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Newspaper
The Democratic Banner
Location
Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
8
The page lists Wednesday through Saturday social activities in Gambier including church gatherings, women’s groups, and weddings. It notes visits, dinners, and entertainments at homes, plus upcoming dances, outings, and neighborhood notices. Numerous residents named with occasional locations like Gambier, Akron, and Columbus appear among plans and past events.
A patchwork of social items from Danville to Fredericktown notes attendance at Children’s Day exercises, visits to Camp Sherman, and kinship across small towns. Mentions Pierce Thayer, William Hine, Rollin Co, Sir John Grant and Woolson’s butter claim, plus local war work ads and a Kenyon College tie through Captain Warin’s Sunday visit.
June 17 brief notices report a visitor returning home to family in Virgins and other local ties with names such as Mire W Clyde and Robert Master. Alumni event at college center discusses seeking a new athletic endowment, with pledges and a pledge-card drive noted.
Kenyon College held its second war commence in Rover Hall. Fourteen graduates received degrees with honors including one divinity student. The editor Josiah Kingaley Ohle of the New York Herald delivered the alumni address. The Board of Trustees reorganized faculty and expanded departments. The ceremony also announced military training plans for next term.
Monday morning in Thin ville Camber the premier announces the annual college spelling event. Mr HUH Aire Konentt Bhremier of Thin ville Camber confirms the date June 18 for the spelling competition at the college campus.
The page mixes lodge meeting notices for Bexley, Mt Vernon, Rimwood auxiliary and other groups with a dense, garbled Parthian cavalry fragment. It lists meetings around Tuesday and Wednesday on hexed streets, plus a stock market snippet and scattered farm trade figures.
Reads like a livestock market log with prices and lots across cities. Mentions Wag, hogs, cattle and sheep with figures such as 24,000 and 2100 as market totals. Notes include Chicago Livestock and Cleveland Livertown references with varied prices and lots.
A damaged OCR item lists produce payments and goods for a warehouse, including items such as Country Hutter and Small Spring Chit fas wai Old Roosters, with unclear spellings and numbers. The fragment mentions Mrs Cayrle Pilton attending a hampton encampment on Monday.
Gunner Depew suffered another collapse and could not appear Sunday afternoon at the Church of Chest. A telegram offered no details on his condition or location. The incident follows a prior collapse during an address in New Orleans while en route to support the Red Cross drive.
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