North Liberty Brethren Church next Sunday morning and evening. A Teal improves from rheumatic condition. Carl Pore and mother Nancy Conrad share visits. Olen Beal and wife visit. Mary Montgomery in Abe with ill son. Methodist Sunday school class met at Al H L Cunningham's home. about 35 attended with refreshments.
Mary Putney world record trotting filly buried at North Randall race track Cleveland. Her owner Chauny Coy D Sears of Fall River Mass plans a broad marble shaft marking her mile records and world mark from four big races.
The excerpt notes Thackeray’s errors in usage such as different to and compared to, and mentions a common misphrasing with the Putters. It also discusses London Standard’s claim that Gold lace was the earliest form of lace and an early winner in thread lace.
At the home of Mr and Mrs David Barnhart in Miller a birthday anniversary for Mrs Margaret Shaw of Utica was celebrated August 5. Attending were her children and grandchildren including Minnouth Shaw Simon Shaw children Milaabuth Paul Donald Loren Mary Bovard Sara Lory Cantorbers and the Barnharts host and hostess.
Fredericktown reports Maryte Markstornas engagement as axstenant princi pal at Chesterville High School. Edith Mua from Chesterville visited. Dorothy Agnew and Henry hosted a garden party with about fifty guests and midnight dancing. Karma Zarlonee of Wooster was a guest of the Schlappacisses. Clem McNabl and family traveled to Chicago by auto. The Lincoln chautauqua appears in town. four junior Hekers were hired on the square and the children told to find them. Doyle Scott of Toledo arrived. J W Woolley recovers from quilt surgery. Lorin Marnie attended Mt Vernon chautauqua.
Chicago and Toledo livestock markets show active hogs and strong cattle, with hogs around 16.70 and 15.25 for different classes, cattle receipts near 8,000 and prices for natives and stockers steady to strong. New York stock lists include American Sugar, Chesapeake and Ohio, and U S Steel with varied gains and losses.
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