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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
8
Baltimore reports a remarkable reconstructive operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital restoring a burned child's mouth. Surgeons used a graft from the abdomen and arm to form a new chin and lips, reestablishing circulation and function. After weeks of care the child could eat talk and move jaws normally, with the new chin barely discernible.
An alert telegram delivered to St Paul insurance agent Haley reveals a London relative has left him an inheritance worth $100,000. The telegraph message arrived after a lengthy wait, with Haley only opening it at his usual break.
The Box Demian club of Ron Fi taco oversaw rites for Joaquin Miller. Widow and daughter Juanita attended as friends gathered near the Miller stowe holghta in Oakland. Colonel John M. Irish lit the pyre and declared the service a rebirth not mourning, as wind dispersed the ashes.
Reported Missouri auditor Alonzo Thompson, eighty two, famed as a ghostly adviser who predicted his own death before ninety. For six weeks followers believed his visions aided by his organizers, including a rib removal operation. A year earlier he claimed his guides granted marriage plans and wealth, prompting media attention and public curiosity.
Mt Vernon weekly locals note social calls and visits among Mrs Burris Danville Frank Arnold Dayton guest of Silas Parr, special week prices from local stores like Lures and Parker's boot shop, garden plantings from Sharp's Plow, and a street altercation on South Main. Also sales on oxford shoes and inquiries about dress serge at Lurie's.
A daughter was born Wednesday evening to Mr and Mrs Ire Ernest at Mt Vernon hospital. Mrs Ernest formerly Miss Meille Peuborwood.
The Ohio Light and Power Company applied to the Public Service Commission to issue 600000 five percent thirty year bonds 250000 first preferred stock and 650000 second preferred stock to acquire light plants in Fremont Newark Lancaster Fostoria Mt Vernon and Logan. The consolidation aims at greater economy in operation and stronger financing for improvements. Companion entities are to be paid in stock and bonds of the Ohio Light and Power Company for the acquired properties including Fremont Yargan Company Fosters Swesey Fostoria Frank B Ball Mt Vernon Lancaster Electric Light Company Logan Light and Power Company and Licking Light Power Co Newark with values listed.
A rural postal carrier 190 miles from Omaha found a certificate of deposit stub inside a misdelivered check or receipt after the Omaha tornado. The carrier notified the Omaha postmaster, who traced and returned the certificate to its owner, restoring the lost money.
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